Game 10
Monmouth Hawks (4-5, 2-0 MAAC)
at Wagner Seahawks (2-6, 0-0 NEC)
• Saturday, December 20, 2014 • 4:00 p.m.
• Staten Island, N.Y. | Spiro Sports Center
Live Broadcast (NEC Front Row)
• Radio (Shore Sports Network):
Listen Live
WOBM-AM 1160 & 1310
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Monmouth-Wagner Series History:
• Saturday's game marks the 58th all-time meeting between Monmouth and Wagner.
• Monmouth leads the all-time series 32-25, which began during the 1984-85 season.
• Wagner won the first-ever meeting 68-66 on January 7, 1985.
• The Seahawks have won the last six meetings, and have victories in nine of the last 10 games.
• Wagner defeated MU in the last men's basketball game played in Boylan Gym in March, 2009.
• Wagner was also Monmouth's last opponent in league play, as a member of the NEC.
• Monmouth has only played more games against Fairleigh Dickinson (70), LIU Brooklyn (65) and St. Francis Brooklyn (59) in a series history. The Hawks have also faced both Robert Morris and now Marist 57 times, which equals the Wagner total leading into the game on Saturday.
Blue & White Bits:
• Monmouth, under fourth year head coach King Rice, embarks on its second season in the highly competitive Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC).
• Monmouth was selected sixth in this year's Preseason MAAC Coaches Poll, while junior guard Deon Jones was named to the Preseason All-MAAC Third Team.
• Senior guard Andrew Nicholas became the 20th player in Monmouth's Divsion I history to score 1,000 career points behind his 24-point performance against Towson (11/23), in which he tied a career-high with six made three-pointers.
• Last season, the Hawks came back from double-digit deficits in six of their wins on the year.
• The guard duo of Jones and Andrew Nicholas combined for 939 points last season, which tied for the sixth-highest combined single-season point total in program history.
• In 2014-15, Monmouth returns 88.9% of its scoring (1964/2208) from a season ago, and 82.0% of its minutes played.
• The Hawks return their top six scorers from last year's 11-21 team.
• Monmouth's returning sophomores combined for 77 starts, 833 points (26.0 ppg), 223 assists (6.9 apg) and 402 rebounds (12.6 rpg) as rookies in the Blue & White.
• Through its first seven games, including three at high-majors (West Virginia, Maryland, SMU), Monmouth allowed just 59.6 points per game to the opposition, including three at 50 points exactly. Last season, opponents scored at a 73.1 ppg clip against the Hawks.
• On Monday, December 8, Justin Robinson was named the MAAC Player of the Week, Monmouth's first MAAC Player of the Week recipient in its program/conference history. Last season, Josh James was named the MAAC Rookie of the Week twice.
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