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WILMINGTON, N.C. – A Jeremy Miller layup with 0.8 seconds remaining on the clock sealed a hard-fought 65-63 victory for the Northeastern men's basketball team over UNCW at Trask Colisum Saturday night.
 
David Walker drove to the basket, but kicked it out to Caleb Donnelly. Donnelly also took a turn in the lane and at the last second flipped the ball to Miller who laid it in for the win.
 
With the win the Huskies leave North Carolina with a 10-5 record, 2-0 in the CAA. The 10-5 start is the best for Northeastern since the 2008-09 season, while the Huskies have their best CAA start since the 2012-13 season.
 
Miller finished with 15 points on the night, including the game-winning bucket. He added eight rebounds and a block for the Huskies.
 
The Huskies were led by Quincy Ford who followed up his 30-point performance at Elon with a monster 18 point, 14 rebound outing, his fourth double-double of the season and eighth of his career.
 
UNCW (9-4, 1-1) was led by Chris Flemmings who finished with 17 points and eight boards. Three other Seahawks finished in double figures.
 
Northeastern never trailed in the wire-to-wire victory and led for 36:50 of the ballgame.
 
The Huskies started the game off strong once again, this time on a 7-0 run, jump started by a Miller jumper. Ford followed with a basket of his own and Donnell Gresham Jr. nailed a three to force UNCW to call its first timeout of the half with 18:08 remaining.
 
The Seahawks got into the game with a couple of three pointers, but seven minutes in, Northeastern had built a 16-8 lead capped by a jumper by Ford.
 
The Huskies garnered their largest lead of the first half, a 27-15 advantage, as Miller and David Walker drained back-to-back threes, Walker's first basket of the half, forcing UNCW to call yet another timeout with nine minutes left in the first stanza.
 
The Huskies hot start, 11-of-18 shooting (61.1 percent), 5-of-7 from deep (71.4), faltered in the final eight minutes of play as Northeastern managed just one basket on just nine shot attempts, an outside jumper by Kwesi Abakah, to close out the half and head into halftime with a 35-30 lead.
 
The second half was a back-and-forth affair that saw the Huskies gain as much as a 10-point lead six minutes into play. However, UNCW once again chipped away slowly at the lead, and, using back-to-back threes by Chris Flemmings, evened the score at 54-all with 5:21 remaining in the game.
 
After the Huskies went up by two on a couple Walker free throws, he finished the game a perfect 4-of-4 at the line, all of which came in clutch situations, UNCW tied the ballgame up using a layup.
 
Northeastern took a lead on Ford free throws, Flemmings tied the game once again at 58-all.
 
Miller used an outside jumper from the free throw line to take yet another lead, the first field goal for the Huskies in nearly five minutes, and Gresham added a free throw for a three-point lead, but once again UNCW evened the score for the fourth time in three and a half minutes with 1:48 remaining in the game.
 
Walker was once again fouled, and once again calmly went to the line and sank both free throws for a two-point advantage. But, with 30 seconds left in the game Flemmings once again tied things up.
 
It was Miller's deciding bucket with less than a second remaining that sealed the win for the Huskies.  
 
Northeastern returns home on Thursday, January 7 for their first home game of 2016 and the Huskies first conference game at Matthews Arena when they take on Delaware at 7 p.m. 

Postgame Notes

• With the win, the Huskies improve to 10-5 on the season, the best 15-game start for Northeastern since the 2008-09 season
• The Huskies are now 2-0 in the CAA for the first time since the 2012-13 season
• Northeastern now has a 10-8 all-time record over UNCW
• The win marked just the third in Wilmington for the Huskies in eight tries.
• The win was the first for Northeastern at UNCW since Jan. 26, 2011
• The win was the second-straight over UNCW after defeating them in the CAA tournament last season
• Quincy Ford finished with 18 points and 14 boards, his fourth double-double of the season and eighth of his career
• The 14 rebounds marked the ninth 10-rebound effort of Ford's career and fourth this season
• The 18 points moved Ford into 12^th place all-time on the Northeastern career scoring chart, he currently has 1,399 career points moving past Derrick Lewis (1986-89, 1,394 points).
• Up next for Ford is John Williams' 1,443 points (1984-88)
• Jeremy Miller finished with 15 points, three shy of his career high set vs. Stony Brook (Dec. 12), his second 15-point effort of the year and fourth double-digit game of the season