New Haven (12-5, 7-4 NE-10) at Stonehill (5-11, 2-9 NE-10)
Saturday, Jan. 25 – 3:30 p.m.
Easton, Mass. – Merkert Gymnasium
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Opening Tip
The University of New Haven men's basketball team hits the road to continue Northeast-10 cross-divisional play at Stonehill. Tip-off from Merkert Gymnasium is set for 3:30 p.m. as the backend of a conference doubleheader.
 
Last Time Out
Eric Anderson sank two free throws with two seconds remaining to cap career day and guide the New Haven to a 72-70 win over visiting Bentley on Wednesday evening at Charger Gymnasium.
 
Anderson finished with a career-high 29 points to go along with 13 rebounds and three blocked shots. He shot 11-for-18 from the field with one three-pointer and went 6-for-8 at the charity stripe.
 
Jeffery Adkins and Justin Exum each knocked down three three-pointers en route to 15 points apiece. Adkins added seven rebounds and five assists to his scoring total.
 
In addition to a season-low five turnovers, the Chargers sank at least nine three-pointers for the fifth time this season and held their 14th straight opponent (and 16th of 17 overall) below their season scoring average.
 
The 70 points surrendered by the Chargers mark the third time this season that Bentley has been held to 70 points or fewer. The Falcons entered the day averaging 83.1 points per contest.
 
The win was New Haven's first in three one-possession games this season. The Chargers also won for the first time this winter when posting a lower field goal percentage than their opponents (1-3).
 
The Blue and Gold have only trailed by more than one possession (three points) in one of their seven January contests. In that game, the Chargers erased a 15-point deficit before falling on an overtime buzzer beater, 85-83.
 
New Haven Notes
As of the most recent NCAA report (through games played Jan. 23), New Haven ranks seventh in Division II with 62.1 points allowed per game. The Chargers slot ninth in the nation with an opponents' field goal percentage of 38.7 and are also ninth with just 9.5 turnovers committed per contest. The Blue and Gold lead the Northeast-10 in all three categories.
 
The Chargers have held 16 of 17 opponents, including their last 14, below their current 2013-14 scoring average. The New Haven defensive effort allowed a season-low 42 points to Concordia on Nov. 16 and has limited nine teams to fewer than 60 points.
 
On the offensive end, the Blue and Gold have shot 50 percent or better from the field in six contests. New Haven's most efficient effort was a 27-for-49 (55.1 percent) performance in the Nov. 26 win at American International. The Chargers also buried 8-of-16 attempts from beyond the arc in the 74-52 triumph over the Yellow Jackets in Springfield.
 
With 21 points on Jan. 8 against Saint Anselm, Jeffery Adkins eclipsed 1,000 points for his career. The senior point guard most recently netted 15 points in Wednesday's win over Bentley to improve his career mark to 1,086 points and climb to 30th all-time in scoring at New Haven.
 
This winter, Adkins is averaging a team-leading 16.1 points and 4.1 assists per contest this season while shooting 52.8 percent from the floor. He has also moved into seventh all-time in assists at New Haven with 338 and 12th place in career steals at 122.
 
Justin Exum knocked down three three-pointers on Wednesday to improve his New Haven program record to 262 treys. He ranks fourth among all active Division II student-athletes in made three-pointers. Exum's career .375 shooting percentage from distance is the sixth-best in program history.
 
Exum also ranks 12th all-time in scoring at New Haven with 1,454 career points. The Chargers' third-leading scorer this season with 15.2 points per game, he is 173 tallies shy of the program's all-time top 10.
 
With Adkins joining Exum in the 33-member 1,000-Point Club at New Haven, the Chargers boast two active 1,000-point scorers for the first time since Jamaal Brooks (1,248) and Ismael Caro (1,099) shared the court in the 2003-04 campaign.
 
Based upon his current scoring average, Eric Anderson could also reach the 1,000-point plateau during 2013-14; the junior has accumulated 895 total points for the Blue and Gold. The most recent trio of active teammates in the 1,000-Point Club consisted of Brian Smith (1,936), Mike Grove (1,589) and Dwane Crawford (1,095) in the 1992-93 season.
 
This winter, Anderson averages 15.9 points and ranks second in the Northeast-10 with 11.4 rebounds per game. The reigning NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year, who tops the conference with 2.94 blocked shots per contest, is seventh in the nation on the boards and sixth in rejections. Anderson has posted 12 double-doubles this season, three behind the national leader (Aaron Nelson, Southern Indiana).

In the midst of his junior season, Anderson has moved into a tie for second all-time at New Haven with 172 rejections. He is tied with Bill Jeffress and 19 shy of the 191 shots turned away by Herb Watkins. Both Jeffress and Watkins suited up for the Chargers from 1984-88.
 
Anderson's 71 blocks in 2012-13 were the second-most in a single-season in Charger history, tied with Jeffress and two shy of Watkins' program-record 73 rejections. He has 50 blocked shots to date in 2013-14, the 10th-highest single-season total in the New Haven record books.
 
Junior Cyrus James has recorded the first two double-doubles of his career this season. He is New Haven's most-efficient scorer at 45-for-78 (57.7 percent) from the floor en route to 6.3 points to go along with 8.3 rebounds per game. James ranks sixth in the NE-10 in rebounds and seventh in blocked shots (1.41 bpg) per contest. He collected a career-high 16 boards on Saturday against Franklin Pierce.
 
In his first season as a member of the starting lineup, Ashanti DePass is netting 9.9 points per game. The senior leads the team with 33 made three-pointers and converts 39.3 percent of his attempts from distance while playing 32.8 minutes per outing.
 
Wednesday's win over Bentley was the 100th game for Ted Hotaling on the sidelines at New Haven. The fourth-year coach is tied for fifth in wins (55) and has the third-highest winning percentage in program history at .550.
 
Of the nine head coaches in New Haven men's basketball history, eight of them have coached at least 100 games for the Chargers. Ted Hotaling's 55-45 mark is the best since Stu Grove went 63-37 over his first 100 games en route to a program-record 253 wins from 1980-1995. Don Ormrod leads the list with an 85-15 mark while leading New Haven's first five varsity seasons and finished his tenure at 124-22 with a program-best .849 winning percentage from 1961-67. Ormrod was also the first Director of Athletics at New Haven College.
 
Up Next
The Chargers continue their Northeast-10 cross-divisional road trip on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at Southern New Hampshire. New Haven hosted and defeated the Penmen in non-conference action, 61-55 on Jan. 2. The Blue and Gold return home to host Merrimack on Saturday, Feb. 1.