Gameday Information: Northeastern at Delaware
When	Thursday, February 8 | Newark, Del. | Bob Carpenter Center  | 7 p.m.
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BOSTON – The Northeastern men's basketball team is back out on the road for a pair of contests at Delaware and at Towson. The road swing begins in Newark on Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the Bob Carpenter Center.
 
The Huskies are looking for the season sweep of the Blue Hens Thursday, and will face Towson for the first time this season on Saturday with just five games remaining in conference action.
 
Northeastern is coming off of a 1-1 week that saw a tight defensive loss to Charleston on Thursday night followed by and offense-filled 107-100 overtime victory over UNCW on Saturday.
 
Both Vasa Pusica and Tomas Murphy finished with 20-point efforts in Saturday's contest, the ninth of the season for Pusica and the first of Murphy's career.
 
NOTABLES
• This is the 98th season of Northeastern men's basketball
• Northeastern is looking for win #1200 on Thursday and has an all-time record of 1,199-1,100 (.522) in 2,299 games
• The Huskies are 384-257 (.599) all-time in conference play including a 126-87 (.592) 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 127-101 all-time mark
• Vasa Pusica has been dishing them out for the Huskies this season  including a career-best 10 assist effort against Hofstra, and because of him the Huskies have their fifth 100-assist player in the last four seasons
• The Huskies named a new director of athletics and recreation last Wednesday morning as Jeff Konya will take over for Peter Roby on February 1
• Shawn Occeus currently leads the CAA in thefts this season with 1.96 steals per game, a mark that also ranks in the top of the NCAA
• The Huskies have recorded 10 80-point efforts this season, the most in a single season during the Bill Coen era
                                            
SCOUTING THE BLUE HENS
• Delaware is 11-14 on the season and 4-8 in the CAA, losing their last six games including a 76-64 loss to the Huskies back in Boston on Jan. 20
• The Blue Hens' longest win-streak of the season including a pair of overtime victories and ended with a conference opening victory at UNCW
• The current six-game losing streak is Delaware's longest of the season
 
LEADING THE WAY
• Ryan Daly, who has missed the last three games of the season, injuring his ankle againstThe College of Charleston is once again leading the way for the Blue Hens with 16.9 ppg and 6.0 rpg
• Freshman Ryan Allen has added 15.1 ppg in his absense, while Anthony Mosely has dished out a team-leading 70 assists and Eric Carter is averaging 8.9 rpg
 
ALL-TIME SERIES
• This will be the 54th meeting between the two teams in a series that Delaware leads 28-25
• The Huskies won four-straight over Delaware before the Blue Hens earned a five-point victory at home last season to snap the streak
• Northeastern bested Delaware by 36 points in the first meeting between the two teams last season
 
LAST TIME VS. DELAWARE
• Donnell Gresham tallied all 17 of his points in the second half and, in doing so, led the Huskies to a 76-64 comeback victory over Delaware
• Gresham's first basket of the day was a layup that registered the sixth-straight Husky point of the second half which that prompted Delaware head coach Martin Inglesby to call a timeout
• Vasa Pusica, who found himself in foul trouble in the first half, finished with 16 points, 13 of those coming in the second, while dishing out three assists and pulling down four rebounds
• The production was spread all around, once again, as the eight different Huskies that scored each finished with at least six points on the day
• Delaware, who had just seven players see the court, was led by 16 points from Ryan Daly and Ryan Allen. Daly added nine rebounds while Allen had three assists. Anthony Mosely added 13 points and eight boards on the day
 
THE LAST TIME OUT
• The Huskies began the week in a fight for first place with Charleston on Thursday night at Matthews Arena
• Despite the Cougars getting out to a 9-point lead in the first half, the Huskies were able to battle back into the game, though Charleston held a 31-29 halftime lead
• In the second half, Northeastern came out strong and took its largest lead of the game early in the second half, but Charleston went on a 17-5 run to regain the lead
• The Huskies fought back once again to even the score at 58-all, but a Joe Chealey three-point play but the win out of reach, though Bolden Brace hit a deep three to make things interesting down the stretch
• Donnell Gresham led the second half attack and finished with 18 points, while Vasa Pusica added 11 points, eight assists and five rebounds on the night
• Chealey finished with a game high 23 points in the win
• On Saturday, Northeastern bounced back and in doing so tallied the most points of the Bill Coen era in a 107-100 overtime victory over UNCW
• Vasa Pusica (24 points) and Tomas Murphy (21 points) recorded their ninth and first 20-point efforts of the season while Anthony Green added a career-high 16 points, Donnell Gresham added 14 and Bolden Brace finished with eight points and a career-best 11 rebounds
• After falling behind by 13 points in the first half, Northeastern erased that deficit and took a 13-point lead of their own in the second half, before Ty Taylor hit a three at the buzzer to send the game to overtime
• In OT, the Huskies went off scoring 18 points in the frame led by Murphy's eight
 
CENTURY MARK
• For the second-straight season, Northeastern recorded over 100 points in a game, tallying the most points of the Bill Coen era with a 107-100 overtime victory over UNCW on Saturday, Feb. 3
• The 107 points were the most since a 108-87 win over George Mason on Dec. 4, 1993
• The Huskies finished with 54 points in the second half of the game, the most in a half this season and the most since Northeastern netted 54 points in the second half against Drexel on Jan. 12, 2017
 
LUCKY NUMBER 15
• For the fourth-straight season and the fifth time in the last six seasons, Northeastern has earned 15 wins on the year
• The 15th win, coming over UNCW last Saturday, the Huskies' tied their win mark from last season with at least six games to go
• Northeastern also earned its eighth CAA win of the year, tying last year's mark, once again, with six games to go 
 
CREEPING UP ON 1,200
• The Northeastern men's basketball team currently has 1,199 program victories heading into Thursday's game with Delaware
• After it took 14 seasons to earn the first 100 wins in program history, the Huskies have picked up steam in the last few decades
• Head Coach Bill Coen helped the Huskies to its 1100th victory back in the 2011-12 season
 

No.	Opponent	Date	Score
1	vs. Harvard	1/19/21	41-31
100	vs. Pratt Institute	2/1/35	28-23
200	vs. Maine	1/20/51	77-69
300	vs. Norwich	2/2/62	76-65
400	vs. WPI	12/16/67	106-80
500	vs. Harvard	1/7/74	55-54
600	vs. Fairfield	1/3/81	76-69
700	vs. BU	3/9/85	68-67
800	vs. CCSU	2/27/90	81-61
900	vs. Maine	2/27/98	74-54
1000	vs. Hofstra	1/21/06	89-73
1100	vs. William & Mary	3/2/12	57-49
1200	---	---	---

 
RACKING UP THE POINTS
• Through the first 24 games of the season, the Huskies have already recorded a Bill Coen era-best nine 80-point games, a 90-point effort, and the last time out the most points of the Coen-era in a 107-100 OT victory, and are averaging 74.6 points a contest
• To put things into perspective, it took the first six combined seasons of the Coen era to achieve that feat
• While the scoring mark ranks in the middle of the CAA, this season, that isn't out of the norm for the Huskies who have always ranked near the top of the conference in scoring defense
• The 74.6 ppg mark this season is the highest mark of the Bill Coen era (2016-17; 72.1)
• This year's scoring defense ranks third in the conference (70.2 ppg) while the team's 3FG defense ranks first in the CAA and 33rd nationally holding their opponents to .313 shooting from behind the arc
• The previous two seasons, the Huskies finished with eight such games each year, while adding three 90-point finishes and last season recorded the first 100-point effort of the Coen era... using two overtime periods
• The 10 such wins are the most since the Huskies earned 11 of the kind in the 2005-06 season
 

Year	80-points	90-points	100-points
2006-07	3	0	0
2007-08	0	0	0
2008-09	0	0	0
2009-10	0	0	0
2010-11	4	1	0
2011-12	2	0	0
2012-13	0	0	0
2013-14	4	1	0
2014-15	5	1	0
2015-16	8	3	0
2016-17	8	3	1
2017-18	10	2	1
Total	44	11	2