Men's Basketball Heads to Wagner on Thursday Night
The Central Connecticut men's basketball team plays its final two road games of the regular season, beginning with a contest at Wagner on Thursday. The Blue Devils will be looking for their first win on Staten Island since the 2013-14 season.
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CCSU and Wagner are meeting for the second time this season. Central won the first meeting, 69-68, in overtime on Jan. 27, 2024.
OPENING NOTES
• Central Connecticut plays its final two road games of the regular season this week. The Blue Devils travel to Wagner on Thursday. CCSU has not won at Wagner since Jan. 23, 2014.
• 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 will travel to Sacred Heart (Feb. 24) before closing with two home games.
WITH A WIN TODAY ...
• The Blue Devils would need 1 more win to clinch a home playoff game.
• Central would win its NEC-best 8th road game overall of the season and move to 5-2 on the road in conference play.
• CCSU would end an 8-game losing streak at the Spiro Sports Center (Jan. 23, 2014; 87-83).
• Central would win 16+ games for the first time since 2010-11 (19-12).
LOOSE ENDS...
• CCSU ranks 12th nationally, committing just 13.9 fouls per game.
• Central has surpassed its previous season's win total in 3 straight season under head coach Patrick Sellers. In 10 seasons from the program's last winning season (2010-11, 19-12) until Sellers was named head coach, CCSU was just 86-207 (.294).
• Dating back to the 2021-22 season, Central Connecticut has won 4 straight one-point games. Last loss: Jan. 21, 2022 • 67-68 at SFU
• CCSU played 1 of 3 OT games on Thursday last week. The last time the NEC had three overtime games on the same day was Jan. 17, 2013
• CCSU leads the NEC with 72 dunks as a team. Kellen Amos (21) and Allan Jeanne-Rose (20)pace the Blue Devils.
• Since committing a season-low 5 turnovers against Wagner, CCSU has a -13 turnover margin in the past 5 games. CCSU had a season-high 19 vs. FDU on Feb. 10.
NOTABLES
• Central is the league leader in conversion rate at the rim, converting 59.7 percent of attempts at the rim.
• CCSU also leads the NEC in points-per-possesion at the rime at 1.230.
• Abdul Momoh (6th, 65.4) and Jayden Brown (8th, 65.1) both rank among the Top 10 in FG Pct. at the Rim (min. 50 att.) in the NEC.
• Tre Breland posted his first career double-double with 15 points and a career-high 12 rebounds at Le Moyne on Feb. 15.
• Breland began the season as CCSU's "6th Man", but has been a starter for the past 10 games. CCSU is 7-3 in that span.
• Since joining the starting 5 he is posting 10.7 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 2.0 spg in a team-high 34.4 minutes in the past 10 games.
• He is playing 27.7 mpg and averaging 9.4 ppg and 5.0 rpg, while shooting 46.1% overall and 36.4% on three-pointers.
• The Blue Devils made 11 three-pointers at Le Moyne, its highest mark against a Division 1 foe this season.
• Central has connected on 10+ three-pointers in 4 games.
• CCSU is conntecting at a 31.5% clip (165-of-523) from the arc.
