CLARION RECORD: 18-9 overall, 7-5 PSAC-West (3^rd place)

EDINBORO RECORD: 17-10 overall, 8-4 PSAC-West (2^nd place)

WINNER PLAYS: Mansfield or Millersville Saturday, March 8 at the highest remaining seed in the PSAC-West

EDINBORO-CLARION IN 2003: Clarion won 74-49 at Clarion Feb. 5; Edinboro won 57-43 at Edinboro Feb. 26

CLARION LAST GAME: Mar. 1, 2003 – Shippensburg 98, Clarion 96 (at Shippensburg)

EDINBORO LAST GAME: Mar. 1, 2003 – California 73, Edinboro 59 (at Edinboro)

CLARION LAST 10 GAMES: 4-6 (L-4) EDINBORO LAST 10 GAME: 6-4 (L-1)

CLARION-EDINBORO SERIES LAST 10 GAMES: Edinboro leads 6-4

LAST CLARION WIN AT EDINBORO: Feb. 20, 1991 – Clarion 100-72

RECENT CLARION-BORO SERIES HISTORY: Edinboro has won 13 straight meetings against Clarion at home and 17 of the past 18 in McComb Fieldhouse against the Golden Eagles. … Clarion did get two neutral court wins in the PSAC Playoffs at McComb Fieldhouse in 2001 beating Bloomsburg and West Chester to win the PSAC Title. …. … Clarion and Edinboro have combined to win three of the past six PSAC-West titles with Clarion winning in 1997 and 2000 and Edinboro winning in 2001. … The two teams have also had almost identical records in the past seven seasons including this one. … Clarion is 133-59 overall and 55-29 in the PSAC-West since 1997, while Edinboro is 124-73 overall and 54-30 in the PSAC-West.

GAME NOTES: Clarion is making its seventh straight appearance in the PSAC Playoffs, the longest active streak of any team in the PSAC-West … In the previous six playoff seasons, Clarion is 5-5 overall … Last season Clarion lost at IUP 62-55 in the first round … In each of the six seasons, the winner of the first-round game that Clarion has played in has played for the PSAC Title … The Golden Eagles won the 2001 PSAC Title with wins over IUP (79-73), Bloomsburg (70-65) and West Chester (80-77, OT) … Clarion also appeared in the 1997 PSAC Title game losing to Mansfield 94-80 … Since the PSAC started a tournament in 1961, Clarion has appeared in seven PSAC Title games … Edinboro is making its third straight appearance in the PSAC Playoffs … Last season the Fighting Scots lost to California 82-70 in the first round … Edinboro won the PSAC Title in 1998 with wins over Clarion (77-67), Bloomsburg (71-67) and West Chester (83-77) … Clarion and Edinboro have met in the PSAC Playoffs twice with Edinboro winning in the first round in 1998 77-67 and Edinboro winning in the first round in 1982 58-53. Both games were at Edinboro.

CLARION NOTES: Clarion’s Shamar Green was named the PSAC-West Rookie of the Week this past week after averaging 11.0 ppg and 5.5 rpg over a two-game stretch … He collected 14 points and five rebounds against Shippensburg Saturday … The 96 points Clarion scored against Shippensburg Saturday were the most the Eagles have scored this season and the most they have scored against a PSAC-West foe since they beat Edinboro 100-94 in double overtime in 2000 … They were also the most points in a regulation PSAC-West game since Clarion beat Slippery Rock 107-90 in the 1995 season … With 526 points this season, senior guard Rollie Smith is tied for 14^th place in a single season in Clarion history in scoring with Joe Malis ... Smith’s 1,432 career points ranks 8^th in school history, and he is just 10 points back of Oronn Brown for 7^th in school history … Smith, who has 99 assists this season, also has 450 career assists which ties him with Dave Wojciechowski for 4^th place in school history.