Gameday Information: Northeastern vs. Delaware
When	Thursday, January 7  |  Boston, Mass. | Matthews Arena  | 7 p.m.
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team will kick start its home conference season on Thursday night when Delaware comes to Mathews Arena. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
 
Northeastern is coming off of a three-game road swing to the state of North Carolina where the Huskies came away with two conference road wins at Elon and at UNCW to begin the second half of the season.
 
The Huskies enter the game with a 10-5 record, 2-0 in conference play. The 10-5 record marks the best 15-game start for Northeastern since the 2008-09 season while the 2-0 begin to conference play is the best since 2012-13.
 
Delaware comes to Boston with a 5-8 overall record, 0-2 in conference action.
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 96th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,164-1,075 (.520) in 2,239 games.
• This will be the 49th meeting between the two teams in program history
• Northeastern is 21-27 all-time against Delaware
• The Huskies are coming off of a nail biting 65-63 walk-off victory at UNCW on Jan. 2
• Northeastern has now won its last three conference games dating back to last season, and last six games against conference opponents (including the CAA tournament)
• Coen tallied his 150th career win (all at Northeastern) with a 78-77 upset over No. 15/19 Miami on Nov. 27.
• The Huskies are 364-244 (.599) all-time in conference play including a 106-74 (.589) 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 the Huskies' record to 11-5 on the season, the best 16-game start since the 2008-09 season
• Improve Northeastern to 3-0 in CAA play for the first time since the 2012-13 season
• Give the Huskies a 22-27 all-time record against Delaware
• Improves the Huskies home record against the Blue Hens to 12-10
• Give Northeastern its first win vs. Delaware at home since Jan. 25, 2012
• Mark the second-straight win over Delaware after defeating them in the CAA tournament last season
• Give Head Coach Bill Coen 95 conference victories, a tie for the most ever conference wins at Northeastern (Jim Calhoun, 95 wins, 1972-86)
 
CAA HOME OPENERS
• Thursday's game against Delaware will mark the conference home opener for the Huskies
• Northeastern is 6-4 in conference home openers in the CAA, 5-4 under the direction of Bill Coen
• The Huskies are 25-11 all-time in conference home openers dating back to the 1979-80 season
• Northeastern was 19-7 in America East play from the 1979-80 season until 2004-05
 
SCOUTING THE BLUE HENS
• The Blue Hens enter their game with the Huskies with a 5-8 record on the season and 0-2 in conference play
• Delaware is led by Kory Holden who is averaging 16.6 points per game. Holden is just one of three Blue Hens to average double figures on the year, Cazmon Hayes is averaging 14.8 points per game while Marvin King-Davis is tallying 13.4 points per game.
• Delaware has started nine different players on the season, however King-Davis is the only player to have played and started all 13 games on the year.
• King-Davis is leading Delaware with 8.8 rebounds per game while Holden has dished out a team-high 56 assists on the year.
 
THIS SEASON
• Delaware has strung together a 5-8 record on the season and enters the game with Northeastern on a five-game losing streak including its first two CAA games of the season.
• The Blue Hens began the season with a win over Delaware State, but has only won back-to-back games once on the season with wins over Bradley (70-47) and USF (67-58).
• The Blue Hens have spent the majority of time away from Newark, but have posted just a 2-7 record on the road this season.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• Northeastern and Delaware have met 48 times in the past with the Blue Hens holding a 27-21 series advantage.
• Northeastern holds the edge in Boston 11-10.
 
LAST WEEK IN HUSKY BASKETBALL
• Northeastern rounded out its non-conference schedule against NC State on Tuesday in its first of three games this week
• The Huskies dropped a 72-66 decision to the hot-shooting Wolfpack to finish 8-4 in their non-conference schedule for the second straight season
• Caleb Donnelly earned his 1st career start and finished with 12 points on 4-of-6 shooting from behind the arc.
• Quincy Ford led the Husky scorers with 15 points to keep his double-digit scoring streak going at 13 straight games, while David Walker also notched 13 points on the night.
• Donnell Gresham Jr. made his collegiate debut finishing with nine points in 20 minutes of play
• On Thursday, the Huskies opened the CAA season at Elon earning an 86-79 victory over the Phoenix, the fourth-straight win in a CAA opener for the Huskies
• Quincy Ford tallied the first 30-point game of his career and David Walker notched his first career double-double (26 points, 12 rebounds)
• The win was the first in the state of North Carolina for the Huskies since an 83-82 win over UNC Asheville on Feb. 19, 2011
• Northeastern rounded out its week with a clean sweep in CAA play with a buzzer beating, 65-63 victory at UNCW on Saturday
• The Seahawks, who entered the game with a 16-3 record at home under Kevin Keatts, were handed their first home loss of the season
• Jeremy Miller layed in the game-winning bucket with 0.8 seconds remaining off of a feed from Caleb Donnelly. Miller finished the game with 15 points.
• Ford led with 18 points and 14 rebounds, his fourth double-double of the season
 
POW! AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
• After his career week in North Carolina, Quincy Ford earned CAA Player of the Week honors for the third time in the 2015-16 season and for the second straight week
• This marks the second season in a row that the Huskies have had a three-time CAA Player of the Week honoree. Scott Eatherton achieved the feat last season.
• Ford averaged a double-double over the course of the week on 21.0 ppg and 10.0 rpg
• Ford highlighted his week with his first career 30-point game at Elon (Dec. 31), following up that effort with his fourth double-double of the season (8th career) in an 18 point, 14 rebound effort at UNCW (Jan. 2).
• With his 18 points at UNCW, Ford moved into 12th place on the Northeastern all-time scoring list with 1,399 points.
 
RAINING THREES
•The Huskies have made 130 field goals from behind the arc in 2015-16. The 130 made 3s ranks fourth in the CAA and 40th nationally
• The Huskies 3-point shooting percentage, .386, also is in the top of the conference at third, and 37th nationally
• Northeastern has hit for at least 10 treys in eight of its 15 games this season
• Nine different Huskies have hit a three this season led by David Walker's 43 and Quincy Ford's 38.
• Walker's 42 3FGs ranks third in the conference and 36th nationally, while Ford's ranks fifth in the CAA and 71st nationally
• Walker makes an average of 2.80 3FG a game, fourth in the CAA and 55th nationally. He ranks fourth all-time in the Northeastern record books with 195 career 3s
• Ford is currently averaging 2.53 3FG per game, fifth in the CAA and 107th nationally
• 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.
 
NU'S RATING PERCENTAGE INDEX
•  Entering Thursday's game with Delaware, Northeastern is ranked 59th in the RPI, second highest in the CAA this season out of 351 Division-I programs
• The College of Charleston tops the conference with the 51st best RPI in the nation
• Delaware enters the contest with the second worst RPI in the conference, 225th in the country
• After defeating previously unbeaten Miami, the Huskies tallied their highest RPI ranking of the season at No. 31 on Dec. 1
 
SEEING DOUBLE-DOUBLE
• Quincy Ford has four double-doubles this season through the first 15 games of the year, a career-high for the redshirt senior
• The four double-doubles rank second in the CAA and 77th in the nation.
• Leading the CAA is Marvin King-Davis of Delaware with seven on the year.
• Ford had two double-doubles in his freshman (2011-12) and sophomore (2012-13) campaigns
• The four double-doubles are the most since Scott Eatherton had five last season
• Zach Stahl and David Walker also have a double-double on the year.
• Stahl registered his on Nov. 20 vs. FAU with a career-high 20 points and 11 rebounds.
• Walker earned his first career double-double at Elon on Dec. 31 notching 26 points and a career-best 12 rebounds
 
IN THE STARTING LINEUP
• Northeastern freshman Jeremy Miller made his first career start at Western Michigan (Dec. 7) and has been in the starting lineup for the Huskies ever since
• 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
• With T.J. Williams sidelined due to an injury, redshirt senior Caleb Donnelly earned his first career start at NC State (Dec. 29) in his 43rd game of action
• Devon Begley and Donnelly Gresham each got their first career start at UNCW (Jan. 2).
• The start came in Begley's 49th career game and Gresham's third.
 
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF CHARITY
• Northeastern teammates rank 2-3 in the CAA for their free throw shooting percentage thus far in 2015-16
• Zach Stahl has been consistent at the charity stripe for Northeastern this year and is 38-44 on the year for a 86.4 FT%, second the conference and 46th in the nation
• David Walker is 73-86 on the season from the free-throw line, with an 84.9 FT percentage which ranks third the conference and 67th in the country.
• His 73 free throws made rank second in the conference and 42nd in the country
• The Huskies, as a team, have taken 333 free throws, fourth in the conference and have capitalized on 238 of them (fourth in the CAA) for a 71.5% free throw percentage, second in the CAA
• Northeastern has held its opponents to just 232 free throw attempts this year.
 
NERVES OF STEEL
• Northeastern has a knack for making its fans nervous in the 2015-16 season
• Three of the Huskies' first six victories were earned in the final ticks of the clock.
• Northeastern's win over UNCW (Jan. 2), its second CAA win of the year, also came in the final ticks
 
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 0.1 left on the clock in regulation
#15 Miami               W, 78-77                  Quincy Ford buzzer beating jumper in regulation
UNCW                    W, 65-63                   Jeremy Miller layup with 0.8 seconds on the clock
 
• The Huskies' first three losses came by a combined 10 points and Northeastern had chances to win two of the three in the final seconds
• 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. 
• Northeastern's fourth loss on the year, to the No. 1 team in the country came by 20 points, the largest margin since a 79-54 loss to Massachusetts last season
 
LOOKING FOR 100
• Bill Coen is currently the third-winningest coach in Northeastern history with 155 career wins (Jim Calhoun, 250 wins in 14 seasons; Dick Dukeshire, 204 wins in 13 seasons)
• Coen, who tallied his 150th career win in style with a buzzer beating victory over No. 15 Miami, is also closing
in on another milestone in his coaching career
• The 10th year coach is close to win No. 100 in CAA action, he currently has 94 conference victories
 
NU ALL-TIME CONFERENCE WIN RECORD

Coach	Record	Conference
1. Jim Calhoun	95-24 (.798)	America East
2. Bill Coen	94-68 (.580)	CAA
3. Karl Fogel	80-47 (.630)	America East
4. Ron Everhart	53-33 (.616)	America East/CAA
5. Rudy Keeling	34-56 (.378)	America East
6. Dave Leitao	12-22 (.353)	America East

 
APPLYING PRESSURE
• The Huskies rank second in the CAA in thefts and rank 75th nationally, stealing the ball away from their opponent already 107 times on the season, or 7.1 per game.
• Quincy Ford and David Walker lead the way for the Huskies ranking third and fourth in the conference and 64th (26) and 97th (24) nationally.
• The steals come from added pressure and Northeastern has forced 13.7 turnovers per game
 
EXTRA TIME
• Through the first nine games of the season, the Huskies 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
 
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. 
• After Jeremy Miller joined the starting lineup in Game 9, Northeastern had some local talent represented in the starting lineup (Milton, Mass.)
 
IN THE RECORD BOOK
• Quincy Ford has improved from 23rd, where he began the season on the Northeastern all-time scoring chart, to 12th place with 1,399 career points.
• Ford has tallied 259 points this season, and with his 18-point day at UNCW, he passed Derrick Lewis' 1,394 career points earned from 1986-89.
• Walker began the year in 29th, and with his 287 points this year, has moved into the Top-15 with 1,327 points.
• The duo also finds themselves on the career 3-point field goals list
• Ford can be found on the career blocks chart where he just moved into fifth place all-time
 
CAREER SCORING

No.	Player	Years	Points
11	John Williams	1984-88	1,443
12	Quincy Ford	2011-pres.	1,399
13	Derrick Lewis	1986-89	1,394
14	Joel Smith	2009-13	1,328
15	David Walker	2012-pres.	1,327

CAREER 3-POINT FIELD GOALS MADE

No.	Player	Years	3FG
3	Matt Janning	2006-10	223
4	David Walker	2012-pres.	195
5	Chaisson Allen	2007-11	180
6	Quincy Ford	2011-pres.	177

 
CAREER BLOCKS

No.	Player	Years	Blocks
4	Nkem Ojoughboh	2007-10	121
5	Quincy Ford	2011-Pres.	105
6	Scott Eatherton	2013-15	100

 
ELITE COMPANY
• Quincy Ford notched his first career 30-point game at Elon joining teammate David Walker on the list of current Huskies with 30-point games
• Walker has already tallied two 30-point games on the season (30 vs. Lipscomb, Nov. 21 and 31 at Western Michigan, Dec. 7)
• Walker and Ford mark the first duo to each have a 30-point game in the same season since Jose Juan Barea and Marcus Barnes did so in the 2003-04 season. Both Barnes and Barea finished with three 30-point games that season
• Against Elon, Ford's 30 points, combined with Walker's 26 marked the first time two players had 30 and 20 points in a game since Nov. 20, 2004 when Jose Juan Barea had 35 and Marcus Barnes had 23 against Cornell
 
AMONG THE NATION'S BEST
• Quincy Ford and David Walker rank in the top of the CAA and among some of the best in the nation this season
• Senior Zach Stahl can also be found among the nation's elite

Field Goal Percentage

Player	Stat	CAA	NCAA
Zach Stahl	.522	1st	91st
David Walker	.478	4th	161st
Quincy Ford	.447	6th	220th

 
Field Goals Made

Player	Stat	CAA	NCAA
David Walker	86	1st	89th
Quincy Ford	84	2nd	111th

 
Total Points

Player	Stat	CAA	NCAA
David Walker	287	1st	29th
Quincy Ford	259	2nd	71st

 
Points Per Game

Player	Stat	CAA	NCAA
David Walker	19.1	2nd	48th
Quincy Ford	17.3	4th	109th

 
3-Point Field Goal Percentage

Player	Stat	CAA	NCAA
David Walker	.452	2nd	31st
Quincy Ford	.404	5th	72nd

 
3-Point Field Goals Made

Player	Stat	CAA	NCAA
David Walker	42	3rd	36th
Quincy Ford	38	5th	71st

 
Free Throw Percentage

Player	Stat	CAA	NCAA
Zach Stahl	.864	2nd	46th
David Walker	.849	3rd	67th

 
Total Minutes

Player	Stat	CAA	NCAA
David Walker	547	1st	17th

 
Total Steals

Player	Stat	CAA	NCAA
Quincy Ford	26	3rd	64th
David Walker	24	4th	97th