CHICAGO -- UIC will seek to get back into the win column Tuesday night when it hosts the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks in the penultimate non-conference game of the regular season at 7 p.m. CT inside the UIC Pavilion.

The Flames (5-6) split a pair of games last week against crosstown foes. UIC traveled north to Lincoln Park on Dec. 14 to face the DePaul Blue Demons and the squad returned to the Near West Side with an impressive 80-75 victory. The Flames trailed by as many as nine points at DePaul before Kyle Guice's 3-point basket with 54.6 seconds remaining in the contest gave the visitors the lead for good. Guice finished that game with a season-high 14 points, thanks in large part to a career-best four 3-pointers. UIC then returned to the Pavilion on Dec. 17, but it fell in overtime to Loyola Chicago 81-75. The Ramblers led by as many as 13 points, but they needed a 3-pointer to go down with one second remaining in regulation to force overtime. Loyola got the best of the Flames in the extra session, 13-7, to notch its 10^th win of the year.

UIC has positioned itself as one of the strongest 3-point shooting teams in the Horizon League as the dawn of conference play draws near. The Flames boast two of the League's top three 3-point shooters in Guice and Godwin Boahen. Guice's mark of 52.2 percent (12-of-23) leads the Horizon League heading into the week, while Boahen ranks third at a clip of 47.4 percent (18-of-38) with a team-high 18 3-point field goals. As a team, UIC ranks second in the Horizon League by shooting 37.4 percent (73-of-195) from beyond the arc this season.

The Flames have shown to be a prolific offense during non-conference play in the second season under head coach Steve McClain. After hitting the 80-point mark only four times in 30 games a year ago, UIC has scored at  least 80 points in seven of 11 games this season. The squad is averaging 80.6 points per game, which is the second-highest total in the Horizon League. The team's field goal percentage, .465, also ranks second among the conference's 10 teams. By comparison, the Flames placed ninth in points per game and 10^th in field goal percentage during the 2016-16 campaign.

Northern Arizona (3-9) arrives in the Windy City to play its final non-conference game of the season Tuesday night. The Lumberjacks topped UTEP on Saturday night, 76-74, to pick up their third win of the season while snapping a four-game skid. NAU's roster features a pair of Chicago natives in Torry Johnson and Jaleni Neely. Johnson, a sophomore, attended Morgan Park H.S., while Neely, a fifth-year senior played at Simeon with Jabari Parker, the second overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft.

More notes, statistics and information about Tuesday's game can be found in the UIC Game Notes PDF linked above.