Game 20 Wagner College Seahawks (12-7; 5-3 NEC) vs.   St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers (8-13; 4-4 NEC)
Game Details	Thursday, January 28, 2016 | Staten Island, NY 9:00 p.m. | Spiro Sports Center (2,100)
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Wagner College At Spiro On Thursday For Late Start vs. St. Francis Brooklyn (Cormac Gordon, Staten Island Advance)

• Thursday's contest is the 94th all-time between the schools with St. Francis Brooklyn holding a 53-40 edge in the head-to-head series.
• This series is one of the longest-running in Wagner's history, as the two New York schools, separated by the Verrazano Bridge and a mere 30-minute car ride on I-278 (without traffic), first started playing basketball against one another on January 12, 1929, when the Terriers defeated Wagner, 37-14. 
• On January 21, 2016, the Seahawks had three players in double figures, led by sophomore guard Corey Henson's (Upper Marlboro, MD/DeMatha Catholic) game and career-high 25 points, as Wagner earned an impressive 83-59 win St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers.

• St. Francis Brooklyn is looking for back-to-back wins after recording a 64-49 victory at LIU Brooklyn in the 41st annual "Battle of Brooklyn" on Saturday. 
• Senior forward Chris Hooper was named the Lai-Lynch Most Valuable Player after scoring a team-high 15 points off the bench. 
• The Seahawks will be looking to stop Hooper, as the Bronx, NY native scored 22 points on 9-of-12 shooting in 25 minutes against Wagner in last Thursday's matchup at the Pope Physical Education Center. Additionally, Hooper currently is the most efficient shooter in the conference, converting on 61.6 percent from the floor and is second in conference-only games at 60.9 percent. 
• On the year, both senior guard Tyreek Jewell and Hooper are averaging double figures, with Jewell pouring in 13.0 ppg and Hooper checking in at11.5 ppg.  In NEC-only games, Jewell ranks fifth in scoring, averaging 14.8 p,p.g while Hooper is 12th at 13.1 ppg. a contest.  
• Terriers' senior forward Amdy Fall ranks second in the circuit in blocked shots, swatting 2.0 a contest and has a conference-leading high 42 rejections on the season. 
• St. Francis Brooklyn is averaging 63.9 points a game while converting on just 39.0 percent from the field and 30.4 percent from three-point range.

• Wagner holds an all-time mark of 160-308 against all New York State Division I-based schools.
• The 21 schools are Albany, Army, Binghamton, Buffalo, Canisius, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Fordham, Hofstra, Iona, LIU Brooklyn, Manhattan, Marist, Niagara, St. Bonaventure, St. Francis Brooklyn, St. John's, Siena, Stony Brook and Syracuse. There are only three schools from the Empire State that Wagner has yet to face in its history; Binghamton, Canisius, and Colgate.
• This season, Wagner is 2-2 against NY-based schools. 

• The Seahawks conclude the fifth week of Northeast Conference (NEC) play when they travel to Emmitsburg, MD on Saturday, January 30 as they square off against the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers at Knott Arena.
• Tipoff is set for 3:00 p.m. and will be streamed live on NEC Front Row (www.necfrontrow.com). 

CAREY'S A DOUBLE-DOUBLE MACHINE:

• Junior guard Michael Carey (Nassau, Bahamas/Lamar Consolidated [San Jacinto College]) recorded his team-leading eighth double-double of the season, and fourth straight, as the first-year Seahawks finished with 14 points and 12 caroms on Sunday vs. Sacred Heart..  
• Carey is currently second in the league with those eight double-doubles, trailing Saint Francis U's Ronnie Drinnon, who has nine double-doubles to on the year
• The eight double-doubles that Carey has delivered are listed below. In these eight games, the 6-5 guard is averaging 13.5 ppg and 12.0 rpg

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THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME:

• The Seahawks have the most home wins in the Northeast Conference (NEC) this season with seven victories at the Spiro Sports Center against just two defeats.
• The Green & White are outscoring their opponents by nine points per home contest (69.6 to 60.6) and outrebounding them 41.0-to-30.7. 
• Three Seahawks are scoring in double-figures at home, led by sophomore guard Corey Henson, who is pouring in 14.8 ppg in 29.7 minutes a contest.  The second-year guard is shooting 47.4% from the field and 42.0% from beyond the arc while converting 78.6% from the free-throw line.
• Michael Carey is averaging a double-double, scoring 11.9 ppg and pulling down a team-leading 10.7 caroms, in nine games at home.  The junior transfer guard is shooting 51.4 percent from the field and has amassed 96 total rebounds at the Spiro Sports Center.    
• Redshirt senior guard Dwaun Anderson (Suttons Bay, MI/Suttons Bay [Michigan State]) is netting 11.4 ppg in close to 30.0 minutes a contest at home this season.  The high-flying, athletic guard has netted a team-best 82.9 percent from the free-throw line while recording a team-high 11 blocks at Spiro.
• Under fourth-year head coach, Bashir Mason, the Seahawks are 36-13 at the Spiro Sports Center. 
• All-time, Wagner is 147-78 since the Spiro Sports Center opened on February 20, 1999, with a 78-56 victory over Fairleigh Dickinson  

 

SCORING AT A PREMIUM:

• Wagner is the only school to outscore its opponents, as the Seahawks are a +4.3 in Scoring Margin, allowing just 63.8 points per game while scoring 68.1 ppg. 

AT THE CORE OF THE SEAHAWKS OFFENSE:

• Corey Henson (Upper Marlboro, MD/DeMatha Catholic) continued his transformation into one of the NEC's elite point producers last week.
• He scored a career-best 25 points on 9-13 from the floor and 5-6 from long range in an 83-59 win at St. Francis Brooklyn on Thursday. For the week, Henson averaged 21.0 ppg and made 55.2 percent of his shot opportunities. He also made 8-16 from beyond the arc for the Seahawks, who are tied for second in the league, one game behind Mount St. Mary's.
• Henson ranks eighth in the league with 14.0 ppg and is the NEC leader in both three-pointers made (2.74/game) and three-point percentage (.464).
• Among the 476 sophomore guards in Division I, Henson is tied for 48th in the nation in scoring, with George King of Colorado and Ed Stephens of South Carolina State and ranks 38th in three-point field goal percentage amongst all sophomore guards at 46.4 percent. 

• Through 19 games of the 2015-16 season, the Wagner men's basketball team is the lone Northeast Conference (NEC) school with an overall winning record as the Seahawks are 12-7 (.632)
• There are three teams in the league a game under .500 with identical 9-10 records in Fairleigh Dickinson, Saint Francis U and LIU Brooklyn.

• Wagner has done a tremendous job on the boards this season, leading the Northeast Conference in Rebounding Offense, Rebounding Defense, and Rebounding Margin.
• The Seahawks have outrebounded its opponents in 15 of 19 games this season while posting double-digit margin in eight straight games before falling one rebound short of its nine consecutive against Sacred Heart this past Sunday. 
• The Green & White, so far, has outmuscled the opposition by at least 20 caroms in two games this season, most recently at Robert Morris on January 4 (44-24) and at home against College of Staten Island (50-29), back on November 28. 

• The Seahawks have tallied 586 of its 1,293 from inside the paint.
• The Green & White have allowed its opponents to score 519 points inside the painted area. 
• Wagner has allowed 20-points or fewer from inside the paint in four  games this season (at St. John's [14], vs. Morgan State [18], vs. American [16]) and vs. Central Connecticut [16])
• The most points the Seahawks have allowed inside the paint this season is 40 at Saint Francis U back on January 2.

• Corey Henson is averaging 14.3 ppg against New York-based schools this season.
• Michael Carey is averaging nearly a double-double against Empire State schools, scoring 11.5 ppg and grabbing 9.0 rebounds while shooting 80.0 from the free-throw line in 30.3 minutes a contest.
• Wagner is outscoring their NY opponents, 73.2-to-63.8 while holding a +12.5 on the boards (43.8 to 31.3).
• Against Sacred Heart on Sunday, it marked the first time since January 2 when Wagner traveled to Saint Francis U, that the opposing team had all five players score in double-figures. 
• Against St. Francis Brooklyn back on January 21, Wagner shot a season-high 55.2 percent from the field (32-of-58) en route to its third 80-point performance of the season.
• In that contest against the Terriers, Wagner converted on a season-high 62.5 percent from three-point range. 
• Against Central Connecticut State back on January 16, it marked the second time this season that the Seahawks held an opponent under 50 points as the Blue Devils managed to score 48.