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2018 - 19 MEN’S BASKETBALL MBB CONTACT: RON RATNER • [email protected] • 200 COTTONTAIL LANE • SOMERSET, NJ 08873 • PH: (732) 469-0440, Ext. 206 • FAX: (732) 469-0744 NEC MEN’S BASKETBALL FACTS & FIGURES NEC MEN’S BASKETBALL STANDINGS LAST WEEK’S RESULTS WEEK 3 RELEASE • NOVEMBER 26, 2018 Mon., Nov. 19 ����������������������Robert Morris 81 at Stetson 72 SCHOOL NEC PCT. OVR. PCT. STR. HOME AWAY NEU. Saint Francis U 76 at #7 North Carolina 101 1. Fairleigh Dickinson ......................0-0 0.000 3-2 0.600 L1 2-1 1-1 0-0 Tues., Nov. 20 .....................................NJIT 71 at Wagner 60 Central Connecticut .....................0-0 0.000 4-3 0.571 W1 2-0 1-2 1-1 LIU Brooklyn 87 at Milwaukee 92 (OT) LIU Brooklyn ...............................0-0 0.000 3-3 0.500 L3 2-1 1-2 0-0 Wed., Nov. 21 ���������������� NC A&T 74 at Mount St. Mary’s 60 FDU 77 at Princeton 66 Robert Morris ..............................0-0 0.000 3-3 0.500 L1 2-0 1-3 0-0 CCSU 74 at Loyola Marymount 76 St. Francis Brooklyn ....................0-0 0.000 3-3 0.500 W1 1-0 2-2 0-1 Fri., Nov. 23 ...................Robert Morris 46 at #25 Purdue 84 Sacred Heart ................................0-0 0.000 2-4 0.333 L3 1-0 0-3 1-1 IUPUI 68 vs. St. Francis Brooklyn 48 Sat., Nov. 24 ........ Saint Francis U 37 at #13 Virginia Tech 75 Wagner ........................................0-0 0.000 2-4 0.333 L2 1-2 1-2 0-0 Rider 89 at Wagner 65 Bryant ..........................................0-0 0.000 1-4 0.200 L2 1-0 0-4 0-0 NJIT 77 at LIU Brooklyn 70 Saint Francis U ............................0-0 0.000 1-4 0.200 L3 1-0 0-4 0-0 Sacred Heart 73 at Binghamton 78 Mount St. Mary’s .........................0-0 0.000 0-6 0.000 L6 0-1 0-5 0-0 St. Francis Brooklyn 75 at Niagara 63 Sun., Nov. 25 ............Mount St. Mary’s 68 at Morgan State 78 Lafayette 80 at FDU 76 Pine Manor 59 at CCSU 88 NEC MEN’S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK Bryant 60 at Brown 84 Darnell Edge, Fairleigh Dickinson THIS WEEK’S GAMES 6’2”, 185 lbs. Sr., G, Saugerties, NY/Saugerties Tues., Nov. 27 .............Bloomsburg at Saint Francis U, 6 pm Hartford at Sacred Heart, 6 pm One of the league’s elite shooters, Edge caught fire again last week in a split for the Knights. Edge aver- FDU at Providence, 8:30 pm aged 22.5 points on 53.6 percent shooting from the field, including 7-11 (.636) from three-point range. Wed., Nov. 28 ��������������������������������������� Yale at Bryant, 7 pm He also contributed 5.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals per game while playing all 80 minutes. The St. Francis Brooklyn at Presbyterian, 7 pm Saugerties, NY native poured in a career-high 28 points in FDU’s 77-66 win at Princeton on Wednesday. Youngstown State at Robert Morris, 7 pm He hit 4-6 from downtown, and added a career-best eight boards and a pair of steals. Edge’s three-pointer Thur., Nov. 29 ....................... LIU Brooklyn vs. Albany, 2 pm with 9:12 to play tied the game, and he added six more points down the stretch as the Knights pulled away Sacred Heart at Boston College, 7 pm to down their in-state rival. He went on to drain 3-5 from beyond the arc in a 17-point effort on Sunday CCSU at North Carolina A&T, 7:30 pm in the Knights’ four-point setback to Lafayette. Edge currently ranks fourth in the NEC with 19.2 ppg and Fri., Nov. 30 ....................... Niagara at Saint Francis U, 7 pm resides in the top-10 in three-point percentage (.480, sixth), made three-pointers (2.4, eighth) and field Wagner at American, 7 pm LIU Brooklyn vs. TBD, 12/2:30 pm goal percentage (.508, ninth). Sat., Dec. 1 ............................... CCSU at Virginia Tech, 1 pm Mount St. Mary’s at Loyola (MD), 1 pm NEC MEN’S BASKETBALL ROOKIE OF THE WEEK New Hampshire at Bryant, 1 pm Nana Opoku, Mount St. Mary’s FDU at Holy Cross, 1:05 pm Robert Morris at Drexel, 2:00 pm 6’8”, 186 lbs. Sun., Dec. 2 ............................Sacred Heart at Lafayette, 2 pm R-Fr., F, Woodbridge, VA/Potomac One of an impressive array of Mount newcomers this season, Opoku nearly averaged a double-double last week, posting 13.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game. He also shot 50.0 percent from the floor and 80.0 percent from the stripe. Opoku tallied 11 points and a career-high nine boards against North Carolina A&T last Wednesday, then added a career-best 15 points and nine rebounds four days later at Morgan State. The 6’8” forward from Woodbridge, VA has started all six games for the Mount and ranks third on the team with 9.5 ppg and 5.3 rpg. Opoku also ranks first among NEC freshman and sixth overall in field goal accuracy at 52.8 percent. WATCH #NECMBB GAMES WITH FREE, ONE-CLICK ACCESS AT NECFRONTROW.COM #NECMBB WWW.NORTHEASTCONFERENCE.ORG • WWW.NECFRONTROW.COM • Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & YouTube: @NECSports TOP STORYLINES FROM AROUND #NECMBB Here’s all you need to know from the third week of the 2018-19 season... 8SANABRIA 1K 2018-19 WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS On Sunday, St. Francis Brooklyn senior guard Glenn Sanabria (Staten Island, NY/ #NECMBB PLAYER OF THE WEEK St. Peter’s) became the second player this season to join the NEC’s 1,000-point club. Nov. 12 ............................................................................. Tyler Kohl, CCSU Nov. 19 .........................................Tyler Kohl, CCSU & Josh Williams, RMU Nov. 26 ............................................................................Darnell Edge, FDU Sanabria, who finished with a season-high 18 points in a 75-63 win at Niagara, is the Dec. 3 ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 32nd player in SFBK history and 223rd in NEC annals to reach the milestone. Dec. 10 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Dec. 17 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Sanabria joined Saint Francis U’s Keith Braxton (Glassboro, NJ/Delsea) as NEC Dec. 24 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Dec. 31 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� players to hit the millennium mark this season. SFU’s Jamaal King (Salisbury, Jan. 7 ........................................................................................................... MD/Bishop O’Connell (VA)) and his cousin, FDU senior forward Mike Holloway Jan. 14 ......................................................................................................... (Pittsgrove, NJ/ Arthur P. Schalick) reached the plateau last season. They will be Jan. 21 ......................................................................................................... joined in short order by a host of players, including FDU senior guard Darnell Edge Jan. 28 ......................................................................................................... (Saugerties, NY/Saugerties) (945 points), Wagner senior guard Romone Saunders Feb. 4 ........................................................................................................... (Temple Hills, MD/Potomac) (942), LIU Brooklyn senior swingman Raiquan Clark Feb. 11 ......................................................................................................... Feb. 18 ......................................................................................................... (New Haven, CT/Hillhouse) (936), Bryant junior guard Adam Grant (Franklin, Feb. 25 ......................................................................................................... VA/Norfolk Collegiate School) (926) and Sacred Heart senior guard Sean Hoehn Mar. 4 .......................................................................................................... (Morristown, NJ/Morristown (St. Thomas More (CT))) (924). #NECMBB ROOKIE OF THE WEEK 8HOEHN’S RISE Nov. 12 .............................................................................. Tyler Kohl, CCSU Nov. 19 .......................................................................... Ian Krishnan, CCSU Nov. 26 ............................................................................Nana Opoku, MSM When you talk about an upward career trajectory, Sacred Heart’s Sean Hoehn Dec. 3 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ (Morristown, NJ/Morristown (St. Thomas More (CT))) immediately comes to mind. Dec. 10 ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Dec. 17 ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Hoehn’s steady rise over his four years has culminated with a star turn in his senior Dec. 24 ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� season. Dec. 31 ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Jan. 7 ............................................................................................................ Jan. 14 .......................................................................................................... Hoehn, who averaged 4.8 ppg as a freshman, 8.0 ppg as a soph and 13.1 ppg as a Jan. 21 .......................................................................................................... junior, has emerged as an elite scorer