Gameday Information: Northeastern (12-8, 5-3 CAA) vs. Elon (12-9, 4-4)
When	Thursday, January 26  |  Boston, Mass. | Matthews Arena  | 7 p.m.
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Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF) | Elon (PDF)
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BOSTON – After a three-game road trip that saw three losses for the Northeastern men's basketball team, the Huskies return home to Matthews Arena, where they are undefeated on the season for a pair of games beginning with Elon on Thursday night at 7 p.m.
 
The Huskies are 6-0 at home this season with two of their biggest wins of the year over Delaware and Drexel and a 17-point comeback victory over Kent State during the non-conference season.
 
Northeastern and Elon will meet for the first time this season and just the fifth time in program history
 
The game can be found on GoNU.com or CAA.TV with Bill Spaulding, Patrick McHugh and Alex Vispoli on the call.
 
LAST 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
• The Huskies rounded out the week with their final game of the three-game road trip at Hofstra on Saturday
• Despite a second-half push, Northeastern fell 78-73 to the Tribe though T.J. Williams finished with 25 points, his 13th 20-point game of the season
• Also adding double-digit efforts were Alex Murphy (18 points, nine rebounds) and Devon Begley (16 points, three steals)
• The Huskies notched 13 3-pointers on the night, the sixth time they hit for double-digits in that category this season
 
WILLIAMS WITH AN ALL-TIME GREAT SENIOR SEASON
• Through his first 20 games of the season, T.J. Williams has recorded 13 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 20 games of the season was Reggie Lewis back in his senior season in 1986-87, who had 14 such games to start the year, 30 years ago
• Jose Juan Barea, 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
• Lewis had six double-doubles, all of the points, rebounds variety while Barea tallied five double-doubles during that stretch all of which game via points-assists
• Through the first 20 games, Williams is averaging a CAA leading 21.9 points per game, 5.4 apg, and 4.9 rebounds per game
• During that same stretch, Lewis averaged 22.8 ppg, 8.5 rpg and 1.8 apg while 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
 
SWEET 16!
• In each game this season, senior T.J. Williams has notched at least 16 points en route to his 21.9 points per game average
• Williams is the ONLY player in the country to have achieved that feat this season
• Playing 37 minutes of action against Delaware (Jan. 19), T.J. Williams recorded a 25-point effort, his 13th 20-point effort of the season
 
HUSKIES FROM DEEP
• Northeastern has tallied a 3-point field goal in 110 straight games after the Huskies' 13-for-32 performance Saturday at Hofstra
• 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 769 3-pointers for an average of 7.0 per game during that stretch
• As a team, the Huskies have been advantageous behind the arc, leading the CAA with a .399 3-point field goal percentage, knocking down 177 threes (4th) on the season in 444 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 36 (13th CAA), while T.J. Williams, Alex Murphy and freshman Shawn Occeus' have hit for 30 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 21.9 points per game, a 15.1 point increase or 322% increase from last season
• Williams' 15.1 ppg increase is the largest PPG increase of any player in Division-I men's basketball
 

Name	Increase	School
T.J. Williams	+15.1	Northeastern
Jonathan Wade	+13.4	Norfolk State
Justin Wright-Foreman	+12.9	Hofstra
Shavar Newkirk	+12.3	Saint Joseph's

 
1K FOR TJ
• Already recording 438 points this season through the first 20 games, T.J. Williams now has 1,173 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 21st all-time on the Northeastern scoring charts passing Jack Malvey (1,170) & Chip Rucker (1,172) with his 25-point effort at Hofstra

CAREER SCORING

No.	Player	Years	Points
16.	Manny Adako	2006-10	1,209
17.	Anthony Brown	1991-94	1,197
18.	Ben Harlee	1990-95	1,190
19.	Kevin McDuffie	1984-88	1,186
20.	Bennet Davis	2003-07	1,185
21.	T.J. Williams	2013-pres.	1,173

 
LEADING THE CAA
• T.J. Williams has been on fire in the first half of the 2016-17 season posting a 21.9 points per game average, which tops the CAA and ranks 13th in the country
• Not only is Williams scoring, but he is aiding his teammates and has 108 assists on the year or 5.4 per game, which is second in the the CAA and 35th nationally
• Williams notched the first 30-point game of his career to begin the season against Boston University, adding another one against Drexel (Jan. 12), and has 20+ point games in 13 of 20 games this season
• Nearly one-third of Williams' points have come from the free throw line (126-of-438), the most free throws made by an individual in the CAA and 5th-most in the country in 2016-17
• His 413 total points also rank first in the CAA and 13th in the nation
• Williams' free-throw percentage of 75.9 percent is unranked in the CAA, but is a 11.3 percent increase from his career free throw percentage heading into the season (.646)
• Williams has personally attempted 166 free throws this season, ranking fourth in the nation