OUAZ MEN'S BASKETBALL NOTES
• The final stretch of the season starts on Saturday as the OUAZ men's basketball team welcomes crosstown rival Arizona Christian to Faith Arena. The final game of this four-game homestand will tipoff at 7 p.m.

• OUAZ will enter the game with a 9-14 overall record and having alternated wins and losses in each of their past five outings. The Spirit are 4-9 in Golden State Athletic Conference games where they are tied for seventh with five games to play. They are two games behind Vanguard for the sixth and final position in next month's GSAC Tournament

• The Spirit have posted a 6-5 record at Faith Arena during their inaugural season in their new home.

• Arizona Christian will make the short trip to Surprise at 19-6 overall and winners of three straight. The Firestorm are tied for second in the GSAC with a 9-4 conference record – three games out of first – and they will clinch a postseason berth with one more win or loss from OUAZ or Hope International.

• ACU has gone 5-0 all-time in games against OUAZ, including a 2-0 mark in games played at OUAZ. The Spirit visited ACU on January 4 where they were defeated 83-70.

HOW TO FOLLOW
• Saturday's game will be broadcast live on the OUAZ Digital Network and be available on the NAIA Network OTT app that is available on Android TV, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Roku devices. The OUAZ Digital Network is available on game day at OUAZSpirit.com/digital.

• Live stats will also be available during the game with a link available at OUAZSpirit.com/live.

OUAZ TIDBITS
• OUAZ will enter the rivalry game having won two of three during this current four-game homestand. That includes a 104-75 win over Park Gilbert on Monday night and splitting games against San Diego Christian (W, 67-66) and Vanguard (L, 88-66) over the weekend.

• Coming off their third 100-point outing of the season, OUAZ is now 19th in the NAIA in scoring offense at 84.65 points per game. They have scored 80-plus points in a game 12 times and only held below 70 twice.

• The Spirit are 12th nationally by shooting 48.9 percent from the field where they have been 50 percent or better eight times. The team has only shot less than 40 percent in a game two times this season.

• OUAZ is currently 22nd in the nation by shooting 72.0 percent at the foul line and they are averaging 21.3 free throw attempts per game.

• With five games to play in the regular season, OUAZ is 37th in the NAIA in averaging 14.91 assists per night and their 0.986 assist-to-turnover ratio is 44th in the country.

• The opposition is scoring 84.8 points per game and making 45.4 percent from the floor. OUAZ is forcing 16.0 turnovers per game and their 8.13 steals per game rank 24th nationally.

TRIPLE THREAT
• OUAZ features the top two leading scorers in the GSAC and three of the top nine. Dimetres Moore (21.96) leads the conference with Brian Carey (20.35) second and Shazier Lawson (16.24) in ninth. Moore and Carey are the only teammates in the NAIA to both average at least 20 points per game.

• The duo of Moore and Carey are the highest scoring duo in the NAIA and when you add Lawson, they are the highest scoring trio in the country.

• Moore, Carey, and Lawson are accounting for nearly 67 percent of the team's total points this season.

LEANING ON MOORE
• Dimetres Moore is the leader of that trio by scoring 21.96 points per game. That is good for tops in the GSAC and seventh in the NAIA. Moore has scored 20-plus points in a game 14 times this season and had 30-plus points in a game four times.

• Moore set the school record with his 42 points scored in the Spirit's win over Park Gilbert on February 10.

• Moore is also active at the defensive end where his 2.65 steals per game are tops in the conference and fifth in the nation. He has recorded at least one steal in all but one game of the season and has 16 games with multiple steals.

• Moore narrowly missed the first triple-double in program history against Embry-Riddle when he recorded 24 points, 10 rebounds, and a school record nine steals. Those nine steals are the most by a player in the Golden State Athletic Conference since the 2010-11 season.

FIRST TO 1,000
• Moore became the all-time leading scorer at OUAZ when he scored his 777th career point at San Diego Christian on January 11. He is trending towards becoming the program's first-ever 1,000-point scorer.

• He enters the week with 959 career points at OUAZ and needing to just 41 to reach 1,000. Moore is already the OUAZ career leader in steals (101) and he needs nine rebounds for the all-time lead with 294.

ASSIST FROM CAREY
• Brian Carey became more of a scoring threat for the Spirit in December when he posted seven straight games of at least 20 points and he hasn't slowed down since. Carey is now ninth in the nation in scoring 20.35 points per game with 14 games with at least 20 points.

• Along with being the team's No. 2 scoring option, Carey is the new single season assist leader with his 140 dimes. That total is sixth-most in the NAIA and he ranks seventh nationally by averaging 6.09 assists per game.

• Carey has twice posted double-digit assists in a game this season, including a school record 14 helpers against Park Gilbert on February 10.

BOARDS FROM LAWSON
• Shazier Lawson is scoring 16.24 points per game where he ranks 52nd in the NAIA. Lawson has scored in double figures 17 times this season with seven 20-point outings.

• Lawson also collects 8.57 rebounds per game to rank him 17th in the NAIA and third in the GSAC. He has at least six rebounds in all but four games this season with six games in double figures.

• He ranks 13th in the NAIA by getting 6.62 defensive rebounds per night and his six double-doubles lead the team and rank third in the GSAC.

ABOUT ARIZONA CHRISTIAN
• Arizona Christian come in scoring 87.40 points per game to rank 13th in the NAIA. They get there by making 9.16 threes per game where they are 28th in the NAIA.

• The Firestorm are 12th in the nation by holding opponents to 40.7 percent shooting. ACU opponents make just 33.1 percent from beyond the arc and score 75.04 points per game.

• Shane Carney leads five players that average in double figures by scoring 15.26 points per game with six 20-point outings.

LOOKING AHEAD
• OUAZ will make its final road trip of the regular season next week as they return to California for two GSAC games. The first stop is at Life Pacific on February 20 in San Dimas at 8:30 p.m. (AZ).

• The Spirit will then look for a season sweep of Hope International will then visit the Royals on February 22 at 5 p.m. (AZ) in Fullerton.