BOSTON– The road trip continues in the south this weekend as the Northeastern men's basketball team makes its rounds around North Carolina and Virginia, beginning with a Thursday night contest at Elon at 7 p.m.
The Huskies will make their Schar Center debut against the Phoenix, and enter the game with a three-game win-streak over Elon, including a 22-point rout in the regular season finale that helped Northeastern capture a share of the CAA Regular Season title.
Here is what you need to know about Thursday's game:
THREE THINGS TO KNOW:
- Stepping up their game
- Wins during conference play are what matters for the Huskies and a pair of athletes have stepped their game up in CAA action
- Bolden Brace, the team's leading scorer the last two games, improved his 7.9 ppg average in non-conference action to 14.3 ppg in CAA play
- Green, averaged 8.5 ppg against non-conference opponents, and is now netting 13.3 ppg against CAA foes
|
Brace Gains (N/C) |
Green Gains (N/C) |
| Points |
7.9/14.3 |
8.5/13.3 |
| Rebounds |
4.4/5.3 |
4.4/8.3 |
| Assists |
2.3/4.3 |
0.3/1.3 |
| FG % |
.469/.680 |
.710/.640 |
| 3FG% |
.409/.500 |
N/A |
| Blocks |
0.2/0.3 |
0.6/1.0 |
- Facing the Phoenix
- Elon enters Thursday's game with the Huskies on two-game losing streak
- The Phoenix are 3-6 at home this season as Northeastern heads to the Schar Center for their inaugural game at Elon's new facility
- The Phoenix' three home wins have come against Milligan College, Central Penn and James Madison while Elon has added another two wins at Manhattan to start the season and over Kennesaw State
LEADING THE WAY
- Elon senior guard Steven Santa Ana, leads the team with a 16.4 ppg average while also pulling down 6.3 rebounds per game in his final year with the Phoenix
- In addition forward Tyler Seibring adds 15.5 points per game while making a team leading 10 blocks
- Sheldon Eberhardt is leading the team with 58 assists
ALL-TIME SERIES
- This will be just the ninth meeting between the two teams in a series that the Huskies lead 5-3
- The Huskies are on a three-game win-streak over the Phoenix entering Thursday's contest
- Northeastern has also won its last three games in Elon, including a 22 point blowout last season
LAST TIME VS. ELON
- Selected to finish sixth this season in the CAA preseason poll, Northeastern earned its then-seventh-straight victory to close out the regular season and earn a share of the CAA Regular Season Title with an 81-59 victory at Elon
- The Huskies finished the regular season with a 21-9 record, the most regular season wins by a Northeastern team since the 1986-87 Huskies finished with a 23-6 regular season record
- Vasa Pusica paced the Huskies for the 17th time this season finishing with a career-high tying 31 points, including a 9-for-9 effort from the free throw line
- Shawn Occeus finished his night with 13 points, a career-high tying six steals and five rebounds
- His six steals gave Occeus 61 on the season, tied for 7th most by a Husky in a single-season with Reggie Lewis (1985-86) and Chaisson Allen (2010-11)
- Donnell Gresham and Bolden Brace each also added 11 points each in the win
- Numbah 100
- On Thursday night, Anthony Green will be playing in his 100th career game as a Husky
- Green has been historically good against Elon including a career night helping Northeastern to a double overtime victory over the Phoenix during his sophomore season
- During that game he played a career-high 38 minutes and finished with not only his first career double-double, with an 11-point, 11-rebound effort but also notched a career-high five blocks
