NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. – The Westminster College men's basketball team, led by eighth-year Head Coach Kevin Siroki, holds the No. 3 seed entering the 2019-20 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Men's Basketball Championship Tournament starting on Tuesday, February 25. Westminster (15-10, 10-6 PAC) will host sixth-seeded Saint Vincent College (12-13, 7-9 PAC) in a quarterfinal matchup inside Buzz Ridl Gymnasium at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
 
Players to Watch:
 
Senior Dylan O'Hara (Girard, OH / Girard) currently leads the PAC in scoring with 18.7 points per game, while also tied in for first in the conference with 2.2 steals per game. O'Hara is also second in the league in both made three-pointers (50) and free throw percentage (81%). O'Hara has been named PAC Player of the Week a conference-leading three times this season. Junior Isaac Stamatiades (Elkridge, MD / Avalon) currently leads the PAC with 10.0 rebounds per game and is the only player in the conference currently averaging double figures in the rebounding category. Stamatiades is also seventh in the PAC with 13.4 points per game and has earned PAC Player of the Week honors twice. Stamatiades has notched a PAC-best 11 double-doubles this season. Senior Ricky Roth (Ellwood City, PA / Lincoln) is currently tied for second in the PAC with 3.0 assists per game. Junior Daniel Ritter (North Lima, OH / South Range) is third on the team with 11.2 points per game, while senior Blake Payne (Ashtabula, OH / Jefferson Area) is second on the team with 5.8 rebounds per outing and fourth with 9.8 points per contest.
 
A Look at the Field:
 
Top-seeded Grove City (17-8, 13-3 PAC) will host eighth-seeded Thiel College (6-17, 5-11 PAC) while second-seeded Chatham University (16-9, 11-5 PAC) will play host to seventh-seeded Waynesburg University (6-19, 6-10 PAC). Fourth-seeded Washington & Jefferson College (14-11, 9-7 PAC) will host fifth-seeded Geneva College (12-13, 8-8 PAC). All quarterfinal games are played on Tuesday.
 
In Thursday's semifinal round, the tournament's lowest remaining seed will travel to the highest remaining seed with the two remaining middle seeds meeting at the higher of the two. Both semifinal matchups are slated to tip off 7 p.m.
 
Saturday's title game will be hosted by the higher seed remaining following Thursday's semifinals, with the start time scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
 
The winner of the PAC's Championship Tournament will receive the league's automatic qualifying bid to this year's Division III Championship Tournament. Forty-three conferences have been granted automatic qualification to this year's 64-team championship. The selected Division III Championship teams as well as the first and second round site selections will be announced Monday, March 2 at 12:30 p.m. (EST) on ncaa.com. First and second round games are scheduled for Friday-Saturday, March 6-7.