New Haven at Bloomfield
Saturday, Nov. 30 – 2 p.m.
Bloomfield, N.J. – Bloomfield Gymnasium
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Opening Tip
The University of New Haven ventures outside of the Northeast-10 for an East Region matchup at Bloomfield. Both teams qualified for the NCAA Div. II East Region Championship last season.
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Chargers' Last Time Out
New Haven earned back-to-back wins for the first time this season with a 74-52 win at NE-10 Southwest Division foe American International.
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Eric Anderson recorded his fourth double-double of the season with 25 points, 10 rebounds and six blocked shots.
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Jemal Mosley and Ashanti DePass each chipped in with nine points, while DePass also handed out four assists. Jeffery Adkins scored eight and dished out eight assists. Jonny Ocasio rounded out the top scorers with eight points sparked by a pair of three-pointers, and Justin Exum also knocked down two treys en route to six points.
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UNH shot 55.1 percent from the floor and held AIC to 35.1 percent from the field. The Chargers connected on 50 percent of their attempts from three-point territory and were 92.3 percent from the charity stripe. New Haven also held a 36-25 advantage on the glass.
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New Haven led wire-to-wire, taking a 3-0 lead on a DePass three-pointer and never relinquishing the early cushion. The Chargers led by as many as 25 points en route to the 22-point victory.
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Bobby Harris scored 22 points, including five three-pointers, as the only Yellow Jacket to reach double figures.
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New Haven Notes
Eric Anderson averages 17.0 points and a conference-best 12.8 rebounds with four double-doubles in the 2013-14 campaign. Last winter, Anderson had 18 double-doubles, just one shy of the NCAA Division II leader in that category. The Northeast-10 Defensive Player of the Year and a Second Team All-NE-10 pick, Anderson also ranked third in nation in rebounding with 12.0 boards per game last season.
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Five games into his junior season, Anderson has already climbed into fourth all-time at New Haven with 137 rejections. His 71 blocks in 2012-13 were the second-most in a single-season in Charger history, tied with Bill Jeffress' 71 blocks and two shy of Herb Watkins' 73 rejections - both from the 1986-87 campaign.
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Justin Exum has entered the top-20 in scoring all-time at New Haven. After the third 30-point game of his career last Saturday at Pace, he stands in 18th place on the career ledger as he sinced moved to 1,280 career tallies. 347 points shy of the all-time top-10.
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Also among the all-time Charger greats from beyond the arc, Exum slots at second all-time in three-pointers made with 242, and his .392 shooting percentage from distance is the sixth-best in program history. Most recently, he drained two triples on four attempts from distance at American International on Tuesday. Last season, New Haven's leading scorer with 15.8 points per game knocked down the third-most three-pointers in a season with 82 while shooting at a .432 clip from downtown.
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Jeffery Adkins, Jr. is averaging 11.2 points per game to begin his final season with the Blue and Gold. Adkins, who posted 12.9 points per contest last winter, currently sits at 869 career tallies.
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Adkins also ranks 11th all-time in assists at New Haven with 287 and slots 15th in career steals with 112.
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Jemal Mosley has made an immediate impact on the Northeast-10 Conference in his freshman campaign. In three games against NE-10 competition, Mosley is averaged 10.3 points per contest on 10-for-16 shooting from the field in 20.3 minutes of action. The true freshman is a product of Don Bosco Prep (Ramsey, N.J.) with a post-graduate year at Putnam Science Academy (Putnam, Conn.).
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New Haven has continued two positive trends in the first five games of the season. The Chargers are committing 11.2 turnovers per game and surrendering 58.2 points per outing. UNH ranked 10th in the nation with 11.0 turnovers per game and placed 13th in Division II defensively with 61.1 points allowed per outing last winter.
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Up Next
New Haven returns to Charger Gymnasium and resumes the Northeast-10 slate on Saturday, Dec. 7 against Adelphi.