By: Matt Doherty<\/p>\n
Looking for their fourth consecutive victory, the Boston University Men\u2019s Basketball team will travel to Pennsylvania to take on the Lafayette Leopards on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 P.M. <\/span><\/p>\n The Terriers are playing their best basketball of the season as of late, winning three straight games against Army, Lehigh, and Navy to propel themselves into a third place tie in the Patriot League standings. <\/span><\/p>\n The next three contests for BU will come against teams they have already beaten this season. The first team on that stretch is Lafayette. <\/span><\/p>\n The Leopards are having a season to forget so far posting a 5-16 overall record and a 2-8 mark in conference play that puts them last in the standings. <\/span><\/p>\n BU beat Lafayette 58-41 earlier in the season in a game where the Terriers held the Leopards to 11 first half points.<\/span><\/p>\n Lafayette is currently riding a 5 game losing streak after dropping an overtime decision to Army on Wednesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n One thing the Leopards can do though is score the basketball. They score a little over 72 points a game, fourth best in the Patriot League, and have a premier scorer in junior guard Nick Lindner who averages 15.3 PPG. <\/span><\/p>\n The achilles heel for Lafayette all season has been defense, defense, and more defense. The Leopards give up a league worst 82 points per game, contributing to a -9.8 scoring margin. They also give up the most rebounds per game and have the worst rebounding margin in the conference.<\/span><\/p>\n With all that said, BU will have to continue scoring the basketball like they have been highlighted by the 83 points on 58% shooting vs. Navy on Wednesday. <\/span><\/p>\n The return of Cheddi Mosely has sparked the offense and provided a scoring threat off the bench for the Terriers. Also, Kyle Foreman is coming off arguably his best game as a collegiate athlete and Nathan Dieudonne continues rebounding at a high rate. <\/span><\/p>\n If the Terriers can keep their offense in a groove by knocking down three pointers and out rebounding the Leopards, then BU should be able to pick their fourth consecutive win and keep moving up the Patriot League standings. <\/span><\/p>\n Tip off from Easton is scheduled for 2 PM and can be seen live on the Patriot League Network.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Matt Doherty Looking for their fourth consecutive victory, the Boston University Men\u2019s Basketball team will travel to Pennsylvania to take on the Lafayette Leopards on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 P.M. The Terriers are playing their best basketball of the season as of late, winning three straight games against Army, Lehigh, and Navy to propel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17193,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1027],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}