Gameday Information: Northeastern at Connecticut
When	Monday, November 14  |  Storrs, Conn. | Gampel Pavillion  | 7 p.m.
Television	SNY | ESPN3 (subject to blackout)
Game Links	Live Audio  |  Live Stats  | WRBB
Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF) |  Connecticut (PDF)
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team will head to Connecticut for its first road game of the season when it takes on UConn Monday night at 7 p.m. in a game that will be broadcasted on SNY.
 
The Huskies began the year off with a 87-77 season opening victory over Boston University at Matthews Arena on Friday night as Alex Murphy and T.J. Williams combined for 50 points in the victory.
 
Northeastern and UConn will meet in the regular season for the first time since Dec. 6, 2007 and for the first time since a March 16, 2010 meeting in the first round of the NIT Tournament.
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 97th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,173-1,085 (.519) in 2,258 games.
• The Huskies are 371-253 (.595) all-time in conference play including a 113-83 (.577) record since joining the CAA in the 2005-06 season.
• The Huskies have amassed 12 regular season conference championships and eight tournament titles including a 2015 title which sent the Huskies to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 24 years.
• Northeastern and UConn meet for the 40th time in program history and the first time since the 2009-10 season
• The last meeting between the two teams came in the postseason when Northeastern nearly upset UConn in the first round of the NIT Tournament, UConn eked out a 59-57 victory
• Northeastern has won just four games against the Connecticut-based Huskies with the last one coming in the 1985-86 season in Hartford
• In that 90-73 victory, as Jim Calhoun was head coach of Northeastern
• The Huskies are seeking their first ever victory in Storrs on Monday night
• Northeastern returns seven letterwinners, including a pair of starters in Jeremy Miller and T.J. Williams from last year's team that reached the CAA Semifinals for the fourth straight season. 
• Northeastern lost four seniors, Caleb Donnelly, Quincy Ford, Zach Stahl and David Walker, three of which are playing professionally.
• Ford signed as a free agent with the Utah Jazz while Walker currently plays for BC Andorra of the Liga ACB and Stahl is in Finland.
• The Huskies have also added five new faces to the squad this year in graduate student Alex Murphy (Duke/Florida), transfer Vasa Pusica (San Diego) and a trio of freshmen in Maxime Boursiquot, Bolden Brace, and Shawn Occeus.
• Brace (Santa Barbara) and Occeus (Boynton Beach) both helped their high school teams to state championships last season
 
HUSKY SHOWDOWN
• Northeastern will take on another Husky program for the first time since the two programs faced each other at the end of the 2009-10 season
• The Huskies will face back-to-back squads with canine mascots (after facing BU in the season opener) for the first time since starting the 2013-14 season off against the Terriers followed by a meeting with the Stony Brook Seawolves,
• Connecticut is the only other Division-I program the Huskies have faced with a Husky mascot (Houston Baptist, No. Illinois, Washington)
 
SCOUTING THE "OTHER" HUSKIES
• UConn is headed into the 2016-17 season with five returning letterwinners and six newcomers. Coming off of a 25-11 season, 11-7 in the American Athletic Conference, and its first AAC Championship, winning the title in the Amway Center in Orlando.
• Last season marked UConn's sixth consecutive 20-win season, and earned the Huskies their 33rd appearance in the NCAA Tournament, their eighth postseason bid in the last nine years.
• UConn began its season, like the Huskies, on Friday night. However, unlike Northeastern, UConn fell in their season opener, 67-58, to Wagner of the Northeast Conference.
• The Huskies' leading returning scorer, redshirt senior Rodney Purvis (12.8 ppg), had just five points in UConn's opener while the Huskies' were led by by Terry Larrier who had 19 points and seven rebounds in the loss.
 
THIS SEASON
• UConn will look to rebound against Northeastern on Monday night before heading out to California for a meeting at Loyola Marymount on Thursday and then out to Maui for the Maui Jim Maui Invitational next weekend.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• The two teams have met 39 times in the past, in a series that dates back to the 1926-27 season.
•The majority of the meetings between the two squads occured between 1926-27 and 1958 before UConn and Northeastern met once, in the 1985-86 season when Jim Calhoun was the head coach of the Boston-based Huskies, a game that helped UConn AD John Toner decide to hire Calhoun later that year to head the Connecticut based-Huskies
 
LAST TIME OUT VS. THE HUSKIES
• Connecticut overcame a six-point deficit with six minutes left to sneak away with a 59-57 win over Northeastern in the first round of the NIT Tuesday night in Storrs, Conn.
• No. 4 seed Connecticut advanced to the second round against No. 1 Virginia Tech. No. 5 seed Northeastern ends its season with a 20-13 record, its first 20-victory season under head coach Bill Coen and the program's first since 2005
• Matt Janning led Northeastern with 17 points on 6-of-19 shooting, 3-for-7 from deep. Manny Adako (14), Nkem Ojougboh (11) and Chaisson Allen (10) all chipped in double figures for NU, which shot 41 percent for the game and committed only six turnovers
• Jerome Dyson led Connecticut with 18 points as UConn shot 44 percent from the floor
 
LAST TIME OUT
• In Northeastern's last time out on the court, the Huskies took down Boston University in the season opener at Matthews Arena
• Northeastern jumped out to a fast lead and had a 16-point advantage at the half
• BU came out strong in the second half and cut the lead to just five, but the Huskies bouced right back and regained a double-digit lead, going on to an 87-77 victory
• The Huskies were led by T.J. Williams (30 points, 8 assists) and Alex Murphy (20 points, 4 rebounds) in the victory
• Donnell Gresham added another 12 points while the trio of freshmen Maxime Boursiquot, Bolden Brace and Shawn Occeus combined for 16 points in their debuts
 
WILLIAMS SHINES
• T.J. Williams had a career night in Northeastern's season debut, Friday
• The senior captain tallied a career-high 30 points to go along with a career-high tying eight assists helping the Huskies to the 87-77 victory
• The 30 points marked William's first 30-point game of his career and the first 30-point game since Quincy Ford had 37 at James Madison on Feb. 18 of last season
• His 30 points were the most in a Northeastern season opener since Reggie Lewis had 32 against No. 2 Louisville in an 88-84 victory at the Great Alaska Shootout on Nov. 28, 1986
 
30-Point Games in NU Season Openers

Total	Player	Game
32	Reggie Lewis	vs. #2 Louisville (Nov. 28, 1986)
30	T.J. Williams	vs. Boston Univ. (Nov. 11, 2016)
30	Reggie Lewis	at #19 Maryland (Nov. 23, 1985)
30	Dave Caligaris	vs. Rider (Nov. 27, 1976)

 
CAREER NIGHT FOR MURPHY
• Grad Student Alex Murphy had a career night in his Husky debut against Boston University
• Murphy netted 20 points, four rebounds and four assists helping Northeastern to the victory
• His 20 points, a career high, came on 7-of-10 shooting, both career bests for the Duke and Florida transfer
• His four assists marked the first time in his career that he tallied a multi-assist game
• Murphy also played in 30 minutes of action, the most time he has ever seen on the court in a single game
• Murphy's numbers from the season opener, were more than his three combined efforts last season at Florida
 
DOUBLE-DIGITS FOR GRESHAM
• For the first time in his Husky career, Donnell Gresham played in a season opener and hit the double-digit scoring mark
• Sitting out the first half of the season last year after recovering from surgery, Gresham made his debut at NC State at the end of December where he tallied nine points in his debut
• In this season's debut, in the season opener, Gresham went 2-for-2 from behind the arc and 6-for-7 from the charity stripe to record 12 points, the first double-digit effort of his career
 
NORTHEASTERN PICKED SEVENTH
• The Huskies were picked to finish seventh in the CAA in 2016-17 by the conference's coaches.
• UNCW was picked to win the league while Towson was second and William & Mary was chosen to finish third.
• NU has matched or surpassed the expectations of the preseason polls in four of the last five seasons.
 
Season  Preseason Pick  Finish
2015-16                 Third      Sixth
2014-15                 First        First
2013-14                 Sixth       Third
2012-13                 Fifth        First
2011-12                 Ninth     Seventh
 
PRESEASON All-CAA NODS
• Jeremy Miller has been honored by the CAA with All-Conference honorable mention honors entering his second season as a Husky
• Miller averaged 8.3 points, 3.9 rebounds in 2015-16 connecting on 51.1 percent of his field goals in his first year in a Husky uniform. His 27 blocks ranked first on the Huskies and 10th in the conference.
 
OUT WITH THE OLD....
• Following the 2015-16 season, the Huskies saw the departure of six letterwinners
• Three of the members of Northeastern's senior class of Caleb Donnelly (4.6 ppg), Quincy Ford (16.4), Zach Stahl (10.6) and David Walker (17.9) comprised the top three scorers on last season's squad
• In addition, Kwesi Abakah (1.5) transferred to Richmond following his graduation from the university while Brandon Kamga (3.0) transferred to High Point
 
...IN WITH THE NEW
• However, the Huskies added five new names to the squad in the offseason in a trio of freshman along with a pair of transfers
• Freshmen Max Boursiquot (Kent School/Immaculata), Bolden Brace (Santa Barbara), and Shawn Occeus (Grandview Prep)
• Brace and Occeus come to Northeastern fresh off of a pair of state championships
• In addition, Alex Murphy joins the Huskies after playing at Duke and Florida while Vasa Pusica comes to Northeastern from San Diego
 
HUSKIES VS. RANKED TEAMS
• Last year, Northeastern faced an AP ranked team during the regular season for the first time since the 06-07 season when it took on No. 15 Miami on Nov. 27
• The Huskies then faced off against a No. 1 ranked opponent for the second time in school history after taking on No. 1 Michigan State on Dec. 19.
• Northeastern faced two AP ranked teams for the first time since the 2006-07 season when the Huskies took on No. 4 Pittsburgh and No. 19 Connecticut
• 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 faced a ranked team in 2014-15 when it took on AP No. 11 Notre Dame in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, a 65-69 loss on March 19, 2015. 
 
GETTING DEFENSIVE
• NU is 24-3 since the start of the 2012-13 season, and 34-5 since 2011-12, when holding an opponent to 59 or fewer points, including a perfect 5-0 this season.
• Under Coen, the Huskies are 77-20 (.794) when keeping opponents under 60 points.
 
Coen's record when holding an opponent under 60
 Year                     Record
2006-07                 6-0 (1.000)
2007-08                10-3 (.769)
2008-09                13-4 (.765)
2009-10                13-5 (.722)
2010-11                 0-3 (.000)
2011-12                 9-2 (.818)
2012-13                 6-0 (1.000)
2013-14                 6-3 (.667)
2014-15                 9-0 (1.000)
2015-16                 5-0 (1.000)
2016-17                 0-0 (.000)
Total                      77-20 (.794)