Men's Basketball Travels to Army West Point on Wednesday

November 28, 2023

The Central Connecticut men's basketball team will return to action at Army West Point on Wednesday afternoon. The game is slated for a 4 p.m. tipoff and will be streamed on ESPN+.

The teams are meeting for the second straight season and 13th time overall. The Blkack Knights lead the all-time series, 8-4.

OPENING NOTES
•    Central Connecticut returns to action with a game at Army West Point, following a week-long break since their previous game before Thanksgiving.
•    Head coach Patrick Sellers is in his third season at the helm of his alma mater and has improved the team's win total over the previous season in each campaign.
•    Central and the Black Knights are meeting for the 2nd straight season and 13th time overall.
•    CCSU will return home on Dec. 2 against Holy Cross before playing 3 straight road games at Boston College, Maine and UMass Lowell.

WITH A CCSU WIN ...
•    Central would collect its first road win of the season.
•    The Blue Devils would collect its first win over Army since Nov. 19, 2011.
•    CCSU would end a 5-game road losing skid (Feb. 11, 2023 at FDU, 77-73).
•    Central would collect its first win over a D1 opponent this season.

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NOTABLES
•    The team's leading scorer in 2022-23, Kellen Amos has rounded out his game this season and is leading CCSU with 4.0 assists per game, while posting a 2.5 assist-turnover ratio.
•    He had a career-high 7 dimes against 1 turnover at UMass.
•    This season, Amos has matched or surpassed his previous career-high of 4 assists in a game.

•    Jayden Brown has started all 5 games this season, after not starting a game during the 2022-23 campaign.
•    Brown ranks among the Top-10 in the NEC in field goal pct. (3rd, .613), blocked shots (5th, 1.2) and free throw pct. (10th, .737).
•    The 6-foot-8 junior has scored at least 9 points in every game, including a season-high 15 points at UMass, when he was a career-best 6-of-7 at the free thrown line.
•    Defensively, Brown has been impactful with 2+ blocked shots in 3 games, including back-to-back games vs. Framingham St. and Manhattan.

•    CCSU posted noteworthy totals in the Nov. 13 win over Framingham St.
   - 2nd largest margin of victory (57) in program history
   - Lowest FG Pct. allowed (.234) since Jan. 6, 2012 (.234 vs. SFBK)
   - 50+ rebounds (53) for the first time since Dec. 31, 2016
   - Forced 20+ turnovers (20) for the first time since Jan. 4, 2020
   - 6 players scored 10+ points for the first time since Dec. 16, 2020
   - 20+ assists (20) for the first time since Dec. 22, 2022
   - Fewest points allowed (42) since Jan. 22, 2023 (42 at LIU)

•    Allan Jeanne-Rose has started the season shooting 67.3% from the field (33-of-49) and 4-of-8 (.500) from 3-point range.
•    Jeanne-Rose is 2nd the Northeast Conference in scoring (15.8 ppg) and in field goal pct. through 5 games, while adding 2.8 rpg and 1.8 apg.
•    He has 20+ points in 2 games, including a 25-point effort against Manhattan when he shot 11-of-15 from the field.