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• Bluffton’s top scorers against Defiance this season are Mike Leimeister (32.0 ppg), Rod Overmyer (20.0 ppg), and Derek DeNero (13.5 ppg).
• Bluffton’s top rebounders against Defiance this season are Mike Leimeister (9.0 rpg), Derek DeNero (7.0 rpg), and Marcus Bixler (4.0 rpg).
• BC last won at Defiance 60-57 on January 8, 1997.
• This is the fifth time Bluffton has played Defiance three times in one season, but the first time it has happened since the 1993-94 season. Defiance has won the third meeting of the year each time.
• BC senior Rod Overmyer is tied for second on the career 3-pointers list at Bluffton with 176.
• Bluffton has never won a Heartland Conference tournament game. In the 2000-01 season BC (#4 seed) lost at home to Anderson (#5 seed) 93-64. In the 1999-2000 season BC (#7 seed) lost at Hanover (#2 seed) 68-55. In the 1998-99 season Bluffton (#7 seed) lost at Manchester (#2 seed) 71-39.

• In five career games against Defiance, BC senior Rod Overmyer has scored 69 points and has shot 10-26 from 3-point range.
• Bluffton’s win over Defiance on February 13 snapped a six game losing streak to the Yellow Jackets.
• Defiance has scored 100 or more points against Bluffton in seven of the last eight meetings.