Gameday Information: Northeastern at Stanford
When	Friday, November 17  |  Stanford, Calif. | Maples Pavilion  | 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team will begin their time in the Phil Knight 80 Invitational on Friday afternoon in Stanford, Calif. when the team takes on the Cardinal at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT at Maples Pavilion.
 
The game will mark the first of two against Power-5 conference opponents on the weekend as the team will wrap up the weekend at Ohio State on Sunday, Nov. 19.
 
The Huskies are coming off of a 2-0 weekend with wins at Boston University and at home against Wentworth as the team started the year off 2-0 for the fourth-straight season.
 
Following his performance in week one, freshman Tomas Murphy was named CAA Rookie of the Week.
 
NOTABLES
• This is the 98th season of Northeastern men's basketball
• Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,186-1,091 (.521) in 2,277 games
• The Huskies are 376-253 (.598) all-time in conference play including a 118-83 (.587) record since joining the CAA in the 2005-06 season
• Northeastern amassed 12 regular season conference championships and eight tournament titles including a 2015 CAA title which sent NU to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 24 years
• Bill Coen is in his 12th season as the leader of the Huskies and since Coen has taken the reigns, Northeastern has accomplished the best win percentage amongst current CAA teams in conference and CAA tournament play with a 119-96 all-time mark
• Northeastern and Stanford meet on Friday night for the first time in program history
• The Huskies enter the game with an 0-3 record all-time against current Pac-12 teams
• The Huskies have a doozy of a road trip ahead of them beginning with Friday's game against Stanford and concluding at Ohio State Sunday
• Northeastern also enters the game with a +20 scoring margin, which ranks just second in the CAA (Towson, +20.5) (more on page 2)
• One of the members of the team that helps Northeastern to that margin was freshman Tomas Murphy who was recently named CAA Rookie of the Week (more on page 2)
• The Huskies return seven letterwinners, including a pair of Preseason All-CAA honorable mention honorees in Devon Begley and Jeremy Miiller 
• Northeastern lost three seniors, Jimmy Marshall, Alex Murphy & CAA Player of the Year T.J. Williams, two of which are playing professionally
• Williams is a member of the Greensboro Swarm, a Charlotte Hornet's affiliate in the G League, while Murphy is overseas in Finland
• The Huskies will have five new faces on the court this year in four freshmen, Derrick Cook, Myles Franklin, Tomas Murphy (younger brother of Alex) and Jason Strong, and Vasa Pusica, a transfer from San Diego who sat out last season
 
SCOUTING THE CARDINAL
• Stanford began the season off 2-0 for the fourth-straight year before falling to Eastern Washington at home Tuesday night 67-61 for their third game in five days
• The Cardinal have outscored their opponents by an average of 6.3 ppg and took wins from Cal Poly and Pacific to start the season
• All three of Stanford's games this season have come at Maples Pavilion
 
LEADING THE WAY
• The Cardinal are led by redshirt junior Reid Travis who is averaging 23.0 ppg through the first three games of the season for Stanford while also adding 7.7 rpg and shooting 22-42 from the field
• Senior Michael Humphrey is averaging a double-double through the first three games with 11.3 ppg and 12.7 rpg
• The Cardinal have a trio of freshmen in their starting lineup in guards Isaac White (Adelaide, Australia) and Daejon Davis (Seattle, Wash.) and forward Oscar Da Silva (Munich, Germany)
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• This will be the first meeting between the two teams in program history
• The Huskies have faced three current Pac-12 opponents in the past (more below)
 
HUSKIES VS. THE PAC-12
• Northeastern has faced three current Pac-12 teams in program history
• However, one of those teams was not in the Pac-12 when the meeting occured
• Friday's meeting marks the first time the Huskies will face a Pac-12 opponent not in a tournament setting
• Northeastern will look for its first win against a Pac-12 conference opponent when they face Stanford
 

Opponent	Date	Location	Result
California	11/26/05	Berkeley, Calif. %	L, 76-83
Oregon	12/27/89	Portland, Ore. ^	L, 74-77
Utah *	3/15/81	El Paso, Texas !	L, 69-94

 
* - not a member of the Pac-12 at the time of meeting
% - Golden Bear Classic | ^ - Far West Classic  | ! - NCAA Tournament
 
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
• Following his first two games in the red and black, freshman Tomas Murphy was named Colonial Athletic Association Rookie of the Week
• Murphy led all scorers on the weekend averaging 11.5 points per game as well as 4.0 rebounds per game as he helped the Huskies begin their season 2-0 for the fourth-straight year
• On Friday night, Murphy was a catalyst in the Huskies' opening-night victory at BU notching a game-high 15 points while pulling in six rebounds
• This also marks the fourt-straight season that the Huskies have earned conference honors following the first weekend of action
• Last year T.J. Williams was named Player of the Week while David Walker earned Co-Player of the Week honors consecutively in the two previous seasons
• The Wakefield, R.I. native became the first Husky to earn conference Rookie of the Week honors after his first weekend of action since Reggie Spencer achieved the feat Nov. 15, 2011
 
FROM DEEP -- NO REALLY ONLY FROM DEEP
• Through the first two games of the year, Northeastern sophomore Shawn Occeus has taken seven shot attempts and connected on five of them
• And every single one of those attempts has come from behind the arc
• Occeus, who attempted 93 treys in his rookie year connecting on 35 of them for a .376 3FG pct., is shooting at a .714 clip through the first two games
• The sophomore led all Husky scorers, for the first time in his career, with 12 points against Wentworth (Nov. 12) with nine of those points coming from deep
• Occeus also completed a rare 4-point play on the day
 
FREQUENT FLIER MILES
• The Northeastern basketball team will add a bunch of frequent flier miles to its total this weekend when it begins play in the PK80 Invitational with a road trip that will take the team across the country and back
• The Huskies will play at Stanford on Friday, Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. EST/3 p.m. PST, will travel across the country, and will conclude at Ohio State Sunday at 3 p.m.
• The trip from Boston to Stanford to Columbus and back again will journey over 6,400 miles
• The PK80 will conclude next weekend in Nashville where the Huskies will face Utah State and Furman and add another 2,200 miles to their total
• The tournament will pit the Huskies against Pac-12, Big 10, Mountain West and Southern Conference opponents when all is said and done
 
...BY HOW MUCH?
• Through the first two games of the season the Huskies are outscoring their opponents by a 20-point margin, 74.0 ppg to 54.0 ppg
• The +20 margin and the Huskies' scoring defense just barely ranks second in the CAA (Towson +20.5, 51.0 ppg), however the Huskies are 2-0 on the year and the Tigers are 1-1 through two games
• In their second game of the season, Northeastern held Wentworth to just 49-points marking the first game the Huskies held an opponent to under-50 points since a 47-44 victory at Towson on Feb. 11, 2016
• The 34-point win also tied the second-largest of the Bill Coen era (79-45 win over Drexel on Jan. 9, 2008) and was the largest since a 36-point victory over Delaware last season
• The Huskies have now recorded a 30-point victory in the last three seasons
 
SOME OLD-BUT-NEW FACES
• The Huskies have added a pair of old, but new faces to the staff this season in Manny Adako and Danny Young
• Young joins Northeastern as the Director of Basketball Operations after serving as a manager for the Huskies from 2011-15, round out his senior year with a CAA Championship
• Adako is a former letterwinner for the Huskies and returns to his alma mater after a seven-year professional basketball career that took him to countries like Holland, Egypt, Qatar and Dubai
• He joins the Huskies as a graduate manager