Fresh off another road win, @UNC_BearsMBB come back to BOCA to face the red-hot T-Birds

As they have done so well in conference play, UNC rebounded from a loss and handled its business by beating Idaho State. The Bears found their stroke from deep knocking down 13 threes and kept the Bengals from finding theirs. ISU came in making the second most threes in the Big Sky and the Bears only allowed them to make two. In fact, the UNC defense was so good that they only allowed 53 points, which is the fewest given up to a Division I team under head coach Jeff Linder.

BEAR BITES

The 13 triples were the most made against any Big Sky team this season.
UNC has now made 34 more threes than Idaho State who is just ahead of Montana State.
Freshman Kur Jockuch has made three-straight starts and has tied his career high for points and set a new record for rebounds.
Three Bears scored in double figures last time out, but Jordan Davis still led them by scoring 19.
Davis is now just 136 points shy of setting a new all-time program record for points scored.

Northern Colorado comes back to Bank of Colorado Arena for the first time in 12 days and they'll be met by the hottest team in the conference. Southern Utah comes to Greeley winners of four in a row and that streak started against first-place Weber State.

THUNDERBIRD THOUGHTS

Prior to knocking off the Wildcats, SUU lost to ISU, MSU and Montana.
Cameron Oluyitan leads Southern Utah at 14.4 points a game.
Brandon Better, Jacob Calloway and Andre Adams all check in averaging over 10 points a game.

UNC and Southern Utah have a short history having only played four times and the Bears have won three of those including the last two.

BREAKING DOWN THE MATCHUP

The two teams come in as nearly polar opposites. UNC leads the Big Sky in three-pointers made and percentage. SUU is sixth in 3's made and eighth in percentage.
NC might be able to exploit the Thunderbirds three-point defense, which comes in allowing teams to shoot 35 percent from deep.
ISU had very similar numbers prior to UNC making 13 threes.
Southern Utah is fourth in the league in scoring and ninth in points allowed.
UNC is the only team in the conference to be in the top three in points scored (2nd) and points allowed (3rd).