Monday, November 21
HAMDEN, CT
7:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
vs
Columbia University
QU Men's Basketball Back At TD Bank For Monday Home Game With Columbia
11/17/2016 11:29:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Quinnipiac University Bobcats (0-1) vs.
Columbia University Lions (1-1)
Date: Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 (7 p.m.)
Location: TD Bank Sports Center | Hamden, Conn.
All-Time Series vs. Columbia: QU leads 3-0
Last Meeting: W, 63-51 (December 23, 2009)
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LAST GAME
Quinnipiac dropped its first game of the 2016-17 season to Vermont at home on Saturday, falling 94-70. The Catamounts took control of the game in the first half, surging to a 43-25 lead at intermission. Quinnipiac led 10-6 early after a Daniel Harris three-pointer, but Vermont scored the next 11 points to take the lead for good. The Bobcats were led by junior guard Reggie Oliver, who had 15 points in his Quinnipiac debut, while junior forward Chaise Daniels had 11 and Harris and freshman guard Mikey Dixon each had 10. Junior guard Phil Winston had a team-high seven assists in his Bobcat debut.
PROMISING START FOR NEW FACES
Quinnipiac has four new guards in the rotation this season, and all four of them showed promise in the opening day loss to Vermont. Reggie Oliver led the team in scoring with 15 points, knocking down four three-pointers on the day (shooting 4-8 from beyond the arc). Junior guard Phil Winston had seven assists and two turnovers in 20 minutes, showing the ability to run the offense effectively. Quinnipiac's two freshmen guards, Mikey Dixon and Peter Kiss, were scoreless at the half, but settled in nicely in the second half, with Dixon scoring 10 and Kiss making his last three shots to finish with six.
STACKING UP IN THE MAAC
Out of the 11 schools in the MAAC, Quinnipiac ranked second in total wins over the last seven seasons, beginning with 2009-10 and ending with the 2015-16 campaign. Iona led the way with 161, including at least 20 in each of those seven campaigns, while Quinnipiac and Fairfield were tied for second at 122. The Bobcats are also third in the MAAC with four postseason bids in that seven-year span (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014), as Iona leads the way with six and Fairfield has five.
MILESTONE YEARS FOR MOORE
Head Coach Tom Moore is in a pair of milestone seasons in his coaching career - his 10th as the head coach at Quinnipiac and his 30th in collegiate coaching (as both an assistant and a head coach). He currently has been a part of 593 wins as a college coach, seven shy of the 600 plateau (an average of 20 per year over 30 years). He also 492 wins at the Division I level, leaving him eight away from 500. Moore is third among MAAC coaches in winning percentage at the Division I level (.539), trailing only Tim Cluess of Iona and Steve Masiello of Manhattan.
DANIELS CLOSES STRONG
Junior forward Chaise Daniels overcame an injury that kept him out of action for a month and closed out his sophomore season by scoring in double figures in each of his last seven games. He started the streak when he tallied a new career high 28 points on 11-17 shooting in a double-overtime defeat to Fairfield on Feb. 13 and ended it with 10 points in the MAAC Tournament against Rider. He had 25 of his 28 against Fairfield in regulation, while hitting two pressure foul shots to tie the score with 13 seconds left in the first overtime. Daniels was injured in the opening minutes against Niagara on Dec. 4 and missed the seven full games following, before coming back to the lineup on January 9. He kept his double-figure streak going on opening day this season, scoring 11 points against Vermont.
BUNDU BREAK THROUGH
Current sophomore forward Abdulai Bundu earned MAAC and ECAC Division I Rookie of the Week honors on Jan. 4 after a break through week. Bundu averaged 19 points and 12 rebounds in two games, including a 23-point, 15-rebound effort at Maine on Dec. 29. After averaging only 4.4 rebounds over the first 10 games, Bundu moved up to sixth in the MAAC in rebounding (6.6 rpg) by averaging almost eight boards in the final 20 games. He pulled down over half of his rebounds this season on the offensive end of the floor (105 of 198), which ranked him in first in the MAAC in offensive rebounding (3.5 pg) and 25th nationally, despite only playing 23.2 mpg.
HARRIS THREE-FOR-ALL
Senior guard Daniel Harris had some big performances from behind the arc in his first season with the Bobcats last year, shooting 6-9 in a win over Niagara on Jan. 30 and 5-5 in a Feb. 13 defeat at Manhattan. His 5-5 effort tied for the second-best in Quinnipiac's Division I history (since 1998-99) and is the best in Head Coach Tom Moore's nine seasons at the helm, while his six three-pointers in one game was the highest total for any Bobcat in 2015-16. Harris had two or more three pointers in 23 of 30 games in 2015-16 and ranked third in the MAAC in three-point percentage (40.7) and eighth in three-pointers made (2.3). He started off the new season in similar fashion, hitting two of his three shots from beyond the arc.
Quinnipiac Top 5 Single-Game 3-pt Pct. (DI Era)
6-6 Rashaun Banjo vs. St. Francis (Pa.) 2/4/02
5-5 Daniel Harris vs. Manhattan 2/11/16
5-5 Jared Grasso vs. UMBC 2/3/00
5-5 Kason Mims vs. Monmouth 2/7/04
4-4 Four players
SMITH THIRD ON QU BLOCKS CHART
Senior forward Donovan Smith had 53 blocks in 2015-16 (1.8 per game, ranking him second in the MAAC), placing him third on the single-season blocks mark at Quinnipiac during its Division I era (since 1998-99). Ousmane Drame has the top two totals (88 as a senior in 2014-15, 64 as a junior in 2013-14), while C.J. Vick is now fourth with 43 (2002-03). Junior Chaise Daniels finished with 39 (fifth place), ranking him fourth in the MAAC.
Quinnipiac Division I Single-Season Blocks Leaders
88 Ousmane Drame, 2014-15
64 Ousmane Drame, 2013-14
53 Donovan Smith, 2015-16
43 C.J. Vick 2002-03
39 Chaise Daniels, 2015-16
REBOUNDING DOMINANCE
Quinnipiac finished the 2015-16 season leading the nation in offensive rebounding, the fifth time in the last six years it has led the nation in that category. In 2014-15, Quinnipiac led the nation in total rebounds (45.4), defensive rebounds (29.0) and rebounding margin (12.4), but ranked second in offensive rebounds (16.4) to West Virginia. In 2013-14, the Bobcats led the nation in rebounding margin (11.8), offensive rebounds (16.7), defensive rebounds (28.7) and total rebounds (45.4), becoming the only team to finish first in all four categories since Quinnipiac joined the Division I ranks (1998-99). The Bobcats now have a streak of six straight seasons leading the nation in at least one rebounding category.
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS
With Tom Moore at the helm, Quinnipiac has outrebounded its opponent in 242 of 282 games (85.4 percent). In 107 of those 281 games, QU has posted a plus-10 or better rebounding margin, as well as 30 games with plus-20 or better. The Bobcats have an 84-23 (.785) mark when holding a plus-10 edge under Moore, and 22-8 (.733) with plus-20. Remarkably, Quinnipiac has held a +10 margin or better on the boards 107 times in the last nine-plus years, and suffered a -10 margin or worse only four times in that same span, including opening day against Vermont this season. The Bobcats have only been outrebounded nine times in the last four years (six of which were in 2015-16). Quinnipiac is now 111-9-4 in the rebounding department in the 124 games since the start of 2012-13, including two entire seasons without being outrebounded once (2012-13, 2014-15).
BOARD SCORES
In the first eight full seasons since Tom Moore took over, the Bobcats improved their rebounding margin, from 5.0 per game in his first season in 2007-08 to a nation's best 12.4 in 2014-15. The aggregate total over the Moore Era years sees Quinnipiac outrebounding its opponents by a spread of 2,468 (11,828-9,386). To put that total in perspective, if all of the Bobcats vacated the floor against Columbia, and the Lions did a tip drill on the glass and recorded exactly one rebound per second, Quinnipiac's rebounding margin under Moore would not level off at zero until the second minute of overtime.
CAN WE POOL OUR POINTS?
The TD Bank Sports Center has banners listing all of the 1000-point scorers in Quinnipiac basketball history, but nobody on the 2016-17 team enters the year even a third of the way there. Collectively, the Bobcats now have 1,225 points after scoring 70 in an opening day loss to Vermont, enough to make the banner, but the closest individual is Chaise Daniels with 332, still needing 668. A year ago, the Bobcats started the season with only 602 points on the entire roster, making this year's roster slightly more experienced than the 2015-16 squad.
THREE-FENSE
One area that the Bobcats showed significant improvement in 2015-16 was defending the three-point line. Opponents shot just 31.0 percent from beyond the arc (174-562), which led the MAAC and ranked 19th nationally at the end of the year, In 2014-15, opponents shot 35.1 pct from three, ranking QU eighth in the MAAC.
IT PAYS TO GET DEFENSIVE
Over the past seven seasons, Quinnipiac has a strong record of 76-32 (.704) when keeping its opponent to 40 percent or less from the field. The Bobcats were 9-7 when holding opponents below 40 in 2015-16, accounting for all nine of the team's wins.
BOBCATS OVERSEAS
Under Head Coach Tom Moore, Quinnipiac has had great success sending its players on to professional careers overseas. A total of 13 players have played professionally in Europe since Moore took over the job in 2007-08, including four from the Class of 2015. Ousmane Drame (Turkey) and Zaid Hearst (Spain) are starters on their teams in 2016-17, while James Feldeine (Greece) helped his team to a 25-1 record in 2015-16.
NEXT UP
Quinnipiac heads to Orlando to compete in the ESPN AdvoCare Invitational over Thanksgiving Weekend, opening play against Gonzaga on Thanksgiving Day at 6:30 p.m. (televised on ESPN2). It will be the first meeting between the schools, although there is an interesting back story with the head coaches. Tom Moore was an assistant coach at Connecticut when the Huskies faced Gonzaga in the 1999 West Region finals for the right to move on to the Final Four, and served as the coach in charge of scouting the Bulldogs. Mark Few was still an assistant coach for Gonzaga at the time, before being promoted to the head job after Dan Monson left to take the head coaching position at Minnesota.
Columbia University Lions (1-1)
Date: Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 (7 p.m.)
Location: TD Bank Sports Center | Hamden, Conn.
All-Time Series vs. Columbia: QU leads 3-0
Last Meeting: W, 63-51 (December 23, 2009)
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LAST GAME
Quinnipiac dropped its first game of the 2016-17 season to Vermont at home on Saturday, falling 94-70. The Catamounts took control of the game in the first half, surging to a 43-25 lead at intermission. Quinnipiac led 10-6 early after a Daniel Harris three-pointer, but Vermont scored the next 11 points to take the lead for good. The Bobcats were led by junior guard Reggie Oliver, who had 15 points in his Quinnipiac debut, while junior forward Chaise Daniels had 11 and Harris and freshman guard Mikey Dixon each had 10. Junior guard Phil Winston had a team-high seven assists in his Bobcat debut.
PROMISING START FOR NEW FACES
Quinnipiac has four new guards in the rotation this season, and all four of them showed promise in the opening day loss to Vermont. Reggie Oliver led the team in scoring with 15 points, knocking down four three-pointers on the day (shooting 4-8 from beyond the arc). Junior guard Phil Winston had seven assists and two turnovers in 20 minutes, showing the ability to run the offense effectively. Quinnipiac's two freshmen guards, Mikey Dixon and Peter Kiss, were scoreless at the half, but settled in nicely in the second half, with Dixon scoring 10 and Kiss making his last three shots to finish with six.
STACKING UP IN THE MAAC
Out of the 11 schools in the MAAC, Quinnipiac ranked second in total wins over the last seven seasons, beginning with 2009-10 and ending with the 2015-16 campaign. Iona led the way with 161, including at least 20 in each of those seven campaigns, while Quinnipiac and Fairfield were tied for second at 122. The Bobcats are also third in the MAAC with four postseason bids in that seven-year span (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014), as Iona leads the way with six and Fairfield has five.
MILESTONE YEARS FOR MOORE
Head Coach Tom Moore is in a pair of milestone seasons in his coaching career - his 10th as the head coach at Quinnipiac and his 30th in collegiate coaching (as both an assistant and a head coach). He currently has been a part of 593 wins as a college coach, seven shy of the 600 plateau (an average of 20 per year over 30 years). He also 492 wins at the Division I level, leaving him eight away from 500. Moore is third among MAAC coaches in winning percentage at the Division I level (.539), trailing only Tim Cluess of Iona and Steve Masiello of Manhattan.
DANIELS CLOSES STRONG
Junior forward Chaise Daniels overcame an injury that kept him out of action for a month and closed out his sophomore season by scoring in double figures in each of his last seven games. He started the streak when he tallied a new career high 28 points on 11-17 shooting in a double-overtime defeat to Fairfield on Feb. 13 and ended it with 10 points in the MAAC Tournament against Rider. He had 25 of his 28 against Fairfield in regulation, while hitting two pressure foul shots to tie the score with 13 seconds left in the first overtime. Daniels was injured in the opening minutes against Niagara on Dec. 4 and missed the seven full games following, before coming back to the lineup on January 9. He kept his double-figure streak going on opening day this season, scoring 11 points against Vermont.
BUNDU BREAK THROUGH
Current sophomore forward Abdulai Bundu earned MAAC and ECAC Division I Rookie of the Week honors on Jan. 4 after a break through week. Bundu averaged 19 points and 12 rebounds in two games, including a 23-point, 15-rebound effort at Maine on Dec. 29. After averaging only 4.4 rebounds over the first 10 games, Bundu moved up to sixth in the MAAC in rebounding (6.6 rpg) by averaging almost eight boards in the final 20 games. He pulled down over half of his rebounds this season on the offensive end of the floor (105 of 198), which ranked him in first in the MAAC in offensive rebounding (3.5 pg) and 25th nationally, despite only playing 23.2 mpg.
HARRIS THREE-FOR-ALL
Senior guard Daniel Harris had some big performances from behind the arc in his first season with the Bobcats last year, shooting 6-9 in a win over Niagara on Jan. 30 and 5-5 in a Feb. 13 defeat at Manhattan. His 5-5 effort tied for the second-best in Quinnipiac's Division I history (since 1998-99) and is the best in Head Coach Tom Moore's nine seasons at the helm, while his six three-pointers in one game was the highest total for any Bobcat in 2015-16. Harris had two or more three pointers in 23 of 30 games in 2015-16 and ranked third in the MAAC in three-point percentage (40.7) and eighth in three-pointers made (2.3). He started off the new season in similar fashion, hitting two of his three shots from beyond the arc.
Quinnipiac Top 5 Single-Game 3-pt Pct. (DI Era)
6-6 Rashaun Banjo vs. St. Francis (Pa.) 2/4/02
5-5 Daniel Harris vs. Manhattan 2/11/16
5-5 Jared Grasso vs. UMBC 2/3/00
5-5 Kason Mims vs. Monmouth 2/7/04
4-4 Four players
SMITH THIRD ON QU BLOCKS CHART
Senior forward Donovan Smith had 53 blocks in 2015-16 (1.8 per game, ranking him second in the MAAC), placing him third on the single-season blocks mark at Quinnipiac during its Division I era (since 1998-99). Ousmane Drame has the top two totals (88 as a senior in 2014-15, 64 as a junior in 2013-14), while C.J. Vick is now fourth with 43 (2002-03). Junior Chaise Daniels finished with 39 (fifth place), ranking him fourth in the MAAC.
Quinnipiac Division I Single-Season Blocks Leaders
88 Ousmane Drame, 2014-15
64 Ousmane Drame, 2013-14
53 Donovan Smith, 2015-16
43 C.J. Vick 2002-03
39 Chaise Daniels, 2015-16
REBOUNDING DOMINANCE
Quinnipiac finished the 2015-16 season leading the nation in offensive rebounding, the fifth time in the last six years it has led the nation in that category. In 2014-15, Quinnipiac led the nation in total rebounds (45.4), defensive rebounds (29.0) and rebounding margin (12.4), but ranked second in offensive rebounds (16.4) to West Virginia. In 2013-14, the Bobcats led the nation in rebounding margin (11.8), offensive rebounds (16.7), defensive rebounds (28.7) and total rebounds (45.4), becoming the only team to finish first in all four categories since Quinnipiac joined the Division I ranks (1998-99). The Bobcats now have a streak of six straight seasons leading the nation in at least one rebounding category.
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS
With Tom Moore at the helm, Quinnipiac has outrebounded its opponent in 242 of 282 games (85.4 percent). In 107 of those 281 games, QU has posted a plus-10 or better rebounding margin, as well as 30 games with plus-20 or better. The Bobcats have an 84-23 (.785) mark when holding a plus-10 edge under Moore, and 22-8 (.733) with plus-20. Remarkably, Quinnipiac has held a +10 margin or better on the boards 107 times in the last nine-plus years, and suffered a -10 margin or worse only four times in that same span, including opening day against Vermont this season. The Bobcats have only been outrebounded nine times in the last four years (six of which were in 2015-16). Quinnipiac is now 111-9-4 in the rebounding department in the 124 games since the start of 2012-13, including two entire seasons without being outrebounded once (2012-13, 2014-15).
BOARD SCORES
In the first eight full seasons since Tom Moore took over, the Bobcats improved their rebounding margin, from 5.0 per game in his first season in 2007-08 to a nation's best 12.4 in 2014-15. The aggregate total over the Moore Era years sees Quinnipiac outrebounding its opponents by a spread of 2,468 (11,828-9,386). To put that total in perspective, if all of the Bobcats vacated the floor against Columbia, and the Lions did a tip drill on the glass and recorded exactly one rebound per second, Quinnipiac's rebounding margin under Moore would not level off at zero until the second minute of overtime.
CAN WE POOL OUR POINTS?
The TD Bank Sports Center has banners listing all of the 1000-point scorers in Quinnipiac basketball history, but nobody on the 2016-17 team enters the year even a third of the way there. Collectively, the Bobcats now have 1,225 points after scoring 70 in an opening day loss to Vermont, enough to make the banner, but the closest individual is Chaise Daniels with 332, still needing 668. A year ago, the Bobcats started the season with only 602 points on the entire roster, making this year's roster slightly more experienced than the 2015-16 squad.
THREE-FENSE
One area that the Bobcats showed significant improvement in 2015-16 was defending the three-point line. Opponents shot just 31.0 percent from beyond the arc (174-562), which led the MAAC and ranked 19th nationally at the end of the year, In 2014-15, opponents shot 35.1 pct from three, ranking QU eighth in the MAAC.
IT PAYS TO GET DEFENSIVE
Over the past seven seasons, Quinnipiac has a strong record of 76-32 (.704) when keeping its opponent to 40 percent or less from the field. The Bobcats were 9-7 when holding opponents below 40 in 2015-16, accounting for all nine of the team's wins.
BOBCATS OVERSEAS
Under Head Coach Tom Moore, Quinnipiac has had great success sending its players on to professional careers overseas. A total of 13 players have played professionally in Europe since Moore took over the job in 2007-08, including four from the Class of 2015. Ousmane Drame (Turkey) and Zaid Hearst (Spain) are starters on their teams in 2016-17, while James Feldeine (Greece) helped his team to a 25-1 record in 2015-16.
NEXT UP
Quinnipiac heads to Orlando to compete in the ESPN AdvoCare Invitational over Thanksgiving Weekend, opening play against Gonzaga on Thanksgiving Day at 6:30 p.m. (televised on ESPN2). It will be the first meeting between the schools, although there is an interesting back story with the head coaches. Tom Moore was an assistant coach at Connecticut when the Huskies faced Gonzaga in the 1999 West Region finals for the right to move on to the Final Four, and served as the coach in charge of scouting the Bulldogs. Mark Few was still an assistant coach for Gonzaga at the time, before being promoted to the head job after Dan Monson left to take the head coaching position at Minnesota.
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