Gameday Information: Northeastern (4-3) at Stony Brook (1-5)
When	Saturday, December 3  |  Stony Brook, N.Y. | IFCU Arena  | 6 p.m.
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Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF) | Stony Brook (PDF)
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Continuing their six-game road trip, the Northeastern men's basketball team will round out its time in New York with a Saturday night contest at Stony Brook.
 
The 6 p.m. game will air live on ESPN3.
 
The two teams meet for the second-straight season, finishing out a home-and-home that began with a 75-62 victory for the Huskies last season at Matthews Arena.
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 97th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,176-1,088 (.519) in 2,263 games
• The Huskies and Stony Brook have met 12 times in the past in a series that began in the 2001-02 season
• Northeastern has a 7-5 series lead over the Seawolves and won the last meeting against Stony Brook
• The Huskies earned a 17-point comeback victory over Kent State on Sunday in their lone game of the week last week, but fell Wednesday at Cornell in the opening game of Northeastern's current six-game road trip
• For his efforts against Kent State, Devon Begley (career-high 18 points, 7 rebounds) was named the College Sports Madness CAA Player of the Week while Maxime Boursiquot (career-high 12 points, 4 rebounds) was named the CAA Rookie of the Week
• T.J. Williams is averaging a CAA leading 23.1 points per game this season through five games and has scored 20+ points in five out of seven games on the season
• Alex Murphy reset his career-high with a 24-point effort at Cornell on Wednesday
 
SCOUTING THE SEAWOLVES
• The Seawolves are off to a 1-5 start to the 2016-17 season under the new regime of Jeff Boals.
•Cornell started the season off on a four-game losing streak, falling in the season opener on a buzzer beater, before playing a pair of road games at ACC foes Boston College and Maryland.
• Stony Brook's first win of the season came vs. Hamton in Towson, Md., also Boals' first career victory.
• Heading into their game with the Huskies, Stony Brook is coming off of a one-point loss to Loyola Md. at home on yet another buzzer beater.
 
THIS SEASON
•Stony Brook is led by Tyrell Sturdivant who is averaging 14.0 points per game to go along with a team leading 7.7 rebounds per game.
•Lucas Woodhouse had recorded a team-high 26 assists on the year, and UC Iroegbu is .471 from deep, though the Seawolves are only hitting .286 from behind the arc this season.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
•Stony Brook and Northeastern have met 12 times in the past with the Huskies holding a 7-5 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 are rounding out a home-and-home series that began with a 75-62 victory for Northeastern last year at Matthews. After falling to Northeastern, Stony Brook went on an 18-game win streak, the longest active streak in the country at the time.
 
LAST TIME OUT VS. STONY BROOK
• Jeremy Miller had a career-high 18 points, Quincy Ford finished with his third double-double of the year and the Northeastern men's basketball team handed Stony Brook a 75-62 loss.
 • Miller notched 14 of his 18 points in the game during the first half behind three, three-point baskets. Ford registered 17 points to go along with 12 rebounds and added five blocks in the game while David Walker finished with 16 points.
 • Kwesi Abakah also added some quality points off the bench for Northeastern finishing the game with a career-high eight points in 12 minutes of action while T.J. Williams chipped in five points and seven rebounds on the day.
 • Jameel Warney paced the Seawolves behind 29 points and 11 rebounds but it wasn't enough as the Huskies snapped a two-game losing streak, both against Stony Brook and on the year, and earned their first win over the Seawolves since the 2005 America East Tournament, Northeastern's final year in the conference.
• Entering the game, Stony Brook held its opponents to just 27.3 percent shooting from three-point range. The Huskies finished the night shooting 53.3 percent from behind the arc.
 • Stony Brook had also outrebounded its opponents by almost 13 rebounds per game. The Huskies outrebounded the Seawolves 43-37.
 
THIS WEEK IN NU BASKETBALL
• The Huskies began their six-game road trip with a mid-week game at Cornell on Wednesday night, falling to the Big Red 80-77 in a game that went down to the wire
• Despite a 27-point, nine assist performance from T.J. Williams and a career-high 24 point effort by Alex Murphy, the Huskies were not able to hold off a hot shooting Cornell on their home turf
• Cornell was led by Matt Morgan who entered the game averaging 16.5 points per game. He went off for 34 points behind a career-high seven treys, matching a Cornell record at Newman Arena
• Devon Begley had his hands in all aspects of the game finishing with five points, four rebounds, four assists and four steals on the night
 
CENTURY MARK
• Wednesday night's game at Cornell marked the 100th game of senior T.J. Williams' Northeastern career and did he make the most of it
• During his first 99 games, Williams has tallied 870 points and 282 assists
• In his 100th game, Williams recorded 27 points and nine assists to add to his career numbers
 
JUST LIKE J.J.
• Through his first seven games of the season, T.J. Williams has recorded five 20+ point efforts on the year, including a 30-point effort, a career first for the senior, against Boston University in the season opener.
• The last Husky to record as many 20+ point games through the first seven games of the season was Jose Juan Barea, who had six such games to start the 2005-06 season, also his senior campaign, more than 10 years ago
• Through the first seven games, Williams is averaging a CAA leading 23.1 points per game, 6.6 apg, and 3.7 rebounds per game
• During that same stretch, Barea was averaging 23.9 ppg, 9.3 apg, and 4.4 rpg
• However, Barea was held without a 30-point game that year until Jan. 7, 2006 when he dropped 32 at Old Dominion
• Last season, David Walker began the year with four such 20+ point games, including a 30-point effort vs. Lipscomb (Nov. 21)
 
CAREER HIGHS FOR MURPHY
• Alex Murphy reset his career scoring mark Wednesday night at Cornell
• After a career night in his Husky debut against Boston University netting 20 points, four rebounds and four assists, Murphy went off for 24 points at Cornell
• His 24 points, came on 11-of-16 shooting, both career bests for the Duke and Florida transfer
• He also added four assists, the second time in his career that he has reached that mark, and six rebounds, his fourth career 5+ rebound game and second of the season
• Another career best came on Nov. 14 at UConn when he pulled down 15 rebounds, doubling his previous career best (7)
 
POW! POW! POW!
• After putting up a career-high 12 points and a career-high tying four rebounds against Kent State, Rookie Max Boursiquot was honored as the CAA Rookie of the Week (Nov. 28)
• The freshman scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half to help the Huskies overcome a 17-point deficit at intermission, including six in a decisive 13-0 run
• Also following the Huskies' victory over Kent State, junior Devon Begley earned his first career Player of the Week honor as he was tabbed the College Sports Madness CAA Player of the Week
• Begley had a career night vs. the Golden Flashes putting up a team and career high 18 points and seven rebounds while also adding four assists and two steals
• Seven of Begley's 18 points came from the free throw line as he had a career best 7-for-8 effort, including two clutch free throws down the stretch
• For his efforts against Boston University on Nov. 11, T.J. Williams received multiple weekly honors
                  • Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week
                  • College Sports Madness High-Major Player of the Week
                  • College Sports Madness CAA Player of the Week
• The honor was the second CAA POW honor of Williams' career with the last coming Jan. 5, 2014
 
LEADING THE CAA
• T.J. Williams has been on fire to start the 2016-17 season posting a 23.1 points per game average, which tops the CAA and ranks 12th in the country this season
• Not only is Williams scoring, but he is aiding his teammates and has 46 assists on the year or 6.6 per game, which tops the CAA and ranks 11th nationally
• Williams notched the first 30-point game of his career to begin the season against Boston University and has 20+ point games in four of the first five games to begin the season
• More than one-third of Williams' points have come from the free throw line (59-of-162), the most free throws made by an individual in the CAA and third-most in the country in 2016-17
• Hia 162 total points also rank first in the CAA and 20th in the nation
• Williams' free-throw percentage of 80.8 percent is just eighth in the CAA, but is a 16.2 percent increase from his career free throw percentage heading into the season (.646)
 
JOURNEYMEN
• After finishing out their non-conference home slate on Sunday vs. Kent State, the Huskies will now head out on a six-game road swing to close out their non-conference schedule
• The road trip will take them 2,789 miles and to three different states beginning with Wednesday's contest at Cornell, the first on Cornell's campus since the 1983-84 season
• The road trip also includes contests at Stony Brook, at Harvard, at Vermont, at Michigan State and at Oakland
 
GET THAT OUTTA HERE
• This season, the Huskies have tallied 22 blocks on the season, led by Jeremy Miller who has registered 10 of those blocks
• Miller's 10 blocks ranks first in the conference and 120th in the nation
• Last season, Miller finished the year with just eight blocks
• Anthony Green is next on the team with five blocks, in just 56 minutes of action, which ranks 11th in the conference