New Haven (15-5, 10-4 NE-10) vs. No. 19 Southern Connecticut State (18-2, 12-2 NE-10)
Tuesday, Feb. 4 – 7:30 p.m.
West Haven, Conn. – Charger Gymnasium
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Opening Tip
The University of New Haven men's basketball team begins the second round of Northeast-10 Southwest play with a visit from divisional leader and crosstown rival No. 19 Southern Connecticut State. Tip-off is slated for 7:30 p.m. as the backend of a doubleheader. The Owls claimed the first meeting, 82-74, on Dec. 22 in overtime.
 
Last Time Out
New Haven built a lead as large as 13 points early in the second half and stifled visiting Merrimack on its way to a 56-51 victory on Saturday.
 
Jeffery Adkins led a balanced scoring effort with 13 points, while Ashanti DePass added 12 points sparked by three three-pointers.
 
Eric Anderson neared a double-double with nine points and a game-high 14 rebounds to go along with three blocked shots.
 
Samir McDaniels and Cyrus James each netted eight points, and James also posted three blocks. McDaniels' eight points and five boards were both personal season highs.
 
Collectively, the Chargers shot 18-for-48 (37.5 percent) from the field, 7-for-24 (29.2 percent) from three-point range and 13-for-16 (81.3 percent) from the free throw line. New Haven was also outrebounded, 36-32, marking only the second game this season in which the Blue and Gold were both held to a lower field percentage than its opponent and edged on the boards.
 
Gelvis Solano scored a game-high 21 points for the Warriors on 9-for-23 shooting. In two meetings with Merrimack this season, New Haven held one of the NE-10's premier scorers to 15-for-49 (30.6 percent) shooting from the field.
 
As a unit, the Chargers have limited 11 opponents to fewer than 60 points this season and have held 19 of 20 teams below their current 2013-14 scoring average.
 
New Haven Notes
As of the most recent NCAA report (through games played Feb. 2), New Haven ranks fourth in Division II with 61.4 points allowed per game. The Chargers also slot eighth in the nation in field goal percentage defense at 38.7 percent and land at 14th with just 10.3 turnovers committed per contest. The Blue and Gold lead the Northeast-10 in all three categories.
 
New Haven's nationally-ranked defense has also committed the fewest fouls per game in all of Division II with just 13.8 infractions per contest.
 
The Chargers have held 19 of 20 opponents, including their last 17, 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 11 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 last 10 contests. One of those games was an eventual win, 67-63, on 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 9-2 road record to date marks the only the second time in the past 20 seasons that the Chargers have won nine 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 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 en route to an NCAA postseason berth.

Jeffery Adkins most recently netted a team-high 13 points in Tuesday's win at Southern New Hampshire to improve his career mark to 1,135 points and climb to 23rd all-time in scoring at New Haven. This winter, Adkins is averaging a team-leading 16.1 points and 4.2 assists per contest this season while shooting 52.4 percent (109-208) from the floor and 82 percent (82-100) from the free throw line. He has also moved into fifth all-time in assists at New Haven with 353 and 12th place in career steals at 123.
 
Justin Exum has improved his New Haven program record to 266 treys. He ranks fifth among all active Division II student-athletes and 15th 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 1,470 career points. The Chargers' third-leading scorer this season with 14.4 points per game, he is 157 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 929 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 15.2 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 2.70 stuffs per contest, is seventh in the nation on the boards and 10th in rejections. Anderson has posted 13 double-doubles this season.
 
In the midst of his junior season, Anderson has moved into second all-time at New Haven with 176 rejections. He recently surpassed Bill Jeffress for second place and stands 15 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 54 blocked shots to date in 2013-14, which is tied for the seventh-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 53-for-91 (58.2 percent) from the floor en route to 6.4 points to go along with 8.1 rebounds per game. James ranks eighth in the NE-10 in rebounding and sixth in blocked shots (1.40 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 9.9 points per game. The senior leads the team with 40 made three-pointers and converts 38.5 percent of his attempts from distance while playing 32.8 minutes per outing.
 
Fourth-year head coach Ted Hotaling improved to 58-45 at New Haven (and in his career) following Saturday's win over Merrimack. He ranks fifth all-time in wins on the Chargers' sidelines and his .563 winning percentage is third in New Haven history. Hotaling was also an assistant coach at New Haven from 2000-01 in addition to stops as an assistant at Yale, Adelphi and Eastern Kentucky.
 
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 (12-2 NE-10) holds a two-game lead in the Southwest Division with six games remaining for all seven squads. The Owls own head-to-head wins over both second-place New Haven (10-4) and third-place Le Moyne (9-5) with another game against each of them remaining on the slate. The Chargers and Dolphins will also meet again during the regular season (Feb. 11 at Le Moyne).
 
In the Northeast Division, Franklin Pierce holds a slim lead at 11-3 in conference action with a win in the first of two head-to-head meetings against 11-4 Saint Anselm. With a game left against both the Ravens and Hawks, Saint Michael's also remains in the hunt for the top seed at 9-5.
 
Up Next
A pivotal NE-10 Southwest Division road swing brings the Chargers to Saint Rose on Saturday, Feb. 8. New Haven will then visit Le Moyne on Feb. 11 before resuming the home slate on Saturday, Feb. 15 against Pace.