Looking to stay in the race for the Hockey East regular-season title, No. 3 Boston University visits No. 9/10 UMass Lowell on Friday (Feb. 10) aiming to complete a series sweep. Game time at the Tsongas Center is set for 7:15 p.m.

SETTING THE STAGE
• The Terriers are 11-2-0 over the past two months, including a 4-2 home win over the River Hawks 13 days ago. 
• BU is second in the Hockey East standings with 24 points, three points out of first and four ahead of third. 
• The Terriers are tied with Union for the most wins in the nation with 19.
• Friday's game pits the top two combined special teams units in the country. UMass Lowell ranks first at 56.5 percent and BU is second at 54.8 percent. 
• The Terriers are 46-14-4 (.750) all-time in games held in between the Beanpot. 
• Two of the losses came in 2014-15 when the Beanpot final was postponed for two weeks because of snow. 

SERIES HISTORY
• Boston University is 73-28-9 (.705) in 110 all-time meetings with the River Hawks.
• Lowell, however, is 9-5-1 in the past 15 meetings and 10 of BU's 28 losses in the all-time series have occurred since the start of the 2011-12 season.
• The teams split their regular-season series last year with each team winning at home. They later faced off in the Hockey East quarterfinals, where Lowell posted a sweep with scores of 3-2 and 5-0. 
• BU is 14-13-2 (.517) in the 29 meetings that have taken place at the Tsongas Center.
• The Terriers and River Hawks have met in the Hockey East playoffs in three of the past four seasons, including the 2013 and 2015 league title games.
• In 14 overtime games, BU is 5-0-9 against Lowell. 

SCOUTING THE RIVER HAWKS
• UMass Lowell bounced back from a four-game losing streak with wins last weekend at Northeastern (6-4) and at home against New Hampshire (8-2).   
• The River Hawks are currently tied for fourth in the Hockey East standings with Notre Dame at 19 points 9-7-1). 
• UMass Lowell is 6-4-2 at home this season.
• The River Hawks rank third in the nation in both shooting percentage (12.1%) and power play (27.3%).
• Senior Joe Gambardella ranks first on the team in both points (37) and assists (25) while junior C.J. Smith has added 32 points, including a team-best 16 goals. 
• Senior Dylan Zink ranks fifth nationally amongst defensemen in points per game at 0.93 with a 9-18--27 scoring line. 
• Freshman Tyler Wall has started 22 games in goal and currently sports a .914 save percentage and 2.22 goals-against average. 

TWO WEEKS AGO AT AGGANIS
• Boston University closed out a stretch of five games in nine days with one of its strongest wins of the season, earning a 4-2 home victory over then-No. 7 UMass Lowell on Jan. 28
• After the game stayed at a 1-1 score for over 40 minutes, Bobo Carpenter blasted a shot to the back of the net from the right circle off a feed from Clayton Keller to give the Terriers a lead they would not relinquish.
• Keller added an insurance goal off a backhand on a rush with 7:13 left in regulation. 
• The River Hawks got back into the game by getting a goal from C.J. Smith with 3:03 to play and simultaneously drawing a BU penalty to have a chance to equalize on the power play.
• The Terriers' penalty kill unit was up to the task, however, and Carpenter added an empty-netter to create the 4-2 final. 
• Jake Oettinger turned in an impressive 33-save performance, including a highlight-reel glove save on a shorthanded breakaway.
• Ryan Lohin opened the scoring with a power-play tally for Lowell just 8:36 into the game but Gabriel Chabot answered for the Terriers just over a minute later, snapping home a shot on a 2-on-1 rush. 
• Carpenter matched his career highs in points (3) and goals (2).
• The River Hawks held a 35-26 shot advantage and got 22 saves from Tyler Wall. 

MONDAY AT THE BEANPOT
• Boston University never trailed en route to a 3-1 victory over No. 7 Boston College in the opening round of the 65th annual Beanpot on Monday night at TD Garden.
• Sophomore Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson opened the scoring just 4:29 into the proceedings and freshman Chad Krys made it 2-0 on the power play with the eventual game winner at 3:32 of the second stanza.
• BC cut the deficit in half minutes later, but freshman Clayton Keller answered back with a shorthanded strike at the 11:06 mark of the middle period. 
• BC took four penalties over the final 20 minutes, hampering its chance at a comeback as the Terriers held on for the victory.
• BU completed a regular-season sweep of the Eagles for the first time since the 1994-95 campaign.
• The Terriers' snapped a stretch of six straight losses to BC in Beanpot games with BU's last win over the Eagles in Beanpot play coming in the 2007 championship game. 
• For the first time since 1998, BU and Harvard will face off in the Beanpot title game. 

SECOND-HALF SUCCESS
• The Terriers are 11-2-0 in their past 13 games and their recent eight-game win streak was their longest since one of the same length at the end of the 2014-15 season. 
• BU won its first six January contests for the first time since 1977-78 season, when the team captured the program's third national title. 

KELLER CONTINUES HOT STREAK
• Freshman Clayton Keller has 25 points (11g, 14a) during his nation-best 15-game point streak, which is the best by a Terrier since Jay Pandolfo had at least a point in 15 straight contests during the 1995-96 season.  
• Next up on the list of Terrier scoring streaks is Tony Amonte (1989-90) and Mark Fidler (1977-78), who hold the program's freshman record at 16 games. Marc Hetnik also had a 16-game point streak in 1977-78 as a junior. 
• Keller now has four shorthanded goals on the season, tying him with Union's Mike Vecchione for first in the nation.

NOTABLE
• BU has now held BC to one or zero goals in each of their past five meetings, the longest such stretch in the 273-game history between the rivals. 
• Sophomore Bobo Carpenter has had a hand in the game-winning goal in seven of BU's past 10 wins (2g, 5a). 
• Sophomore Jordan Greenway has 11 points (1g, 10a) over his past 13 games, which included an eight-game point streak, and he leads the team in game-winning goals (3).
• Sophomore Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson has eight goals since the semester break after scoring just three goals in the first half of the season.
• All of BU's top eight point-scorers this season have at least one power-play goal.
• The Terriers have scored first in 11 of their past 14 games.
• Thirty-seven of BU's 87 goals thus far have come in the third period. 
• Senior captain Doyle Somerby has a team-best plus-15 rating.
• Five of BU's wins this season have been shutouts, and for the first time in the Terriers' 95-season history, they blanked their first three home opponents.
• All 23 skaters on BU's roster have scored at least one point this season.