MANCHESTER, N.H. – For the third time in four NE10 Championship road games for the New Haven men's basketball team (15-15), the Chargers would be forced to overtime, this time coming up on the short end of a 65-63 decision against the Saint Anselm Hawks (21-8).

The Chargers had a 10 points lead with 10 minutes to play but Saint Anselm fought all the way, scoring 14 of the final 18 points of the game to knot the score at 54-54 heading to extra time. Senior guard Elijah Bailey (Freeport, N.Y./The Hotchkiss School) had a chance to make it more than a two-point game with a 1-and-1 opportunity with 22 seconds remaining in regulation with the first one falling short. The Hawks would race the full length of the court to score on a layup from Chris Paul knotting the score. The last second half court heave from New Haven's Quashawn Lane (Trenton, N.J./Trenton Catholic Academy) came up empty as the Chargers moved onto their sixth overtime period in the last four games.

The six overtimes New Haven played in the NE10 Championship is the most by any team in the history of the conference. The three OT game against Stonehill matched the longest game in championship play, while Stonehill also played in four overtimes during their 1992 tournament run which was the previous high for overtime periods played for a conference school.

In the extra period, the Hawks opened up a four-point lead on three occasions, the last of which came with 1:03 remaining. The Chargers managed to get a pair of free throws from Bailey with 46 seconds remaining to pull within two. After a great defensive stand that left the Hawks empty, New Haven would have the final possession. After a first attempt came up empty, the Chargers would call for time after corralling the rebound with 2.6 seconds remaining. On the inbound, Bailey was double teamed on his fade-away attempt that came up short.

Overall for the day New Haven was led by redshirt junior Derrick Rowland (Cohoes, N.Y./Green Tech) who finished with 25 points, his first 20+ game since February 12 against Saint Rose. Following Rowland in leading the Chargers was sophomore point guard Quashawn Lane (Trenton, N.J./Trenton Catholic Academy) who finished with 14 points, while both Lane and Rowland earned a spot on the 2020 Northeast-10 All-Championship team as announced following the conclusion of the game.

Among the two leading scorers, Rowland led the Chargers, shooting 10-of-16 from the field, including a trio of three point field goals, which came on seven attempts. He also added two points at the free throw line and had an assist and block to his tally. In addition to his 14 points, Lane finished with a team-high eight rebounds and four steals. His eight rebounds matched freshman Davontrey Thomas (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Poughkeepsie) as the Chargers finished the game with a 42-33 lead in the battle of the boards. All nine players that saw action for New Haven finished with at least one rebound.

Rounding out the leading scorers for New Haven was Bailey who finished with 11 points, as he closed out the four-game NE10 Championship run with 84 points for an average of 21.0 per game which led the Blue and Gold.

As a team, New Haven finished the game shooting 36.7 percent overall as they connected on 22-of-60 total attempts with five of those 22 buckets coming from outside the three point arc. They also added 14 points at the free throw line, which came on 19 total attempts.

In addition to the All-Championship Team that was recognized following the game, redshirt sophomore Ross Jones II (Edgewood, Md./Friends School) was also honored as the Northeast-10 Elite 24 recipient, which recognizes the individual student-athlete with the highest GPA competing in the conference's championship game.