BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY Game 2017-18 MEN’s BASKETBALL GAME NOTES 10 Bloomsburg Sports Information Office Interim Director / Basketball Contact: David Leisering • e-mail: [email protected] • office: 570-389-4413 Intern: Jake Miller • e-mail: [email protected] • office: 570-389-2767 at Lock Haven University • Saturday, December 30, 2017 • 4:00 PM • Thomas Fieldhouse BLOOMSBURG HUSKIES 2017-18 Schedule 11/5 at Penn State (exhibition) L 67-84 11/10 PENN STATE HAZLETON W 94-55 11/15 at Georgian Court W 70-59 11/18 at Pitt-Johnstown* L 65-92 11/19 at IUP* L 81-83 (OT) 11/21 HOLY FAMILY W 86-67 11/29 at Felician W 87-80 12/2 CALIFORNIA (PA)* L 79-94 12/3 SLIPPERY ROCK* L 74-77 BLOOMSBURG HUSKIES LOCK HAVEN BALD EAGLES 12/9 CLARION* W 83-80 (5-4, 1-4 PSAC EAST) (3-6, 1-4 PSAC EAST) 12/30 at Lock Haven* 4:00 PM Head Coach: John Sanow (Indiana (PA) ‘87) Head Coach: Mike Nestor (Shippensburg ‘99) 1/3 at Kutztown* 7:30 PM Career Record at BU: 138-167 (12th Season) Career Record at LHU: 61-106 (7th Season) 1/6 CHEYNEY* 1:00 PM 1/8 WEST CHESTER* 7:30 PM Bloomsburg leads the all-time series, 100-35 1/10 at Millersville* 7:30 PM 1/13 at East Stroudsburg* 3:00 PM PROBABLE STARTERS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) RESERVES 1/17 at Seton Hill* 7:30 PM 1/20 MANSFIELD* 1:00 PM NAME GP-GS MPG PPG RPG APG Austin Harriott 9-1 24.9 7.7 6.0 1.9 1/24 SHIPPENSBURG* 7:30 PM HASHIM MOORE Matthew Kachelries 9-2 18.8 4.6 2.2 1.6 1/27 at West Chester* 3:00 PM 6-5 | 225 | Graduate Student | Forward Peyton Mortellite 5-0 11.8 3.6 2.4 1.0 1/31 KUTZTOWN* 7:30 PM Sunrise, Fla. | The Hun School 0 Ethan Houston 4-0 7.3 3.0 2.8 0.0 Myles Bunyon 3 3.7 2.0 0.3 0.7 2/3 LOCK HAVEN* 3:00 PM G–GS PPG RPG APG SPG Nicholas King 2 4.0 0.5 1.0 0.0 2/7 at Cheyney* 7:30 PM 9-9 10.0 5.2 1.4 1.3 Billy Warren 2 4.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 2/10 MILLERSVILLE* 3:00 PM STARTING FIVE 2/14 EAST STROUDSBURG* 5:30 PM 2/21 at Mansfield* 7:30 PM KHARY MAURAS - The Huskies and the Bald Eagles will meet for the 136th 6-1 | 170 | Sophomore | Guard time on Saturday with Bloomsburg leading the all-time series, 2/24 at Shippensburg* 3:00 PM Reading, Pa. | Reading 3 100-35. The Huskies have won five straight and nine of the last ten against the Bald Eagles dating back to the 2011-12 G–GS PPG RPG APG SPG season. 2/26 PSAC First Round TBA 9-8 12.9 4.0 4.2 1.2 2/28 PSAC Quarterfinals TBA - Graduate student Hashim Moore has really stepped up over the last six games. He has reached double figures in 3/3 PSAC Semifinals TBA five of the last six contests and is averaging 13.2 points while 3/4 PSAC Championship TBA Christian mortellite shooting 33-of-53 (62.3%) from the field during the stretch. * PSAC contest 6-6 | 220 | Redshirt Senior | Forward He averaged 3.7 points on 4-of-17 (23.5%) from the field in Hammonton, N.J. | Hammonton 15 his first three games. G–GS PPG RPG APG SPG - With 5:49 left in the first half during the overtime loss at FOLLOW THE HUSKIES 9-8 22.3 8.4 3.4 1.8 IUP, redshirt senior Christian Mortellite became the school’s all-time leader in career three-pointers made with his 238th career make, surpassing Lorenzo Christmas’ previous record /BUHuskies of 237 from 2010-14. Mortellite now has 256 made threes for SAM SAXTON his career. The all-time Bloomsburg record (men or women) 6-3 | 195 | Redshirt Sophomore | Guard is held by Dana Wieller who hit 332 during her career from York, Pa. | Central York 25 2009-13. G–GS PPG RPG APG SPG - Mortellite has moved into third on the school’s all-time scor- @GoBUHuskies 8-8 7.0 2.9 2.0 0.8 ing list with 1,685 career points. He trails only the school’s all-time leading scorer, Mike Ellzy (1,911) and Jerry Rado- cha (1,778). Mortellite set the Bloomsburg single-season school-record last season with 613 points. With 17 games left KYLE-MICHAEL ROSE in the regular season, Mortellite needs to average 13.4 points /BUHuskies 6-7 | 190 | Senior | Forward per game to break the record. Middletown, Del. | Sanford School 35 - Senior Kyle-Michael Rose has recorded 92 career blocked G–GS PPG RPG BPG SPG shots. He needs one to tie Moustapha Noumbissi (2011-14) 9-9 12.1 5.6 2.6 0.8 for seventh and eight to tie Seth Buckwalter (1997-01) for sixth on the school’s all-time list. www.BUHuskies.com 2017-18 BLOOMSBURG MEN’S BASKETBALL GAME NOTES 1 THE COACHES ... UNIVERSITY FACTS John Sanow is in his 12th season as head coach of the Huskies and sports an overall record of 138-167. Over the last Location Bloomsburg, Pa. six seasons, Sanow has guided the Huskies to a PSAC Tournament berth five times and a share of the PSAC Eastern Founded 1839 Division regular season championship in 2011-12. He was also named the PSAC East Coach of the Year that season. Enrollment 9,754 Overall, Sanow has more than 25 years of experience with previous coaching stops at the University of Vermont along with Division II schools Gannon University and Pitt-Johnstown. He also spent 11 years as an assistant coach at Division I Nickname Huskies St. Francis of Pennsylvania. Colors Maroon and Gold Affiliation NCAA Division II Mike Nestor is in his seventh season as the head coach at Lock Haven. He has guided the Bald Eagles to a 61-106 overall Conference PSAC (Eastern Division) record. Last season, Lock Haven made the PSAC tournament for the fourth consecutive season - the first time a Lock Arena Nelson Field House Haven team has made the playoffs in that long of a stretch since the 1986-87 to 1989-90 seasons. In his first two seasons, President Dr. Bashar W. Hanna Nestor went 6-44 but has guided the Bald Eagles to a 55-62 record in the last four-plus years. Nestor played four seasons Director of Athletics Dr. Michael McFarland at Shippensburg (1995-99) where he was a two-year team captain. THE SERIES ... TEAM FACTS The Huskies lead the all-time series against Lock Haven, 100-35, including a pair of victories over the Bald Eagles last Basketball Coaching Staff season. Bloomsburg won at Lock Haven, 93-76, on January 25 before hanging on for an 82-79 win over the Bald Eagles Head Coach John Sanow (IUP ‘87) in the regular season finale on February 25 in Bloomsburg. Record at Bloomsburg 138-167 (12th Season) Overall Record Same THE LAST TEN MEETINGS Assistant Coach Michael Hamlin (Bloomsburg ‘11) DATE LOCATION RESULT HUSKIES OF NOTE Years At Bloomsburg 3rd Season 2/25/17 at Bloomsburg W 82-79 Christian Mortellite (27 pts, 7 reb) Volunteer Assistant Saige Spece 1/25/17 at Lock Haven W 93-76 Christian Mortellite (33 pts), Yahmir Greenlee (21 pts) Student Manager Joshua Tanner 2/13/16 at Lock Haven W 96-76 Malik Garner (23 pts), Christian Mortellite (20 pts, 8 reb) Basketball Team Information 1/16/16 at Bloomsburg W 78-49 Malik Garner (15 pts, 8 reb) 2016-17 Overall Record 15-12 2/25/15 at Bloomsburg W 94-71 Alssene Saintilus (23 pts, 20 reb), Jon Riles (28 pts), Christian Mortellite (24 pts) 1/24/15 at Lock Haven L 82-94 Alssene Saintilus (24 pts, 14 reb) 2016-17 PSAC East Record 11-11 2/1/14 at Bloomsburg W 77-76 Dontahe Jordan (15 pts, 12 reb) Postseason Results Lost in First Round of PSAC 11/23/13 at Lock Haven W 62-57 Dontahe Jordan (18 pts), Alssene Saintilus (16 pts) 84-77 vs West Chester 1/11/13 at Bloomsburg W 106-98 (2OT) Lorenzo Christmas (29 pts), Charles Haigler (26 pts) Starters Returning/Lost 1/4 11/19/11 at Bloomsburg W 82-50 Dontahe Jordan (21 pts), Lorenzo Christmas (16 pts) Letterwinners Returning/Lost 3/7 LAST TIME OUT ... Bloomsburg got 22 points from redshirt senior Christian Mortellite and 20 points from senior Kyle-Michael Rose as the PROGRAM HISTORY Huskies held off pesky Clarion University, 83-80, on Saturday, December 9, at the Nelson Field House. With the victory, First Year of Basketball 1901-02 Bloomsburg picked up its first league win of the season as it improved to 5-4 overall and 1-4 in the Pennsylvania State All-Time Record 1321-945 Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division standings. Mortellite struggled with his shot for much of the afternoon but All-Time PSAC Record 520-398 still managed to post his sixth 20-point effort of the season. He finished 9-of-21 from the field but made only 2-of-11 from PSAC Championships 2 beyond the arc. Mortellite added a team-high eight rebounds and also chipped in three assists and a pair of steals.