'Cats Roll Past Curry, 93-29, in Season Opener

Tuesday, November 5

Durham, N.H.

7 PM

University of New Hampshire

1-0,0-0America East

Curry College

0-0,0-0CCC

Team	1	2	F
Curry	8	21	29
New Hampshire	53	40	93

Photo by: Shannon Dean

11/5/2019 10:14:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

Sophomore Nick Guadarrama Records Second Career Double-Double With 20 Points, 18 Rebounds

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DURHAM, N.H. – Nick Guadarrama (Newington, Conn.) and Sean Sutherlin (New Brighton, Minn.) both recorded double-doubles to lead the University of New Hampshire men's basketball team to Tuesday night's season-opening 93-29 victory against Curry College at Lundholm Gym.

Guadarrama scored a game-high 20 points and pulled down a career- and game-high 18 rebounds for his second career double-double. Sutherlin, a junior transfer in his first game as a Wildcat, tallied 16 points and 10 rebounds.

UNH is 1-0, while this was an exhibition game for Division III Curry.

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FIRST HALF

The Wildcats got their 2019-2020 season underway strong with a 15-0 run in the opening 4 minutes, 8 seconds of game play.
The first 21 points scored by the Wildcats were netted by Sutherlin (eight points), senior Chris Lester (Barrington, Ill.; six) and sophomore Jayden Martinez (Cibolo, Texas; seven).
Halfway through the first period, the Wildcats led the Colonels, 30-3.
With just two minutes remaining in the first half, the Wildcats extended their lead to 40 points at 48-8.
Sutherlin led the Wildcats in the first half with 10 points. He was followed closely by Martinez with nine points.
The 'Cats wrapped up the first half leading 53-8.

SECOND HALF

UNH kept the momentum through the second half and pushed the margin to 60 points, 68-8, at 14:55.
The Wildcats wrapped up their first game of the season with a final score of 93-29.
Guadarrama tallied a double-double in the second half (13 points, 10 rebounds).

SERIES NOTEBOOK

This marked the first ever matchup between the UNH and Curry men's basketball programs.

UNH NOTEBOOK

A total of four Wildcats scored in double digits. In addition to Guadarrama and Sutherlin, Martinez netted 15 points and Lester had 10.
Tuesday's home-opener marked the first game played as a Wildcat for Sutherlin, freshman Bryce Johnson (Weare, N.H) and sophomore forward Meekness Payne (Phoenix, Ariz.).
Johnson finished with seven points and three rebounds; his five assists matched Mark Carbone (Wethersfield, Conn.) for the team lead; Carbone also tallied seven points and five rebounds.
Payne finished with six points and seven rebounds.
Guadarrama's 20 points is one less than his career high of 21 scored last February vs. Hartford.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

The Wildcats led the Colonels wire-to-wire following Sutherlin's layup at 19:15.
UNH scored 53 first-half points on a 62.9 field goal percentage that included 5 of 12 on 3's (41.7%).
The Wildcats outscored Curry 40-21 in the second half on the strength of a 50.0 field goal percentage (16-32).
UNH finished with a 59-23 rebounding advantage.
The 'Cat recorded the scoring edge in the paint (56-6), second-chance points (20-5), points off turnovers (28-7) and fastbreak points (8-4).
New Hampshire made 10 of 14 free throws. Curry was 5-for-6 at the foul line.
UNH's largest lead of the game was 68 points, 91-23.
Curry shot 15.0 percent from the floor (9-60), including 20.0 percent on 3-pointers (6-30).