Concord Basketball at Davis & Elkins

We've taken one of the now-famous WVIAC 3-1/2 Hour Road Trips for the Concord basketball doubleheader tonight at D&E.
We'll broadcast both games starting at 5:10 pm EST on The New River 102.3 FM, and on our website, theriver102.com.

Both CU teams are on three-game winning streaks, and it's an important night for each of them.

The women are in 9th place, one spot shy of hosting a first-round game in the conference tournament. D&E is in 14th and in the midst of a brutal stretch of their schedule. Their last three games were against the 8th, 6th and 2nd place teams, and after tonight they visit league-leading Charleston and 7th-place West Virginia State. Then they host 5th-place West Virginia Wesleyan, then visit Glenville State (10th) and Alderson-Broaddus (8th).
So the Lady Senators absolutely must win tonight to keep alive hope of a significant move up the standings.
Concord is coming off three straight blowout victories and will have to avoid looking ahead to Saturday's big game against Wesleyan. Some standout Lady Lion performers lately have been:
Amber Schowalter: 33 points, 14 rebounds, 14-19 FG in the last two games....
Holly Bibb: 11-20 3-point FGs in the last three games....
Sarah Tuggle: 10 assists vs. 2 turnovers in the last two games.

The men have ridden some hot outside shooting to their three-game win streak.
In Monday's easy win at Salem International, Matt Parker hit 8 3-pointers and, after a slow start Cory Willard knocked down six. In last Saturday's win over Ohio Valley, Willard hit his first six 3-point shots and wound up 8-10 from the arc. Parker lit up Bluefield State in the game before that, hitting 7-9 from long distance.
The undersized Mountain Lions will go as far as their outside shooting will take them. Over the course of their three-game streak, they're shooting .479 (34-71) from beyond the arc. With numbers like that, finishing in the top half of the conference is not out of the question.
Tonight, they run up against a D&E that can also fling it. The Senators come in shooting 3's at a .356 clip (compared to Concord's .364) and have two of the WVIAC's leading long-range shooters in Tim Turner and Danny Manuel.
Combined, Concord and D&E average nearly 48 3-point attempts per game. We could be in for a shootout tonight. Should be fun.