FSU Men's Basketball Quick Hitters
- Second-ranked Fairmont State retuned from the holiday break by picking up a 103-79 victory over UVa-Wise on Tuesday evening at the Prior Center. The win allowed Fairmont State to improve to 11-0 for the first time since the 1975-76 season. That season, the Falcons went 28-1 and did not suffer a loss until the NAIA National Tournament against Texas Southern.
- Head coach Jerrod Calhoun is 5-2 against Concord in his four seasons at Fairmont State, including sweeping the season series a season ago. Fairmont State holds a 76-36 series lead over the Mountain Lions dating back to 1930.
- In last season's meeting in Athens, No. 2 Fairmont State rallied from 11 points down with just 4:42 to play to steal an 88-87 win over Concord. Trailing 79-68 with 4:42 to go, Thomas Wimbush hit back-to-back threes and then made another jumper to get FSU back into contention. Jason Jolly then made the game-winning layup with 12 seconds left. (After struggling from behind the arc for most of that game, the Falcons went 4-of-5 from three and missed just two field goals in the final 4:42 of the game to get the win.)
- The Falcons are ranked No. 2 in the NABC Coaches' Poll for the third-consecutive ranking release. The Falcons received four-first place votes in the latest voting.
- Fairmont State has now been ranked in 21-consecutive NABC regular season polls, including 18 weeks in the top 10 in the country.
- FSU is also ranked second in the latest edition of the D2SIDA Media Poll.
- The Falcons have won by a double-digit margin in eight of 11 games this season and have scored at least 100 points in four games.
- The Falcons are averaging 97.5 points per game, which is tied with West Liberty for third in the country.
- Fairmont State is also ranked ninth in the country in assists (19.2), 15^th in field-goal percentage (51.1) and 21^st in both steals (9.3) and three-point field goals per game (10.5).
- Shammgod Wells is closing in on two all-time records in the Fairmont State record book. Wells needs just 97 assists and 28 steals to become the all-time school leader in both categories. Wells is currently third in school history with 430 assists and second in steals with 179.
- Wells is 24^th in NCAA Division II in assists per game (5.8) and 15^th in steals per game (2.55).
- Fellow point guard Jason Jolly is 23^rd in the country in assists-to-turnover ratio (3.08).
- Matt Bingaya is in the top 10 in the country in field-goal percentage, making 66.7 percent of his field goal attempts this season. Bingaya is once again leading the Falcons in scoring, averaging 18.9 points per game as a senior. Bingaya is also second on the team in rebounds (7.2) and is shooting 84 percent from the charity stripe.
- Thomas Wimbush went over 1,300 career points in Tuesday evening's win over UVa-Wise. Wimbush is currently 34^th in Fairmont State history in career scoring.
- As a senior, Wimbush is second on the team in scoring (16.8) and first in rebounding (8.2).
- A total of five players are averaging double-figures for the Falcons as Jason Jolly (14.6), Vonte Montgomery (10.9) and D'Ondre Stockman (10.5) join Bingaya and Wimbush in double figures.
- Fairmont State owns victories over a trio of top 25 teams, including then-No. 4 Wheeling Jesuit, then-No. 1 West Liberty and then-No. 17 Indiana (PA). The victories over Wheeling Jesuit and Indiana (PA) both came on the road.