2025-26 Monmouth Men's Basketball Gameday Preview: Game 19
                                                                       
Monmouth Hawks (8-10, 2-3 CAA) vs Northeastern Huskies (6-11, 2-4 CAA)
Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 – 11:00 a.m.
OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, N.J.
 
TV: CBS Sports Network
 
Quick Bullets

• Monmouth plays its first national TV CAA game this season when it hosts Northeastern on Martin Luther King Day on CBS Sports Network.
• Jason Rivera-Torres scored a career-best 30 points on Jan. 10 against Hofstra. The guard leads the Hawks with 15.4 points per game (9th in CAA).
• Against Fairfield on Dec. 14, Jack Collins became the seventh player in program history to reach 600 rebounds. He enters Monday's contest with 635, sixth most in program history.
• With his next start, Collins will move into sole possession of third place on the program's all-time starts list with 114.
• Three Hawks are averaging double figures this season, led by Rivera-Torres (15.4), Justin Ray (11.2) and Stefanos Spartalis (10.5).
• Rivera-Torres is 1 of 3 players in the DI with at least 25 blocks and assists.
• Monmouth ranks 15th nationally and leads the CAA with 5.5 blocks per game.

A Monmouth Win Would...

• Give Monmouth its third CAA victory of the season and second home win of conference play.

More Info on the All-Time Series

• Monmouth and Northeastern are set to square off for the fifth time as CAA opponents, with the in-conference series tied at 2-2. The Hawks won the lone meeting between the two schools last season, 78-73, on Feb. 24 in West Long Branch.

Next Up

• The Hawks will head to Virginia on Thursday to face Hampton before visiting Campbell next Saturday. Thursday's contest against the Pirates starts at 7 p.m.