Bryant returns to action Tuesday at New Hampshire
DURHAM, N.H. - The Bryant University men's basketball team looks for its fifth win in the month of November when Bryant travels to New Hampshire for a Tuesday night contest.
The Bulldogs enter their final game of the season's first month at 4-3 with wins over Cornell, Saint Peter's, NVU-Lyndon and Niagara. A victory Tuesday would match the 2012-13 team for Bryant's most in November (5) and the highest total against Division I competition (4) since joining Division I in 2008-09.
The Particulars
Opponent: New Hampshire
Location: Lundholm Gymnasium (Durham, N.H.)
Date and Time: Tuesday, Nov. 26 – 7 p.m.
Watch: ESPN3
Live Stats: Sidearm Stats
Game Notes: Bryant
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SCOUTING THE WILDCATS
New Hampshire is 3-3 on the year with victories over Holy Cross, Central Connecticut and Division III Curry. The Wildcats were held off by James Madison Saturday in a 78-71 contest in Virginia.
Four Wildcats are averaging between 12 and 16 points per game, led by 15.8 from Nick Guadarrama along with 10.0 rebounds per game for the sophomore. Junior Sean Sutherlin has added 14.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. UNH is outrebounding its opponents by 7.5 per game.
THE SERIES
The Bulldogs and Wildcats are meeting for the eighth consecutive season. Bryant defeated UNH 75-65 in last year's meeting in Smithfield with a double-double from SaBastian Townes (Chesapeake, Va.) and 20 points each from Adam Grant (Franklin, Va.) and Byron Hawkins.
LAST TIME OUT: DREXEL 86, BRYANT 74
Freshman Charles Pride (Syracuse, N.Y.) scored a career-high 25 points and Grant added 24, but Bryant was held to one three-pointer and had its four-game winning streak snapped Wednesday in Philadelphia.
CONNECT FOUR
Bryant's winning streak from Nov. 10-18 gave the Bulldogs four straight wins for the first time since Bryant defeated Saint Francis U, Fairleigh Dickinson, Wagner and Central Connecticut Jan. 8-17, 2015.
GLASS IS IN SESSION
Bryant had zero games of 50 or more rebounds through the Bulldogs' first 340 Division I contests, never reaching more than 46 after 11 seasons and three games.
The Bulldogs have rewritten that column of the record book over the last two weeks, grabbing 53 rebounds at Saint Peter's, 55 vs. NVU-Lyndon and 52 at Niagara for Bryant's three highest rebounding totals in the program's D1 era in a span of three games.
Bryant's 314 total rebounds rank first in the nation, while the Bulldogs 44.9 per game average is 10th.
BOARD MAN GETS WINS
Sophomore Patrick Harding (Fairfield, Conn.) is averaging 12.7 rebounds per game over his first seven games of 2019-20 and 14.6 during Bryant's last five games. The 12.7 average ranks fourth in the nation.
Harding has collected 34.7% of potential defensive rebounds while on the floor this season, good for sixth nationally.
STEAL MILL
Grant collected three steals Wednesday to move to 117 for his career and pass Corey Maynard for Bryant's Division I program record of 116 set in 2014.
Redshirt-junior Ikenna Ndugba (Boston, Mass.) is tied for fourth in the Bulldogs' D1 era with 107 steals.
CHARLES, TON OF POINTS
Pride dropped 25 points in Wednesday's contest at Drexel on 11-of-17 from the field. The 25 points were the most by a Bryant freshman since Grant scored 32 in a triple-overtime game against Sacred Heart on Jan. 14, 2017.
Pride became the fourth player in Bryant's D1 era to score 25 points without a made three-pointer, joining SaBastian Townes, Dan Garvin and Alex Francis.
The 11 made field goals for Pride ranked tied for ninth in a single game in Bryant's Division I tenure and were the most since Townes collected 13 in a win over St. Francis Brooklyn last January.
NEW DAWG CITY
Bryant's newcomers have provided 54.7% of the Bulldogs' scoring so far this season, including four of Bryant's top five in points per game. Freshmen Pride (12.7 ppg), Michael Green III (Bronx, N.Y.) (9.9) and Benson Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan) (6.7) rank second, third and fifth on the team in scoring.
OLD SCHOOL
Bryant scored 58 of its points Wednesday on two-point field goals, which was the Bulldogs' highest output since scoring 66 points on twos in an 88-72 win over Central Connecticut on Jan. 2, 2016.
UP NEXT: NAVY
Bryant returns home for its next two games, beginning with a contest next Monday against Navy. The matchup between the Bulldogs and Midshipmen will be a 7:30 p.m. tipoff following the Bryant women's basketball game vs. UMass Lowell. Tickets for the doubleheader are available HERE and the game can be seen on NEC Front Row with Adam Giardino and Chris Burns on the call.
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