Men's Basketball Tips at Detrick Gym for Home-Opener on Monday
The Central Connecticut men's basketball team plays its home-opener on Monday night at 7:00 p.m. against Vermont State Johnson.
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The Blue Devils and Badgers are playing for the first time.
OPENING NOTES
• Central Connecticut welcomes Vermont State Johnson for its 2024-25 home-opener.
• Head coach Patrick Sellers is in his 4th season in charge of his alma mater.
• The Blue Devils will play two road games beginning with a matchup against Northeastern in New Brunswick, Canada on Nov. 16.
WITH A WIN TODAY ...
• Central would win its seventh straight regular-season home game.
• The Blue Devils would have two wins in the first three games for the first time since 2018-19.
• CCSU would go to 3-0 against D-III schools in the past two seasons.
LOOSE ENDS...
• The Blue Devils have led for 59:47 in the first two games, while trailing for just 10:25.
• Central is committing just 9.0 turnovers per game, which ranks 39th nationally.
• CCSU's +5.5 turnover margin through two games ranks 77th nationally.
• CCSU is committing 15.5 fouls per game thus far and ranked 10th nationally in 2023-24 committing just 13.6 fouls per game.
• With 20 wins last season, CCSU surpassed its win total from the previous 2 seasons combined. In the 10 previous seasons since its last winning season (2010-11, 19-12) until Patrick Sellers was head coach, CCSU was just 86-207 (.294).
• Dating back to the 2021-22 season, CCSU has won 6 straight 1-point games. Its last one-point loss came on Jan. 21, 2022 in a 67-68 loss at SFU. Two came vs. Wagner in 2023-24.
• CCSU posted two of the three largest margins of victory in program-history last season with wins over Saint Elizabeth (99-38, 2nd, 12/30/23) and Framingham St. (99-42, 3rd, 11/13/23)
• Central blocked 150 blocked shots as a team in 2023-24, the 4th highest single-season mark in program history and made 208 three-pointers as a team - the 8th best single-season total.
NOTABLES
• Northeast Conference Preseason Coaches Poll (1st place votes):
1T. CCSU (5)
1T. Wagner (4)
3. FDU
4. Le Moyne
5. LIU
6. Chicago St.
7. Mercyhurst
8T. Saint Francis U.
8T. Stonehill
• The Preseason All-NEC Team: Malachi Davis (LIU), Jo'el Emanuel (FDU), Darrick Jones Jr. (Le Moyne), JORDAN JONES (CCSU), Jeff Planutis (Mercyhurst).
• Central Connecticut will face Northeastern on Nov. 16 at the Avenir Centre in Moncton, New Brunswick, in the Atlantic Slam Showdown.
• The game was originally scheduled for Nov. 17 in Boston.
• Atlantic Slam, the City of Moncton, On Ice Entertainment, and the Big South Conference modified the MTE to a single regular-season game.
