CANTON -- The Malone University men's basketball team will wrap up the recent three-game, Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) road swing on Saturday. 

The Pioneers will make the trip out to Cedarville University to take on the Yellow Jackets.

Saturday's contest will go a long way in breaking up the log jam that has formed atop the conference standings. Both Malone and Cedarville are two of the four teams who have just two losses in conference play. 

GAME INFORMATION
The Matchup: Malone University Pioneers (11-4, 6-2 G-MAC) at Cedarville University Yellow Jackets (9-5, 5-2 G-MAC)
Where: Cedarville, Ohio | Callan Athletic Center
When: Saturday, January 15 | 4:15 p.m.
Tickets: Cedarville University Ticket Office 
Live Video Stream: Great Midwest Digital Network
Live Stats: Great Midwest Digital Network

SERIES HISTORY
This will be the 105th meeting all-time between these two schools. Malone holds a slight 58-46 lead in the overall series. 

The Pioneers swept all three meetings last year, including the 77-59 win in the G-MAC Championship game in March. 

Overall Malone has won the last four meetings in a row. The last win for the Yellow Jackets came in February of 2020. 

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT MALONE UNIVERSITY
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• Malone rebounded back with a 75-70 win over Ohio Dominican University on Thursday night. Late in the game Bryce Butler broke a 64-64 tie with a free throw and Malone never trailed again.  A three-point play from Marcus Ernst made it a 69-65 game, and the Pioneers were ultimately able to ice away the 75-70 win from the free throw line down the stretch.
• That victory is the 100th career head coaching win for Casey Kaufman. He becomes just the third Pioneer coach to win at least 100 games during their career.
• Bo Myers and Marcus Ernst each finished with 18 points in the win over ODU. For Ernst, it was a season-high in scoring. For Myers, he made his first three-point attempt of the second-half which pushed him across the 1,000 career point threshold. He becomes the second Pioneer player to reach that career milestone this season. Bryce Butler scored his 1,000th point in Malone's 102-84 win over the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown back on November 30.
• Bryce Butler (17.2) and Bo Myers (17.1) are the leading scorers for Malone this season. They also rank fourth and fifth overall in the G-MAC respectively. 
• Justin Miller (14.9 ppg) is also top-10 in the league in scoring. He ranks eighth. Miller also ranks second in the G-MAC with 70 total assists.
• Marucs Ernst narrowly missed out on another double-double performance on Thursday, but he still enters Saturday's game as the second leading rebounder in the G-MAC. Ernst averages 9.5 boards per game. 

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY
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• The Yellow Jackets are coming off of a huge 76-73 win over Walsh on Thursday. The Cavaliers previously had stood alone atop the G-MAC standings in first-place. 
• Branden Maughmer led Cedarville with 23 points in the win, and he comes into Saturday's game third in the G-MAC scoring 18.3 points per game.
• CU has three other players: Quinton Green (13.4), Isaiah Speelman (12.4), and Jayvon Maughmer (10.3) who are also scoring in double digits.
• Graduate student Conner TenHove is a top-10 rebounder in the league, and he also is scoring 9.9 points per game.
• Cedarville, who was picked to finish fifth in the preseason coaches poll, is under the direction of head coach Pat Estepp. Winter is in his fourteenth season as head coach of the Yellow Jackets.

UP NEXT
The Pioneers will return home next week. Malone is set to host Lake Erie College on Wednesday, January 19. Tip-off from Osborne Hall is slated for 7:30 p.m.