Gameday Information: Northeastern (14-11, 7-6 CAA) vs. Hofstra (12-14, 4-9)
When	Saturday, February 11  |  Boston, Mass. | Matthews Arena  | 7 p.m.
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Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF) | Hofstra (PDF)
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team is back home for its final three home games of the season beginning on Saturday night against Hofstra at 7 p.m. at Matthews Arena.
 
Northeastern is coming off of a momentous victory against the College of Charleston that saw freshman Bolden Brace put back the eventual game-winner for the Huskies while falling out of bounds as the buzzer sounded. The shot was featured as the No. 1 play of the day on SportsCenter.
 
Saturday night's game will be broadcast live on GoNUXStream.com as all Northeastern home games are with Patrick McHugh and John Avino on the call.
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 97th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,186-1,096 (.520) in 2,282 games
• The Huskies are 378-259 (.593) all-time in conference play including a 120-89 (.574) 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 Hofstra will meet for the 41st time in program history, with the series tied at 20-all though Hofstra enters Saturday's game on a three-game program win streak over Northeastern
• Bolden Brace earned CAA Co-Rookie of the Week honors this week after his career weekend last week against William & Mary and James Madison
• Brace, who entered last weekend averaging 4.5 ppg, finished with 20-point and 21-point efforts combining for a 11-for-20 effort from behind the arc
• Brace followed last week's performance up with a game-winning, buzzer-beating, falling down on the baseline shot that gave the Huskies a 73-72 over first place Charleston on the road Thursday night.
• The play was featured as the No. 1 play on SportsCenter's top-10 plays, the second time this year a Husky has earned that honor
• Following his 18-point performance against Hofstra, T.J. Williams has now notched at least 20 points in 14 of 23 games this season and is averaging a CAA leading 21.3 ppg (15th nationally) to go along with 5.2 assists per game, 2nd in the CAA and 52nd nationally
• The Huskies have recorded a double-double seven times this season, with Anthony Green notching the most recent one, his first career double-double
• Green is the fifth different Husky to tally a double-double on the year
 
COEN IN THE CAA
• Since taking the reins of the Huskies back in the 2006-07 season, Bill Coen has the best win percentage amongst current CAA teams in conference and CAA tournament play
• Coen has earned 108 career conference victories, including a big one Thursday night at the College of Charleston, and has compiled 10 wins in the CAA Tournament helping the Huskies to the tournament championship in 2015

Current CAA Teams	Yrs	W	L	Win %	Rank
Northeastern	11	118	92	56.2195%	1
Drexel	11	103	103	50.00%	2
Hofstra	11	104	104	50.00%
William & Mary	11	101	111	47.64%	4
James Madison	11	90	117	43.48%	5
Delaware	11	89	118	43.00%	6
UNC Wilmington	11	92	126	42.20%	7
Charleston	4	28	41	40.58%	8
Elon	3	21	31	40.38%	9
Towson	11	82	123	40.00%	10

 
POW! POW! POW!
• Five different Huskies have earned Player of the Week accolades including Bolden Brace who was named the CAA Co-Rookie of the Week last week following a career effort at William & Mary and James Madison
• Brace averaged 20.5 points while going 11-of-20 from three-point range in the Huskies' two road games
• The freshman guard, who entered the week averaging 4.5 points per game, hit 6-of-9 treys and scored a career-high 20 points at William & Mary, later topping that mark by hitting five threes and tallying 21 points with five rebounds at James Madison.
• He shot 58.3% from the floor for the week and paced the Huskies in each of their road games earning the first two 20-point games of his career
• After 18 points, six rebounds, two assists, two steals and a block against Michigan State, Alex Murphy was tabbed the CAA Co-Player of the week, his first career weekly honor for the grad student (Dec. 19)
• In addition he was named as the College Sports Madness High-Major National Player of the Week and the CS Madness CAA Player of the Week
• After putting up a career-high 12 points and a career-high tying four rebounds against Kent State, Rookie Max Boursiquot was honored as the CAA Rookie of the Week (Nov. 28)
• The freshman scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half to help the Huskies overcome a 17-point deficit at intermission, including six in a decisive 13-0 run
• Also following the Huskies' victory over Kent State, junior Devon Begley earned his first career Player of the Week honor as he was tabbed the College Sports Madness CAA Player of the Week
• Begley had a career night vs. the Golden Flashes putting up a team and career high 18 points and seven rebounds while also adding four assists and two steals
• Seven of Begley's 18 points came from the free throw line as he had a career best 7-for-8 effort, including two clutch free throws down the stretch
• For his efforts against Boston University on Nov. 11, T.J. Williams received multiple weekly honors
                       • Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week
                       • College Sports Madness High-Major Player of the Week
                       • College Sports Madness CAA Player of the Week
• The honor was the second CAA POW honor of Williams' career with the last coming Jan. 5, 2014
 
 
DOUBLE-DOUBLE (x7)
• Anthony Green became the fifth different Husky to record a double-double this season when he tallied a 15 point, 10 rebound effort against the College of Charleston (Feb. 9), both career highs for the sophomore
• The double-double marked the seventh of the year for the Huskies
• Alex Murphy recorded his first career double-double against Elon (Jan. 26) on a 10-point, 11-rebound effort
• 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, NU, as a squad, registered 10 double-doubles on the year 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