Mid-Week Matchup at Hartford for Men's Basketball

GAMEDAY INFORMATION vs. HARTFORD HAWKS
Date & Time:	Wednesday, November 19, 7 p.m.	Dartmouth	Stats	Hartford
Location:	West Hartford, Conn.	0-0	Record	0-0
Arena (Cap.):	Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion (3,508)	Lost 1	Streak	Won 1
All-Time Series:	Hawks lead 9-6	57.0	Scoring	52.0
Tickets:	Information	.358	FG%	.380
Broadcast:	AmericaEast.tv	.375	3FG%	.311
Logistics:	Directions // Parking // Seating Chart	.684	FT%	.690
Twitter:	@DartmouthSports // @DartmouthMBK	+2.0	Reb Margin	-9.0
Dartmouth Links:	Home // Roster // Schedule // Stats // Notes	9.0	Assists	13.0
Hartford Links:	Home // Roster // Schedule // Stats // Notes	19.0	TO	16.0

Regrouping After Opener
•   Dartmouth looks to bounce back from its season opener at St. Bonaventure on Saturday, a 20-point loss in the first meeting between the two schools.
•   The Bonnies had 12 steals and forced 19 turnovers — more than the Big Green committed in any game last year — that led to 22 points, while Dartmouth failed to get a single steal and forced just seven miscues.
•   Last season's leading scorer, Alex Mitola, had 10 points to share the team-lead with Kevin Crescenzi. Both players hit a pair of three-pointers.
•   Forward Connor Boehm had perhaps the most complete game with seven points, a game-high 11 rebounds and a couple of assists.
•   The first dunk of the season came in the opener, courtesy of center Cole Harrison off a feed from Boehm. It came with 7:11 left in the first half.
•   Two players who missed close to the final half of the 2013-14 season returned to the court for the Big Green. Gabas Maldunas was leading the Ivy League in rebounding when he was sidelined last year provided eight points and nine boards, and Tommy Carpenter hit both of his field goals to score five points in 13 minutes.
•   Three of the four freshmen made their collegiate debuts, including Miles Wright who got the starting nod. Wright had six points and five rebounds, Taylor Johnson chipped in five points and Cameron Smith made a cameo in the final minutes of play.
•   Dartmouth managed to win the battle on the boards with 41 rebounds (16 offensive) compared to 39 (15 offensive) for the host Bonnies.

Series vs. Hartford
•   Dartmouth has taken on the Hawks 15 times on the hardwood and is 6-9 in the series that began in 1984 with the first game Hartford played at the Division I level, a 55-52 Big Green win in overtime.
•   That overtime win was the first game as a head coach for Paul Cormier, who is 8-2 against Hartford.
• Last year the Hawks handed the Green a 68-56 home loss as Taylor Dyson came off the bench to score 20 points and Mark Nwakamma had a double-double (10 points, 11 boards).
•   Dartmouth is 4-5 on the road against Hartford, but just 1-5 at Chase Arena since it opened in 1990. The lone win came in the last visit four years ago to the day, a 71-57 Big Green victory.
•   Against current America East teams, Cormier sports a record of 27-21.

Scouting the Hawks
•   Coming off consecutive 17-win seasons with 10-6 records in the America East, Hartford is looking to take a step forward under fifth-year head coach John Gallagher, who is 55-73 with the Hawks.
•   Hartford returns nine letterwinners and all five starters from last year's 17-16 squad and was picked to finish second in the league's preseason poll.
•   Mark Nwakamma, a two-time All-America East First Team selection, entered the season as the conference's active scorer leader with 1,212 points and averaged 15.3 points a game last year.
•   The Hawks opened the season in the Connecticut 6 Classic at the TD Bank Sports Center and suffered a 71-53 defeat against Sacred Heart, but rebounded in their home opener to nip Saint Peter's by a single point on Sunday, 51-50.
•   Taylor Dyson led Hartford with 15 points in the win while Nwakamma was saddled with foul trouble and played just 20 minutes.
•   Opponents have shot better than 50 percent against the Hawks' defense, but a paltry 14.8 percent (4-of-27) from long range.
•   The offense has struggled, shooting 38 percent thus far and 31.1 percent on three-pointers.

Season-Opening 20-Point Loss
Dartmouth had won its last two season openers, but both of those games came at Leede Arena. This year the Big Green began at one of the more hostile arenas in college basketball — the Reilly Center at St. Bonaventure — and succumbed to the Bonnies in a 77-57 game. The last loss in the season opener by at least that margin came in 2010 at Providence in what was an 87-52 defeat. Dartmouth has not won a season opener on the road since toppling Vermont, 86-76, in 1987, but has twice as many wins (76) as losses (38) in all season openers.

Ready … Boehm … Rebound
Junior Connor Boehm led the Big Green's rebounding efforts at St. Bonaventure on Nov. 15 by grabbing a game-high 11 boards, one shy of his career high. Dartmouth may have lost the game, but they edged the Bonnies on the glass, 41-39, with senior Gabas Maldunas chipping in nine.

Welcome to College
With senior wing John Golden sidelined with an injury for the first 4-6 weeks of the season, freshman Miles Wright was called upon to start in his first collegiate game. The rookie had a pair of field goals, one from downtown, to score six points while hauling in five rebounds in 25 minutes. Another freshman in Taylor Johnson played 22 minutes as well, tallying five points with a trifecta.

Maldunas Ready To Go
It may take a little time to get back in the swing of things, but senior Gabas Maldunas is back on the court after missing the last 13 games of the 2013-14 season. At the time he was hurt, Maldunas was leading the team in scoring (11.2 ppg) and was at the top of the Ivy League in rebounding (8.5 rpg) after earning a spot on the All-Ivy Second Team as a sophomore. In the season opener, he shook off the rust to produce eight points and nine boards.

Turnover Trouble
The most Dartmouth turned the ball over in 2013-14 was 18 times, just once, in a loss at Harvard. In the 2014-15 season opener, the Big Green coughed it up 19 times to host St. Bonaventure, including nine in the decisive first eight minutes of the second half that saw a one-point deficit balloon to 14. The last time Dartmouth had 20 miscues? At Harvard in 2012-13 with exactly 20.

Thou Shalt Not Steal
For the first time in 63 games, Dartmouth did not swipe the ball from an opponent even once in a game while St. Bonaventure took the ball a dozen times and went on to win by 20 points in the season opener on Nov. 15.

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