MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College men's basketball team will face Pace University on Saturday, Jan. 8 at 2 p.m. in a Northeast-10 Conference fixture.
SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (5-4, 1-3 NE10)
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PACE UNIVERSITY SETTERS (8-3, 4-0 NE10)
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Saint Anselm will take the court for the first time since Monday, Dec. 20, a narrow two-point loss to Post University. The last three games for the Hawks have been postponed and Saturday's game will be the first game of the New Year for Saint Anselm.
Fans attending Saturday's game are expected to familiarize themselves with the College's spectator and ticketing policies.
The Hawks men's basketball team and Saint Anselm College are proud to honor, recognize and thank the team's Hawks Soar Higher Club donors.
SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM
- Senior Chris Paul (Highland Mills, N.Y.) was named Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Week on Tuesday, Dec. 21. He helped Saint Anselm to a 67-51 win over Jefferson University on Dec. 18 before his team narrowly fell to Post on Dec. 20 by a 65-63 score.
- The senior came just one rebound short of a pair of double-doubles as he netted 19 points while grabbing nine boards in the win before scoring a game-high 21 points and collecting a team high 13 caroms against Post, notching his third double-double of the 2021-22 season.
- Against the Eagles, senior Gustav Suhr-Jessen (Virum, Denmark) and junior Tyler Arbuckle (Bristol, Conn.) aided the attack with 13 points each. The Hawks had a 14-point lead in the game, but Post came from behind to earn the narrow two-point victory.
- Paul leads the NE10 in free throws made (46) and free throw attempts (64). He is second in the league with 20.3 points per game and plays just shy of 37 minutes per game, also ranking second among conference student-athletes.
- Sophomore Matt Becker (Fairfield, Conn.) owns the league's third-finest assist-to-turnover ratio (2.07) and is fourth with 6.50 defensive rebounds per tilt. He is also in the top-10 of the NE10 in assists per game (3.4).
PREVIEWING PACE
- The Setters enter play with an 8-3 record on the year alongside an unblemished NE10 record at 4-0. Pace has had four of its last six games postponed and those other two games have resulted in losses to Felician and Daemen.
- Pace is ranked fifth in the East Region, according to the D2SIDA Men's Basketball East Region Media Poll released on Jan. 3.
- Pace started the season with seven consecutive wins and went on to win eight of its first nine games. The Setters also played in an exhibition game at Syracuse, falling to the Orange by the score of 79-60 in the Carrier Dome.
- To date, Pace has shot at least 42.6% from the floor in each of its games and has produced the league's finest field goal percentage defense at 39.1%. The team ranks second in the conference across numerous statistical categories, including field goal percentage (42.8%), rebound margin (8.5), scoring defense (63.0) and total steals (86).
- Bryan Powell leads the team with a 62.1% field goal percentage and Brandon Jacobs has produced an 84.1% free throw percentage to date – both rank second in the NE10 in those respective statistics. Jacobs is also racking up two steals per game and his 66 assists on the year is the second-highest total in the NE10.
ALL-TIME vs. PACE
- Saint Anselm owns a 24-10 record in the all-time series against Pace. The Hawks have won 12 of the last 13 games played since Jan. 12, 2010.
- Saint Anselm and Pace have played to six overtime games in the all-time series, tying with Stonehill for the most games that have gone into overtime in Hawks history. Pace and Saint Anselm have played just 34 games; the Hawks have battled Stonehill 123 times.
- The Hawks only have two regulation losses to Pace since the 2007-08 campaign.
