Men's Basketball Begins NEC Slate at Stonehill on Thursday
The Central Connecticut men's basketball team begins Northeast Conference play on Thursday at Stonehill. The 7:00 p.m. game will be streamed on NEC Front Row.
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The Blue Devils and Skyhawks will also meet in the regular season finale on March 2. CCSU leads the all-time series, 27-7, and won the last matchup in triple overtime.
OPENING NOTES
• Central Connecticut opens Northeast Conference play at Stonehill on Jan. 4.
• The Blue Devils will play their first two NEC games on the road and are opening the league slate away from home for the 2nd straight season, and for the 3rd time in the past four.
• 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 travels to Saint Francis U. on Jan. 13. CCSU will host Merrimack on Jan. 15.
WITH A CCSU WIN ...
• Central would open Northeast Conference play 1-0, and win an NEC opener for the 1st time since 2020-21 (Dec. 8, 2020; 94-87, at FDU).
• CCSU would improve to 13-14 all-time in Northeast Conference openers.
• The Blue Devil would win their NEC-leading 4th road game of the season
• CCSU would win its 3rd straight for the first time since Feb. 11-18, 2023. Central won four games in a row from Feb. 8-16, 2023.
NOTABLES
• Over 9 games from Nov. 20-Dec. 30, the Blue Devils have surged 63 spots in the KenPom rankings and are currently 269.
• In the NCAA NET Rankings as of Jan. 2, Central Connecticut is ranked 242, trailing just Merrimack (202) in the Northeast Conference.
• CCSU is 4th in the Northeast Conference with +3.3 turnover margin.
• The Blue Devils commit just 11.5 turnovers per game. CCSU has committed a season-low 6 against Framingham State and at Army.
• In the opener, forwards Allan Jeanne-Rose and Jayden Brown combined to play 47 minutes, while committing 0 turnovers.
• Joe Ostrowsky has combined to distribute 16 assists, against just 4 turnovers, in the past four games.
• He had 7 assists against 1 turnover vs. Saint Elizabeth and 5 assists against 1 turnover in 33 minutes at UMass Lowell.
• He's posting s a 2.2 assists-turnover ratio with 3.8 ppg, 3.2 rpg.
• CCSU leads the Northeast Conference with 5.0 blocked shots per game. Kellen Amos (1.1), and Jayden Brown (1.1) rank 5th in the NEC, while Allan Jeanne-Rose (1.0) and Abdul Momoh (1.0) are 7th.
• Central has recorded 8+ blocked shots in a game 4x this season, including a season-high 9 vs. Saint Elizabeth.
• The Blue Devils recorded 7 blocked shots in the opener at URI, including three in the opening four minutes.
• CCSU rejected 122 shots as a team in 2022-23, the 7th best single-season mark in program history.
