MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College men's basketball team makes its ninth consecutive appearance in the Northeast-10 Conference Quarterfinals on Monday, Feb. 28 at the University of New Haven.

No. 3 NE DIVISION SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (16-9, 11-8 NE10)
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No. 2 SW DIVISION UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN CHARGERS (17-7, 13-6 NE10)
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The Hawks advanced to the NE10 Quarterfinals after downing Southern Connecticut State University by an 84-65 score on Feb. 26. Saint Anselm improved to 16-9 on the season with the win.

The Chargers advanced to the quarterfinals through a no contest. The team was slated to play Saint Michael's College, the Northeast Division seventh-seed but the game was declared no contest due to the established institutional and conference health protocols.

The winner of this quarterfinal tilt advances to face the winner of the Northeast's top-seed Bentley University and the Southwest's fourth-seed in The College of Saint Rose. The semifinal games are scheduled for Thursday, Mar. 3 with the conference title game on Sunday, Mar. 6. All games will be played at the highest remaining seed.

All tickets for Winter NE10 postseason events will cost $5.00. Students attending NE10 member institutions will be permitted to attend the games for free after presenting a valid identification card.

Fans attending the game at the Charger Gymnasium are expected to familiarize themselves with the University of New Haven spectator policy.

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

• The Hawks, who are in their 38th NE10 postseason appearance, are making their ninth consecutive conference quarterfinals appearance, a streak that began in the 2012-13 season.
• The Hawks won the most recently-held NE10 Championship, marking their NE10-record ninth title, defeating New Haven in overtime in March 2020 while earning the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Division II Championship. The NCAA postseason was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and never played.
• Senior Miles Tention (Palo Alto, Calif.) drained a career-high 30 points in the Saint Anselm win over Southern Connecticut State. Tention was 9-15 from the floor and eight-of-13 from beyond the arc.
• Tention ranks second on the team with 14.4 points per game. He is the Hawks leading three-point shooter, draining 73 of 168 threes, good for a .435 make percentage. Tention has the 16th highest scoring average in the conference while ranking fourth in three-point percentage.
• Senior Chris Paul (Highland Mills, N.Y.) leads the Hawks and is fifth in the NE10 with an average of 18.7 points per game. Paul posted a double-double against the Owls with 14 points and 10 rebounds.
• Paul leads the NE10 in free throws, making 136 of 186 attempts which is good for a 73.1 make percentage. Paul is averaging 7.8 boards per game which is sixth most the conference.
• Junior Tyler Arbuckle (Bristol, Conn.) tied Paul with 14 points in the First Round win. The junior grabbed four rebounds and dished out five assists to boost his stat line.
• Arbuckle is averaging 13.5 points per game for the Hawks while posting 3.7 assists per game, which is eighth most in the NE10.
• Senior Gustav Suhr-Jessen (Virum, Denmark) came down with 10 rebounds and narrowly missed a double-double with eight points in the win over Southern Connecticut.
• Suhr-Jessen is the fourth Saint Anselm student-athlete to average double digits on the season, coming in with 10.4 points per game. He is also grabbing 6.4 rebounds per game, which is third most on the team.
• The Hawks rank second in the conference in free throw makes per game (12.9) while leading in attempts (18.8). The team ranks second in rebounds per game (38.8) and defensive boards per game (29.2). Saint Anselm is allowing 69.1 points per game which is fifth lowest in the conference.

SCOUTING NEW HAVEN

• New Haven advanced to the quarterfinals through a no contest. The team was slated to play the Northeast's seventh-seed in Saint Michael's but the contest was canceled due to conference and institutional health and safety protocols.
• The Chargers are 17-7 overall and closed their NE10 slate at 13-6, earning them the second seed in the Southwest Division.
• The team opened the season with a 3-3 mark before winning four straight to close out 2021. After going 4-4 in January, the Chargers won their final six regular season games, pushing their mark to 16-7 entering the NE10 postseason.
• Four Chargers are averaging 13.0 points per game or more as Davontrey Thomas leads the team with an average of 13.9 points per contest.
• Thomas ranks 18th in the conference in points per game. He has drained 50 of 124 three pointers which is 11th most in the NE10. His 40.3 make percentage is eighth best.
• Derrick Rowland, Tavin Pierre Philippe, and Quashawn Lane are averaging 13.4, 13.3, and 13.0 points per game, respectively. All three student-athletes rank inside the top-25 in scoring in the conference.
• Majur Malak ranks fourth in the NE10 in rebounds per game, averaging a team-high 8.3 boards per game.
• New Haven defensively leads the conference in points allowed per game (62.7), opponents' field goal percentage (39.4), and opponents' three-point percentage (29.3).
• The Chargers are third in the conference in field goal percentage (46.8), defensive rebounds per game (28.4), and commit the third fewest fouls (13.5). The team is second in blocks per game at 4.5.

LAST TIME OUT vs. NEW HAVEN

• Saint Anselm captured a 67-60 win on Jan. 19 from Stoutenburgh Gymnasium.
• Tention was one of four Hawks to score in double figures, leading the team with 17 points. Suhr-Jessen (15), Paul (14), and Arbuckle (12) rounded out the balanced Hawks' scoring attack. Lane led all players with 21 points with Victor Olawoye and Pierre Philippe following with 13 and 11 points each.
• The teams battled through the first half as New Haven took a one-point lead to the half. New Haven opened a seven-point lead on a layup by Lane but a 10-2 run by the Hawks gave them a lead they would not relinquish with 10 minutes left to play. Within five minutes, Suhr-Jessen had gotten to the line twice, making both free throws each time, which gave the Hawks an eight-point lead that they would maintain to the 67-60 victory.

ALL-TIME – NE10 POSTSEASON

• The Hawks trail only Bentley (39) for NE10 postseason appearances with 38 in the team's 39 seasons of competition in the conference. Saint Anselm is the far-and-away leader in NE10 postseason winning percentage (55-30, .647) and has won a league-leading nine titles.
• Saint Anselm has made it to the NE10 Semifinals on 24 occasions, more than six times more than the second-place team, and has played in the NE10 title game on 14 occasions, settling for a league runner-up placement just five times.
• New Haven is making its eighth NE10 postseason appearance and is 8-7 (.553) in those contests. The team has appeared in the finals three times, finishing as the runner-up in all three occasions. Each time the Chargers have made it to the semifinals, they have also qualified for the NE10 title game.

ALL-TIME vs. NEW HAVEN

• This meeting marks the 29th meeting in the all-time series with the Hawks enjoying a 19-9 record against the Chargers.
• Saint Anselm has won seven of the last eight games against New Haven including the last time out on Jan. 19 and the previous matchup, which was the 2020 NE10 Championship game.
• In postseason play, the Hawks and Chargers have met just twice with New Haven winning on Mar. 5, 2014 in the NE10 Semifinals. The second meeting was the 2020 NE10 Championship, which went the Hawks way as well.
• This will be the first time in the NE10 postseason that Saint Anselm travels to New Haven.
• In NCAA postseason play, the programs have met twice with the Hawks holding a 2-0 edge in those matchups.