New Haven (13-5, 8-4 NE-10) at Southern New Hampshire (10-7, 8-6 NE-10)
Tuesday, Jan. 28 – 7:30 p.m.
Manchester, N.H. – SNHU Fieldhouse
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Opening Tip
The University of New Haven men's basketball team continues Northeast-10 cross-divisional play on the road at Southern New Hampshire. Tip-off from SNHU Fieldhouse in Manchester is set for 7:30 p.m. as the backend of a conference doubleheader.
 
Last Time Out
New Haven led by as many as 20 points in the second half and held off host Stonehill for a 67-63 victory on Saturday, Jan. 25.
 
Jeffery Adkins led the Chargers with 22 points, half of which came by way of an 11-for-11 outing at the free throw line. The senior point guard, who scored 20 of his 22 in the second half, added three rebounds and eight assists.
 
Prior to Saturday, the last New Haven student-athlete to convert at least 11 free throws without a miss was Tetrick Stonar, who went 12-for-12 at the line en route to 24 points at Molloy on Dec. 12, 2007.
 
Eric Anderson netted 14 points with eight rebounds. Cyrus James closed in on a double-double with eight points and a game-best 10 boards.
 
The Chargers held a 39-37 rebounding advantage, and Stonehill maintained an 11-9 edge in turnovers.
 
New Haven held a 50-30 advantage with 13:02 to play, but the Skyhawks responded with a 26-7 stretch over the ensuing 8:08 to pull to within a point. However, Adkins shot 6-for-6 from the stripe and scored eight total points during the final five minutes as the Chargers stayed in front to claim the four-point win.
 
Stonehill's 22-14 advantage with 5:14 remaining in the first half marked the Chargers' largest deficit faced in an eventual victory this season. Overall, New Haven has posted eight wire-to-wire wins and has trailed by double figures in just three outings this winter.
 
New Haven Notes
As of the most recent NCAA report (through games played Jan. 26), New Haven ranks fifth in Division II with 62.2 points allowed per game. The Chargers also slot seventh in the nation with an opponents' field goal percentage of 38.6 and land at ninth with just 9.6 turnovers committed per contest. The Blue and Gold lead the Northeast-10 in all three categories.
 
The Chargers have held 17 of 18 opponents, including their last 15, 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.
 
The Chargers have only trailed by more than one possession (three points) in two of their eight January contests. One of those contests was an eventual win (Jan. 25 at Stonehill). In the other, the Chargers erased a 15-point deficit against Saint Anselm before falling on an overtime buzzer beater, 85-83, on Jan. 8.
 
New Haven's 8-2 road record to date marks the only the third time in the past 20 seasons that the Chargers have won eight or more true road games. The Blue and Gold have won at least seven contests with a winning record on the road in each of the last three campaigns following a sretch of seven consecutive sub-.500 campaigns away from Charger Gymnasium from 2004-11. The Chargers went 10-5 on the road in 2003-04 en route to an NCAA postseason berth.
 
Jeffery Adkins most recently netted a team-high 22 points in Saturday's win at Stonehill to improve his career mark to 1,108 points and climb to 26th all-time in scoring at New Haven.
This winter, Adkins is averaging a team-leading 16.4 points and 4.3 assists per contest this season while shooting 52.4 percent (98-187) from the floor and 81.6 percent (80-96). He has also moved into sixth all-time in assists at New Haven with 346 and 12th place in career steals at 122.
 
Justin Exum knocked down two three-pointers on Wednesday to improve his New Haven program record to 264 treys. He ranks fifth among all active Division II student-athletes in made three-pointers. Exum's career .374 shooting percentage from distance is the eighth-best in program history.
 
Exum also ranks 12th all-time in scoring at New Haven with 1,462 career points. The Chargers' third-leading scorer this season with 14.8 points per game, he is 165 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 this season, 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 909 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 15.8 points and ranks second in the Northeast-10 with 11.2 rebounds per game. The reigning NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year, who tops the conference with 2.78 blocked shots per contest, is ninth in the nation on the boards and eighth in rejections. Anderson has posted 12 double-doubles this season.
 
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.
 
Cyrus James has recorded the first two double-doubles of his career this season. He is New Haven's most-efficient scorer at 49-for-86 (57 percent) from the floor en route to 6.4 points to go along with 8.4 rebounds per game. James ranks fifth in the NE-10 in rebounds and seventh in blocked shots (1.39 bpg) per contest. He collected a career-high 16 boards on Jan. 18 against Franklin Pierce.
 
In his first season as a member of the starting lineup, Ashanti DePass is netting 9.7 points per game. The senior leads the team with 34 made three-pointers and converts 37.8 percent of his attempts from distance while playing 32.7 minutes per outing.
 
Fourth-year head coach Ted Hotaling improved to 56-45 at New Haven (and in his career) following Saturday's win at Stonehill. He ranks fifth all-time in wins on the Chargers' sidelines and his .554 winning percentage is third in New Haven history.
 
Of the nine head coaches in New Haven men's basketball history, eight of them have coached at least 100 games for the Chargers. Hotaling's 55-45 mark through 100 contests was the best since Stu Grove went 63-37 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
New Haven concludes action against the NE-10 Northeast Division at Charger Gymnasium with a visit from Merrimack on Saturday, Feb. 1. The Chargers defeated the Warriors, 83-53, in North Andover on Dec. 19 as a part of the non-conference slate.