Gameday Information: Northeastern at St. Bonaventure
When	Wednesday, December 20  |  St. Bonaventure, N.Y.  | Reilly Center  | 7 p.m.
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team is set to finish out the non-conference season at St. Bonaventure on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
 
The game will be streamed via the Atlantic-10 website, for a cost. Fans can listen to the action on WRBB.com or follow along with the men's basketball twitter account
 
Northeastern enters the game on a five-game win-streak including a four-game home win-streak and a victory at Kent State Monday. After Monday's victory the Huskies were guaranteed to finish better than .500 during their non-conference slate for the fourth-straight season.
 
NOTABLES
• This is the 98th season of Northeastern men's basketball
• Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,191-1,095 (.521) in 2,286 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 SBU meet for the third time in program history and for the second time in Olean, N.Y. (more on the series on page 2)
• R-Junior Vasa Pusica put up his fourth 20-point effort of the season and third during the Huskies win-streak on Monday
• The Huskies have an individual leading the CAA in thefts as sophomore Shawn Occeus currently holds that position with 1.7 steals per game (more on page 3)
• Northeastern has already tallied four 80-point efforts, three coming at home, this season and is outscoring their opponents by 18 points per game in Matthews Arena in 2017-18
• Under Coen, the Huskies are 83-21 when holding their opponents to under-60 points, a feat they have achieved twice this season
 
SCOUTING THE BONNIES
• St. Bonaventure is 8-2 through the first 10 games of their season.
• The Bonnies are on a five-game win-streak heading into Wednesday night's game with the Huskies that saw wins over Yale and Vermont their last two times out.
• SBU's non-conference season was highlighted with a 63-61 victory at Maryland, minus Jaylen Adams.
• Three different Bonnies are averaging double digits in scoring this season, while the team is shooting 45.2 percent from the field and 38.2 percent from behind the arc
 
THIS SEASON
• St. Bonaventure is led this season by Matt Mobley's 17.9 ppg in addition to the 17.8 ppg that Adams has put up in the last four games since returning from a preseason injury
• Mobley has added a team-leading 15 steals and 34 assists while Adams is .476 from behind the arc
• Courtney Stockard, who is putting up 11.6 ppg has also pulled down 5.5 rpg while LaDarien Griffin is averaging a team-leading 6.8 apg
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• The two teams will meet for the first time since the season opener in the 1999-00 season, a 65-61 victory for the Bonnies in Olean
• The only other meeting between the two teams in the past came in the 1983-84 season, at the Rochester Classic, an 87-72 victory for the Huskies
 
LAST TIME OUT VS. ST. BONAVENTURE
• The last meeting between the two teams came nearly 20 years ago
• NU lost its opener at St. Bonaventure, 65-61
• the Huskies jumped out to a 37-25 halftime lead, keyed by Terry Kringe's 10 points, including a pair of 3-pointers
• But the Bonnies opened the second half on a 19-6 run to take a 44-43 lead with 11:14 to play, and they never trailed the rest of the game
• NU did manage to tie the game 52-52 on a Marcus Blosson 12-footer with 6:21 to go, but an Eric Siegrist 3-pointer but St. Bonaventure on top for good
• Blossom finished with a team-high 12 points, while George Aygar had 10 points and five boards in his debut
 
LAST TIME OUT
• The Husky win-streak continued on Monday night when the team headed to Kent, Ohio for a meeting with the Golden Flashes
• Behind four double-digit scoring efforts, including a 21-point outing from Vasa Pusica, Northeastern ran away with a 81-69 victory over Kent State
• During the win-streak, Northeastern has had at least three double-digit scorers in every single victory
• The 20-point effort was the fourth of the season for Pusica, and the third such during the winning streak
• Shawn Occeus has recorded back-to-back 16-point outings for the Huskies will also adding to the stat sheet in other ways
• Occeus has also recorded three steals in the last two games while adding a pair of assists against Vermont and a career-high six assists at Kent State
 
TAKING DOWN THE FAVORITES
• In a 10-day stretch at Matthews Arena, the Huskies took down three conference favorites in exciting fashion
• Beginning on Nov. 30, the Huskies bested Ivy League favorite Harvard 77-61
• Northeastern ousted Patriot League favorite Bucknell  by 18 points -- after defeating Boston University, picked to finish second, 65-59 on the road on opening night
• The Huskies wrapped up their four-game homestand with a 71-67 victory over America East favorite Vermont
• On Wednesday, the Huskies will face St. Bonaventure, picked to finish second in the Atlantic-10 in 2017-18
 
CENTURY MARK
• Northeastern's lone senior Devon Begley played in his 100th career game on Saturday against Vermont on Saturday afternoon
• Begley, who just celebrated his birthday on December 14, finished the game with eight points, two assists, two reabounds, and two steals
• Begley just passed the 500-mark on Tuesday against Bucknell collecting his 500th, 501st and 502nd career points appropriately on a three from the corner
• He currently has 517 career points for a 5.1 ppg average
 
FREQUENT FLIER MILES
• The Northeastern basketball team added a bunch of frequent flier miles to its total the last two weekends as a part of the PK80 Invitational
• The Huskies played at Stanford on Friday, Nov. 17, and traveled across the country, and concluded their weekend at Ohio State Sunday
• The trip from Boston to Stanford to Columbus and back again journeyed over 6,400 miles
• The PK80 finished out last weekend in Nashville where the Huskies faced Utah State and Furman and add another 2,200 miles to their total
• The tournament pitted the Huskies against Pac-12, Big 10, Mountain West and Southern Conference opponents when all was said and done
• Following a four-game homestand, Northeastern continued its road trips at Kent State and St. Bonaventure adding another 1,426 miles to the total
 
STEALS ON STEALS ON STEALS
• Through 11 games, the Huskies have robbed their opponents 78 times or 7.1 times per game
• The mark ranks 2nd in the CAA and 104th nationally
• 10 of Northeastern's 12 roster players have recorded a steal on the year, led by Shawn Occeus' 19 and Vasa Pusica's 16
• Occeus, in fact, leads the CAA in steals with 1.73 per game while Pusica's mark ranks sixth (1.5 spg)
• Last season, Devon Begley (8 steals) led the conference in thefts en route to CAA All-Defensive Team honors