Gameday Information: Northeastern (14-12, 7-7 CAA) vs. UNCW (22-5, 11-3)
When	Thursday, February 16  |  Boston, Mass. | Matthews Arena  | 7 p.m.
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Game Notes	Northeastern (PDF) | UNCW (PDF)
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team will take on UNCW Thursday night at Matthews Arena at 7 p.m. on Club Matthews Night.
 
This week the Huskies will wrap up their home season beginning with Thursday's contest against the first place team in the CAA, UNCW, concluding with Saturday afternoon's contest against the College of Charleston on Senior Day at 1 p.m.
 
Thursday night's game will be broadcast live on GoNUXStream.com as all Northeastern home games are with Andy Town, Patrick McHugh and Gordon Weigers on the call.
 
QUICK HITS
• This is the 97th season of Northeastern men's basketball. Northeastern has an all-time record of 1,186-1,097 (.519) in 2,283 games
• The Huskies are 378-260 (.592) all-time in conference play including a 120-90 (.571) 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 UNCW will meet for the 21st time in program history, with the series tied at 10-all though UNCW enters Saturday's game on a two-game program win streak over Northeastern
• Bolden Brace followed his CAA Rookie of the Week 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 last 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 21-point performance against Hofstra, T.J. Williams has now notched at least 20 points in 15 of 26 games this season and is averaging a CAA leading 21.0 ppg (17th nationally) to go along with 5.3 assists per game, 2nd in the CAA and 41st 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, the first time five different Huskies have notched a double-double in the same season since the 2002-03 season
• Devon Begley has been stingy this season making 48 steals on the season, the most in the CAA and 40th most nationally
 
FROM THE CHARITY STRIPE
• T.J. Williams has made 156 free throws this season, the most in CAA play and eighth most nationally this season.
• Williams' 156 made free throws (26 games) this season rank fifth all-time in a single-season in Northeastern history
• The only Husky with more through 26 games was Dave Caligaris who had 168 through 26 games in 1977-78
 
Free Throws Made Single Season

1.	Reggie Lewis (1985-86)	184
2.	Dave Caligaris (1977-78)	168
3.	Pete Harris (1980-81)	164
4.	Reggie Lewis (1984-85)	159
5.	T.J. Williams (2016-17)	156

 
SCOUTING THE SEAHAWKS
• UNCW is 22-5 on the season, and 11-3 in conference play thus far. The Seahawks have lost two of their three conference games on the road falling at William & Mary, their first conference loss of the season (Jan. 28) and, most recently, at Elon their last time out.
• The Seahawks are 9-3 on the road this year, 5-2 in conference action
• UNCW lost to just Middle Tennesse and Clemson during non-conference action accumulating win streaks of eight and nine games this season
 
LEADING THE WAY
• UNCW has four different players averaging double-digit scoring led by C.J. Bryce who has tallied 16.7 ppg this season aided by Chris Flemmings (15.4), Denzel Ingram (14.8) and Devontae Cacok (12.9 ppg, 10.1 rpg)
• Cacok leads the conference with a .788 FG% while also pulling down 273 rebounds (2nd CAA)
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• This will be the 21st meeting between the two teams and the series is tied at 10-10 with UNCW winning the last two
• The Huskies are 6-3 all-time at Matthews
 
LAST TIME VS. UNCW
• Northeastern cut a 10-point UNCW lead with 1:14 on the clock to just one with 14 seconds left in the game, but fell just short to the Seahawks, 73-70 in the CAA Tournament Semifinal game last season
• The Huskies were led by senior Quincy Ford who finished with 21 points, and four rebounds
• David Walker and T.J. Williams added 16 each while Zach Stahl finished with his third double-double of the season and fifth career on 11 points and a career-high 13 rebounds in his final CAA Tournament game
• With his 16 points, David Walker moved into eighth place all-time on the Northeastern career scoring chart past John Clark and now has 1,631 career points
•Ford's 21 put him in a tie for ninth place with Clark at 1,617 career points.
• UNCW was led by Chris Flemmings who had 21 points and five rebounds on the night and was 4-for-5 from behind the arc to help the Seahawks to the win
 
LAST WEEK IN NU BASKETBALL
• The Huskies started the week off with a bang when they down CAA first place team Charleston on the road on Thursday night
• The Huskies fought off a 16-point halftime deficit to come back and defeat The College on a buzzer-beating shot by Bolden Brace that found its way to the No. 1 play of the day on SportsCenter
• Brace finished with nine points and five assists on the night for the Huskies who were led by Alex Murphy's 19 points and eight assists
• Anthony Green tallied his first career double-double with a 15-point, 10 rebound effort, both career highs for the sophomore
• Devon Begley added 16 points, all of which came in an 11-minute span at the beginning of the second half helping propel the Huskies back into the game and to the win
• On Saturday night, the Huskies returned home to face Hofstra
• The two teams were square through 35 minute of action, but in the final five minutes of play, Hofstra pulled away using a 10-0 run for a 74-64 victory
• T.J. Williams earned his 15th 20-point game of the season putting up 21 against the Pride while Alex Murphy finished with 13 and a team-high seven rebounds
• Anthony Green had a career-high four blocks
 
DOUBLE-DOUBLE (x7 x5)
• 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
• The five different Huskies to record a double-double in the same season are the most since five different Huskies achieved the feat in the 2002-03 season
 
2016-17 Double-Doubles

Name	Pts.	Rebs.	Assts.	Date
1. Bolden Brace (1)*	10	10		Nov. 20
2. T.J. Williams (1)	26		10	Nov. 20
3. T.J. Williams (2)	22	11		Dec. 20
4. T.J. Williams (3)	18		11	Jan. 5
5. Max Boursiquot (1)*	17	11		Jan. 12
6. Alex Murphy (1)	10	11		Jan. 26
7. Anthony Green (1)	15	10		Feb. 9

*-Rookie
 
2002-03 Double-Doubles

Name	Total
Sylbrin Robinson	10 (all P/R)
J.J. Barea	1 (P/A)
Jamaar Walker	1 (P/A)
Javorie Wilson	1 (P/R)
Cornellius Wright	1 (P/R)

• In the Steve Wright Classic finale, T.J. Williams and Bolden Brace tallied double-doubles, the first Husky duo to accomplish the feat since Zach Stahl (19 points, 11 rebounds) and David Walker (18 points, 13 assists) did so 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)
• 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
 
GET THAT OUTTA HERE
• This season, the Huskies have tallied 93 blocks on the season which ranks third in the CAA and are led by Anthony Green who has registered 28 of those blocks
• The 28 blocks rank seventh in the CAA
• Green finished his rookie season with just eight blocks
• Alex Murphy's 18 blocks ranks 13th in CAA play
• Jeremy Miller also added 16 blocks through the first 12 games before missing the last 11 with an injury
• Against William & Mary (Feb. 2), six different players, including four guards, each had a block on the night led by Devon Begley and Bolden Brace's pair of blocks
• 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
• Green set a new career high with four blocks against Hofstra on Saturday (Feb. 11). The four blocks were the most since Quincy Ford blocked five against Stony Brook (Dec. 12) last season
• Green's 28 blocks this season are the most since Quincy Ford had 37 and Scott Eatherton had 43 in 2014-15
 

Year	Players
2016-17	A. Green (28)
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)