Gameday Information: Northeastern (12-9, 5-4 CAA) vs. Towson (13-9, 5-4)
When	Saturday, January 28  |  Boston, Mass. | Matthews Arena  | 7 p.m.
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team will return to the court Saturday night against Towson at Matthews Arena at 7 p.m.
 
The Huskies are looking for revenge in a rematch with the Tigers, who ended the Huskies' eight-game win streak two weeks ago on their home turf.
 
Though Towson won the last meeting, Northeastern has won 10 of the last 13 games against the Tigers, including a CAA Tournament victory last year
 
The game can be found on GoNUXStream.com, as all Northeastern home games are, free of charge with Bill Spaulding and Pat McHugh on the call.  
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 97th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,184-1,094 (.519) in 2,280 games
• The Huskies are 376-257 (.594) all-time in conference play including a 118-87 (.576) 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 Towson will meet for the 35th time in program history, with the Huskies holding a 20-14 series lead including a 9-5 record at Northeastern
• A win against Towson will snap a four-game losing streak
• Northeastern's nine losses have come by a combined 38 points this season with its first four losses coming within four-points or fewer
• The seven-point loss at Towson on followed by the seven-point loss at Delaware marked the largest losses of the season for the Huskies
• Following his 25-point performance against Hofstra, T.J. Williams has now notched at least 20 points in 13 of 21 games this season and is averaging a CAA leading 21.4 ppg (16th nationally) to go along with 5.3 assists per game, 2nd in the CAA and 45th nationally
• His 13 20-point efforts in the first 21 games are the most since J.J. Barea had 13 20-point games to open up his senior season in 2005-06
• Williams was the only player in the nation to have tallied at least 16 points through the first 20 games of the season. He saw that streak snapped against Elon (Jan. 26) finishing with 12 points
• The Huskies have recorded a double-double six times this season, with Alex Murphy notching the most recent one, the first career double-double for the sixth-year senior
 
SCOUTING THE TIGERS
• Towson is 13-9 on the season and enters its game with Northeastern winning five-straight including a win over the Huskies two Saturday's ago
• The Tigers are 5-5 on the road this year with their wins coming against George Mason, Morgan State, UMBC, Hofstra and Delaware
 
LEADING THE WAY
• Towson is led by Mike Morsell who is averaging 13.2 points and 3.2 rebounds a game while adding 33 assists and 13 blocks on the season
• Deshaun Morman has dished out a team-high 43 assists on the year
• John Davis has pulled down 7.0 rebounds per game and leads the team with a .556 FG%
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• This will be the 35th meeting between the two teams with the Huskies holding the series lead 20-14
• Though Towson won the last meeting, Northeastern has won 10 of the last 13 games against the Tigers, including a CAA Tournament victory last year
 
LAST TIME VS. TOWSON
• A 13-0 second half run was not enough as NU fell just short at Towson, 74-67 at SECU Arena.
• The loss was the first of the CAA season for the Huskies and snapped an eight-game win streak that dated back to Dec. 10, 2016.
• Towson jumped out to a fast lead in the first half, building up an 18-point advantage 11 minutes into action, a lead that Northeastern came close to tying, but were unable to overcome.
• T.J. Williams finished with a team-high 18 points on 7-of-9 shooting, leading all scorers with 14 first half points, moving into 26th place on the Northeastern all-time scoring charts past Harry Barnes (1,114; 1965-68) with 1,120 career points.
• Devon Begley added 15 points, including a few big 3-pointers that kept the Tigers in check while Alex Murphy added 13 points and eight rebounds and Anthony Green also finished with eight rebounds and six points.
• William Adala Moto led all scorers with 24 points, 12-of-13 from the free throw line, while also tallying seven rebounds. John Davis added 16 for the Tigers who have now won two-straight.
 
THIS WEEK IN NU BASKETBALL
• Northeastern dropped its first home contest of the season in a 51-49 loss to Elon Thursday night
• For the first time this season, T.J. Williams did not hit the 16-point threshold though he did finish with 12 points on the game and team-high three assists
• Alex Murphy tallied his first career double-double on an 11-point, 10-rebound effort with all of his points and six of his rebounds coming in the second half
 
WILLIAMS WITH AN ALL-TIME GREAT SENIOR SEASON
• Through his first 21 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 21 games of the season was J.J. Barea back in his senior season in 2005-06, who had 13 such games to start the year over 10 years ago
• Reggie Lewis, had 14 such games to start his senior season in 1986-87, 30 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 21 games, Williams is averaging a CAA leading 21.4 points per game, 5.3 apg, and 4.8 rebounds per game
• During that same stretch, Lewis averaged 23.2 ppg, 8.5 rpg and 1.7 apg while Barea was averaging 21.1 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!
• Through the first 20 games this season, senior T.J. Williams notched at least 16 points in each and every game 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 39 minutes of action against Elon (Jan. 26), T.J. Williams recorded a 12-point effort, his first game with less than 16 points on the season
• For a game-by-game of each of Williams' efforts, head to page 23
 
HUSKIES FROM DEEP
• Northeastern has tallied a 3-point field goal in 111 straight games after the Huskies' 7-for-32 performance Thursday vs. Elon
• 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 776 3-pointers for an average of 7.0 per game during that stretch
• As a team, the Huskies have been adventagous behind the arc, leading the CAA with a .387 3-point field goal percentage, knocking down 184 threes (4th) on the season in 476 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 37 (14th CAA), while Alex Murphy has tallied 33, freshman Shawn Occeus has connected on 31 and T.J. Williams has 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 21.4 points per game, a 14.8 point increase or 315% increase from last season
• Williams' 14.8 ppg increase is the largest PPG increase of any player in Division-I men's basketball
 

Name	Increase	School
T.J. Williams	+14.8	Northeastern
Jonathan Wade	+13.4	Norfolk State
Justin Wright-Foreman	+12.9	Hofstra
Shavar Newkirk	+12.3	Saint Joseph's

 
DOUBLE-DOUBLE (x6)
• Alex Murphy recorded his first career double-double against Elon (Jan. 26) on a 10-point, 11-rebound effort
• The double-double was the sixth of the season for the Huskies as he was the fourth player to notch one in 2016-17
• Against Drexel (Jan. 12), Maxime Boursiquot notched Northeastern's fifth double-double of the season with a career-high 17-point, 11 rebound effort
• He became the second Husky rookie to record a double-double on the season joining Bolden Brace
• In Northeastern's Steve Wright tournament finale against Maine, two Huskies notched double-doubles, both career firsts for those respective student-athletes
• T.J. Williams and Bolden Brace accomplished the feat to become the first duo to have a double-double since Zach Stahl (19 points, 11 rebounds) and David Walker (18 points, 13 assists) achieved the feat in a triple overtime game last season vs. Hofstra (Jan. 21, 2016)
• Though the double-double was not the first of Williams' career, it was the first of the points/assists variety as he tallied 26 points and 10 assists in the effort, a career high for Williams
• Brace, a rookie for the Huskies, earned his double-double in just his fifth career game via 10 points and 10 rebounds
• The last Husky rookie to notch a double-double faster than Brace was Reggie Spencer, who recorded his first career double-double in his first career game, a 16 points, 10 rebound effort in an OT win at BU (11/11/11)
• Williams leads the Huskies with three double-doubles on the year which ranks fifth in the CAA this season
• Last season, Northeastern, as a squad, registered 10 double-doubles on the season from four different players, the first time since the 2011-12 season that four different Huskies have notched a double-double in the same season
• Quincy Ford led the way with five double-doubles last season, a career-high for the redshirt senior
 
1K FOR TJ
• Already recording 450 points this season through the first 21 games, T.J. Williams now has 1,185 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 in a tie for 20th all-time on the NU scoring charts with Bennet Davis (1,185)
 
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
	T.J. Williams	2013-pres.	1,185