New Haven at Southern Connecticut State
Sunday, Dec. 22 – 3:30 p.m.
New Haven, Conn. – Moore Field House
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Complete Game Notes (PDF)

Opening Tip
The University of New Haven men's basketball team makes the short trip to visit crosstown and Northeast-10 Southwest Division rival Southern Connecticut State. The Chargers and Owls currently share the top of the divisional standings at 4-1.
 
Last Time Out
The Chargers made a non-conference appearance at Hammel Court on Thursday, Dec. 19 and claimed an 83-53 victory over host Merrimack.
 
Justin Exum scored 19 points in the win, knocking down three three-pointers to tie the New Haven program record for triples in a career. Exum and Mike Grove (1989-93) have each buried 251 attempts from distance for the Blue and Gold.
 
Jeffery Adkins led all scorers with a career-best 23 points. He shot 9-for-15 from the field with a pair of three-pointers.
 
Eric Anderson recorded his third consecutive double-double and seventh overall this season with 17 points and a game-leading 10 boards.
 
The Chargers' 83 points matched their season high. New Haven also entered the game ranked second in the nation with 58.0 points per game allowed and improved that mark after ceding 53 points to the Warriors – the lowest offensive output for the club this winter. Merrimack came into the contest averaging 78.6 points per game.
 
Also seventh in Division II entering the week with an opponents' field goal percentage of 37.5 percent, New Haven limited the Warriors to 31.8 percent shooting from the floor.
 
New Haven held a 43-30 rebounding advantage, and each team committed 11 turnovers. The Chargers scored eight of the game's first 10 points and never looked back to claim their fifth wire-to-wire triumph of the season.
 
New Haven Notes
As of the most recent NCAA report (games played on Dec. 15), New Haven ranks second in the nation in points per game allowed (57.4) and seventh in Division II in opponent field goal percentage (36.1 percent). The Chargers lead the Northeast-10 in both categories and also top the conference with a +8.3 rebounding margin. The Blue and Gold rank second conference-wide with 10.7 turnovers committed per outing.
 
Currently on a six-game winning streak, the Chargers are outscoring opponents by a +18.2 margin with three wins of more than 20 points. New Haven has led by at least 20 points before haltime in five of the six victories with four wire-to-wire wins. Justin Exum averages a team-best 16.2 points per game in the six outings, and the Chargers are outrebounding opponents, 40.2-31.7 (+8.5), during the streak.
 
Eric Anderson averages 15.2 points and leads the Northeast-10 with 12.1 rebounds per game. The reigning NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year, who also tops the conference with 3.0 blocked shots per contest, is fifth in the nation on the boards and ninth in rejections.
 
Anderson has posted seven double-doubles this season while shooting 50 percent (52-for-104) from the floor and 71.4 percent (30-for-42) from the free throw line.
 
Nine games into his junior season, Anderson has climbed into fourth all-time at New Haven with 149 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.
 
With three three-pointers on Thursday at Merrimack, Justin Exum has tied the New Haven record of 251 career treys established by Mike Grove from 1989-93. Exum's .389 shooting percentage from distance is the sixth-best in program history.
 
Exum also ranks 15th all-time in scoring at New Haven with 1,341 career points. The Chargers' leading scorer for the third straight season with 16.4 points per game, he is 286 tallies shy of the all-time top 10.
 
After a career-high 23 points on Thursday at merrimack, Jeffery Adkins is averaging 14.0 points per game in his final season with the Blue and Gold. Adkins, who posted 12.9 points per contest last winter, currently sits at 939 career tallies.
 
Adkins has also moved into 10th all-time in assists at New Haven with 303 and slots 14th in career steals with 115.
 
Cyrus James' first career double-double on Dec. 10 against Saint Rose consisted of 11 points and a career-high 12 rebounds. James, who also blocked three shots against the Golden Knights, shot 4-for-6 from the field and sank all three of his free throw attempts in the contest. After connecting on both of his field goal attempts to add four points in the Thursday win at Merrimack, he is New Haven's most-efficient scorer this season at 25-for-41 (61 percent) from the floor en route to 6.8 points to go along with 7.9 rebounds per game.
 
In his first season as a member of the starting lineup for Head Coach Ted Hotaling, Ashanti DePass is netting 9.7 points per game. During the team's six-game winning streak, he is scoring 11.3 points per contest while shooting 19-for-43 (44.2 percent) from the floor with a 13-for-29 (44.8 percent) success rate from downtown.
 
Jemal Mosley has made an immediate impact on the Northeast-10 Conference in his freshman campaign. In five games against NE-10 competition, Mosley is averaging 11.0 points per contest on 19-for-33 (57.6 percent) shooting from the field in 18.8 minutes of action. The true freshman, who is recording 6.8 points per game overall, recently set a career standard with 15 points off the bench in the Dec. 7 win against Adelphi.
 
Up Next
The Chargers begin 2014 with a non-conference visit from NE-10 Northeast Division foe Southern New Hampshire on Thursday, Jan. 2. Tip-off from Charger Gymnasium is slated for 7 p.m.