Pictured Above: Junior guard/forward Elijah Davis (Credit: Dave Saffran)

Game 7: December 5, 2017 | 7:00 PM Staten Island, NY | Spiro Sports Center (2,100)
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• Tuesday's contest marks the Seahawks second contest against a member of the America East Conference, after defeating the University of Hartford, 72-50, back on November 26 in West Hartford, CT at Chase Arena.
• With the 78-76 victory over Fairfield on Friday, it marks the Seahawks best six-game start since 2011-12, when the Green and White got out to a 5-1 start en route to a posting a school record 25 wins (25-6).
• Wagner looks for their first 6-1 start since the 2005-06 seasonn.

Last Time Out: vs. Fairfield (December 1, 2017): 

• Junior Elijah Davis and sophomore guard Blake Francis drained consecutive baseline three-pointers in the game's final 2:19 minutes to lift the Wagner men's basketball team to its fourth straight win, a thrilling 78-76 triumph over Fairfield on Friday night at the Spiro Sports Center.
• Francis paced the Seahawks with 19 points, scoring 14 in the second half. Senior guard JoJo Cooper added 16 points, to go with a game-high eight assists, while freshman forward Nigel Jackson tossed in a career-high 14, highlighted by a 4-of-5 shooting night from three-point range. Junior guard Devin Liggeons finished with seven points, while redshirt junior forward AJ Sumbry added six points and a team-high ten rebounds, matching his career-high. Davis netted five points while pulling down nine caroms.
• After Fairfield sank four consecutive free throws, the latter two by Nelson with eight seconds to go, the Stags were within one at 76-75. Blake was fouled with three seconds left and made them both, making it a 78-75 game. Blake then fouled Nelson in preventing Fairfield from getting off a potential game-tying three-pointer.
• After Nelson sank the first free throw to make it 78-76, the Stags called a timeout to set up what would be Nelson's intentionally-missed second try from the line. Fairfield was hoping to snare an offensive rebound and score a game-tying bucket. Instead, Jackson squeezed the rebound for Wagner and was fouled with one tick left. The freshman then missed a pair from the line but the Stags were unable to get off a length of the court three as the Seahawks held on for the win.

• Tuesday's night contest between Wagner and UMass Lowell is just the third all-time meeting between the two schools with the head-to-head series evened at 1-1.
• In both games, Wagner has scored 76 points.
• These two schools first met back on December 30, 2015 at the Spiro Sports Center in which the Seahawks defeated the River Hawks, 76-62. A night after upsetting then No. 18 ranked, UConn, the Green & White traveled to Lowell, MA and were bested, 87-76. 

• UMass Lowell enters this evening's contest with a 5-3 overall record. The River Hawks oped the season with five-point setback at Massachusetts before embarking on a five-game winning streak.Wagner is the third Northeast Conference (NEC) opponent the River Hawks have seen. On November 22, UMass Lowell defeated LIU Brooklyn, 74-66. 
• To close out the month November, UML dropped a 87-80 decision to Sacred Heart at home. 
• In its most recent contest, the River Hawks fell to the NJIT Highlanders, 78-65, despite having three-players score in double-figures, led by Ryan Jones team-best 17 points. Rinardo Perry and Obadiah Noel each had 13 points.
• Jahad Thomas is the team's leading scorer at 20.2 points per game. He has missed three games this season, which included the most recent outing at NJIT. 
• In all, UMass Lowell has four players averaging double-figures. Matt Harris is second on the team, averaging 14.8 ppg, while Ryan Jones and Rinardo Perry are putting in 12.5 ppg and 10.9 ppg, respectively.
• UML, as a team, is averaging 80.9 points per contest while shooting 45.0 percent from the field and 36.2 percent from beyond-the-arc. 

• Against the current members of the America East Conference, the Green & White holds a record of 19-16.
• This season, the Seahawks have already secured a 72-50 triumph over the University of Hartford Hawks in their first-ever meeting back on December 26. 
• UMass Lowell is taking on their third Northeast Conference (NEC) as they hold a 1-1 record this season against NEC schools.

School	Record	Last Meeting	Win/Loss
Albany	5-1	2012-13	Lost, 66-63
Binghamton	---	---	---
Hartford	1-0	11/26/17	Won, 72-50
Maine	2-1	2015-16	Won, 87-73
UMBC	3-6	2002-03	Won, 76-65
UMASS LOWELL	1-1	2016-17	Lost, 87-76
New Hampshire	0-1	1970-71	Lost, 74-65
Stony Brook	5-2	2010-11	Won, 58-54
Vermont	2-4	2014-15	Lost, 61-47
TOTALS	19-16

• In Wagner's 78-76 home victory over Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) members, Fairfield,  sixth-year head coach Bashir Mason recorded his 92nd career victory.
• Coach Mason, who is currently the sixth youngest head coach in Division I, is 92-70 during his tenure on Grymes Hill.
• He is just the fifth Wagner head coach to post 90 or more career victories and the third in the Division I Era of the program.

Wagner Coach	Career Record	Years Coached
Herb Sutter	352-252	1937-1965
Tim Capstraw	117-164	1989-1999
Chester Sellitto	97-89	1965-1972
Mike Deane	95-113	2003-2010
Bashir Mason	92-70	2012-present
Neil Kennett	81-115	1982-1989
Dereck Whittenburg	67-50	1999-2003
P.J. Carlesimo	65-93	1976-1982
Dan Hurley	38-23	2010-2012
Bill Keegan	29-25	1934-1937
John C. Goodwin	26-73	1972-1976
Elmer Ripley	23-22	1922-1925
Ray Kirschmeyer	16-36	1929-1934
Joseph Flotten	10-4	1925-1926
John Futchs	8-10	1926-1927
John Morris	7-19	1927-1929
Erastus LaRue Ely	1-4	1920-1921
Walter B. Peterson	1-6	1921-1922

• Freshman forward Nigel Jackson (Baltimore, MD/Mount St. Joseph's) has been named NEC Co-Rookie of the Week, sharing the weekly accolade with freshman guard Jon Williams of Robert Morris, the league office announced on Monday.
• Jackson is coming off the best scoring performance of his young career on Friday, when he finished with 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the floor, including hitting 4-of-5 from three-point range, in just 17 minutes of action as the Seahawks edged out Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference member Fairfield, 78-76, at the Spiro Sports Center.
• The 6-7 neophyte, who added an assist and a steal in the win over the Stags. During the team's four-game winning streak. the Baltimore, MD native is averaging 9.8 ppg. and 7.0 rpg, while shooting at a 52.0 percent clip from the field, which includes 43.8 percent accuracy from long range.
• Overall, Jackson is netting 7.5 ppg om 18.5 minutes per contest while corralling 5.2 rpg and dishing out 1.3 assists per game. From the floor, he has connected on 43.0 percent from three-point range and  close to 40.0 percent overall.

• In the most recent CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Poll, the Wagner Seahawks received a vote in the December 4 poll.
• This marks back-to-back weeks in which the Seahawks have earned a vote, earning two in the November 27 poll. 
• This marks the third time under coach Mason that the Seahawks have received votes in the Mid-Major Poll. 
• The first-time was back on February 1, 2016 poll came out. 

• Over the past five seasons, Wagner is 21-10 in non-conference home games.
• Overall, the Seahawks are 25-15 at home over the past two years.

• Since the inception of the three-point line in college basketball was instituted during the 1986-1987 season, a total of 29 Division I programs have made at least one three-pointer in over 400 consecutive games. 
• Wagner has made a three-pointer in 403 straight contests. 
• The men's basketball team has connected on at least one made three-pointer in 402 straight contests. The last time the Seahawks didn't convert a three-pointer was back on February 28, 2004, at home against NEC-foe, Mount St. Mary's. 

• In five of the first six games of the season, Wagner has kicked off the contest with a three-pointer. 
• The only contest so far this season in which the Seahawks scored its first points of the contest was against Staten Island on November 21 when junior guard Devin Liggeons flushed home a two-hand jam.  

• Wagner closes out its homestand when the Seahawks hosts Division II members, Mercy College, on Sunday, December 10.

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