Jahme Ested is in the midst of his best stretch of basketball this season.Millersville is also trying to win back-to-back PSAC East titles for the first time since 2001-02/2002-03. Millersville has now won 17-plus games in back-to-back seasons for the first time since since 2006-07/2007-08 and for just the third time since 1996.Hendricks has scored 18 points against WCU twice in his career. West Chester, Hendricks has averaged 13.7 points and 3.3 assists per game.

He scored 15 in last season’s playoff game, and in his last three games vs. Mekhi Hendricks scored a season-high 18 points in the first meeting of the season, and Hendricks has a history of playing well against West Chester.Elijah Allen hit the winner in the 64-63 win over Shepherd, and Kyle McGhee made a three in the final seconds of the 81-78 win over Lock Haven. West Chester has won two games in a row on buzzer-beater shots. West Chester’s last five wins have all come by 10 points or fewer. 18, the Marauders are 6-0 in games decided by single digits. Both Millersville and West Chester have grown accustomed to playing close games lately.Overall, West Chester has won six of the last seven while Millersville has won 10 of the last 11. West Chester is 11-3 at home, winning five in a row. Millersville already holds the head-to-head tiebreaker with Shippensburg and can get the tiebreaker with West Chester with a win on Wednesday. Four teams sit within 1 1/2 games of first place. Wednesday’s game could determine the winner of the PSAC East, and it will certainly factor into which teams receive the coveted first-round bye in the PSAC Tournament. Longtime rivals Millersville and West Chester are deadlocked in the PSAC East standings, one game out of first place with two games remaining. Regular season games don’t get any bigger than this.

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