The Hobart College basketball team will play at Union College for the Liberty League Championship on Saturday, Feb. 25. Tipoff in the Viniar Athletic Center is scheduled for 2 p.m.
 
The game will be broadcast live on WHWS-FM (105.7). Fans can also track the action online with streaming video and live stats.
 
The No. 4 seed in the tournament, Hobart (16-10) upset top-seeded and two-time defending champion Skidmore College 70-65 in last night's semifinals. Sophomore Colin Dougherty scored a game-high 26 points against the Thoroughbreds.
 
Seeded third, Union (15-10) upset No. 2 St. Lawrence University 110-108 in double overtime. Senior Deshon Burgess led the Dutchmen with 34 points, including the game-winning 3-pointer with 0.9 seconds remaining.
 
Dougherty leads three Statesmen averaging double digits in the scoring column. He's producing 16.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg, and a team-high 2.7 apg. First-year Tucker Lescoe is one of only three players in the program's history to make 70 or more 3-pointers in a season. Entering the championship, he has 72 triples, seven off the record. Lescoe averages 12.3 ppg. Sophomore Jamal Lucas chips in 12.1 ppg and a team-high 4.7 rpg.
 
The Statesmen are among the top teams in the nation, defensively. Hobart is eighth in the country in 3-point field goal percentage defense (.298), 38th in field goal percentage defense (.406), and 53rd in scoring defense (68.8 ppg).
 
Union has four players in double digits, led by Burgess' 19.3 ppg. Senior Wade McNamara contributes 15.9 ppg and a team-high 10.2 rpg. Greg King and Kevin Weckworth each add 10.4 ppg.
 
The Dutchmen take care of the basketball, ranking 34th in the nation in turnovers per game (11.5). Union is also a potent 3-point shooting team, ranking second in the league with 224 makes from beyond the arc.
 
The Dutchmen swept the regular season series with the Statesmen. In Geneva, Burgess hit a 3-pointer to force overtime and Union escaped Bristol Gym with a 69-61 win in January. Last Sunday, the Dutchmen closed out the regular season with a 70-64 win in Schenectady.
 
This will be the fourth all-time meeting between Hobart and Union in the Liberty League Tournament. The three previous contests were all in the semifinal round. The Dutchmen prevailed in 2000 (82-81) and 2005 (77-74) while the Statesmen came out on top in 2012 (73-53). Union leads the all-time series with Hobart 60-46, including a 35-20 advantage in Schenectady.