BLOOMSBURG (1-0, 0-0 PSAC East) vs LINCOLN (0-2, 0-0 CIAA)
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 7:00 p.m.
Bloomsburg, Pa. | Nelson Field House

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STARTING FIVE ...
1 - Bloomsburg improved to 12-0 lifetime against Penn State Hazleton after a convincing 87-47 victory over the Lions on Friday night to open the 2016-17 regular season. The Huskies used a 30-0 run early in the first half to blow open what was an 11-9 game. Newcomers Karonn Davis (Philadelphia, Pa./Friends' Central (Niagara Univ.)), Carnell McGirt (Philadelphia, Pa./Roman Catholic (Valley Forge Military Academy)), Khyree Hunt-Hawkins (Philadelphia, Pa./George Washington (Baltimore City CC)), and Sam Saxton (York, Pa./Central York (Le Moyne)) combined to score 44 of the team's 87 points.

2 - Redshirt junior Christian Mortellite (Hammonton, N.J./Hammonton) opened the season with a game-high 20 points in the win over Penn State Hazleton. He has now posted double digits in 38 of his last 39 games dating back to the 2014-15 season. He is one three-pointer shy of moving into a tie for fifth place on the school's all-time career three-pointers made list and he needs 109 points to become the 29th player in school history to record 1,000 career points.

3 - Division I transfer Karonn Davis (Philadelphia, Pa./Friends' Central (Niagara Univ.)) started his Bloomsburg career with 14 points, four assists, two rebounds, and two steals in the win at Penn State Hazleton. He played two seasons at Niagara University and led the Purple Eagles with 81 assists as a redshirt freshman in 2014-15.

4 - Junior Kyle-Michael Rose (Middletown, Del./Sanford School (Highland CC)) made just his third start in a Huskies' uniform on Friday night and posted just his third career double-digit scoring effort with 12 points (6-of-6 from the field) and six rebounds. Rose led the Huskies with 41 blocked shots last season while averaging 3.8 points and 3.0 rebounds.

5 - Junior transfer Carnell McGirt (Philadelphia, Pa./Roman Catholic (Valley Forge Military Academy)) posted a double-double in his first career game with the Huskies, scoring 11 points and grabbing 10 rebounds in the win over Penn State Hazleton. He played two seasons at Valley Forge Military Academy and was an NJCAA Third Team All-American last season.

THE LINCOLN SERIES ...
Bloomsburg leads the all-time series against Lincoln, 3-1.

LAST MEETING AGAINST LINCOLN ...
The two teams last met on November 28, 2015 at Lincoln with the Huskies escaping with a 74-68 victory over the Lions. Bloomsburg led by two at halftime and then held on for the six-point victory. Christian Mortellite (Hammonton, N.J./Hammonton) scored a game-high 23 points while Donell Diggs (Washington, D.C./Takoma Academy (Prince George's CC)) (11), Charles Haigler (Charles Town, W. Va./Hargrave Military Academy) (10), and Malik Garner (Philadelphia, Pa./Chestnut Hill Academy) (10) also finished in double figures. The Huskies held a slight 39-35 edge in rebounding. Quaman Burton led the Lions with 18 points while Jordan Watson chipped in with 17.
 
SCOUTING THE LIONS ...
Lincoln University enters the contest with an 0-2 record having lost to a pair of PSAC Western Division opponents at the IUP Tip-Off Tournament last weekend. In the opener, Lincoln dropped a 101-82 decision to the host Crimson Hawks and then suffered a 78-60 loss to Pitt-Johnstown on Saturday evening. Lincoln is coached by former NBA player, Doug Overton, who had a 12-year career with eight different teams. In the opener at IUP on Friday night, the Lions were led by Khayyir Laws who posted 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting. Jordan Watson chipped in with 16 while Joshua Davis and Vernon Young added 13 apiece in the loss. On Saturday, against the Mountain Cats, Watson (13) and Davis (10) were the only Lions to reach double figures in scoring. Lincoln outrebounded Pitt-Johnstown, 33-31, but allowed the Mountain Cats to shoot 13-of-28 from long distance (46.4%).   

DOWNTOWN WITH THE HUSKIES ...
The Huskies have made at least one three-pointer in 155 consecutive games. The last time Bloomsburg did not make a three in a game was on December 4, 2010 in a 54-51 loss at Lock Haven when it went 0-7 from beyond the arc. In Friday's victory at Penn State Hazleton, Bloomsburg shot 10-of-21 (47.6%) from long distance. The Huskies made ten three-pointers in a game just one time last season - an 85-59 home victory against Millersville on February 17, 2016 (10-of-17).

CLOSING IN ...
Redshirt junior Christian Mortellite (Hammonton, N.J./Hammonton) is closing in on becoming the 29th player in school history to record 1,000 career points. After scoring 20 in the season opener at Penn State Hazleton, Mortellite is just 109 points away from the milestone. He is also just one three-pointer away from moving into a three-way tie for fifth place on the school's all-time triples made list. Mortellite has made 121 career three-pointers and needs one to tie Aaron Carter (1998-02) and Mike Cheatle (2004-06) to move into the top five. Lorenzo Christmas holds the school record with 237 career threes from 2010-14.

NEWCOMERS MAKE AN IMPACT ...
In Friday's season-opening win at Penn State Hazleton, four new faces - Karonn Davis (Philadelphia, Pa./Friends' Central (Niagara Univ.)), Khyree Hunt-Hawkins (Philadelphia, Pa./George Washington (Baltimore City CC)), Carnell McGirt (Philadelphia, Pa./Roman Catholic (Valley Forge Military Academy)), and Sam Saxton (York, Pa./Central York (Le Moyne)) combined to score 44 points - just over half of the team's 87 - in the 40-point victory. Davis led the way with 14 points while McGirt posted a double-double (11 points and 10 rebounds) in his first game with the Huskies. Hunt-Hawkins (11) and Saxton (8) also had strong nights in their debuts. The foursome combined to shoot 16-of-26 (61.5%) from the field and 6-of-12 from long distance in the victory. Three true freshmen - Peyton Mortellite (Hammonton, N.J./Hammonton), Jordan Melochick (Port Carbon, Pa./Pottsville), and Maurice Coleman-Grier (Upper Darby, Pa./Upper Darby) did not appear in the win.

WELCOME BACK ...
Bloomsburg welcomed back two familiar faces in Friday's season-opener at Penn State Hazleton - senior Malik Sneed (Washington, D.C./Spingarn (Prince George's CC)) and redshirt sophomore Darius Robinson-Wallace (Philadelphia, Pa./Delaware Valley Charter). Sneed missed the second half of last season but averaged 4.8 points and 5.6 rebounds in 16 games in his first season with the Huskies. Sneed had six points and tied a game-high with ten rebounds while also blocking a pair of shots in Friday's win. Robinson-Wallace redshirted last season and returned to the lineup on Friday with four points, four rebounds, and two assists in 21 minutes.

MORTELLITE NAMED PRESEASON ALL-CONFERENCE ...
Redshirt junior Christian Mortellite (Hammonton, N.J./Hammonton) was named a preseason All-PSAC East selection after enjoying a breakout campaign with the Huskies a year ago. Mortellite was a First Team All-PSAC East performer after leading all Eastern Division players, and finishing fifth overall in the conference, in scoring (19.0 points per game). He was the only Bloomsburg player to finish in double figures in scoring last season and he also ranked second on the team in rebounding (6.0) and assists (2.2). He started the season on Friday with 20 points, seven rebounds, and four assists at Penn State Hazleton.

STRONG SEASON ...
The Huskies finished last season with a 17-10 overall record and a 15-7 mark in the PSAC Eastern Division. The Huskies won ten of their final twelve games during the regular season but suffered a last-second 80-78 loss at Shippensburg in the opening round of the PSAC tournament to end the season. Last year's 17 victories marked the second-highest single-season total under Sanow, who is entering his 11th season with the Huskies. Bloomsburg went 19-9 under Sanow during the 2011-12 campaign. Meanwhile, the Huskies' 15-7 conference record tied Sanow's 2011-12 squad for the best league record under his tutelage.

SANOW SECOND IN CAREER WINS AT BU ...
Head coach John Sanow is in his 11th season as the head coach of the Bloomsburg men's basketball program and has guided the Huskies to a 119-151 overall record to date - second in Bloomsburg history among career wins. Bloomsburg's 91-84 win at East Stroudsburg on January 30 was #113, which moved him ahead of Harold S. Shelly who won 112 games with the Huskies from 1949-1960. However, Sanow has a long time to catch the program's all-time leader, Charlie Chronister, who compiled 559 victores from 1971-2002.

UP NEXT ...
Bloomsburg will jump right into conference action when it hosts Pitt-Johnstown on Saturday, November 19 and IUP on Sunday, November 20 at the Nelson Field House. Both start times are scheduled for 3:00 p.m.