New Haven (15-7, 10-6 NE-10) at Le Moyne (13-9, 10-6 NE-10)
Tuesday, Feb. 11 – 7 p.m.
Syracuse, N.Y. – Ted Grant Court
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Opening Tip
The University of New Haven men's basketball team travels to Syracuse for a Tuesday evening tilt at Le Moyne. The winning team will control its own destiny for a second-place finish in the Northeast-10 Southwest Division.
 
New Haven Notes
Through games played Feb. 9, New Haven ranks fifth in Division II with 62.9 points allowed per game. The Chargers also slot 12h in the nation in both field goal percentage defense (39.2 percent) and fewest turnovers committed per contest (10.1). The Blue and Gold lead the NE-10 in all three categories and have also committed the fewest fouls per game in all of Division II with just 13.8 infractions per contest.
 
The Chargers have held 21 of 22 opponents, including their last 19, below their current 2013-14 scoring average. The New Haven defensive effort has limited 11 teams to fewer than 60 points.
 
On the offensive end, the Blue and Gold 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.
 
New Haven's 9-3 road record marks only the second time in the past 20 seasons that the Chargers have won nine or more 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 after a stretch of seven consecutive sub-.500 campaigns away from Charger Gymnasium from 2004-11. The Chargers went 10-5 on the road in 2003-04.
 
Jeffery Adkins most recently netted 14 points on Saturday at Saint Rose to improve his career mark to 1,168 points and climb to 23rd all-time in scoring at New Haven. This winter, Adkins is averaging a team-leading 16.1 points and 4.4 assists per contest this season while shooting 52.8 percent (122-231) from the floor and 81.3 percent (87-107) from the free throw line. He has also moved into fifth all-time in assists at New Haven with 364 and 12th place in career steals at 125.
Justin Exum has improved his New Haven program record to 272 treys. He ranks fifth among all active Division II student-athletes and 16th across all NCAA divisions in made three-pointers. Exum's career .373 shooting percentage from distance is the eighth-best in program history.
 
Exum also ranks 12th all-time in scoring at New Haven with 1,511 career points. The Chargers' third-leading scorer this season with 15.0 points per game, he is 116 tallies shy of the program's all-time top 10. Exum most recently scored 19 points on Saturday at Saint Rose.
 
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.
 
Eric Anderson could also reach the 1,000-point plateau during 2013-14; the junior has accumulated 971 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 15.7 points and ranks second in the Northeast-10 with 11.6 rebounds per game. The reigning NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year, leads the conference with 2.64 stuffs per contest, is seventh in the nation on the boards and 13th in rejections. Anderson has posted 14 double-doubles this season.
 
In the midst of his junior season, Anderson has moved into second all-time at New Haven with 180 rejections. He recently surpassed Bill Jeffress for second place and stands 11 blocks 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 58 blocked shots to date in 2013-14, which is the sixth-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 56-for-102 (54.9 percent) from the floor en route to 6.1 points to go along with 8.2 rebounds per game. James ranks seventh in the NE-10 in rebounding and sixth in blocked shots (1.32 bpg) per contest.
 
In his first season as a member of the starting lineup, Ashanti DePass is netting 10.0 points per game. The senior leads the team with 44 made three-pointers and converts 37 percent of his attempts from distance while playing 32.8 minutes per outing.
 
Fourth-year head coach Ted Hotaling stands at 58-47 at New Haven (and in his career) following Saturday's meeting at Saint Rose. He ranks fifth all-time in wins on the Chargers' sidelines and his .552 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.
 
In the Northeast-10
Southern Connecticut State (14-2 NE-10) has clinched the Northeast-10 Southwest Division crown. The winner of tonight's game between New Haven and Le Moyne (both 10-6) will gain control of its own destiny for second place in the division and a home game in the Northeast-10 Championship Quarterfinal Round.
 
In the NE-10 Northeast, Franklin Pierce and Saint Anselm stand atop the division with identical 12-4 conference records. The Ravens took the first meeting at home on Dec. 7, and the squads meet again in Manchester on Feb. 15. Saint Michael's trails by one game at 11-5, having swept the season series from the Ravens and lost the first of two encounters with the Hawks.
 
Up Next
Action returns to Charger Gymnasium on Saturday, Feb. 15 with a 1:30 p.m. visit from Pace. New Haven won the first meeting, 73-62, in Pleasantville on Nov. 23.