Seventh Road Win on the Line at Hartford (Jan. 22: 1 PM)

Sunday, January 22

West Hartford, Conn.

1 PM

University of New Hampshire

Hartford

Photo by: Greg Greene

1/21/2017 10:04:00 AM | Men's Basketball

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DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire men's basketball team (12-7, 3-2 AE) looks for its seventh road win of the season at the University of Hartford (6-14, 1-4 AE) on Sunday, Jan. 22 (1 PM) at the Chase Family Arena.

Looking Ahead
The Wildcats return home on Wednesday, Jan. 25 (7 PM) to host UMass Lowell on ESPN3 in Lundholm Gym as the team welcomes back students from winter break. Tickets are available HERE.

Cat Facts

UNH is off the best 19-game start since 1994-95 when they went 12-7.
With a win, UNH would match that season's 20-game start at 13-7.
Junior Iba Camara (Dakar, Senegal) set a career-high in scoring with 21 points and 11 rebounds at Maine for his 11th career double-double.
Seniors Daniel Dion (Cedar Park, Texas) and Jaleen Smith (Freeport, Texas) have accumulated the most wins by any two players in UNH history (57).
Smith is the America East's active scoring leader with 1,174 points, followed by junior Tanner Leissner (Converse, Texas) at 1,130 points. Leissner also leads the league in active rebounds (570).
UNH is 1 of 20 teams in the country to have 6+ road wins.
Smith, Leissner and Dion are the first UNH trio to record 1,000 points in the same year.
UNH will play Vermont, on Thursday, Feb. 9 (9 PM), on ESPNU for the first time in program history.
New Hampshire ranks first in the conference in scoring defense (64.1) and field goal shooting defense (41.6).

Special Seniors
Seniors Dion and Smith have combined for 543 points this season, which is 40.9 percent of the team's total of 1,327. To put that into perspective, last season they combined for 669 out of 2,342 points (28.6 percent). The year before that they combined for 627 points out of 2,148 (29.2 percent.).

11 Regular Season Games Left
UNH went 8-3 to close out the final 11 regular season games a year ago. UNH only lost to the top-2 teams in the league Vermont (twice) and Stony Brook on the road. New Hampshire averaged 71.9 points per game in that span to the opponents 68.1.