This week: Notre Dame College men's basketball will play a road game against West Virginia State University on December 6, at 7:30 p.m., and then will come home to play the University of Charleston on December 9, at 4 p.m. The Falcons will also play an exhibition game at Cleveland State University on December 10. That game is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.

Records: The Falcons currently sit at 3-5 on the year and are 1-3 in the MEC. The Yellow Jackets have a record of 4-4 and a Mountain East Conference record of 2-2. The Golden Eagles are 5-3 and are 1-2 in the MEC.

Coaches Corner: Tim Koenig enters his fifth season at the helm of the Falcons and holds a 67-62 overall record. He has an MEC record of 42-50. Bryan Poore has been coaching at WVSU for 18 seasons and holds a record of 303-238, 32-82 MEC. Dwaine Osborne is in his fifth season as head coach of UC and has a 76-51 record and his teams are 50-41 in the MEC.

Rankings: None of these teams were ranked in the latest NABC Division II Coaches Poll.

Series History: The Falcons are 8-2 all-time against West Virginia State since the series started in 2013-14 and NDC swept the Yellow Jackets in two games last season. The Falcons have a 2-6 record against Charleston since the 2013-14 season. Last year, NDC beat UC at home and lost to them on the road.

Noting the Falcons: A very tough week for the Falcons pinned them against the top teams in the MEC. On November 29, NDC lost to No. 9 Wheeling Jesuit University by a score of 91-80. The Falcons did score 50 points and shot 47-percent in the second half. Notre Dame also took the lead for two and-a-half minutes, after coming back from a 19-point second half deficit. Levi Frankland scored 22 points and Cole Hayes scored 17 points and knocked down four three pointers. Hayes leads the team in three point shooting percentage at 48-percent, while Frankland is second at 43-percent. Angelo Cugini, who shoots 48-percent from the field this year, had 12 points and 11 rebounds. Against No. 9 West Liberty University on December 2, the Falcons fell 103-84. Kyauta Taylor is second in the MEC in scoring at 22.9 points-per-game and against WLU put together a double-double by scoring 28 points and grabbing 10 rebounds. Taylor is also tied for fourth in the conference in assists with four-per-game and is tied for third in steals-per-game with two. Drew Scarberry had 17 points on 60-percent (6-for-10) shooting and Frankland added 15 points and shot 55-percent (6-for-11) from the field and went 50-percent (3-for-6) from three points range.

Noting the Yellow Jackets: On November 29, West Virginia State lost to The University of Virginia's College at Wise, 83-81 on a game winning layup by the Cavaliers' Tajh Eason at the buzzer. WVSU allowed 50 points in the second half. Robert Fomby scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds while Pat Johnson-Agwu added 17 points and 12 rebounds, including eight offensive rebounds. Johnson-Agwu grabs 8.1 rebounds-per-game and ranks fifth in the MEC while also hauling in five offensive rebounds-per-game which leads the conference. Jeremiah Moore scored 13 points and had three blocks. Moore is now tied for 14^th in Division II with 2.38 blocks-per-game. The Yellow Jackets shot 40-percent from the field. On December 2, West Virginia State lost to Concord University, 96-87. Fomby had 19 points and eight rebounds while Jahlen Greene scored 18 points and grabbed five rebounds. The Yellow Jackets shot 43-percent from the field.

Free Throw Head Scratcher: WVSU is shooting 70-percent from the free throw line this season, which ranks sixth in the conference. However, Ernest Jenkins leads the MEC in free throw percentage at 96-percent.

Noting the Golden Eagles: Charleston played three games last week, and went 2-1. On November 27, against Davis & Elkins College, UC won 66-59. The Golden Eagles held D&E to a 37-percent shooting percentage. Kier Anderson had 15 points on 56-percent shooting (5-for-9), Jonathan Tshibuy had 12 points and Shaq Speights had 11 points and eight rebounds. Anderson averages 17.7 points-per-game, which is eighth best in the conference and is shooting 56-percent from the field. Against Davis & Elkins, 10 players had at least two points for Charleston, but the team shot 37-percent from the field and only 58-percent from the free throw line. UC lost to Concord, at home, on November 29 by a score of 77-72, even though the Golden Eagles shot 52-percent from the field in the second half. Lamont McManus had 15 points and nine rebounds in 27 minutes, Tshibuy had 11 points and Austin Howard added 10 points. Charleston beat Virginia-Wise, 78-75 on December 2. Anderson scored 34 points on 71-percent (12-for-17) shooting. Tshibuy scored 12 points and hauled in 13 boards.