New Haven (15-6, 10-5 NE-10) at Saint Rose (11-10, 8-7 NE-10)
Saturday, Feb. 8 – 3:30 p.m.
Albany, N.Y. – Daniel P. Nolan Gymnasium
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Opening Tip
The University of New Haven men's basketball team travels to Albany on Saturday afternoon to complete the season series with the College of Saint Rose. The Chargers won the first meeting this winter, 69-56, in West Haven on Dec. 10.
 
Last Time Out
In a game featuring 12 ties and eight lead changes, No. 16 Southern Connecticut State held off host New Haven to take a 78-72 decision on Tuesday evening.
 
Eric Anderson posted his 14th double-double of the season with 17 points and a game-leading 17 rebounds. He also registered three blocked shots.
 
Justin Exum led all players with 22 points, and Jeffery Adkins added 19. Ashanti DePass also reached double figures for New Haven with 10 points.
 
Cyrus James hauled in 12 rebounds, as the Chargers held a 47-36 advantage on the boards. New Haven converted 22 offensive rebounds into 26 second-chance points.
 
The Chargers shot 27-for-74 (36.5 percent) from the floor, 7-for-22 (31.8 percent) from three-point range and 11-for-14 (78.6 percent) at the free throw line. The visitors from Southern Connecticut State were 30-for-61 (39.2 percent) from the field, 11-for-18 (61.1 percent) from beyond the arc and 7-for-11 (63.6 percent) at the charity stripe.
 
Greg Langston led the Owls with 21 points, including 14 in the second half while shooting 6-for-6 from the field with two three-pointers after the intermission.
 
Michael Mallory knocked down four three-pointers en route to 20 points, leading SCSU to a 22-0 advantage in bench scoring.
 
New Haven committed eight turnovers and forced 11 Owls' giveaways.
 
New Haven Notes
As of the most recent NCAA report (through games played Feb. 6), New Haven ranks fifth in Division II with 62.1 points allowed per game. The Chargers also slot ninth in the nation in field goal percentage defense at 39.2 percent and land at 12th with just 10.1 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 13.7 infractions per contest.
 
The Chargers have held 20 of 21 opponents, including their last 18, 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 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 9-2 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 19 points on Tuesday against Southern Connecticut State to improve his career mark to 1,154 points and climb to 23rd all-time in scoring at New Haven. This winter, Adkins is averaging a team-leading 16.2 points and 4.2 assists per contest this season while shooting 52.3 percent (116-222) from the floor and 81 percent (85-105) from the free throw line. He has also moved into fifth all-time in assists at New Haven with 357 and 12th place in career steals at 125.
 
Justin Exum has improved his New Haven program record to 268 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 1,492 career points. The Chargers' third-leading scorer this season with 14.8 points per game, he is 135 tallies shy of the program's all-time top 10. Exum most recently scored a game-high 22 points on Tuesday against Southern Connecticut State.
 
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 946 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 15.3 points and ranks second in the Northeast-10 with 11.8 rebounds per game. The reigning NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year, leads the conference with 2.71 stuffs per contest, is sixth in the nation on the boards and seventh 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 179 rejections. He recently surpassed Bill Jeffress for second place and stands 12 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 57 blocked shots to date in 2013-14, which is tied for 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 55-for-97 (56.7 percent) from the floor en route to 6.2 points to go along with 8.2 rebounds per game. James ranks fifth in the NE-10 in rebounding and sixth in blocked shots (1.33 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 42 made three-pointers and converts 37.5 percent of his attempts from distance while playing 32.7 minutes per outing.
 
Fourth-year head coach Ted Hotaling stands at 58-46 at New Haven (and in his career) following Tuesday's meeting with Southern Connecticut. He ranks fifth all-time in wins on the Chargers' sidelines and his .558 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 (13-2 NE-10) holds a three-game cushion in the Northeast-10 Southwest Division. The Owls have swept the season series from New Haven (10-5) and can do the same to Le Moyne (10-5) on Saturday at Moore Field House. The Chargers and Dolphins will meet on Tuesday in Syracuse in a game that will play a large role in determining second place in the division and home court advantage in the NE-10 Championship Quarterfinals.
 
In the NE-10 Northeast, Franklin Pierce and Saint Anselm stand atop the division with identical 11-4 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 10-5, having swept the season series from the Ravens and lost the first of two encounters with the Hawks.
 
Up Next
The Chargers wrap-up their two-game road swing with a trip to Le Moyne on Tuesday, Feb. 11. New Haven enters the day tied with the Dolphins for second place in the NE-10 Southwest. Action returns to Charger Gymnasium on Saturday, Feb. 15 for a 3:30 p.m. visit from Pace.