Gameday Information: Northeastern (4-5) at Vermont (7-3)
When	Saturday, December 10  |  Burlington, Vt. | Patrick Gymnasium  | 1 p.m.
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team continues its six-game road trip in the Green Mountain State on Saturday afternoon when they take on Vermont at the Patrick Gymnasium at 1 p.m.
 
Saturday's game will mark the first time since the 2011-12 and 2012-13 season since the two teams have faced each other in back-to-back seasons
 
The game can be found online at AmericaEast.TV.
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 97th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,176-1,090 (.519) in 2,266 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
• The Huskies and Vermont have met 70 times in the past in a series that began in the 1920-21 season, Northeastern's first as a varsity program
• Northeastern holds a 42-28 series lead over the Catamounts, winning last year's contest 77-65 at Matthews Arena
• The two teams will play in back-to-back seasons for the first time since facing each other in 2011-12 and 2012-13
• The Huskies started the week off with a loss at Harvard in their third-straight game on the road, dropping an 86-80 contest
• Northeastern was down as much as 20 points in the second half, before cutting the lead to just four 10 minutes later, but Harvard hung on for the victory
• Northeastern's four losses have come by a combined 17 points this season with its first four losses coming within four-points or fewer
• Following his 20-point performance against Harvard, T.J. Williams has now notched at least 20 points in seven of nine games this season and his averaging a CAA leading 22.4 points per game to go along with 6.3 assist per game, second in the CAA and 17th nationally
 
SCOUTING THE CATAMOUNTS
• Vermont is 7-3 in its first 10 games on the season with its three losses coming against Providence, Houston and #20 South Carolina
• The Catamounts started the season off with a win at Quinnipiac, had a four-game win streak in the middle of the year and has won a pair against Ivy League foes Yale and Dartmouth heading into Saturday's game
 
THIS SEASON
• Vermont is led by Payton Henson who is averaging 13.0 points per game followed by Ernie Duncan (10.8 ppg) and Anthony Lamb's 10.5 ppg
• Trae Bell-Haynes has tallied a team-high 39 assists, for 3.9 assists per game while Henson has pulled down 66 rebounds on the year
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• The two teams have met 70 times in year's past with the Huskies leading the series 42-28.
• Northeastern won last year's meeting between the two teams, 77-65, and have won three of the last four meetings between the two teams
• Northeastern and Vermont will meet for the first time in back-to-back seasons since they faced each other in 2011-12 and 2012-13
 
LAST TIME OUT VS. VERMONT
• The Northeastern men's basketball team knocked down a then-season-high 13 3-pointers en route to a 77-65 win over Vermont at Matthews Arena
• The 13 threes were the most since Northeastern hit a school record 14 3s against New Hampshire on Feb. 24, 2005.
• The Huskies were paced by seniors Quincy Ford and Caleb Donnelly who hit on a career-high seven and five threes respectively.
• Ford's seven treys matched David Walker's individual game-high in 2015-16 and were the third most all-time tied with six other Husky point-getters
• Ford finished with 23 points, eight rebounds and four assists which marked his third 20-point game of the year and 10th all-time
• Donnelly finished with 15 points, on 5-of-7 shooting from behind the arc, a career-best
• The 12 3FGs by Ford and Donnelly were the most by any Northeastern duo in program history
• Zach Stahl chipped in 14 to go along with five assists and four rebounds while David Walker finished with 11 and six assists
• Vermont had four double-digit scorers on the day, led by Ernie Duncan's 19, behind 5-of-10 shooting from behind the arc, while Trae Bell-Haynes finished with 16 points.
 
RETURNING TO ITS ROOTS
• Northeastern will return to its America East roots a handful of times this season
• Heading into the game with Vermont, Northeastern has already faced a former America East conference member four times on the year
• The Huskies began the season against America East foe and crosstown rival Boston University (currently of the Patriot League) winning 87-77 in the season opener before falling 65-63 in a rematch the following week
• The Huskies also took on Maine during the Steve Wright Classic, a 80-72 victory for the Huskies
• Last weekend, the Huskies headed to Stony Brook, a game that the Seawolves won 77-75 in the final seconds
• The Huskies will round out their games against AE opponents on Saturday against Vermont before closing out their non-conference season in the state of Michigan
• The Huskies were in the America East conference from 1979-80 until the conclusion of the 2004-05 season.
 
THIS WEEK IN NU BASKETBALL
• The Huskies continued on their six-game road trip with a Tuesday night game at Harvard this week
• Though they were down by 20, midway through the second half, the Huskies battled back to make it a four-point game down the stretch before the Crimson hung on for a six-point victory
• Northeastern was led by Jeremy Miller who had a career night with a career-high 26 points to go along with eight rebounds
• T.J. Williams notched his seventh 20-point effort of the season with 20 points, eight rebounds and four assists on the night
• Alex Murphy added 14 points while Devon Begley dished out a career high five assists while notching a game-high two steals
• Harvard was led by Seth Towns who has 24 points while Corey Johnson had 21 points on 7-of-10 shooting from behind the arc
 
JOURNEYMEN
• After finishing out their non-conference home slate on vs. Kent State, the Huskies are in the midst of 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 a midweek 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
• The Huskies hit a couple bumps in the road in New York falling to Cornell (80-77), Stony Brook (77-75) and Harvard (86-80) and will look to bounce back against Vermont on Saturday
 
T.J.'s LIKE J.J.
• Through his first nine games of the season, T.J. Williams has recorded seven 20+ point games 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 nine games of the season was Jose Juan Barea, who had seven such games to start the 2005-06 season, also his senior campaign, more than 10 years ago
• Through the first nine games, Williams is averaging a CAA leading 22.4 points per game, 6.6 apg, and 4.1 rebounds per game
• During that same stretch, Barea was averaging 22.8 ppg, 9.1 apg, and 4.1 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)
 
EN ROUTE TO 1,000
• Already tallying 202 points this season through the first nine games, T.J. Williams now has 937 points for his Northeastern career
• Williams, now just 63 points shy of 1,000 for his career would become the 37th player to hit the milestone in Northeastern's program history
• Currently Williams ranks 45th all-time on the Northeastern scoring charts passing Jim Connors (915) after the Stony Brook game
• If Williams continues to average his conference leading 22.4 ppg he will reach the mileston in three games
 
CAREER SCORING

No.	Player	Years	Points
40.	Steve Carney	1987-91	966
	Marcus Barnes	2003-05	966
42.	Damon Singletary	1992-96	951
43.	Lonnie Harrell	1994-96	949
44.	Steve Ramos	1973-77	940
45.	T.J. Williams	2013-pres.	937
46.	Jim Connors	1972-75	915

 
CAREER HIGHS FOR MURPHY
• Alex Murphy reset his career scoring mark at Cornell (Nov. 30)
• 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)
• Murphy has recorded a 14.1 point per game average to go along with 5.9 rebounds per game
• This season, Murphy has set new season-highs just nine games into play
• His 127 points, 47 field goals, 8 treys, 51 rebounds, 22 assists, 10 steals are all the most he has had in a single season in his career, and just nine games into the year
 
HUSKIES FROM DEEP
• Northeastern has tallied a 3-point field goal in 99 straight games and is looking to make it 100-straight Saturday against Vermont
• The Huskies began their streak on Dec. 21, 2013 with a 5-for-21 effort against UW-Milwaukee after going 0-11 from the field against Fairfield on Dec. 13, 2013
• Since then, Northeastern has combined for 662 3-pointers for an average of 6.7 per game during that stretch
 
CENTURY MARK
• Last 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 tallied 870 points and 282 assists
• In his 100th game, Williams recorded 27 points and nine assists to add to his career season
 
LEADING THE CAA
• T.J. Williams has been on fire to start the 2016-17 season posting a 22.4 points per game average, which tops the CAA and ranks 15th in the country this season
• Not only is Williams scoring, but he is aiding his teammates and has 57 assists on the year or 6.3 per game, which ranks second in the CAA and 17th nationally
• Williams notched the first 30-point game of his career to begin the season against Boston University and has 20+ point games in seven of nine games this season
• More than one-third of Williams' points have come from the free throw line (73-of-202), the most free throws made by an individual in the CAA and fourth-most in the country in 2016-17
• His 202 total points also rank first in the CAA and 15th in the nation
• Williams' free-throw percentage of 75.3 percent is unranked in the CAA, but is a 10.7 percent increase from his career free throw percentage heading into the season (.646)
 
GET THAT OUTTA HERE
• This season, the Huskies have tallied 26 blocks on the season, led by Jeremy Miller who has registered 11 of those blocks
• Miller's 11 blocks ranks second in the conference and 150th in the nation
• Last season, Miller finished the year with just eight blocks
• Anthony Green is next on the team with six blocks, in just 83 minutes of action, which ranks 12th in the conference