CHICAGO -- The fourth-seeded UIC basketball team will take on fifth-seeded Youngstown State on Thursday, March 5 in the quarterfinals of the Horizon League Basketball Championship. Due to a previously scheduled event at Credit Union 1 Arena, Thursday's game will be played at Gentile Arena on the campus of Loyola University Chicago. Admission to the game is free and tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.

3 POINT PLAY
• UIC matched its program record for largest margin of victory in a Horizon League tournament game Tuesday with a 93-57 rout of IUPUI. The victory was the first postseason win for the Flames sine a 79-70 win against Green Bay in the quarterfinals of the 2017 Horizon League Championship.
• The Flames secured their 10th conference victory of the year with an 84-67 win against Detroit Mercy Feb. 27, 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 and Youngstown State split the regular season, with both teams picking up road wins.
• Thursday will mark the fourth meeting all-time in the Horizon League Basketball Championship, with UIC owning a 3-0 record. The Flames picked up tournament wins in 2003, 2008 and 2009.
• Darius Quisenberry was named All-Horizon League First Team while Devin Morgan was tabbed as the league's Sixth Man of the year.
• The Penguins advanced to Thursday's quarterfinals with a 63-57 victory over Milwaukee in Tuesday's opening round.

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 14-2 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 nine games, and 10 of its 11 games since the start of Horizon League play, when reaching the 70-point mark, including a 93-59 win over IUPUI Tuesday.
• The 93 points scored by the Flames set a new season high, surpassing the previous mark of 90 points the Flames' 90-83 overtime victory at Youngstown State on Jan. 30.