MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College men's basketball team welcomes Pace University to the Hilltop on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 1 p.m. for the Northeast-10 Conference Quarterfinals.

No. 2 seed SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (19-7, 15-5 NE10)
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No. 7 seed PACE UNIVERSITY SETTERS (20-9, 11-9 NE10)
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The Hawks (19-7) enter the postseason as the No. 2 seed while Pace (20-9), the No. 7 seed, earned a Quarterfinals berth after a First Round victory over 10th-seeded Adelphi. The winner of Sunday's game will take on either No. 3-seeded Bentley or No. 6-seeded Le Moyne.

Pace has back-to-back victories over Saint Anselm during the regular season and is the only program to topple the Hawks twice in 2022-23. Outscoring Saint Anselm by a 151-to-103 margin in the two tilts, Saint Anselm will look to stop the Setters' four-game winning streak.

The Hawks have won each of the last four NE10 postseason games played in Stoutenburgh Gymnasium, including the 2020 conference championship over New Haven.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• Saint Anselm is ranked No. 2 in the latest set of official NCAA East Region Rankings, trailing Bentley. The regional rankings are used to help determine the qualifiers for the NCAA postseason.
• Last time out, Head Coach Keith Dickson of the Saint Anselm College men's basketball team picked up his 700th career victory, defeating New Haven by a 65-64 score to conclude the regular season of NE10 play.
• The longest-tenured men's basketball coach in Saint Anselm history, Dickson improved to 700-360 (.660) in his head coaching career that dates back to the 1986-87 season. He ranks fifth among active NCAA Division II head coaches in wins and is 16th among active NCAA head coaches in any division.
• The winningest Head Coach in the history of the NE10 in terms of victories, Dickson is one of just five active NCAA head coaches (any division) with 700 victories while only coaching at one institution (Jim Boeheim, Syracuse; Steve Ridder, Embry-Riddle; Tom Klusman, Rollins; Brian Baptiste, UMass Dartmouth).
• Senior Miles Tention (Palo Alto, Calif.) scored a game-high 20 points against New Haven, helping Dickson to the historic victory. Junior Matt Becker (Fairfield, Conn.) scored 12 points and added eight rebounds, matching senior Owen McGlashan (Marlton, N.J.) in the latter statistic.
• The Hawks have been whistled for just 13.2 fouls per game, the seventh-lowest average in NCAA Division II. Saint Anselm is also shooting 40.9% from beyond the arc, the third-finest total in the nation – the team's 9.7 triples per game is 26th nationally while leading the NE10.
• Saint Anselm gets to the line 17.3 times per game, leading all NE10 programs, but has compiled a 67.3% free throw percentage to rank 12th out of the 13 conference programs.
• Tention leads the NE10 in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.93) and three-point field goal percentage (48.9%) this season. His 38:17 minutes played per game is second both in the NE10 and in NCAA Division II, trailing only Lyron Bennett, the national leader from Pace.
• Arbuckle ranks 12th nationally in minutes per game (37:06).

SCOUTING PACE

• Pace checks in as the No. 6 team in the East Region, according to the latest set of regional rankings released this past week.
• The Setters rank second in the NE10 in field goal percentage defense (40.4%), offensive rebounds per game (10.71), and turnovers forced per game (14.96). Pace is also performing admirably in rebound margin (+4.1) and scoring defense (65.6).
• Pace has sprinted out to a 12-3 record when playing at home but is just one game above .500 when playing in a true road game.
• Bryan Powell is scoring 22.5 points per game against the Hawks in 2022-23 while Brandon Powell is posting 13.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per contest. Brandon ranks third in the NE10 with 16.6 points per game and his 77.7% free throw percentage is eighth in the NE10.
• Lyron Bennett, the national leader in minutes played per game (38:35), played a season-low 27 minutes against the Hawks on Feb. 1. His 4.8 assists per game ranks second in the league, only behind Marty Silvera from Southern Connecticut State and his 5.5 helpers per tilt.
• Frankyn Batista is cleaning up the offensive glass this season, averaging two-and-a-half offensive boards per tilt to rank third among NE10 student-athletes. Mark Dadika's 2.08 offensive caroms per game is eighth in the league.

ALL-TIME, NE10 POSTSEASON

• The Hawks trail only Bentley (40) for NE10 postseason appearances with 39 in the team's 40 seasons of competition in the conference. Saint Anselm is the far-and-away leader in NE10 postseason winning percentage (56-31, .644) and has won a league-leading nine titles.
• Saint Anselm has made it to the NE10 Semifinals on 25 occasions and has played in the NE10 title game on 14 occasions, settling for a league runner-up placement just five times. The 25 semifinals appearances is a league record, six more than Bentley (19) has reached.
• Pace has a 7-17 (.292) all-time record in NE10 postseason play, reaching the semifinals on three occasions but never advancing to a championship game. The Setters fell at home to Franklin Pierce in the NE10 Semifinals, 81-75, and lost to the Hawks in the league's quarterfinals in 2020, 82-77.
• The Setters have made the last four NE10 postseasons.

ALL-TIME vs. PACE

• Saint Anselm is 25-12 all-time against Pace and has won 13 of the team's last 16 games against the Setters. When playing on the road at Pace, the Hawks have lost just three games in regulation time across 17 contests.
• Pace used scoring runs of 18-2 and 19-3 during the run of play against Saint Anselm this season on Tuesday, Nov. 22, producing a 74-47 win in Pleasantville, N.Y. The Setters shot 54.7% from the floor as Bryan and Brandon Powell combined to score 38 points.
• In Stoutenburgh Gymnasium on Wednesday, Feb. 1, Pace cruised to a convincing 77-56 win over the Hawks. Saint Anselm shot 34.5% from the floor, the second-lowest total on the season that trails only the 28.3% field goal percentage recorded in the team's earlier game at Pace.
• In the two games against Pace this season, Saint Anselm is shooting just 31.5% from the floor (35-for-111) and only 33.9% from beyond the arc (19-for-56). The Setters, meanwhile, have shot 53.3% (57-for-107) from the field and have won the rebounding battle, 72-to-62.