Wednesday, December 7
HAMDEN, CT
7:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
vs
University of Hartford
State Rivals Collide As QU Men's Basketball Hosts Hartford Wednesday Night
12/6/2016 10:22:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Quinnipiac University Bobcats (2-5) vs.
Hartford Hawks (2-7)
Date: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016 (7 p.m.)
Location: TD Bank Sports Center | Hamden, Conn.)
All-Time Series vs. Hartford: QU leads 18-6
Current Streak: QU 1 straight
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SERIES WITH HARTFORD
Quinnipiac has an 18-6 all-time lead in the series with Hartford, including a narrow 68-66 win on the road last year. Hartford was also the opponent in Head Coach Tom Moore's first-ever game with Quinnipiac in the 2007-08 season opener. The Bobcats won that contest 85-79 in double overtime, the first of Moore's 154 wins at the QU helm thus far.
LAST GAME RECAP (QUINNIPIAC 77, MARIST 63)
Quinnipiac had a dominant first half, building as much as a 20-point lead, and held off a second half Marist rally to capture a 77-63 home win over the Red Foxes on Sunday. The Bobcats led 42-22 late in the first half, but Marist got as close as five points early in the second half at 48-43, following back-to-back three-pointers from Nate Funk. The Bobcats withstood the punch, though, and countered with an 8-0 run, as freshman Mikey Dixon scored the first six points of the stretch to restore a double-digit lead. Marist hung around and closed the gap to seven with just over five minutes left, but senior guard Daniel Harris hit a three-pointer and senior forward Alain Chigha scored in the paint to help the Bobcats maintain a double-digit lead down the stretch. Junior forward Chaise Daniels led Quinnipiac with 17 points, while freshman guards Mikey Dixon (14 points) and Peter Kiss (13 points) were also in double figures. Dixon and Kiss helped the Bobcats to a 40-6 edge in bench scoring.
ADVOCARE INVITATIONAL RECAP
Quinnipiac had an impressive performance at the Advocare Invitational Nov. 24-27 in Orlando, 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.
KISS, DIXON WIN BACK TO BACK MAAC ROOKIE HONORS
Freshman guard Peter Kiss and freshman guard Mikey Dixon have won the last two MAAC Rookie of the Week honors. Kiss earned the distinction after a strong showing at the AdvoCare Invitational in Orlando from Nov. 24-27, averaging 16.0 points over three games, including 18 against No. 11 Gonzaga and 19 against Seton Hall. Dixon followed suit by averaging 16.0 points in a 1-1 MAAC opening weekend for the Bobcats, tallying 18 points against preseason favorite Monmouth and 14 on 6-10 shooting in only 19 minutes in Sunday's win over Marist. Current sophomores Abdulai Bundu and Andrew Robinson each won the MAAC Rookie of the Week one time as freshmen a year ago.
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 led the Bobcats in scoring in five straight games (all off the bench) before Chaise Daniels ended the streak by leading the Bobcats with 17 against Marist on Sunday. 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. Currently Kiss (12.9) and Dixon (11.7) are ranked 1-2 in the MAAC among freshmen in scoring, as no other rookie in the league is currently averaging in double figures in the early going.
MAAC - Freshman Scoring Leaders (thru 12/5)
1. Peter Kiss, Quinnipiac 12.9 ppg
2. Mikey Dixon, Quinnipiac 11.7 ppg
3. E.J. Crawford, Iona 9.1 ppg
4. Aaron Walker Jr., Mahattan 8.9 ppg
5. Stevie Jordan, Rider 8.3 ppg
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. After reaching doubles in the first two games this year, his streak ended at nine after tallying a respectable nine points and 10 rebounds 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 with 13 points and 10 rebounds in Sunday's win over Marist.
SECOND HALF'S THE CHARM
Junior forward Chaise Daniels is tied for the team lead in scoring at 12.9 ppg, and has been particularly impressive in second halves of games this season. Daniels has scored 65 of his 90 points after halftime, including two games in which he scored all of his points after intermission. One of those saw him score 12 points in the second half of an 80-77 win over Indiana State on Nov. 27, including the winning basket with 24 seconds left.
THREE-FOR-ALL
Senior guard Daniel Harris and freshman guard Peter Kiss are both in the Quinnipiac record books for making all of their three point shots in a DI game (minimum four attempts). Harris was 5-5 at Manhattan last season, tying for the second best single-game effort in school history at the Division I level, while Kiss was 4-4 earlier this season vs. Seton Hall, which ties for fifth.
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 5 players (incl. 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).
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS
With Tom Moore at the helm, Quinnipiac has outrebounded its opponent in 246 of 288 games (85.4 percent). In 109 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 86-23 (.792) 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 109 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 115-11-4 in the rebounding department in the 130 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 2,479 (12,094-9,615). To put that total in perspective, if all of the Bobcats vacated the floor against Hartford, and the Hawks 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 3:41 was left in overtime (of a 0-0 game, we would presume).
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 595 wins, five shy of 600, and 494 at the Division I level, six away from 500 in 23 years.
SMITH THIRD ON QU SINGLE-SEASON 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 blocks last season (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 1,673 points, enough to make the banner, but the closest individual is Chaise Daniels with 411, still needing 589. Daniels (12.9 ppg) has a good chance to reach 1,000 as a senior, while freshmen Peter Kiss (12.9 ppg) and Mikey Dixon (11.7 ppg) are on an early pace to reach the milestone as juniors.
QU Career Scoring Leaders
Player Total
Chaise Daniels 411
Daniel Harris 371
Abdulai Bundu 265
Donovan Smith 246
Peter Kiss 90
Mikey Dixon 72
Andrew Robinson 70
Reggie Oliver 69
Alain Chigha 44
Phil Winston 17
Greg Tarca 4
Aaron Robinson 3
Ja'Kwan Jones 1
Total 1,673
THAT 70'S SHOW
Quinnipiac has had a much improved offense so far this season, averaging 74.0 points per game through the first seven contests, up almost 10 points from a year ago (65.6 ppg). The Bobcats have also reached 70 points against six of seven opponents this year, falling short only against No. 11 Gonzaga, when they scored 62. Quinnipiac enters the Hartford game with four straight games of 70 or more after a 77-63 win on Sunday. Last year, Quinnipiac never had a streak of 70 or more points that lasted longer than two games, hitting that threshold only 10 times overall out of 30 contests. This year's team has done it with balance as five players average between 9.4 and 12.9 points per game.
PLENTY IN RESERVE
Quinnipiac has averaged 33.1 bench points per game so far this year, including three straight games of 40 or more (41 vs. Indiana State, 44 vs. Monmouth, 40 vs. Marist), accounting for over half of QU's points in each of those three contests.
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 33.1 percent through seven 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 wins.
NEXT UP
Quinnipiac returns to action on Sunday for its first true road game of the season, traveling to Worcester, Mass. to meet Holy Cross for a 2 p.m. contest.
Hartford Hawks (2-7)
Date: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016 (7 p.m.)
Location: TD Bank Sports Center | Hamden, Conn.)
All-Time Series vs. Hartford: QU leads 18-6
Current Streak: QU 1 straight
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SERIES WITH HARTFORD
Quinnipiac has an 18-6 all-time lead in the series with Hartford, including a narrow 68-66 win on the road last year. Hartford was also the opponent in Head Coach Tom Moore's first-ever game with Quinnipiac in the 2007-08 season opener. The Bobcats won that contest 85-79 in double overtime, the first of Moore's 154 wins at the QU helm thus far.
LAST GAME RECAP (QUINNIPIAC 77, MARIST 63)
Quinnipiac had a dominant first half, building as much as a 20-point lead, and held off a second half Marist rally to capture a 77-63 home win over the Red Foxes on Sunday. The Bobcats led 42-22 late in the first half, but Marist got as close as five points early in the second half at 48-43, following back-to-back three-pointers from Nate Funk. The Bobcats withstood the punch, though, and countered with an 8-0 run, as freshman Mikey Dixon scored the first six points of the stretch to restore a double-digit lead. Marist hung around and closed the gap to seven with just over five minutes left, but senior guard Daniel Harris hit a three-pointer and senior forward Alain Chigha scored in the paint to help the Bobcats maintain a double-digit lead down the stretch. Junior forward Chaise Daniels led Quinnipiac with 17 points, while freshman guards Mikey Dixon (14 points) and Peter Kiss (13 points) were also in double figures. Dixon and Kiss helped the Bobcats to a 40-6 edge in bench scoring.
ADVOCARE INVITATIONAL RECAP
Quinnipiac had an impressive performance at the Advocare Invitational Nov. 24-27 in Orlando, 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.
KISS, DIXON WIN BACK TO BACK MAAC ROOKIE HONORS
Freshman guard Peter Kiss and freshman guard Mikey Dixon have won the last two MAAC Rookie of the Week honors. Kiss earned the distinction after a strong showing at the AdvoCare Invitational in Orlando from Nov. 24-27, averaging 16.0 points over three games, including 18 against No. 11 Gonzaga and 19 against Seton Hall. Dixon followed suit by averaging 16.0 points in a 1-1 MAAC opening weekend for the Bobcats, tallying 18 points against preseason favorite Monmouth and 14 on 6-10 shooting in only 19 minutes in Sunday's win over Marist. Current sophomores Abdulai Bundu and Andrew Robinson each won the MAAC Rookie of the Week one time as freshmen a year ago.
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 led the Bobcats in scoring in five straight games (all off the bench) before Chaise Daniels ended the streak by leading the Bobcats with 17 against Marist on Sunday. 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. Currently Kiss (12.9) and Dixon (11.7) are ranked 1-2 in the MAAC among freshmen in scoring, as no other rookie in the league is currently averaging in double figures in the early going.
MAAC - Freshman Scoring Leaders (thru 12/5)
1. Peter Kiss, Quinnipiac 12.9 ppg
2. Mikey Dixon, Quinnipiac 11.7 ppg
3. E.J. Crawford, Iona 9.1 ppg
4. Aaron Walker Jr., Mahattan 8.9 ppg
5. Stevie Jordan, Rider 8.3 ppg
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. After reaching doubles in the first two games this year, his streak ended at nine after tallying a respectable nine points and 10 rebounds 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 with 13 points and 10 rebounds in Sunday's win over Marist.
SECOND HALF'S THE CHARM
Junior forward Chaise Daniels is tied for the team lead in scoring at 12.9 ppg, and has been particularly impressive in second halves of games this season. Daniels has scored 65 of his 90 points after halftime, including two games in which he scored all of his points after intermission. One of those saw him score 12 points in the second half of an 80-77 win over Indiana State on Nov. 27, including the winning basket with 24 seconds left.
THREE-FOR-ALL
Senior guard Daniel Harris and freshman guard Peter Kiss are both in the Quinnipiac record books for making all of their three point shots in a DI game (minimum four attempts). Harris was 5-5 at Manhattan last season, tying for the second best single-game effort in school history at the Division I level, while Kiss was 4-4 earlier this season vs. Seton Hall, which ties for fifth.
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 5 players (incl. 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).
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS
With Tom Moore at the helm, Quinnipiac has outrebounded its opponent in 246 of 288 games (85.4 percent). In 109 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 86-23 (.792) 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 109 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 115-11-4 in the rebounding department in the 130 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 2,479 (12,094-9,615). To put that total in perspective, if all of the Bobcats vacated the floor against Hartford, and the Hawks 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 3:41 was left in overtime (of a 0-0 game, we would presume).
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 595 wins, five shy of 600, and 494 at the Division I level, six away from 500 in 23 years.
SMITH THIRD ON QU SINGLE-SEASON 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 blocks last season (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 1,673 points, enough to make the banner, but the closest individual is Chaise Daniels with 411, still needing 589. Daniels (12.9 ppg) has a good chance to reach 1,000 as a senior, while freshmen Peter Kiss (12.9 ppg) and Mikey Dixon (11.7 ppg) are on an early pace to reach the milestone as juniors.
QU Career Scoring Leaders
Player Total
Chaise Daniels 411
Daniel Harris 371
Abdulai Bundu 265
Donovan Smith 246
Peter Kiss 90
Mikey Dixon 72
Andrew Robinson 70
Reggie Oliver 69
Alain Chigha 44
Phil Winston 17
Greg Tarca 4
Aaron Robinson 3
Ja'Kwan Jones 1
Total 1,673
THAT 70'S SHOW
Quinnipiac has had a much improved offense so far this season, averaging 74.0 points per game through the first seven contests, up almost 10 points from a year ago (65.6 ppg). The Bobcats have also reached 70 points against six of seven opponents this year, falling short only against No. 11 Gonzaga, when they scored 62. Quinnipiac enters the Hartford game with four straight games of 70 or more after a 77-63 win on Sunday. Last year, Quinnipiac never had a streak of 70 or more points that lasted longer than two games, hitting that threshold only 10 times overall out of 30 contests. This year's team has done it with balance as five players average between 9.4 and 12.9 points per game.
PLENTY IN RESERVE
Quinnipiac has averaged 33.1 bench points per game so far this year, including three straight games of 40 or more (41 vs. Indiana State, 44 vs. Monmouth, 40 vs. Marist), accounting for over half of QU's points in each of those three contests.
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 33.1 percent through seven 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 wins.
NEXT UP
Quinnipiac returns to action on Sunday for its first true road game of the season, traveling to Worcester, Mass. to meet Holy Cross for a 2 p.m. contest.
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