Gameday Information: Northeastern (13-9, 6-4 CAA) at William & Mary (12-9, 6-4)
When	Thursday, February 2  |  Williamsburg, Va. | Kaplan Arena  | 7 p.m.
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Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF) | William & Mary (PDF)
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team heads back out on the road for a three-game stretch beginning Thursday night at William & Mary at Kaplan Arena at 7 p.m.
 
The two teams have traditionally held court in this season series, Northeastern showing that with a 20-point victory over the Tribe to kick off the conference season on New Year's Eve. At Kaplan Arena, Northeastern is 1-8 all-time.
 
The game can be found on TribeAthletics.com or CAA.TV.
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 97th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,185-1,094 (.520) in 2,281 games
• The Huskies are 377-257 (.595) all-time in conference play including a 119-87 (.578) 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 William & Mary will meet for the 23rd time in program history, with the series tied up at 11-all
• The two teams have held home court advantage pretty well, Northeastern is 1-8 all-time at William & Mary with its lone win coming on Feb. 11, 2013
• 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 23-point performance against Hofstra, T.J. Williams has now notched at least 20 points in 14 of 22 games this season and is averaging a CAA leading 21.5 ppg (15th nationally) to go along with 5.2 assists per game, 2nd in the CAA and 48th nationally
• His 14 20-point efforts in the first 22 games are the most since Reggie Lewis had 15 20-point games to open up his senior season in 1986-87
• 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
 
GROUNDHOG DAY
• The Huskies are 16-8 all-time on Groundhog Day playing their first game on Feb. 2, 1938 at Brown
• Northeastern has felt somewhat of a Groundhog Day as of late winning its last seven contests a la Bill Murray, including all of its CAA matchups since joining the league in 2005-06
 

Year	Opponent	Score
2013	Drexel	W, 59-52
2011	VCU	W, 91-80
2010	at Delaware	W, 67-51
2008	at Drexel	W, 63-40
2006	William & Mary	W, 84-69
2005	at UNH	W, 73-67
2003	at Albany	W, 89-80 OT

 
SCOUTING THE TRIBE
• William & Mary is now 12-9 on the season and enters its game with the Huskies on a three-game win-streak including a 96-78 thrashing of first-place UNCW on Saturday night.
• The Tribe are coming off of a 108-85 victory Monday night against Drexel improving to 10-0 at home during the 2016-17 season
• William & Mary is led by Daniel Dixon who is averaging 17.7 points and 4.5 rebounds a game while adding 16 steals on the season
• Omar Prewitt has pulled down 123 rebounds on the season or a team-leading 5.9 per game while Nathan Knight has made 29 blocks on the season
• David Cohn has dished out 104 assists on the season for the Tribe
• This will be the 23rd meeting between the two teams with the series tied at 11-all after the Huskies 84-64 victory on New Year's Eve
• The advantage has usually gone to the home team in the series, the Huskies are 1-8 all-time on the road in Williamsburg, and are 8-2 at home vs. the Tribe.
 
LAST TIME VS. WILLIAM & MARY
• T.J. Williams hit the 1,000-point mark, Alex Murphy, Devon Begley, and Anthony Green had career days and the Northeastern men's basketball team earned a hard-fought, unrelenting 20-pt win
• Northeastern jumped out to a big lead in the first half using a 23-2 run over a six-minute span to head to the locker room with a 50-26 advantage
• Begley started things off with a layup and the Huskies never gave up the lead in the wire-to-wire victory, Northeastern's biggest win over William & Mary in program history
• The Huskies have now won four-straight CAA openers improving to 7-4 all-time in the first game of conference play.
• The Huskies finished shooting 57.1 percent from the field, including a 62.5 percent clip in the first half. Leading the way was Murphy who finished with a career-high tying 24 points, on 9-of-13 shooting, 5-of-6 from behind the arc. The five made threes were a career best for the grad student.
 
LAST 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
• The Huskies bounced back on Saturday night snapping their four-game skid with a 69-62 victory over Towson, also halting Towson's five-game win streak in the process
• T.J. Williams finished with 23 points, 13 of those coming from the free throw line (T-9th most in program history) for his 14th 20-point effort of the season
• The 14 20-point games through 22 games this season are the most since Reggie Lewis had 14 20-point games in his senior season in 1986-87
• The Huskies finished with a field goal percentage of  over 40 percent for the 18th time this season and extended their 3-pointer made streak to 112 games
 
WILLIAMS WITH AN ALL-TIME GREAT SENIOR SEASON
• Through his first 22 games of the season, T.J. Williams has recorded 14 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 22 games of the season was Reggie Lewis back in his senior season of 1986-87, who had 15 such games to start the year 30 years ago
• J.J. Barea, had 13 such games to start his senior season in 2005-06, over 10 years ago
• During that stretch, Williams has three double-doubles, two via points-assists and one via points-rebounds
• Lewis had seven double-doubles, all of the points-rebounds variety while Barea tallied six double-doubles during that stretch all of which game via points-assists
• However, Barea was held to just one 30-point game that year on Jan. 7, 2006, when he dropped 32 at Old Dominion
 
Through 22 games

NU Player	PPG	RPG	APG	20-pts
T.J. Williams (2016-17)	21.5	4.8	5.2	14
Reggie Lewis (1986-87)	22.6	8.5	1.8	15
J.J. Barea (2005-06)	20.8	4.4	8.5	13

 
HUSKIES FROM DEEP
• Northeastern has tallied a 3-point field goal in 112 straight games after the Huskies' 6-for-24 performance Saturday vs. Towson
• 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 782 3-pointers for an average of 7.0 per game
• As a team, the Huskies have been adventagous behind the arc, second in the CAA with a .380 3-point field goal percentage, knocking down 190 threes (5th) on the season in 500 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 39 (12th CAA), while Alex Murphy has tallied 36, freshman Shawn Occeus has connected on 31 and T.J. Williams has hit for 30 treys
 
GET THAT OUTTA HERE
• This season, the Huskies have tallied 75 blocks on the season which ranks fourth in the CAA and are led by Anthony Green who has registered 21 of those blocks
• The 21 blocks rank seventh in the CAA
• Green finished his freshman season with eight blocks
• Alex Murphy's 17 blocks ranks 13th in CAA play
• Jeremy Miller also added 16 blocks through the first 12 games
• Against Delaware (Jan. 19), five different players, including four guards, each had a block on the night
• After his three-block effort against Towson, Green moved over 20 blocks on the season, extending the Huskies' streak of having a player with 20 blocks in a single season to six seasons
 

Year	Players
2016-17	A. Green (21)
2015-16	J. Miller (27), Q. Ford (25)
2014-15	S. Eatherton (43), Q. Ford (37)
2013-14	S. Eatherton (57)
2012-13	R. Spencer (22), Q. Ford (20)
2011-12	Q. Ford (31), R. Spencer (25), K. Black (21)

 
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 21.5 points per game, a 14.7 point increase or 316% increase from last season
• Williams' 14.7 ppg increase is the largest PPG increase of any player in Division-I men's basketball
 

Name	Increase	School
T.J. Williams	+14.7	Northeastern
Jonathan Wade	+13.8	Norfolk State
Justin Wright-Foreman	+13.8	Hofstra
Noah Allen	+13.0	Hawaii

 
1K FOR TJ
• Already recording 473 points this season through the first 22 games, T.J. Williams now has 1,208 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 17th all-time on the NU scoring charts passing Kevin McDuffie (1,186), Ben Harlee (1,190), and Anthony Brown (1,197) last time out
 
CAREER SCORING

No.	Player	Years	Points
15.	Joel Smith	2009-13	1,328
16.	Manny Adako	2006-10	1,209
17.	T.J. Williams	2013-pres.	1,208