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CONWAY, Ark. _ The University of Central Arkansas Bears will host Eastern Kentucky in ASUN action on Saturday night, and at the same time, celebrate the career of graduate forward Jared Chatman in his next-to-last regular-season home game at the Farris Center.
UCA and EKU will tip-off at approximately 6:15 following the women's game between the Sugar Bears and Colonels.
Chatham and the Bears currently sit in third place in the ASUN West Division standings with four regular-season games remaining. The third and fourth-place finishers in each division will host first-round games in the ASU Tournament that begins March 1 on campus sites. The top two seeds on both side earn first-round byes.
Right behind the Bears (8-17, 5-7) are the Colonels and the Lipscomb Bisons, tied at 4-9. UCA plays Lipscomb next Saturday in the regular-season finale in Nashville.
UCA beat EKU 79-72 on Jan. 4 in the Bears first-ever ASUN contest at Alumni Coliseum in Richmond, Ky. The Bears got a 21-point, 16-rebound double-double from junior
Darious Hall and had three others in double figures. Sophomore
Collin Cooper had 18 points, hitting 4 of 6 from three-point range, while Chatham and freshman guard
Camren Hunter scored 16 each. UCA shot 50.9 percent from the field for the game and went 17 of 19 at the free-throw line.
EKU, one of the most prolific three-point shooting teams in the conference, made eight (of 33) but shot just 34 percent overall on the night. The Colonels are just 2-5 in their last seven games and are 11-5 at home but 1-10 in road games.
UCA will host a makeup game with East Division leader LIberty at 7 p.m. Monday before finishing up at North Alabama on Wednesday and LIpscomb on Saturday.
Chatham, from Los Angeles, Calif, will be closing out a career that has seen him score 854 career points and also join the 500-rebound club in the past two weeks. He is just the 18th UCA player to top 500 rebounds and now has 531 for his career. Chatham has already graduated from UCA with a degree in family and consumer science and is taking graduate courses in public relations.
