2017-18 @MONMOUTHBBALL GGAMEAME NNOTESOTES Monmouth University Athletics Communications // 400 Cedar Ave. West Long Branch, NJ 07764 Men’s Basketball Contact // Gary Kowal // [email protected] // 732-263-5557 // #FlyHawks GAME FOURTEEN ÙÝç½ãÝ 12:00 // D 31, 2017 // YANITELLI CENTER Date Opponent Time/Result November (3-4) Fri. 10 BUCKNELL W, 79-78 SAINT PETER’S PEACOCKS Sun. 12 at Seton Hall^ L, 65-75 Tue. 14 at Lehigh W, 80-72 Head Coach: John Dunne (12th season at Saint Peter’s) Sun. 19 at Virginia^ L, 53-73 Record at Saint Peter’s: 145-213 // Career Record: 145-213 Wed. 22 at UNC Asheville^ L, 51-62 Sat. 25 PENN L, 96-101 (4OT) Peacocks Record: 6-6 (0-1 MAAC) Mon. 27 ALBANY W, 81-73 December (1-5) VS Sat. 2 at UConn L, 81-84 (OT) Wed. 6 HOFSTRA L, 84-85 Sat. 9 vs. Kentucky (at MSG) L, 76-93 MONMOUTH HAWKS Tue. 12 at Princeton L, 58-69 Fri. 22 at Yale W, 85-64 Head Coach: King Rice (7th season at Monmouth) Thu. 28 at Quinnipiac* L, 76-78 Sun. 31 at Saint Peter’s* 12:00 PM Record at Monmouth: 110-101 // Career Record: 110-101 January Hawks Record: 4-9 (0-1 MAAC) Fri. 5 MANHATTAN* 7:00 PM Fri. 12 at Niagara* 7:00 PM Sun. 14 at Canisius* 2:00 PM Fri. 19 IONA* 7:00 PM Thu. 25 SIENA* 7:00 PM Sat. 27 vs. Marist* (at Nassau Coliseum) 4:00 PM Mon. 29 at Rider* 7:00 PM MEDIA February Fri. 2 FAIRFIELD* 7:00 PM SPU YouTube Page Radio // Shore Sports Network Sun. 4 NIAGARA* 2:00 PM COVERAGE PxP // Glenn Crooks PxP // Eddy Occhipin Thu. 8 at Iona* 7:00 PM Sat. 10 at Manha an* 7:00 PM Analyst // Chris Radecke Analyst // Steve Bazaz Tue. 13 SAINT PETER’S* 7:00 PM Fri. 16 CANISIUS* 7:00 PM Sun 18 at Siena* 2:00 PM Thu. 22 RIDER* 7:00 PM HAWKS QUICK NOTES Sat. 24 at Fairfi eld* 1:00 PM L G: S March P. # N C H. W. N 2018 MAAC Tournament (1-5) G 23 Aus n Tilghman Sr. 6’1” 230 2nd triple-double in Monmouth history at Yale G 10 Micah Seaborn R-Jr. 6’5” 195 Became 4th fastest player in MU history to 1,000 pts. G 3 Deion Hammond Fr. 6’4” 200 8 of fi rst 13 career games in double digits Home Games is BOLD CAPS *-Metro Atlan c Athle c Conference games F 4 Mustapha Traore R-So. 6’8” 210 First career double-double at Yale (10p, 10r) ^-Preseason Na onal Invita on Tournament (NIT) C 32 Diago Quinn Jr. 6’9” 255 Four of fi ve career double-digit games have come this season L G: O B G 0 Ray Salnave R-Fr. 6’3” 205 Career-high 18 points in win over Albany F 1 Pierre Sarr Jr. 6’5” 195 Started fi rst three games this season F 2 Melik Mar n Fr. 6’6” 200 Played 50 of 60 minutes vs. Penn G 5 Nick Rutherford Jr. 6’3” 185 Transfer from FAU; will redshirt this season G 11 George Papas Fr. 6’5” 175 Career-high 16 points vs. Penn; 1st start vs. Hofstra ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS G 13 Marcus McClary Fr. 6’3” 195 Career-best six points in last two non-conf. games Assistant AD/Communications & New Media/ G 15 Dan Pillari Sr. 5’10” 170 One of two true seniors on the roster Men’s Basketball Contact: Gary Kowal G 24 Louie Pillari R-So. 6’6” 200 Career-bests in points (23), FGM (9), and 3PTFG (5) at Yale Kowal phone: 732-263-5557 C 33 Zac Tillman 5-Sr. 6’10” 280 Scored in doubles in three straight games earlier this year Kowal email: [email protected] C 44 Sam Ibiezugbe So. 6’11 255 Career-high 8 points on 4-5 FG vs. UVA & UK Press Row Phone: 732-571-3677 Athletics Website: MonmouthHawks.com FOLLOW MONMOUTH BASKETBALL FACEBOOK // MONMOUTH BASKETBALL INSTAGRAM // @MONMOUTHMENSBBALL TWITTER // @MONMOUTHBBALL SNAPCHAT // @MUHAWKS 2017-18 MONMOUTH BASKETBALL GAME NOTES 1 MORE ON TONIGHT’S MATCHUP SSCOUTINGCOUTING TTHEHE PPEACOCKSEACOCKS SPU is 6-6 on the season, and dropped their league ALL-TIME SERIES opener at Fairfi eld on Thursday night. Nick Griffi n SPU LEADS 23-12 leads the Peacocks at 15.6 points per game, while LAST MEETING: MU 71, SPU 70 [OT] 2/3/17 Davauhnte Turner and Samuel Idowu also average in double fi gures. Saint Peter’s leads the all-time series 23-12, with the teams splitting the eight meetings HHEADEAD CCOACHOACH JOHNJOHN DUNNEDUNNE as league members dating back to 2013. In his 12th season at the helm of the Peacocks, John Dunne led SPU to the CIT title last season. He has an NCAA Tournament appearance to his credit, and last season won 23 games. HHAWKSAWKS AAWAYWAY FFROMROM HHOMEOME Monmouth is 2-7 away from home this year, having played fi ve true road games as well as play- ing Kentucky at Madison Square Garden. MU ended non-league play with a win at Yale. SSAINTAINT PPETER’SETER’S AATT HHOMEOME LAST TIME OUT The Peacocks are an unbeaten 3-0 at the Yanitelli Center this season, posting wins over FDU, Houston Quinnipiac 78, Monmouth 76 Baptist and St. Francis Brooklyn in the non-league December 28, 2017 portion of the schedule. This is the fi rst league Monmouth cut a late Quinnipiac lead to as little as one, but home game for SPU. were unable to take the lead and fell at the TD Bank Sports Center in the MAAC opener on Th ursday night, 78-76. Micah MMUU VVS.S. SAINTSAINT PPETEETER’SR’S HHISTORYISTORY Seaborn led three Hawks in double fi gures with 14 points. -Monmouth is 12-23 all-time vs. Saint Peter’s. Aft er the teams traded leads six times in the early stages of -MU has won four of the last fi ve vs. Saint Peter’s. the second half, Jacob Rigoni rattled home a three that put -The Hawks are 4-4 against SPU since joining the Quinnipiac up at 10:17. QU built that lead to eight at 5:17, MAAC in 2013-14. only to see the Hawks trim it to two just 1:50 later. Th e Bobcats -Three of the last six meetings have been secided in eventually widened that lead back to seven before Monmouth overtime. got a wing triple from Deion Hammond to make it 76-75 with -Since MU joined the MAAC, seven of the eight meetings have been decided by 11 points or less, eight seconds to go. QU would make two foul shots, and Louie with four coming by single digits. Pillari’s three for the tie was off the mark, allowing the home -The teams have split four games at the Yanitelli team to hang on and win the fi rst MAAC game of the season. Center since 2013. A back-and-forth fi rst half saw 87 combined points and the -MU and SPU met as far back as 1963. teams shoot over 50% from the fi eld, with QU taking a one- point lead to the locker room. MU led by as many as fi ve when Ray Salnave got to the rim at 8:32, but the Bobcats came back to take their own six-point lead when Andrew Robinson hit a long three. In the closing minute of the period, Hammond netted a long ball to put MU up before Cameron Young scored with under fi ve seconds to go, putting QU ahead going to the locker room. NOTES -Micah Seaborn has now gone into double digits in all but two games he has played in this year. 17-18 MAAC STANDINGS -Austin Tilghman worked into double digits for the fi ft h time Team Overall MAAC this season. 1. Fairfi eld 6-6 1-0 -Deion Hammond has gotten to double fi gures in fi ve consecu- 2. Quinnipiac 4-9 1-0 tive games and eight times overall. 3. Rider 7-5 0-0 -Tilghman dished out seven assists for the fourth time. 4. Niagara 7-6 0-0 -Tilghman led MU in rebounding for the third game in a row, 5. Iona 6-6 0-0 fourth time in fi ve games and sixth time overall this season. 6. Canisius 6-7 0-0 -11 of the 12 Hawks to see action scored in the game. 7. Manha an 5-7 0-0 -Monmouth is now 2-3 in MAAC openers. 8. Siena 4-9 0-0 -Monmouth’s lineup of Tilghman, Seaborn, Hammond, Traore 9. Marist 2-10 0-0 and Quinn started for the second game this season (12/12 at 10. Saint Peter’s 6-6 0-1 Princeton). 11. Monmouth 4-9 0-1 -George Papas missed his fi rst career game with an injury. *-as of 12/29 -Monmouth opened MAAC play at Quinnipiac for the second consecutive season. 2017-18 MONMOUTH BASKETBALL GAME NOTES 2 2017-18 MONMOUTH ROSTER NUMERICAL No. Name Class Position Height Weight Hometown/High School [Last School] 0 Ray Salnave R-Fr. G 6-3 205 Elmont, NY/Benjamin N. Cardozo 1 Pierre Sarr Jr. F 6-8 195 Dakar, Senegal/Roselle Catholic 2 Melik Martin Fr. F 6-6 200 York, PA/York Catholic 3 Deion Hammond Fr. G 6-4 200 Mitchellville, MD/Riverdale Baptist School 4 Mustapha Traore R-So.