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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology men's basketball team comes into Senior Day on a four-game winning streak including a 93-92 thriller in overtime at Manchester. The Fightin' Engineers host Defiance on Saturday at 1 PM.

SENIOR NOTES:
#0 Vuk Djuric - Vuk is a computer science major from Chicago, Illinois. He has appeared in 54 career games with 247 points and 223 rebounds. A 51% career field goal shooter, Vuk has scored a career-high 13 points in a game twice, and has a season-high of 11 points this year.
#5 Max Chaplin - Max is a computer science major from Carmel, Indiana. He has appeared in 81 career games with 736 points. Max leads the team in scoring this season at 13.8 points per game – including double-figure scoring performances in his last 9 games coming into today's matchup.
#10 Terry Hicks - Terry is a biology major from Fishers, Indiana. He has appeared in 76 career games with 50 starts and totals of 619 points and 357 rebounds. He scored a career-high 21 points in a win at Earlham earlier this season, and he also had a 20-point game this year at Transylvania
#11 Zachary Jackson - Zach is a civil engineering major from Franklin, Tennessee. He has appeared in 56 career games with 141 points, 60 rebounds and 61 assists. He set a single-game career-high with 10 points against Manchester last year, and he also scored 10 points against DePauw this year.
#23 Willie Bowman - Willie is a mathematics and computer science double major from Germantown, Ohio. He has appeared in 42 career games with 242 points. He scored a career-high 26 points in last week's win over Bluffton and also scored 20 points in last Wednesday's win at Manchester.

ROSE-HULMAN (13-9, 10-5 HCAC) GAME NOTES:
* Rose-Hulman comes in at 6-2 on home on the season and on a four-game winning streak. The Fightin' Engineers took down Mount St. Joseph and Earlham at home before beating Bluffton and Manchester on the road.
* Max Chaplin leads the team with 13.8 points per game. He recorded his career high of 26 points in the win over Defiance earlier this season.
* Miles McGowen also averages double figures with 12.3 points and 8.5 rebounds per game with seven double-doubles. 
* Willie Bowman, Bradley Harden, Kobe Stoudemire have been lights out from three, shooting a combined 91-202 (45%) this season.
* Bowman leads the team in the last three games averaging 18.3 points per game on 18-32 (56%) shooting from the field and 10-20 (50%) shooting from three. He added a career-high 26 points in the win over Bluffton.
* The Fightin' Engineers had four different players score more than 18 in the win over Manchester with Harden (21), Bowman (20), Stoudemire (20), and McGowen (18).
* Four different Fightin' Engineers tallied career-highs in points in the win over Bluffton with Bowman (26), Harden (17), Eddie Simon Jr. (9), and Ben Olenick (3).
* Nick Sales is completing his first year at Rose-Hulman. Sales was associate head coach at Marietta for the past nine seasons where he won seven OAC regular season championships, made three NCAA tournaments, and reached the NCAA Division III Final Four in 2022. Sales was 204-45 on staff at Marietta.
* The Fightin' Engineers clinched a spot in this season's HCAC tournament with their win over Manchester on Wednesday.
* Rose-Hulman returns home on Tuesday night for their home finale as they host Anderson at 7:30 PM on Valentine's Day.

MANCHESTER (13-8, 11-3 HCAC) GAME NOTES:
* Defiance comes in at 6-16 on the season and 1-14 in the HCAC.
* The Yellow Jackets started the season 5-7, but they are just 1-9 in their last 10 games. Their lone win in this stretch came at home over Mount St. Joseph.
* Defiance fell to Anderson on Wednesday night 102-84.
* Marell Jordan leads the team with 19.2 points per game as well as 5.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists. The senior guard is a career 1500-point scorer with 450 rebounds and 225 assists.
* Landen Swanner and Te Jones are each averaging double figures as well with 11.8 and 10.3 points per game on over 40% shooting from three.
* Defiance will return home on Tuesday night for their final two games as they host Earlham on Tuesday and Bluffton on Friday.

SERIES HISTORY:
* Rose-Hulman leads the all-time series 21-14.
* The Fightin' Engineers took down Defiance 77-57 on the road earlier this season.
* Rose-Hulman has won 10 of the last 12 games against Defiance.
* The Fightin' Engineers are 19-7 against the Yellow Jackets since going just 1-7 during the Nick Sales era from 2006-2010.

HCAC STANDINGS:
1. Anderson (12-3)*
T2. Manchester (11-4)*
T2. Hanover (11-4)*
T4. Rose-Hulman (10-5)*
T4. Transylvania (10-5)*
6. Franklin (8-7)
7. Mount St. Joseph (6-9)
8. Earlham (3-12) - e
9. Bluffton (3-12) - e
10. Defiance (1-14) - e
* - clinched spot in HCAC tournament
e - elimated from HCAC tournament