MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College men's basketball team is set to take on Adelphi University on Saturday, Jan. 15 at 3:30 p.m.

SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (7-4, 3-3 NE10)
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ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PANTHERS (10-4, 5-2 NE10)
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The Hawks have won four of their last five games and own a 7-4 overall record alongside a 3-3 mark in Northeast-10 Conference play. Saint Anselm has played eight home games to date and will compete against Adelphi in just the team's fourth road game of the season.

Adelphi will enter play with a 10-4 overall record, posting five wins in its first seven league contests. The Panthers have won four games in a row, most recently producing a 75-70 victory at Stonehill on Tuesday, Jan. 11.

The Center for Recreation and Sports has limited capacity to 250 fans. Visiting fans must be on a pass list in order to enter the game.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• Saint Anselm logged a 72-53 victory over American International on Tuesday, thanks to senior Miles Tention (Palo Alto, Calif.) and his game-high 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting, including 6-of-10 from three-point land.
• Junior Matt Relihan (Lynnfield, Mass.) collected 12 points against the Yellow Jackets while classmate Tyler Arbuckle (Bristol, Conn.) and senior Chris Paul (Highland Mills, N.Y.) struck for 11 points each. Paul added 14 rebounds to capture his fourth double-double of the season and was just three assists short of a triple-double.
• Saint Anselm owned the distinct advantage in rebounding (53-to-33) and the Hawks limited American International to just 28.1% shooting for the game. Paul also eclipsed the 1,600-point and 700-rebound threshold in his 103-game Hawks career while Tention pushed past 700 career points in a Saint Anselm uniform.
• Paul leads the NE10 in both free throws made (59) and free throws attempted (84). His 8.9 rebounds is the third-best figure in the league while his 19.8 points per game stand as the fourth-most by any NE10 student-athlete.
• Tention is shooting 50.8% from the floor on the season, ranking eighth in the NE10.
• Head Coach Keith Dickson enters play ranked 19th across all levels of NCAA coaches in career victories (671).

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• Arbuckle is just 30 points away from 500 in his two-year career on the Hilltop.
• Paul needs just 18 points to move into 12th place on the all-time scoring list for Saint Anselm – he enters the game with 1,613 career points across 103 games.
• Senior Alonzo Jackson (Medford, Mass.) has thrown up 65 blocks, tying for seventh all-time in team history. He needs just three more to take sixth place.

PREVIEWING THE PANTHERS

• The No. 9 team in the East Region, according to the D2SIDA Media Poll, Adelphi has won four in a row to move to 10-4 overall on the season. The Panthers posted an 18-11 overall record in 2019-20, falling to Franklin Pierce in the First Round of the NE10 postseason.
• Ronnie Silva, a native of nearby Nashua, N.H., leads the Panthers with 3.93 three-point field goals per game and ranks fourth in NCAA Division II in that statistic. He has poured home 55 three-point baskets and his 41.4% rate is in the top-75 of the country.
• Adonis Williams leads the Panthers with exactly eight rebounds per game and is shooting 62.7% from the floor to place himself 18th in NCAA Division II.
• Adelphi ranks first in the NE10 in three-point field goal attempts (436), free-throw percentage (76.8%), three-point field goals per game (11.8) and three-point field goals made (165).

ALL-TIME vs. ADELPHI

• Saint Anselm is 19-15 in the all-time series against Adelphi that dates back to Mar. 1, 1958.
• The Hawks have won seven of the last eight games over Adelphi, including a convincing 117-90 win against the Panthers at home in Stoutenburgh Gymnasium on Jan. 18, 2020.
• In regular-season NE10 play, the Hawks own the commanding 9-2 all-time record.