Gameday Information: Northeastern (12-7, 5-2 CAA) at Hofstra (9-10, 1-6)
When	Saturday, January 21  |  Hempstead, N.Y. | Mack Sports Complex  | 4 p.m.
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Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF) | Hofstra (PDF)
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – Northeastern men's basketball will round out its three-game road trip at Hofstra on Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. at the Mack Sports Complex.
 
The Huskies will look to snap their two game skid that began at Towson last Saturday and continued at Delaware Thursday night.  
 
Northeastern and Hofstra will meet for the first time this season, and in the last three meetings the two teams have met on the 21^st of the month!
 
The game can be found on HofstraPride.com or CAA.TV
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 97th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,184-1,092 (.520) in 2,276 games
• The Huskies are 376-255 (.596) all-time in conference play including a 118-85 (.581) 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 Hofstra will meet for the 40th time in program history, and the Huskies hold the slight series edge 20-19 over Hofstra, though the Pride has won the last two meetings between the two teams
• A win against Hofstra will snap a two-game losing streak and will mark the first win at the Mack Sports Complex since Feb. 12, 2015
• Northeastern's seven losses have come by a combined 31 points this season with its first four losses coming within four-points or fewer
• The seven-point loss at Towson on Saturday followed by the seven-point loss at Delaware marked the largest losses of the season for the Huskies
• Following his 28-point performance against Drexel, T.J. Williams has now notched at least 20 points in 12 of 19 games this season and is averaging a CAA leading 21.7 ppg (15th nationally) to go along with 5.1 assists per game, 2nd in the CAA and 31st nationally
• Williams is the only player in the nation to have tallied at least 16 points in every game he have played in this season
 
SCOUTING THE PRIDE
• Hofstra is 9-11 on the season, and are off to a 1-6 start to the conference season.
• The Pride are 4-4 at home on the season, and 0-3 in conference play falling to Towson, James Madison and William & Mary in overtime.
• Hofstra enters Thursday's game with the Huskies on a six-game losing streak
 
LEADING THE WAY
• Hofstra is led by Eli Pemberton who is averaging 14.0 points and 3.5 rebounds a game while adding 42 assists on the season
• Rokas Gustys has pulled down 246 rebounds on the season (12.3 per game), which leads the NCAA
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• This will be the 40th meeting between the two teams with the Huskies holding a slight series lead, 20-19
• Hofstra is on a two-game win streak over Northeastern after earning the series sweep last season
 
LAST TIME OUT VS. HOFSTRA
• A late surge made it a two-point ball game with 33 seconds to play, but Hofstra hung on to outlast the Huskies 65-60
• Northeastern had a trio of double-digit scorers in the game with Quincy Ford and David Walker leading the way with 15-apiece. Caleb Donnelly added 12 via four 3-pointers including two big shots down the stretch to give the Huskies a chance
• Along with Ford's 15 points, the redshirt senior pulled down 14 rebounds, marking his fifth double-double of the season and ninth career
• Playing in his school-record 129th career game, Walker's first basket of the game set another school record, this time for the most 3-pointers in a single season with 84 (at the time), besting current Northeastern video coordinator's Joel Smith's 83 3-point effort set during the 2012-13 season
• Denton Koon paced the Pride with 19 points and seven rebounds, while Rokas Gustys finished with 17 points and 16 boards on the day
 
THIS WEEK IN NU BASKETBALL
• Northeastern fell in a tough game against Delaware Thursday night which gave the Blue Hens their first CAA win of the season, 69-62
• T.J. Williams put up 28 points, his 12th 20-point game of the season, but was the only Husky scorer in double-digits as he accounted for 45 percent of the Huskies' points on the night
• Freshman Ryan Daly had 27 points, including a few big 3-pointers for the Blue Hens down the stretch
• Williams extended his streak of at least 16-points in every game this season with his performance
 
HUSKIES FROM DEEP
• Northeastern has tallied a 3-point field goal in 109 straight games after the Huskies' 9-for-23 performance Thursday at Delaware
• 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 756 3-pointers for an average of 6.9 per game during that stretch
• As a team, the Huskies have been adventagous behind the arc, leading the CAA with a .398 3-point field goal percentage, knocking down 164 threes (5th) on the season in 412 tries
• However, no individual Huskies rank in the top-10 in the CAA in made threes
• The Huskies have distributed the ball evenly from beyond the arc, as nine of Northeastern's 11 players have connected from deep this season, led by Devon Begley's 34 (13th CAA), Alex Murphy and freshman Shawn Occeus' 27 treys
 
T.J. (TO THE) MAXX
• After averaging 6.8 points per game, which ranked fifth on the Northeastern men's basketball team last season, T.J. Williams has drastically improved upon his season average in his senior season
• The senior is currently averaging a CAA leading 21.7 points per game, a 14.9 point increase or 319% increase from last season
• Williams' 14.9 ppg increase is the largest PPG increase of any player in Division-I men's basketball
 

Name	Increase	School
T.J. Williams	+14.6	Northeastern
Jonathan Wade	+13.0	Norfolk State
Chris Reyes	+12.4	Pepperdine
Shavar Newkirk	+12.3	Saint Joseph's

1K FOR TJ
• Already recording 413 points this season through the first 19 games, T.J. Williams now has 1,148 points in his Northeastern career
• Williams, crossed the 1,000-point mark in the first half against William & Mary driving to the basket for a layup
• With that basket he became the 37th player to hit the milestone in Northeastern's program history
• Currently Williams ranks 26th all-time on the Northeastern scoring charts passing Bill Colby (1,125) & Andre LaFleur (1,143) with his 28-point effort at Delaware
 
CAREER SCORING

No.	Player	Years	Points
20.	Bennet Davis	2003-07	1,185
21.	Chip Rucker	1977-81	1,172
22.	Jack Malvey	1961-64	1,170
23.	Jon Lee	2009-13	1,161
26.	T.J. Williams	2013-pres.	1,148
25.	Andre LaFleur	1983-87	1,143

 
T.J. OR J.J.?
• Through his first 19 games of the season, T.J. Williams has recorded 12 20+ point games on the year, including two 30-point efforts, with the first one coming against Boston University in the season opener followed by a 30-point game against Drexel (Jan. 12)
• The last Husky to record as many 20+ point games through the first 19 games of the season was Jose Juan Barea, who had 12 such games to start the 2005-06 season, also his senior campaign, more than 10 years ago
• During that stretch, Williams has three double-doubles, two via points-assists and one via points-rebounds
• Barea tallied five double-doubles during that stretch all of which game via points-assists
• Through the first 19 games, Williams is averaging a CAA leading 21.7 points per game, 5.6 apg, and 4.9 rebounds per game
• During that same stretch, Barea was averaging 21.2 ppg, 8.7 apg, and 4.6 rpg
• However, Barea was held to just one 30-point game that year on Jan. 7, 2006, when he dropped 32 at Old Dominion