BOSTON – The Northeastern basketball team will close out the regular season on Saturday afternoon at the Daskalakis Center when the Huskies take on Drexel at 4 p.m.
The Huskies are currently in a tie for sixth place in the CAA with Charleston after a 58-57 victory over the Cougars on Thursday night.
Northeastern enters the game with a 16-14 record, 8-9 in CAA play and has won its last four of its last five games.
Drexel is 5-23 overall and 3-14 in conference action, but have won its last two games heading into Saturday's meeting with the Huskies.
QUICK HITS• This is the 96th season of Northeastern men's basketball. NU has an all-time record of 1,171-1,083 (.520) in 2,253 games.
• This will be the 59th meeting between the two teams in program history
• Drexel leads the all-time series 38-20
• The Huskies are 6-20 all-time in Phiilly
• Northeastern is 1-0 on the week after a last second victory over Charleston 58-57
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David Walker is playing in his 131st career game extending his school record mark for games played & consecutive games played
• Against Hofstra, Walker set the school record for 3s in a season and now has 88
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Quincy Ford moved into the top-10 on the Northeastern scoring charts and now has 1,569 career points in Red and Black
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Zach Stahl became the 36th member of the Northeastern 1,000-point club Thursday vs. Charleston on Senior Night
• With Northeastern's win at Delaware, head coach
Bill Coen now holds the title of most conference victories by a Northeastern coach, passing Jim Calhoun (more on page 6)
• Coen earned his 100th career CAA regular season victory vs. Charleston on Feb. 25
• 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 370-252 (.595) all-time in conference play including a 112-82 (.577) record since joining the CAA in the 2005-06 season.
SEEDING SCENARIOS • With a Husky win over Drexel and a Charleston loss to Hofstra, Northeastern would have the No. 6 seed and first round bye for the CAA Tournament
• If both teams win, or both teams lose: Charleston and Northeastern split head-to-head. If UNCW is the #1 seed, Northeastern is the #6 seed based on a better record (1-1)
than CofC (0-2) vs. UNCW. If Hofstra is the #1 seed, College of Charleston is the #6 seed based on a better record (2-0 or 1-1) than Northeastern (0-2) vs. Hofstra.
A WIN WOULD... • With a victory, the Huskies would improve to 17-14 on the season and 9-9 in conference action in 2015-16
• Northeastern would win its third-straight over the Dragons and fifth in its last six meetings
• The win would mark the first in Philadelphia since a 63-58 overtime victory over Drexel on Jan. 8, 2013.
• Be the first sweep of the Dragons since the 2012-13 season
• Give the Huskies a .500 or better record in the CAA for the second-straight season
LAST TIME VS. DREXEL• Northeastern rounded out a 2-0 week with a 70-60 win the last time the two teams met on Feb. 13 at Matthews Arena
• In the first half of play, the Huskies shot 60.9 from the field putting up 39 points on the board to head to halftime with a 15 point lead
• In the second half, the Dragons outscored the Huskies, busing a 60.9 shooting percentage of their own, but it wasn't enough to overcome the halftime deficit
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David Walker finished the game with five treys, the seventh time this season that he has had at least five 3-pointers in a single game.
• In doing so, he tied the school record for threes in a single season after a five 3-pointer day vs. the Dragons with 83
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Quincy Ford crossed the 1,500 career point mark with a 16-point effort against Drexel
THIS WEEK IN HUSKY BASKETBALL• In a game that saw seven ties and 12 lead changes, Northeastern came out on top in a 58-57 barnburner against Charleston on Thursday night
• Fouled with 4.7 seconds left driving to the basket looking for the game winner,
Quincy Ford headed to the line and drained both of his free throw attempts, the first to tie the game at 57-all, the second, the ultimate game-winner
• The win pushed the Huskies into a tie for sixth place with Charleston (8-9) in the CAA standings
• Also during the game, senior
Zach Stahl became the 36th member of the Northeastern 1,000-point club using a free throw late in the first half to achieve the feat on Senior Night in front of his family and friends
• The Huskies held Charleston to 36.9 percent shooting, including a 25 percent clip in the first half (0-of-12 from long range)
IN THE RECORD BOOK•
Quincy Ford has improved from 23rd, where he began the season on the Northeastern all-time scoring chart, to 10th place with 1,569 career points.
• Ford has tallied 429 points this season, and with his 15-point day at Hofstra (Feb. 21), he jumped into the top-10 on the Northeastern career scoring chart
• Walker began the year in 29th, and with his 537 points this year, has moved into the Top-10 with 1,577 points.
• Walker jumped into ninth place after a 19-point night at James Madison (Feb. 18) passing Chaisson Allen (1,550)
• 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 SCORINGNo. | Player | Years | Points |
8 | John Clark | 1972-76 | 1,617 |
9 | David Walker | 2012-pres. | 1,577 |
10 | Quincy Ford | 2011-pres. | 1,569 |
11 | Chaisson Allen | 2007-11 | 1,550 |
CAREER 3-POINT FIELD GOALS MADE CAREER BLOCKS 1,000-POINT SCORERS• With Stahl joining the prestigious 1,000-point club Thursday night, there are currently three 1,000-point scorers on the Northeastern roster
• Stahl currently has 1,001 career points
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Quincy Ford and
David Walker, who joined the club last year have 1,569 and 1,577 points respectively.
• The Huskies have three 1,000-point scorers on the same team for just the fifth time in school history and the second-straight season
• The 2015-16 season also marks the first time that there has been two 1,500-point scorers on the same team in school history
Year No. Scorers1987 4 Reggie Lewis, Andre Lafleur, John Williams, Wes Fuller
1981 3 Pete Harris, Perry Moss, Chip Rucker
2010 3 Matt Janning, Chaisson Allen, Manny Adako
2015 3
David Walker,
Quincy Ford,
Scott Eatherton2016 3
David Walker,
Quincy Ford,
Zach Stahl THE LONGEVITY FACTOR• On Thursday night against Charleston,
David Walker will play in his 130th game as a Husky, extending his Northeastern record for career games played
• Walker set the school record with his 129th appearance against Hofstra on Feb. 21
• Walker becomes the fourth overall Husky to play in at least 128 games and the first to do so since Matt Janning did in the 2009-10 season
• Walker has started the last 122 games of his career dating back to the 2012-13 season
Games Name Years130
David Walker 2012-pres.*
128 Andre LaFleur 1983-87*
128 Wes Fuller 1983-87*
128 Matt Janning 2006-10*
127
Quincy Ford 2011-pres.
*- consecutive games
HITTING THE CENTURY MARK• On Feb. 25, 2016 against the College of Charleston, on Senior Day at Matthews Arena, head coach
Bill Coen registered his 100th regular season CAA victory in his tenure as the leader of the Huskies
• The 10th year coach is currently the third-winningest coach in NU history with 161 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
NU ALL-TIME CONFERENCE WIN RECORD Coach Record Conference1.
Bill Coen 100-77 (.565) CAA
2. Jim Calhoun 95-24 (.798) Am. East
3. Karl Fogel 80-47 (.630) Am. East
4. Ron Everhart 53-33 (.616) Am. East/CAA
5. Rudy Keeling 34-56 (.378) Am. East
6. Dave Leitao 12-22 (.353) Am. East
PUTTING UP NUMBERS• On Thursday, Feb. 18 at James Madison, redshirt senior
Quincy Ford rattled off a career-high 36 points
• The 36 points were the most in nearly 11 years, since J.J. Barea tied the school record with 41 points against Stony Brook on March 5, 2005
• The 36 points were also the most any Husky had recorded against a CAA opponent, the most in the
Bill Coen era & ranked in a tie for 9th most in school history
POW! POW! POW! POW!• For the fourth time this season, after his career performance against JMU and Hofstra,
Quincy Ford was named CAA Player of the Week (Feb. 22)
• Ford becomes the first Husky to earn the CAA weekly honor four times in a season
• This week, Ford put up 36 points in a 3OT win at James Madison and followed that up with a 15 point, 14 rebound effort at Hofstra
• The redshirt senior also earned the honor in back-to-back weeks after a 77-65 win over Vermont (Dec. 22) highlighted by a career-high seven 3FGs and after averaging a double-double against three North Carolina teams with 21.0 ppg and 10.0 rpg
• Ford's first honor of the season came after hitting the game-winner in an upset over No. 15 Miami
3-POINT PROWESS•
David Walker connected from behind the arc in the first 27 games this season and in 31-straight games dating back to last season, a streak that ranked sixth in the country, before it was snapped at JMU (Feb. 18)
• Walker bounced back at Hofstra (Feb. 21) when he connected on four treys, including a school record setting 3-pointer late in the first half as he notched his 84th three of the year.
• Walker now has a school record 88 threes in 2015-16
• In seven games on the year, Walker has dropped 5+ treys, including a career-high 7 at Detroit (Dec. 5)
• With six 3-pointers against Elon (Jan. 30), Walker became the first Husky to have six games of 5+ threes in a single season in Northeastern history
• Marcus Barnes had five 5+ 3FG games during the 2003-04 season
GETTING DEFENSIVE • NU is 23-3 since the start of the 2012-13 season, and 33-5 since 2011-12, when holding an opponent to 59 or fewer points, including a perfect 9-0 last season.
• Under Coen, the Huskies are 75-20 (.792) when keeping opponents under 60 points.
Coen's record when holding an opponent under 60Year Record2006-07 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 4-0 (1.000)
Total 76-20 (.792)