CHICAGO -- The UIC men's basketball earned the No. 4 seed in the Horzion League Men's Basketball Championship and will begin its tournament run on Tuesday, March 3 at home against IUPUI. Tipoff against the ninth-seeded Jaguars is set for 7 p.m. inside Credit Union 1 Arena.

3 POINT PLAY
• UIC closed out the regular season with a 68-66 setback against Oakland on Saturday (Feb. 29). Tarkus Ferguson scored a team-high 21 points in his final regular season game with the Flames while Michael Diggins nearly had a double-double with nine points and 10 rebounds.
• The Flames secured their 10th conference victory Thursday, the third consecutive year UIC has 10 or more conference wins. It marks the first time in program history the Flames have three consecutive 10+ win seasons in league action.
• Tarkus Ferguson is just the fourth Division I player since 1992-93 to have 1,500 points, 700 rebounds and 600 assists in a career.

SERIES STUFF
• UIC swept the season series from the Jaguars and have won three consecutive meetings in the series.
• The Flames won on the road, 75-66, back on Jan. 18 before picking up a 77-72 home win just over a week ago on Feb. 22.
• Marcus Ottey averaged a team-high 14.5 points over the course of the two regular season meetings while Tarkus Ferguson added 13.5 points, seven rebounds and eight assists per game.
• Elyjah Goss leads the league with 12 double-doubles on the year while Marcus Burk averages a team-best 213 points per game.

ROAD BLOWOUTS
• UIC has two 30-point road wins this year, both coming in conference play. The Flames defeated Oakland, 80-50, on Jan. 23 and Northern Kentucky, 73-43, on Feb. 16.
• UIC is one of four DI programs with two 30-point road wins this year and just one of two schools (Gonzaga) with two 30-point road wins in conference play.
• Gonzaga leads the country with three 30-point road wins this year, while UIC, Furman and Louisiana Tech all have two road wins by such a margin.

FLAMES LOCK DOWN NORSE
• UIC's defense smothered Northern Kentucky en route to a 73-43 road win on Feb. 16.
• The 43 points allowed by UIC were the third-fewest in the Flames' 39-year history of DI competition, while the 43 points are tied for the seventh-fewest scored by a Division I home team in any game this season.
• The Flames limited Northern Kentucky to just 22.0% shooting, the third-worst shooting performance by a DI home team this year and the lowest allowed by UIC in any game since at least the 2010-11 season.

70 IS THE MAGIC NUMBER
• When UIC has scored 70 or more points in a game, it has usually resulted in a positive outcome.
• The Flames are 13-2 on the year when scoring 70 or more points, including a 9-2 mark when scoring between 70-79 points.
• UIC has won its last eight games, and 10 of its last 11, when reaching the 70-point mark, including a 84-67 win over Detroit Mercy Thursday.
• The Flames scored a season-high 90 points in its 90-83 overtime victory at Youngstown State on Jan. 30.