Men's Basketball Travels to Brown on Wednesday

The Central Connecticut men's basketball team opens a three-game road stretch on Wednesday with a contest at Brown. Tip-off is slated for 7:00 p.m. at the Pizzitola Sports Center in Providence, RI. The Blue Devils are coming off an 81-74 loss to Maine on Sunday. CCSU led with 4:34 to play before the Black Bears used a late run to take the win. Brown is 1-5 after falling at #25 SMU, 77-69 on Sunday.

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Peel Leads NEC Returnees
•  Not only is forward Brandon Peel the only senior for CCSU, but he is among the returning senior stats leaders of the Northeast Conference.
•  Peel is the NEC's active scoring leader with 685 career points and he is just one of eight players in the league to enter the season with at least 500 points.
•  With three double-doubles thus far, Peel is unsurprisingly the league's active career leading rebounder with 666 boards in his career.
•  Peel is also the NEC's active leader with 139 blocked shots.

Cumberlander's Consistency
•  Junior Khalen Cumberlander is Central's leading scorer at 15.8 points per game and has scored double-figures in every game.
• Cumberlander nearly notched a triple-double in the opener with 19 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists.
•  The double-double was the first of Cumberlander's career and he notched career-highs in both rebounds (12) and assists (8).
•  Dating back to last season, Cumberlander has scored double-figures in each of his past nine games.

Nehls Knocking Down Treys
•  Freshman Austin Nehls hit five three's against Binghamton, the first Blue Devil to do so since Matt Mobley at RMU on 2/14/15.
•  Nehls is shooting 41% from the arc, which leads the Northeast Conference and has 13 three-pointers (2.6/game) to rank 2nd in the league.

History - 1,074 Wins
•  This season marks the 79th season of Central basketball.
•  CCSU's first year of competition was the 1934-35 season under coach Harrison J. Kaiser, whom the athletic building is named after.
•  Central carries an overall record of 1,074-872 for a .552 winning percentage. 

Dickenman in Overtime
•  Central fell to Hartford, 92-83, in double-overtime in the opener.
•  CCSU has played 32 overtime game under head coach Howie Dickenman and have a 22-10 record in 20 seasons. 
•  CCSU had won five straight OT games dating to Jan. 26, 2012 (56-58, Monmouth).

Sharing The Scoring
•  Central has had four players score double figures in consecutive games and three of the first five games to open the season.
•  Khalen Cumberlander has scored 10+ in all five games.
•  With five players scoring in double figures against Hartford, it marked the first time since Nov. 26, 2013 against Rider that Central had five players score in double-figures.

Double-Doubles
•  Senior Brandon Peel posted his third double-double of the season with 12 points, 13 rebounds vs. Binghamton.
•  In his last 11 games, Peel has six double-doubles. He had eight last season and now has 15 in his career.
•  Junior Khalen Cumberlander posted the first of his career with 19 points and 12 rebounds against Hartford.

Early NEC Stat Leaders
•  Brandon Peel is grabbing an NEC-high 10.0 rebounds and is 5th with 1.6 blocked shots per game. 
•  Khalen Cumberlander is 6th in the league in scoring at 15.8 points per game and 1st in assists (4.8).
•  Austin Nehls is 1st in 3-pt FG pct (40.6) and 2nd with 2.6 three pointers per game.
•  Cumberlander (2nd, 38.4) and Nehls (7th, 32.6) both rank among the league's top 10 for minutes played.

Peel Again
•  With 13 boards vs. Binghamton senior Brandon Peel has grabbed double-digit rebounds in 25 career games.
•  Peel sits atop the rebounding leaderboard for the Northeast Conference with 10.0 per game.
•  Peel grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds against Robert Morris on Jan. 10, 2015. He had 11 rebounds at the break.

Starting Five
•  With a starting five of Brandon Peel, Khalen Cumberlander, Tidell Pierre, Jahlil Nails and Austin Nehls against Maine, CCSU has experimented with four different starting lineups in five games.
•  Nine different players have started at least one game for the Blue Devils, including five players in their first year with the program.
•  Peel, Cumberlander, Pierre, Nehls and JJ Cratit started in both of the first two games and is the only Central lineup that has appeared in more than one game thus far.

Peel's Blocks - Fifth All-Time
•  Senior Brandon Peel recorded five blocks in the opener and has pushed his career total to 139 blocks, fifth all-time at CCSU.
•  Joe Efese (150) is next up for Peel on the career list.

Dickenman Milestone
•  Head Coach Howie Dickenman, now in his 20th season at his alma mater, reached two milestones in a win over UMBC last year.
•  Dickenman became the second coach in school history to record his 275th victory, while at the same time he recorded his 150th career home victory with the win over the Retrievers.
•  Dickenman trails only his former head coach Bill Detrick in career wins.  Detrick won 468 games in 29 seasons.

Central and the Three-Point Shot - A New Streak Begins
•  The Blue Devils had a streak of 557 games with a three-pointer stopped at Wagner on Jan. 31, 2015.
•  Central had made a three in every game since February 29, 1996 at the University of Missouri-KC in a 76-69 loss, before going 0-for-6 vs. the Seahawks, marking the first time under head coach Howie Dickenman CCSU did not make a three.
•  CCSU has hit a three-pointer in each of the 13 games since having its streak snapped.

Up Next:
•  Central next travels to Fordham on Saturday, Dec. 5.
•  The Blue Devils lead the all-time series, 1-0.•  CCSU won the only previous meeting, 75-69, on Dec 3, 1998.
•  It will be Central's first meeting with an Atlantic 10 school since a 81-74 win at La Salle on Nov. 18, 2012.