This week, the Benedictine University men's basketball team will take on two Northern Athletics Conference foes. The team will travel to Concordia-Chicago on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m and will host Edgewood on Saturday at 5:00 p.m.

Benedictine (8-10, 6-7) sits in seventh place in the NACC standings with seven games remaining. After a week of four games, the Eagles played just one match this past week, defeating Wisconsin Lutheran for the second time this season. Sophomore big man Tim McGinty (16.9ppg, 6.6 rpg) netted 29 points in the 77-61 victory and earned NACC Player of the Week honors, while senior co-captain and guard Alex Edmondson (3.9ppg) had a season-high 15 points on five three-pointers. Edmondson is 7-of-8 from beyond the arc over the last two games and is averaging 13 points over that span.

The Eagles will head down I-88 and I-290 on Wednesday night to River Forest to take on last-place Concordia-Chicago (5-14, 2-12). Even though the team has lost six straight contests, the Cougars have played some of the top teams in the NACC well. CUC lost to fourth-place Aurora by just one point back on January 16 after a foul put Aurora at the free throw line with one second left. The team has also split with third-place MSOE this season, defeating the Raiders 79-74 on the road and falling by just one point at home. Ironically, MOSE was able to win much like Aurora did against the Cougars, as a Cougar foul put MSOE at the line with just seven seconds to play. If CUC was able to pull both of those games out, the team would be just one game out of a NACC Tournament spot.

Benedictine will have to watch out for senior forward Marcus Elston, who is second on the team in scoring (14.7ppg), fifth in the NACC in field goal percentage (52.8%), and leads the NACC in rebounding (10.9rpg). CUC's leading scorer, guard Mike Walmer at 14.9 points per game, is just a freshman. The Eagles defeated the Cougars 87-64 back in December at the Dan and Ada Rice Center behind 21 points and eight rebounds from McGinty and 16 points and 10 rebounds from Michael Woolf.

On Saturday, Benedictine will return home for Hall of Fame Night at the Dan and Ada Rice Center. It will be a battle of the Eagles, as Benedictine will face Edgewood (9-8, 7-5). It's a big contest in terms of seeding, as Edgewood sits in fifth place in the NACC standings and is just 1.5 games ahead of BenU. However, Edgewood as dropped its last two contests (home games against Marian and Dominican) and will travel to MSOE on Tuesday.

Edgewood is a defensive basketball team, ranking first in points allowed (69.5ppg), opponent's three-point field goal percentage (30.2%), and three-pointers allowed (76). However, the team has struggled on offense, ranking last in scoring (67.5pg) and field goal percentage (40.7%). Edgewood and BenU met to open the conference season back in late November, with Edgewood winning in Madison 76-73. McGinty scored 23 points for BenU in the loss.