Gameday Information: Northeastern vs. Harvard
When	Thursday, November 30  |  Boston, Mass. | Matthews Arena  | 7 p.m.
Television	NESN
Game Links	Live Video  |  Live Stats  | WRBB
Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF) | Harvard (PDF)
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Promotions	Red Out Weekend at Matthews Arena (presented by Coca-Cola) • The Northeastern men's basketball team is encouraging all fans to wear red to participate in Red Out Weekend: a four-game, red-out home stand at Matthews Arena that features the men's basketball team (Nov. 30, Dec. 2), men's hockey team (Dec. 1), and women's hockey team (Dec. 3) Official N Zone T-Shirt Giveaway • All students in attendance will receive the official N Zone T-Shirt, while supplies last.
November Canned Food Drive	Throughout the month of November, the Northeastern men's basketball team will be collecting canned food at all home games. Fans may drop off their donated canned food items at the merchandise stand, located on the main concourse.

BOSTON – The Huskies will begin a four-game homestand on Thursday night against Harvard at 7 p.m. in a game that can be found on NESN.
 
Following the game with Northeastern, the Huskies will take on Cornell on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 4 p.m., Bucknell on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. and Vermont on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 4 p.m. to round out the non-conference home schedule.
 
Northeastern finished out their time in the PK80 Invitational last weekend.
 
Vasa Pusica finished the weekend with two career performances setting a career high in points and 3FGs on Friday vs. Utah State (27p, 6 3FGs) and added another 17 points on Saturday.
 
NOTABLES
• This is the 98th season of Northeastern men's basketball
• Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,186-1,095 (.520) in 2,281 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 reins, 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 Harvard are meeting for the 55th time in program history, a series that the Crimson lead 39-15
• This year's game will mark the fifth straight season that Harvard and Northeastern will meet, the longest streak since the two teams met 10 times in a row from 1950-51 until 1959-60
• The Huskies are 7-10 all-time against Harvard on their home turf
• Following Thursday's game, Northeastern will face Cornell on Saturday, the first time the Huskies have been pitted against Harvard and Cornell in back-to-back games since the 2004-05 season
 
SCOUTING THE CRIMSON
• The Crimson are off to a 3-4 start to the 2017-18 season, with wins coming against MIT, UMass and Saint Joseph's
• Harvard enters the game after three contests in California where the Crimson fell to Saint Mary's to open the week while also dropping a match with Cal State Fullerton to finish, with the St. Joe's victory in the middle
• The game with Northeastern will mark Harvard's fourth game against a Massachusetts opponent this season
 
THIS SEASON
• Harvard is led by the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year Bryce Aiken who is averaging 18.0 points per game as well as 3.9 assists per game
• Seth Towns has posted 13.2 points per game to go along with 4.8 rebounds per game through the first seven contests
• Harvard is starting four sophomores in their lineup as Chris Lewis (also in his second year) is shooting .607 from the field for 12.9 ppg
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• Harvard and Northeastern have met 54 times in the past with the Crimson holding a 39-15 series lead. The two teams met for the first time during the 1920-21 season, Northeastern's first as varsity program
• The Huskies lost 22 of the first 23 games against Harvard dating back to 1955-56. Since the 1955-56 season, Northeastern is 15-16 against the Crimson.
• Under Bill Coen, the Huskies have a 3-3 record, winning the first two showdowns of Coen's tenure, but falling in two of the last three
• This year's game will mark the fifth straight season that Harvard and Northeastern will meet, the longest streak since the two teams met 10 times in a row from 1950-51 until 1959-60
 
HUSKIES VS. THE IVY LEAGUE
• The Huskies have face seven of the eight teams from the Ivy League in the team's 97 year history
• During that time, the Huskies have notched a 42-69 record against their Ivy League opponents, holding winning records over three of the squads
• Northeastern and Harvard have met the most of any Ivy League program (54 times)
• The only Ivy League team the Huskies have yet to face is Yale University
• This marks the eighth straight season the Huskies will face an Ivy League foe, and the second straight season the Huskies will take on two Ivy League foes
• Following the game with Harvard, Northeastern will take on Cornell, the first time the two teams have met in back-to-back games since the 2004-05 season
 

Team	Record	Meeting, Location
Brown	15-22	11/18/05, New Britain, Conn.
Columbia	1-1	11/16/01, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Cornell	4-3	11/16/01, Ithaca
Dartmouth	4-1	1/30/82, Boston
Harvard	15-39	12/6/16, Cambridge
Penn	0-1	12/21/74, Philadelphia
Princeton	3-2	11/13/12, Princeton
Yale	No Meetings
Total	42-69

 
LAST TIME OUT VS. HARVARD
• Despite mounting a furious comeback late in the second half to nearly overcome a 20-point deficit, the Northeastern wasn't able to cool Harvard's hot hand at Lavietes Pavilion on Tuesday, falling to the Crimson, 86-80. Jeremy Miller spearheaded the comeback with a career-high 26 points, including 20 in the second half.
• Harvard shot 52 percent from beyond the arc, led by freshman standouts Seth Towns (3-of-5) and Corey Johnson (7-of-10).
• After playing catch-up for the majority of the game, the Huskies looked poised to make a full comeback, grinding away until they trailed by four with just under three minutes left in the game. The teams traded points towards the end, however, and Harvard came away with the victory.
• Miller's career-high 26 points was also the game-high as he added eight rebounds on 10-of-15 shooting. T.J. Williams finished with 20 points, eight rebounds and four assists, his seventh 20-point game of the season.
• Harvard was led by Towns' 24 points and six rebounds followed by Johnson's 21 points, all coming from deep.
 
PAWS FOR PUERTO RICO
• On December 5 against Bucknell the Northeastern community will come together to raise money for Puerto Rican hurricane relief
• Northeastern Athletics, as well as the Latinx Student Cultural Center, will partner up with former men's basketball standout Jose Juan Barea to raise money for hurricane relief
• Barea, who has already taken Dallas Mavericks' Owner Marc Cuban's plane down to Puerto Rico with supplies within the week of the hurricane, set out with the goal to raise $150,000. He has already raised over $500,000
• Barea, in his 12th professional season, is the only current Puerto Rican national in the NBA
• The Northeastern standout finished his career in 2005-06 as the CAA Player of the Year, ending his career second on the Northeastern all-time list with 2,290 points to go along with 721 career assists (2nd all-time)
 
LAST TIME OUT
• Northeastern continued on its four-game road swing last weekend when the team headed to Nashville to complete the PK80 Invitational in the Nashville Challenge against Utah State and Furman
• The Huskies battled right until the end against the Aggies as Vasa Pusica put up a career-best 27 points on 6-of-8 shooting from behind the arc, also a career mark for the redshirt junior, but Utah State held on for the 71-67 victory
• The following day, Northeastern took on Furman, falling 78-67 to the Paladins on Saturday afternoon
• Northeastern was once again led by Pusica who put up 17 points on the day
• Three different Huskies tallied double-figure scoring for the third time this year as Shawn Occeus added 15 points, while Jeremy Miller broke out for nine points and five rebounds in their best games of the season
 
2017-18: THE FACTS
• 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