Men's Basketball Faces Stonehill Saturday, Looking to Extend Win Streak

The Central Connecticut men's basketball team hosts Stonehill on Saturday looking to continue its three-game win streak. The game will stream live, and for free, on NECFrontRow.

February 17, 2023

The Central Connecticut men's basketball team hosts Stonehill on Saturday looking to continue its three-game win streak. The game will stream live, and for free, on NECFrontRow.

OPENING NOTES

• Central Connecticut will look to continue its win streat on Saturday at home against first-place Stonehill in Detrick Gymnasium.

• The Blue Devils will be playing 2 of their final 3 games on their home court.

• Next up, CCSU has its final regular season road game at Merrimack on Thursday.

SETTING THE TABLE

• Central has won two straight games by 5 points or fewer. The Blue Devils had opened the season 0-6 in games decided by 5 points or fewer

• Nigel Scantlebury ranks 2nd in the Northeast Conference, converting .877 at the foul line. He has gone 16-16 at the foul line in the last two games, including going 6-6 in the final 5:00.

• Jayden Brown has averaged 26.0 minutes per game off the bench in the last two games. He has scored 7.5 ppg, including 10 against Wagner, while grabbing 6.0 rpg. He also had a career-high 4 blocked shots and 3 blocked shots at FDU.

• In Northeast Conference play, Andre Snoddy is grabbing a league-best 10.4 rpg, while also averaging a double-double with 10.2 ppg. In NEC play he has 7 games with 10+ rebounds.

• Jay Rodgers ranks 2nd in assist-turnover ratio (2.5) in NEC play. He has 40 assists against just 16 turnovers in 349 minutes. In the first 11 NEC games he commited just 8 turnovers.

• Kellen Amos is scoring 14.8 ppg in conference play, which is the highest mark for a Blue Devil since Tyler Kohl in 2018-19 (18.1 ppg). In NEC games he is also among the league leaders in 3fg per game (6th, 2.1), 3fg% (10th, .386), FG% (12th, .465).

NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL VIDEO SERIES (BRACKETING)
•    Week 1 (October 17): How the committee prepares for the season with metrics, data and conference reporting. (Men's Basketball)
•    Week 2 (October 24): Selections. (Men's Basketball)
•    Week 3 (October 31): Seeding. (Men's Basketball)
•    Week 4 (November 7): Bracketing. (Men's Basketball)

NCAA WEEKLY WHISTLE (YOUTUBE)