Sunday, December 4
Hamden, CT
2:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
vs
Marist College
QU Men's Basketball Entertains Marist For Sunday MAAC Matinee
12/3/2016 11:47:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Quinnipiac University Bobcats (1-5, 0-1 MAAC) vs.
Marist Red Foxes (4-4, 1-0 MAAC)
Date: Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016 (2 p.m.)
Location: TD Bank Sports Center | Hamden, Conn.)
All-Time Series vs. Marist: QU leads 4-3
Current Streak: Marist 1 straight
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ADVOCARE INVITATIONAL RECAP
Quinnipiac had an impressive performance at the Advocare Invitational last week, coming home with a 1-2 record. The Bobcats opened with an 82-62 loss to No. 11 Gonzaga, but battled the Bulldogs evenly for much of the contest, trailing by just five at one point in the second half. Quinnipiac then jumped out to a 20-10 lead on Seton Hall on day two, and was within two points at 62-60 with just under 10 minutes left before falling 90-79. The final day, Quinnipiac came away with the win, defeating Indiana State 80-77 in a game that came right down to the final shot. The Bobcats led by eight with 3:30 to go, but the Sycamores rallied and took a one-point lead with 44 seconds left. Chaise Daniels answered with a big basket 20 seconds later, and Quinnipiac earned a key stop, with Daniel Harris making two foul shots. A last desperation three from Indiana State missed as the Bobcats picked up their first win.
LAST GAME
Quinnipiac dropped its MAAC opener, falling at home to Monmouth 91-72 on Thursday. The Hawks used an 11-0 run, including two free throws to close out the first half and a 9-0 run to start the second, to build a 20-point lead and maintained a double-digit lead the rest of the way. Freshmen guards Mikey Dixon (18 points) and Peter Kiss (15 points) were the top two scorers for Quinnipiac, both coming off the bench, while junior forward Chaise Daniels had his third career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
KISS NAMED MAAC ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Freshman guard Peter Kiss was named the MAAC Rookie of the Week on Monday after averaging 16.0 points in three games at the AdvoCare Invitational. Kiss scored a personal-best 18 points in a loss to No. 11 Gonzaga on Thursday, shooting 8-13 from the floor. His season high lasted for all of one day, as he eclipsed that total with 19 points against Seton Hall on Friday. Kiss shot 7-11 from the floor against the Pirates, including a perfect 4-4 from three, tying for the fifth-best single-game performance in Quinnipiac's Division I history (current teammate Daniel Harris was 5-5 in a game last year). Kiss capped off the weekend with 11 points in the win over Indiana State, giving him double figures in all three games at the tournament.
PROMISING START FOR NEW FACES
Quinnipiac has four new guards in the rotation this season, and all of them have had an impact in the early going. In fact, freshman guards Mikey Dixon and Peter Kiss have led the Bobcats in scoring in each of the last five games (all off the bench), after new JuCo transfer Reggie Oliver led the Bobcats on opening day with 15 points against Vermont. Since then, Dixon scored 17 against Columbia, Kiss scored 18 against Gonzaga and 19 against Seton Hall, and Dixon tallied 21 against Indiana State and 18 against Monmouth, JuCo transfer Phil Winston had seven assists in 20 minutes in his Bobcat debut against Vermont, the highest total for any player on the team this season.
DANIELS PICKS UP WHERE HE LEFT OFF
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, staring with a new career high 28 points on 11-17 shooting in a double-overtime defeat to Fairfield on Feb. 13 and ending with 10 points in the MAAC Tournament against Rider. After reaching doubles in the first two games this year, his streak ended at nine after tallying a respectable 9 points, 10 rebounds and 4 blocks against No. 11 Gonzaga. He then followed that up with 14 points and 11 rebounds against Seton Hall, his second career double-double, and then had 12 points (all in the second half), including the game-winner with 24 seconds left, against Indiana State. He added his third career double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) on Thursday against Monmouth and now ranks sixth in the MAAC with 7.2 rebounds per game.
BUNDU BREAK THROUGH
Current sophomore forward Abdulai Bundu earned MAAC and ECAC Division I Rookie of the Week honors on Jan. 4 last season 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. Bundu was sixth in the MAAC in rebounding last year (6.6 rpg), while averaging almost eight boards in the final 20 games. He pulled down over half of his rebounds last year 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. This year, he picked up his fourth career double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds in the win over Indiana State at the AdvoCare Invitational and has half of his rebounds at the offensive end this year (17 of 34).
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 has only had one three-pointer in each of the last two games against Indiana State and Monmouth, the first time he has gone back-to-back games without multiple threes since a four-game slump last December. He has now had multiple threes in 27 of 36 career games as a Bobcat.
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 Five players (inc. Peter Kiss v Seton Hall - 11/25/16)
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. The Bobcats actually have a streak of six straight seasons leading the nation in at least one rebounding category. In 2014-15, Quinnipiac ranked second in offensive rebounds (16.4) to West Virginia, but still led the nation in total rebounds (45.4), defensive rebounds (29.0) and rebounding margin (12.4). 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).
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS
With Tom Moore at the helm, Quinnipiac has outrebounded its opponent in 245 of 287 games (85.4 percent). In 108 of those 287 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 85-23 (.787) 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 108 times in the last 10 years, and suffered a -10 margin or worse only five times in that same span (including Vermont and Gonzaga this season). Quinnipiac is now 114-11-4 in the rebounding department in the 129 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 QU outrebounding its opponents by a spread of 2,469 (12,052-9,583). To put that total in perspective, if all of the Bobcats vacated the floor against Marist, and theRed Foxes 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 end of the second minute of overtime.
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 594 wins, six shy of 600, and 493 at the Division I level, seven away from 500 in 23 years.
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), which is 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.
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 entered the year even a third of the way there. Collectively, the Bobcats now have 1,596 points, enough to make the banner, but the closest individual is Chaise Daniels with 394, still needing 606. Daniels (12.2 ppg) has a good chance to reach 1,000 as a senior, while freshmen Peter Kiss (12.8 ppg) and Mikey Dixon (11.3 ppg) are on an early pace to make the banner as juniors.
QU Career Scoring Leaders
Chaise Daniels 394
Daniel Harris 364
Abdulai Bundu 263
Donovan Smith 238
Peter Kiss 77
Andrew Robinson 70
Mikey Dixon 68
Reggie Oliver 61
Alain Chigha 40
Phil Winston 14
Greg Tarca 4
Aaron Robinson 3
Total 1,596
LAST YEAR VS MARIST AT TD BANK
A year ago, Quinnipiac had its best performance of the season when it hosted Marist at the TD Bank Sports Center, coming away with a 79-53 win on Feb. 4. Current sophomore Andrew Robinson exploded for 15 points in the first half on five three-pointers, staking the Bobcats to a 47-25 lead at the half, while Quinnipiac as a team shot 13-26 from three-point territory. Robinson went on to earn MAAC Rookie of the Week honors following his big performance.
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. So far this year, opponents are shooting 33.6 percent through six games.
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 its wins on the year.
NEXT UP
Quinnipiac returns to non-conference play on Wednesday, when it hosts Hartford for a 7 p.m. contest. It will then play its first true road game of the season on Sunday, traveling to Holy Cross on Sunday for a 2 p.m. game.
Marist Red Foxes (4-4, 1-0 MAAC)
Date: Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016 (2 p.m.)
Location: TD Bank Sports Center | Hamden, Conn.)
All-Time Series vs. Marist: QU leads 4-3
Current Streak: Marist 1 straight
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ADVOCARE INVITATIONAL RECAP
Quinnipiac had an impressive performance at the Advocare Invitational last week, coming home with a 1-2 record. The Bobcats opened with an 82-62 loss to No. 11 Gonzaga, but battled the Bulldogs evenly for much of the contest, trailing by just five at one point in the second half. Quinnipiac then jumped out to a 20-10 lead on Seton Hall on day two, and was within two points at 62-60 with just under 10 minutes left before falling 90-79. The final day, Quinnipiac came away with the win, defeating Indiana State 80-77 in a game that came right down to the final shot. The Bobcats led by eight with 3:30 to go, but the Sycamores rallied and took a one-point lead with 44 seconds left. Chaise Daniels answered with a big basket 20 seconds later, and Quinnipiac earned a key stop, with Daniel Harris making two foul shots. A last desperation three from Indiana State missed as the Bobcats picked up their first win.
LAST GAME
Quinnipiac dropped its MAAC opener, falling at home to Monmouth 91-72 on Thursday. The Hawks used an 11-0 run, including two free throws to close out the first half and a 9-0 run to start the second, to build a 20-point lead and maintained a double-digit lead the rest of the way. Freshmen guards Mikey Dixon (18 points) and Peter Kiss (15 points) were the top two scorers for Quinnipiac, both coming off the bench, while junior forward Chaise Daniels had his third career double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds.
KISS NAMED MAAC ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Freshman guard Peter Kiss was named the MAAC Rookie of the Week on Monday after averaging 16.0 points in three games at the AdvoCare Invitational. Kiss scored a personal-best 18 points in a loss to No. 11 Gonzaga on Thursday, shooting 8-13 from the floor. His season high lasted for all of one day, as he eclipsed that total with 19 points against Seton Hall on Friday. Kiss shot 7-11 from the floor against the Pirates, including a perfect 4-4 from three, tying for the fifth-best single-game performance in Quinnipiac's Division I history (current teammate Daniel Harris was 5-5 in a game last year). Kiss capped off the weekend with 11 points in the win over Indiana State, giving him double figures in all three games at the tournament.
PROMISING START FOR NEW FACES
Quinnipiac has four new guards in the rotation this season, and all of them have had an impact in the early going. In fact, freshman guards Mikey Dixon and Peter Kiss have led the Bobcats in scoring in each of the last five games (all off the bench), after new JuCo transfer Reggie Oliver led the Bobcats on opening day with 15 points against Vermont. Since then, Dixon scored 17 against Columbia, Kiss scored 18 against Gonzaga and 19 against Seton Hall, and Dixon tallied 21 against Indiana State and 18 against Monmouth, JuCo transfer Phil Winston had seven assists in 20 minutes in his Bobcat debut against Vermont, the highest total for any player on the team this season.
DANIELS PICKS UP WHERE HE LEFT OFF
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, staring with a new career high 28 points on 11-17 shooting in a double-overtime defeat to Fairfield on Feb. 13 and ending with 10 points in the MAAC Tournament against Rider. After reaching doubles in the first two games this year, his streak ended at nine after tallying a respectable 9 points, 10 rebounds and 4 blocks against No. 11 Gonzaga. He then followed that up with 14 points and 11 rebounds against Seton Hall, his second career double-double, and then had 12 points (all in the second half), including the game-winner with 24 seconds left, against Indiana State. He added his third career double-double (13 points, 10 rebounds) on Thursday against Monmouth and now ranks sixth in the MAAC with 7.2 rebounds per game.
BUNDU BREAK THROUGH
Current sophomore forward Abdulai Bundu earned MAAC and ECAC Division I Rookie of the Week honors on Jan. 4 last season 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. Bundu was sixth in the MAAC in rebounding last year (6.6 rpg), while averaging almost eight boards in the final 20 games. He pulled down over half of his rebounds last year 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. This year, he picked up his fourth career double-double with 15 points and 12 rebounds in the win over Indiana State at the AdvoCare Invitational and has half of his rebounds at the offensive end this year (17 of 34).
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 has only had one three-pointer in each of the last two games against Indiana State and Monmouth, the first time he has gone back-to-back games without multiple threes since a four-game slump last December. He has now had multiple threes in 27 of 36 career games as a Bobcat.
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 Five players (inc. Peter Kiss v Seton Hall - 11/25/16)
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. The Bobcats actually have a streak of six straight seasons leading the nation in at least one rebounding category. In 2014-15, Quinnipiac ranked second in offensive rebounds (16.4) to West Virginia, but still led the nation in total rebounds (45.4), defensive rebounds (29.0) and rebounding margin (12.4). 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).
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS
With Tom Moore at the helm, Quinnipiac has outrebounded its opponent in 245 of 287 games (85.4 percent). In 108 of those 287 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 85-23 (.787) 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 108 times in the last 10 years, and suffered a -10 margin or worse only five times in that same span (including Vermont and Gonzaga this season). Quinnipiac is now 114-11-4 in the rebounding department in the 129 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 QU outrebounding its opponents by a spread of 2,469 (12,052-9,583). To put that total in perspective, if all of the Bobcats vacated the floor against Marist, and theRed Foxes 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 end of the second minute of overtime.
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 594 wins, six shy of 600, and 493 at the Division I level, seven away from 500 in 23 years.
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), which is 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.
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 entered the year even a third of the way there. Collectively, the Bobcats now have 1,596 points, enough to make the banner, but the closest individual is Chaise Daniels with 394, still needing 606. Daniels (12.2 ppg) has a good chance to reach 1,000 as a senior, while freshmen Peter Kiss (12.8 ppg) and Mikey Dixon (11.3 ppg) are on an early pace to make the banner as juniors.
QU Career Scoring Leaders
Chaise Daniels 394
Daniel Harris 364
Abdulai Bundu 263
Donovan Smith 238
Peter Kiss 77
Andrew Robinson 70
Mikey Dixon 68
Reggie Oliver 61
Alain Chigha 40
Phil Winston 14
Greg Tarca 4
Aaron Robinson 3
Total 1,596
LAST YEAR VS MARIST AT TD BANK
A year ago, Quinnipiac had its best performance of the season when it hosted Marist at the TD Bank Sports Center, coming away with a 79-53 win on Feb. 4. Current sophomore Andrew Robinson exploded for 15 points in the first half on five three-pointers, staking the Bobcats to a 47-25 lead at the half, while Quinnipiac as a team shot 13-26 from three-point territory. Robinson went on to earn MAAC Rookie of the Week honors following his big performance.
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. So far this year, opponents are shooting 33.6 percent through six games.
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 its wins on the year.
NEXT UP
Quinnipiac returns to non-conference play on Wednesday, when it hosts Hartford for a 7 p.m. contest. It will then play its first true road game of the season on Sunday, traveling to Holy Cross on Sunday for a 2 p.m. game.
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