The UCF men’s basketball team returns home after its second straight loss looking to close out the regular season with a couple of wins, beginning with Saturday’s home contest against East Carolina at noon.

Before the Knights (12-15, 5-11) dropped two in a row to Memphis and Cincinnati they had won three straight against USF, Houston and Tulane. UCF will aim to get back to those winning ways against the Pirates, who sit just one half game ahead of the Knights in the standings.

ECU (12-16, 5-10) has lost three of its last four games, most recently falling at home to UConn by a score of 60-49. The Pirates took care of the Knights 67-49 back on Feb. 7, holding UCF to just 2-of-16 from beyond the arc and forcing 17 turnovers.

Saturday will be the final regular season home game of the season and thus mark the final regular season game in front the home fans for seniors Kasey Wilson and Myles Davis. The pair of elder statesmen for the Knights will be honored for their achievements and commitment to UCF prior to tip-off at CFE Arena.

The game will air on ESPNews and the WatchESPN app with Allen Bestwick and Kevin Lehman on the call. Fans can also listen to the action on AM 740 The Game, TuneIn.com and the TuneIn app with Voice of the Knights Marc Daniels and former UCF guard Taylor Young calling the action.

THE SERIES
• UCF and East Carolina have met 21 times since first playing in the 2000-01 season.
• The Knights won the first nine outings and hold a 14-7 advantage in the series.
• UCF holds a 7-2 lead in the series in games played in Orlando.
• The two teams played each other at least twice for eight straight seasons before failing to square off in 2013-14.

TAYLOR MADE
• Freshman B.J. Taylor leads the Knights and ranks 10th in the AAC with 12.9 ppg.
• He leads all freshmen in the conference in scoring.
• Taylor has scored in double figures in 15 out of 23 games played (left two early due to injury), and has led the Knights in scoring nine times.
• The Orlando native has been named American Rookie of the Week three times and earned Weekly Honor Roll accolades once.
• Taylor’s 33 points against Tulane (1/17) were the most ever by a UCF freshman in the Knights’ NCAA Division I era.

HENRIQUEZ IS A HIT
• Freshman Adonys Henriquez is second on the team and ranks 18th in the conference with 10.7 points per game.
• The Orlando native has scored in double figures 16 times and has eclipsed the 20-point plateau three times on the season.
• Henriquez has been named American Rookie of the Week three times and is the third highest scoring freshman in the league.
• He is seventh in The American in three-point percentage (.385) and seventh in threes made per game (2.1).

DIAPER DANDY DUO
• The duo of Taylor and Henriquez make UCF one of just three teams across the nation to have a pair of freshmen as its top two scorers (Binghamton and UMass Lowell).
• One of the two freshmen has been the team’s leading scorer in 13 out of the Knights’ 27 games this season.
• Taylor and Henriquez have secured six out of the 15 American Rookie of the Week honors this season between them (three each).

WILSON WARRIOR
• Kasey Wilson has stepped up his game up as of late, scoring in double figures in four out of the last five times out.
• The senior was named to the AAC Weekly Honor Roll after averaging 16.5 points and 8.5 rebounds while shooting .619 in wins over USF (2/11) and Houston (2/15).
• Wilson is 10th in the UCF record books with a .394 career three-point percentage.
• He has 510 career rebounds, which ranks eighth in the UCF record books during the Knights’ Division I era.

GOODWINNING
• Sophomore Brandon Goodwin has stepped up his game as a sophomore, improving his scoring average from 3.0 ppg to 10.5 ppg, which is 23rd in the league.
• He also leads the Knights and ranks sixth in the AAC with 4.0 apg.
• The point guard has dealt out at least three assists in eight straight games and his 13 at Tulane (2/19) tied the AAC record and were one off of UCF’s school record.
• He played the hero when UCF won 79-78 in overtime at Houston, scoring a career high 30 points, grabbing seven rebounds and handing out five assists.
• He scored the final 13 points for UCF, including a 30-footer with two seconds left to put it into OT and another three to win the game with 1.1 seconds on the clock.

BLAIR IS A BEAST
• Junior Staphon Blair leads the Knights and ranks second in the conference with a .607 field goal percentage.
• His .587 career shooting percentage is third in the UCF record books, while his 91 blocks rank sixth all-time among Knights.
• Blair is averaging 7.8 points and leads the team with 5.1 rebounds per game.
• The self-proclaimed @Dunkinking has 30 of the Knights’ 54 slams on the season.

GO BIG OR GO HOME
• Getting production out of the front line has been a key to success for the Knights this season.
• Wilson has scored in double figures 10 times and UCF is 7-3 in those games.
• Blair has scored in double figures eight times and UCF is 6-2 in those games.
• When both Wilson and Blair have scored in double figures in the same game, the Knights are 4-1.

CALLING LONG DISTANCE
• The Knights are second in The American with a .356 three-point field goal percentage and rank second with 6.8 threes made per game.
• Junior Daiquan Walker leads the team and ranks fifth in the league at .396.
• Henriquez ranks seventh in the league at .385, while Taylor is 11th at .360.

MORE FROM BEYOND THE ARC
• The Knights have knocked down 10 three-pointers in a game four times this season, including a 12-triple performance at Tulane (2/19).
• Wilson (10th) is currently in the UCF record books with a career three-point percentages of .394.
• Henriquez has been a model of consistency beyond the arc, hitting three or more triples in 12 out of 27 games.

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