Gameday Information: Northeastern vs. Stony Brook
When	Saturday, December 12  |  Boston, Mass. | Matthews Arena  | 4 p.m.
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team returns home after a two-game road swing to face Stony Brook at Matthews Arena Saturday Dec. 12 at 4 p.m.
 
The Huskies look to remain perfect at home in 2015-16 when the Seawolves (4-3 in 2015-16) come to town.
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 96th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,160-1,073 (.520) in 2,233 games.
• Northeastern and Stony Brook will meet for the 12th time in program history, the Huskies hold a slight 6-5 series advantage
• Northeastern is looking for its first win since knocking off Harvard at home in the Matthews opener on Dec. 2.
• Northeastern was a part of the America East conference from 1979-80 until the conclusion of the 2004-05
• The Huskies began the season 6-1, the best start in the Bill Coen Era and first time Northeastern is 6-1 since the 2005-06 season
• Coen tallied his 150th career win (all at Northeastern) with a 78-77 upset over No. 15/19 Miami on Nov. 27.
• Western Michigan and Northeastern are meeting for just the third time in program history
• The Huskies are 362-244 (.597) all-time in conference play including a 104-74 (.584) record since joining the CAA in the 2005-06 season.
• The Huskies have amassed 12 regular season conference championships and eight tournament titles including last season's title which sent the Huskies to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 24 years.
 
A WIN WOULD....
• Improve Northeastern to 3-0 in home games
•  Snap a two-game losing streak
• Snap a two-game losing skid to Stony Brook
• Improve Northeastern's record against Stony Brook to 7-5
• Improved the Huskies record to 7-3 on the year
• Give the Huskies their first win over Stony Brook since March 5, 2005.
 
AMERICA EAST TIES
• Northeastern will return to its America East roots twice this season.
• The Huskies will face their first America East foe of the year when Stony Brook comes to town on Saturday, Dec. 12
• Northeastern will later face Vermont on Dec. 22.
• Northeastern was one of the original founding teams of the America East conference in the 1979-80 season and was a part of the conference for 25 years prior to leaving for the CAA at the end of the 2005 season.
• Stony Brook joined the America East conference in the 2001-02 season (along with Albany and Binghamton) after making the jump to Division I athletics.
• The two teams only faced each other as conference opponents nine times, eight during the regular season and once in the America East tournament.
• Four of Northeastern's top-5 most frequent opponents are former or current members of the America East Conference in Boston University (144), New Hampshire (122), Maine (111) and Vermont (69).
• Northeastern and Vermont will face each other for the 70th time on December 22.
 
SCOUTING THE SEAWOLVES
• Stony Brook is led by senior Jameel Warney who is averaging a double-double to begin his 2015-16 campaign.
• Warney is averaging 17.9 ppg and 12.4 rpg against the Seawolves' opponents.
• Also averaging double-figures on the year are fellow seniors Carson Puriefoy and Rayshaun McGrew. Pureifoy has notched 13.0 points per game and McGrew 11.8.
• Warney has tallied a .581 field goal percentage on the year, knocking down 54 shots already.
• The Huskies, who have hit double-digit 3-pointers in the last four games will have to go against a defense that has only allowed their opponents 38 threes on the year for a shooting percentage of .273. Northeastern is shooting .378 from deep on the year.
 
THIS SEASON
• Stony Brook is off to a 4-3 start to the season, two of those wins over Division I opponents, two against Division III foes.
• The Seawolves are coming off of a 61-86 loss at Notre Dame on Tuesday night.
• Stony Brook is 3-0 at home this season, but are 0-3 on the road to start off the year falling in overtime at Vanderbilt, at Western Kentucky and at Notre Dame.
• The Seawolves are outscoring their opponents by a greater than 16-point margin thanks in part to the season opening 103-32 win over the U.S. Merchant Maring Academy.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• Stony Brook and Northeastern have met 11 times in the past with the Huskies holding a 6-5 series lead. The two teams met for the first time during the 2001-02 season, when the Seawolves first joined the America East conference.
• After Northeastern left the AE for the CAA in 2005, the two squads reunited for a two-game series in 2011-12, and 2012-13. The game during the 2011-12 series was a part of ESPN BracketBusters at Northeastern.
• The two teams last met on Nov. 13, 2013 at Stony Brook.
 
THIS WEEK IN HUSKY BASKETBALL
• The Huskies began the week with a Monday night game at Western Michigan, a tough 87-86 overtime loss for Northeastern.
• David Walker finished with a career-high 31 points in the loss, his second 30-point game of the season
• With the 30 points, Walker became the first Husky with multiple 30-point games in the single season since J.J. Barea finished the 2004-05 season with six 30-point games.
• The Huskies held a 44-40 lead at halftime, but were outscored 40-36 in the second half as the two teams headed to the overtime period
• In OT, Jeremy Miller notched five of Northeastern's six points after making his first career start earlier in the game.
 
NERVES OF STEEL
• Northeastern has a knack for making its fans nervous through the first nine games of action.
• Of the Huskies' six victories, three were earned in the final ticks of the clock.
 
Game                        Score                         Game-Winning Play
BU                              W, 87-84 (OT)        Caleb Donnelly 3, with 16 secs left in OT
FAU                           W, 60-58                  David Walker dunk with .01 left on the clock in regulation
#15 Miami               W, 78-77                  Quincy Ford buzzer beating jumper in regulation
                 
• The Huskies' three losses have come by a combined 10 mere points.
• At Western Michigan in an 87-86 OT loss, Northeastern had two opportunities to win in the final three seconds as a Walker layup did not fall. Jeremy Miller rebounded and put back a shot quickly, but that too rimmed out as WMU escaped. 
 
EXTRA TIME
• In its first nine games of the season, the Huskies have forced overtime twice.
• Northeastern earned a victory in the first OT game of the year, an 87-84 season-opening win over Boston University
• The Huskies fell 87-86 in overtime to Western Michigan Monday Dec. 2.
• Northeastern is 39-29 all-time in overtime periods
 
IN THE STARTING LINEUP
• Northeastern freshman Jeremy Miller made his first career start at Western Michigan (Dec. 7)
• He was the first freshman to start a game since T.J. Williams made his starting line up debut on Nov. 22, 2013 against Charlotte in the Puerto Rico Tip-off
 
RAINING THREES
•The Huskies have made 79 field goals from behind the arc in 2015-16. The 79 made 3s ranks third in the CAA and 39th nationally
• Eight different Huskies have hit a three this season led by David Walker's 30 and Quincy Ford's 21.
• Walker's 30 3FGs leads the conference and ranks 17th nationally, while Ford's ranks 8th in the CAA and 125th nationally
• Walker makes an average of 3.33 3FG a game, first in the CA and 22nd nationally. He ranks fourth all-time in the Northeastern record books
• Six different Huskies hit a three-point shot against Western Michigan, the first time since Feb. 20, 2013 that six different Northeastern players connected from behind the arc in a single game.
 
30-POINT GAMES
• Through his first nine games of the season, David Walker has recorded two 30-point efforts
• Walker tallied his first career 30-point game against Lipscomb (Nov. 21), the first Husky with a 30-point game since Matt Janning had 34 at URI on Nov. 28, 2007
• He improved upon his career-high with a 31 point day at Western Michigan
• With that effort, Walker became the first Husky since J.J. Barea to notch multiple 30-point efforts in the same season. Barea finished the 2004-05 season with six 30-point games. 
 
UPSET CITY
• The Huskies recorded the biggest victory of the Bill Coen era, and the 150th victory of Coen's tenure, with a 78-77 upset over No. 15/19 Miami in Coral Gables.
• The win was the Huskies first over a ranked team in nearly 29 years.
• Redshirt senior Quincy Ford hit the game-winning, buzzer beating jumper for the Huskies in his return to his home state of Florida.
• Ford finished the game with 24 points, six rebounds and four steals and was 5-of-10 from three-point range.
• Northeastern led the majority of the game, including a 35-30 halftime lead, before Miami took its first lead of the game with 7:48 remaining in the second half.
• The Hurricanes jumped out to a seven point lead in the waning minutes, but a four-point play by freshman Jeremy Miller allowed the Huskies back into the game, and eventually they would take a four-point lead of their own with under two minutes remaining.
• Miami went up by one on a layup, and Devon Begley had the initial game-winning try for NU before Tonye Jekiri rejected the ball out of bounds setting up the inbound pass and Ford's game-winner.
 
NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR FORD
• For his efforts against Miami, redshirt senior Quincy Ford was named the CAA Player of the Week for the first time in his career.
• Ford finished the game with a season-high 24 points, six rebounds and four steals and was 5-of-10 from three-point range.
• In addition to the CAA accolades, Ford was tabbed as the Lou Henson Award National Player of the Week and the College Sports Madness Conference and High-Major National Player of the Week.
 
NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR NU
• After the Miami victory, the Huskies are currently receiving one vote in the AP Top-25 poll
• This marks the fourth time in history and the second consecutive season that the Huskies have received at least one vote in the AP Poll.
• The Huskies received votes in the AP Poll last season after defeating another ACC foe in Florida State, 76-73 in Tallahassee.
 
ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY
• Although Northeastern is located in Boston, Mass. in the northeastern part of the United States, the Huskies, and the starting lineup in particular, come from all around the country.
• The Northeastern roster is represented by eight different states, two of which are found in the northeast.
• Northeastern's starting lineup for the first eight games hails from five different states, Ohio, Texas, Florida, Minnesota and Georgia. 
 
MOVING ON UP
• Quincy Ford has improved from 23rd, where he began the season on the Northeastern all-time scoring chart, to 14th place with 1,286 career points.
• Ford has tallied 146 points this season. Up next for Ford is Joel Smith's 1,328 points.
• Walker began the year in 29th, and with his 199 points this year, has moved into the Top-15 with 1,239 points.
• The duo also finds themselves on the career 3-point field goals list while Ford can be found on the career blocks chart.
 
CAREER SCORING

No.	Player	Years	Points
12	Derrick Lewis	1986-89	1,394
13	Joel Smith	2009-13	1,328
14	Quincy Ford	2011-pres.	1,286
15	David Walker	2012-pres.	1,239

CAREER 3-POINT FIELD GOALS MADE

No.	Player	Years	3FG
3	Matt Janning	2006-10	223
4	David Walker	2012-pres.	183
5	Chaisson Allen	2007-11	180
6	Aaron Davis	2001-06	165
7	Marcus Barnes	2003-05	160
	Quincy Ford	2011-pres.	160

 
CAREER BLOCKS

No.	Player	Years	Blocks
6	Steve Carney	1987-91	96
7	Quincy Ford	2011-Pres.	94
8	Dan Callahan	1990-95	91

 
WALKER ON FIRE
• Senior David Walker currently leads the conference and is 15th in the country with his 22.1 ppg average while his 199 total points top the conference and rank FIFTH nationally.
• His 61 field goals made, ranks first in the conference and ranks 40th in the nation.
• Walker has helped himself, and his team, picking off his opponents 17 times this season, second in the conference and 56th in the nation.
• Walker's free throw shooting is also impressive as his 85.5 FT% is 3rd in the CAA and 94th in the country
• Walker began the season setting a new career high with 27 points against Boston University in a season opening, overtime victory over the crosstown rivals.
• Walker averaged 23.3 points over the course of the Men Against Breast Cancer Challenge also collecting 11 rebounds, 11 assists and nine steals while shooting .561 from the field and .450 from behind the arc.
• Walker set a new career high against Lipscomb tallying 30-points, his first 30-point effort and the first for a Husky in nearly eight seasons.
• Walker notched another 30-point game with a 31-point effort at Western Michigan (Dec. 7) becoming the first Husky with multiple 30-point games in a single season since J.J. Barea in 2004-05. Barea finished with six 30-point games that season.
• The senior tallied at least 20-points in three straight games (Nov. 21-27) after securing 21 points against No. 15/19 Miami using 11-of-12 free throw shooting.
 
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF CHARITY
• David Walker is 47-of-55 on the season from the free-throw line, with an 85.5 FT percentage which ranks third the conference and 94th in the country.
• Zach Stahl has also been consistent at the charity stripe for Northeastern and is 23-of-27 on the year for a 85.2 FT%, fourth in the conference and 97th in the country
• The Huskies, as a team, have taken 205 free throws, fourth in the conference and have capitalized on 144 of them (fourth in the CAA).
• Northeastern has held its opponents to 149 free throw attempts this year (29 coming against Miami OH alone).
 
GET THAT OUTTA HERE
• Rookie Anthony Green ranks eighth the conference with seven blocks on the season, or 1.0 blocks per game.
• Zach Stahl and Quincy Ford has notched seven on the season, which ranks 14th in the conference and recorded at least one block in four consecutive games (Nov. 20-27)
 
APPLYING PRESSURE
• The Huskies top in the CAA in thefts and rank 48th nationally, stealing the ball away from their opponent already 69 times on the season, or 7.7 per game.
• David Walker leads the way ranking second in the conference and 56th nationally with 17 steals.
• Quincy Ford is second on the team, and fifth in the conference with 15 thefts on the year.
• The steals come from added pressure and Northeastern has forced 14.56 turnovers per game which ranks second in the CAA
 
HUSKIES VS. RANKED TEAMS
• Northeastern faced an AP ranked team during the regular season for the first time since the 2006-07 season when it took on No. 15 Miami on Nov. 27.
• Northeastern will likely face two AP ranked teams this season when current-No. 3 Michigan State comes to Matthews Arena on Dec. 19.
• Prior to Miami, the last AP ranked team Northeastern faced during the regular season was at No. 19 Connecticut on Dec. 6, 2006, the third ranked team Northeastern faced that season.
• Northeastern did face a ranked team last season when they took on AP No. 11 Notre Dame in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, a 65-69 loss on March 19, 2015. 
• The Huskies snapped a 19-game losing streak to AP ranked teams dating back to the 1986 season with their 78-77 win over No. 15 Miami on Friday.
• The last win prior to Northeastern's win over Miami came against the reigning national champions No. 2 Louisville in the Great Alaska Shootout (Nov. 28, 1986), before falling to No. 10 Iowa in the tournament championship.
• The win propelled the Huskies to No. 19 in the AP rankings, the last time Northeastern was ranked in the AP poll.