HOBOKEN, N.J. – The Ithaca College men's basketball team (17-8) travels to Stevens Institute of Technology for the Empire 8 Championship Tournament on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 22-23. The second-seeded Bombers will face the third-seeded St. John Fisher Cardinals in a semifinal game at 8 p.m. Friday.

The 6 p.m. semifinal features the top-seeded Ducks and the fourth-seeded Utica Pioneers. The winners of the semifinal games will play for the Empire 8 crown at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Live stats and a live video broadcast will be available for fans to follow remotely.

Ithaca returns to the Empire 8 Championship Tournament as the only team to make an appearance in each of the conference's 10 tournaments. The Bombers won their first Empire 8 Championship Tournament title in 2012.

Ithaca senior Travis Warech paces the Bombers with 15.3 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. He also has a Bomber-best 17 blocks. Junior Frank Mitchell adds 14.9 points and 6.4 boards per contest. Senior Andrei Oztemel is scoring 12.4 a game and junior Tom Sweeney 10.4. Senior Sean Rossi has dished out a team-best 174 assists. Rossi ranks tied for first in NCAA Division III history with 917 career assists and is one of 18 student-athletes across all divisions to ever meet the 900-assist threshold. Senior Jordan Healey has swiped a team-best 38 steals. The Bombers are shooting 46.1 percent from the floor and 72.1 percent from the free throw line.

Additional information is available on the championship central page.