New Haven (15-7, 10-6 NE-10) at Le Moyne (12-10, 8-8 NE-10)
Tuesday, Feb. 11 – 5 p.m.
Syracuse, N.Y. – Ted Grant Court
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Opening Tip
The University of New Haven women's basketball team concludes a two-game, Northeast-10 Southwest Division road trip on Tuesday at Le Moyne. The Chargers took the first meeting with the Dolphins, 69-54, in West Haven on Nov. 20.
 
Last Time Out
New Haven overcame an 11-point deficit in the first half, surging past host Saint Rose for a 72-62 win on Saturday afternoon.
 
Aquillin Hayes scored 25 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to record her second consecutive double-double. She shot 10-for-14 from the field and 5-for-6 at the free throw line.
 
Elizabeth Cruso added a season-high 12 points, and Bria Moore also poured in a dozen in the victory.
 
Audrey Cunningham hit two three-pointers to reach 100 made treys in her career. She is the sixth Charger to reach the century mark from distance and currently shares fifth place all-time with Lauren Hood.
 
The Golden Knights opened up a 31-20 lead behind a 13-1 run in the first half, but Hayes and Moore accounted for the contest's next 14 points to guide New Haven to a lead that it would not relinquish.
 
The margin would shrink to just one point down the stretch, but the Chargers shot 9-for-10 from the free throw line over the final 41 seconds to seal the 10-point victory.
 
With their 15th win of the season, the Chargers have eclipsed their win total from last winter's 14-13 campaign.
 
New Haven's four-game winning streak over Saint Rose is the team's longest active win streak over a Northeast-10 opponent.
 
New Haven Notes
After recording a double-double in both ends of a 1-1 week, Aquillin Hayes has been named the Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Week. Hayes averaged 21.5 points and 13.0 rebounds per game in NE-10 Southwest Division contests against Southern Connecticut State and Saint Rose this past week. She shot 63.3 percent (19-of-30) from the field and 83.3 percent (5-of-6) from the free throw line while adding 2.0 assists and 1.5 steals per game. She registered 18 points and 13 rebounds against SCSU and notched 25 points with 13 boards in Saturday's 72-62 win at Saint Rose.
 
Hayes is the first Charger to earn Northeast-10 Player of the Week laurels since Helin Marte shared the honor with Bentley's Kim Brennan on Feb. 1, 2010. Nikki Carroll also garnered an NE-10 Player of the Week nod on Dec. 22, 2008 during New Haven's first season as a member of the conference.
 
At 15-7, the Chargers have eclipsed their win total from all of 2012-13. A 17-win season would be New Haven's highest win total since joining the Northeast-10 prior to the 2008-09 campaign. The Chargers have reached the Northeast-10 Championship Quarterfinals on three occasions, winning First Round games in 2008-09 and 2009-10 and earning a bye to the Quarterfinals as the sixth-seeded team last winter.
 
New Haven has limited 10 opponents to fewer than 60 points this winter, including a season-low 43 tallies surrendered to Davis & Elkins on Nov. 29. Opponents have been held to a 36.2 field goal percentage as well as a 31.4 three-point percentage while committing an average of 16.3 turnovers per game against the Blue and Gold's defensive pressure.
 
The Chargers rank third in the Northeast-10 with 62.5 points allowed per game. Offensively, UNH slots sixth in the NE-10 with 69.5 points per game.
 
Including the most recent win on Saturday at Saint Rose, New Haven has twice overcome an 11-point deficit en route to victory. The Chargers stormed past Davis & Elkins after trailing by 11 points on Nov. 29 and also erased a 10-point margin in the Dec. 22 win at Southern Connecticut State.
 
Aquillin Hayes has recorded eight double-doubles this season en route to 14.2 points per contest and ranks second in the Northeast-10 with 10.0 rebounds per game. Hayes, who posted a team-high seven double-doubles last winter, netted a career-high 27 points at Saint Michael's on Jan. 14 and matched her personal best on Jan. 25 at Stonehill.
 
Hayes has two career games with at least 20 rebounds, including the November overtime contest at No. 17 Rollins. She hauled in 21 boards to go along with 12 points and eight blocks in a win over Le Moyne last winter.
 
Bria Moore has scored in double figures in 15 games this winter, including a streak of seven outings in a row from Nov. 26 to Dec. 22. She averages 11.7 points and 4.9 rebounds per contest and has provided a spark from long range, ranking sixth in the NE-10 at 39 percent (23-for-59) from distance.
 
This season, Briana Bradford has surpassed 20 points in four games en route to 13.2 points per contest. She scored a career-high 24 points with five three-pointers in the Nov. 13 win over Saint Rose. Bradford also drained five from beyond the arc en route to 21 points in the conference win at Pace on Nov. 23. She was a Northeast-10 All-Rookie Team selection last winter.
 
With two three-pointers on two attempts in Saturday's win at Saint Rose, Audrey Cunningham is the sixth Charger to knock down 100 treys in her career. She currently stands tied for fifth-place all-time with Lauren Hood, who hit the century mark from distance in a career spanning from 2005-09. Cunningham is in the midst of her third active season with the Blue and Gold. Becky Snow is the program's all-time leader with 235 triples during her Hall of Fame tenure with the Chargers from 1996 to 2000.
 
The seven teams that have defeated the Chargers this winter currently boast a combined record of 110-40 (.733). Among those teams, Bentley is the unbeaten No. 1 ranked team in Division II at 21-0, while Rollins (19-4) checks in at No. 15. Additionally, Stonehill and Adelphi have both been nationally ranked during the 2013-14 campaign.
At 15-7 in her first campaign, Head Coach Ty Grace is the seventh first-year coach in program history to improve the team's win total from the previous season. Grace is the 16th head women's basketball coach all-time (including Deborah Chin, who had no "previous season" when she founded the program in the 1975-76 season). The best improvement by a first-year coach was Mimi Walters' 20-10 campaign in 2002-03 after taking the reins of an 11-15 squad.
 
The Chargers' 4-0 start was the first for the program since the 1989-90 team won its first six outings. The Blue and Gold also began at 3-0 in the Northeast-10 Conference for the first time since 2009-10.
 
In the Northeast-10
Adelphi (10-5 NE-10) leads 10-6 New Haven by one-half game at the top of the NE-10 Southwest Division standings. The Panthers won the first meeting, 84-81, and will host the second clash with the Chargers on Feb. 25 to conclude the regular season. At 9-7, American International currently holds third place and would move into at least second place with wins in its final four regular season outings.
 
In the NE-10 Northeast, Bentley stands alone at 16-0 as part of a 21-0 overall record for Division II's top-ranked team. Stonehill owns a two-game cushion in second place at 12-4 against conference foes. Third-place Franklin Pierce checks in at 10-6.
 
Up Next
Action returns to Charger Gymnasium on Saturday, Feb. 15 for a 1:30 p.m. visit from Pace. The Chargers topped the Setters, 76-50, on Nov. 23 in Pleasantville.