WASHINGTON - GW men's basketball completes its tour of the Patriot League on Wednesday night when it welcomes the Lafayette Leopards to Smith Center. Tip is scheduled for 7 p.m. on ESPN+ and Monumental Sports Network.

BALANCING THINGS OUT
GW recorded its third game of the season with at least five players in double figures on Friday vs. Army, matching the amount of times it did so during the entire 2023-24 campaign. The Buff & Blue saw six different players reach double digits vs. Hampton on Nov. 8, marking the first time for the program to do so since Feb. 21, 2018 vs. Richmond.

Trey Moss became the sixth different Revolutionary to lead the team in scoring with his 19 points vs. the Black Knights, joining Darren Buchanan Jr. (6 times), Trey Autry (twice) and Gerald Drumgoole Jr., Jacoi Hutchinson and Christian Jones (once each). Last season, GW had just four different leading scorers.

FREE OFFENSE
GW has made a habit of getting to the charity stripe with regularity, averaging 26.8 free throw attempts per game, second-most in the A-10 and ninth-most nationally. The Buff & Blue have attempted at least 13 free throws in every game this season and have attempted over 30 on five occasions, including four of the last seven contests.

The Revolutionaries are ninth in the country in KenPom's "Free Throw Rate" metric, calculating free throw attempts / field goal attempts, at 48.0. GW is getting 24.5% of its offensive production from free throws, the 18th-most nationally. They've also made more free throws than their opponents have attempted in seven of the 11 games. 

HISTORY VS. LAFAYETTE
GW and Lafayette meet for the first time in nine years and for just the fourth-time ever on Wednesday. The Buff & Blue defeated the Leopards, 85-76, in the last meeting held at the Smith Center on Nov. 13, 2015.

Prior to that, GW and Lafayette had not met since a neutral site victory for the Leopards in 1971. The two schools also squared off in the 1925-26 season, a 24-22 win for Lafayette. Lafayatte is the last of three Patriot League teams on the docket for the Buff & Blue this month. GW fell in overtime to American on Dec. 4 and defeated Army last time out.

A LOOK AT THE LEOPARDS
Lafayette enters Wednesday with a 5-5 mark and winners of four of their last five, including a 77-73 triumph over Mercyhurst last time out on Dec. 7. The Leopards feature an incredibly balanced approach with 12 players averaging 10 or more minutes per game and between 3.0 and 11.0 ppg.

Lafayette is second in the country with the bench playing 47.8% of total minutes and ranks 14th nationally with 35.2 bench points per contest. Justin Vander Baan is the team's leading scorer at 10.7 ppg with Alex Chaikin the lone other Leopard in double figures at 10.3 ppg while coming off the bench in all 10 games.

Mike McGarvey is in his second season as head coach at Lafayette and went 11-21 (10-8 Patriot) in his opening campaign, earning a spot in the league quarterfinals. Ten players return from last year's squad and the Leopards were projected to finish sixth in the year's preseason poll.