MANSFIELD, Mass. – For the third consecutive season, senior forward Eric Anderson (Newark, N.J./Newark Tech) has been named the Northeast-10 Conference Defensive Player of the Year as announced this morning by the conference office and voted upon by the NE-10's 15 head coaches. Anderson was also named a Northeast-10 All-Conference First Team member for the second straight year.

He is the first in conference history to be named Defensive Player of the Year three times and also remains the only player in New Haven history to be named an NE-10 First Team performer. He closed out his regular season in superlative fashion on Tuesday night, scoring a career-high 35 points while pulling in 17 rebounds in a 62-61 victory against Adelphi.

Anderson leads NCAA Division II in rebounds per game with 13.2 (through games on 2/22). He leads the Chargers with 16.5 points per game and is tied for eighth in the NE-10 with 4.0 assists per contest. His 39 blocks this season are fourth best in the conference, while his 16 double-doubles are the sixth most in Division II.

Anderson has three games this season with 20-plus points and 20-plus rebounds. He is the only player in Division II with more than two games with 20 or more rebounds this season and the only player with more than one 20-20 game. His 28 rebounds against Saint Anselm on Dec. 31 are an NCAA Division II single-game high in 2014-15. Additionally, the triple-double he recorded against the Hawks (26 points, 28 rebounds, 10 assists) was the first in New Haven men's basketball history.

The Chargers begin their postseason run on Friday, Feb. 27 when they host a Northeast-10 Conference Championship First Round contest against Merrimack at 7:00 p.m.