Four-Game Home Stand Concludes With Boston University on NESN

Thursday, December 13

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

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Four-Game Home Stand Concludes With Boston University on NESN

12/12/2018 3:23:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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Dartmouth will play the Terriers for the first time in 16 years on Thursday evening

By: Rick Bender

DARTMOUTH (6-5)
vs. BOSTON UNIVERSITY (6-4)
Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 | 7 PM | NESN / ESPN+
Leede Arena (2,100) | Hanover, N.H.

• Dartmouth hosts Boston University on Thursday night in the first meeting between the two schools in 16 years with NESN televising the game live and a simulcast on ESPN+.
• The Big Green are aiming for their first three-game win streak in nearly two years after victories over Maine (78-52) and Sacred Heart (82-73).
• No surprise here, but Dartmouth has been successful when hitting at least 49 percent from the floor, winning all six games, while losing the five contests in which they shot less than that figure.
• Sophomore Adrease Jackson, who had not scored in double figures in four-straight games, broke out with a game-high 20 points in the win over the Pioneers on Monday, hitting all eight of his shots inside the arc.
• Dartmouth's leading scorer, sophomore Chris Knight, came pretty close to pulling off the sixth triple-double in Big Green history with seven points, 12 rebounds and a career-high nine assists.
• I made it this far without mentioning 3-pointers, but I cannot hold back any longer. The Green hit 11 on Monday and are currently fifth nationally in threes per game (11.7) and seventh in accuracy (42.3 percent).
• Junior Brendan Barry has contributed more to the 3-point numbers than anyone, hitting 36-of-66 (.545) to rank sixth in the country in percentage. He is also the D-I active leader in accuracy at 47.3 percent with 114 triples to his credit.
• Don't sleep on juniors James Foye and Ian Sistare, both of whom are also hitting better than 50 percent behind the arc as well, but they don't qualify for the national rankings (minimum 2.5 made threes per game).

Series vs. Boston University
• This old series is being revived after a 16-year slumber. Dartmouth enjoys a hefty 21-7 advantage, but the Terriers won the last two meetings that took place at the turn of this century.
• The first contest between the two came on Feb. 11, 1925 with the Big Green beating BU in Hanover, 47-30.
• Dartmouth won 14 of the first 15 games (the lone exception coming in 1950), and the series has been more evenly matched since 1965 at 7-6 in favor of the Green.
• Dartmouth is 97-139 all-time against current Patriot League schools, including the 82-80 victory at Loyola Maryland back on Nov. 11.

Scouting the Terriers
• Boston University is on a roll of late, winning its last three contests, but this will be its first game since a 79-60 win over UMass Lowell on Dec. 4.
• The Terriers are a solid shooting club, hitting 47.4 percent from the floor, but only 32.7 percent on threes.
• Max Mahoney is an efficient scorer in the post at 15.0 ppg while shooting 65.5 percent.
• Tyler Scanlon (14.2 ppg) and Javante McCoy (10.8) are the Terriers' other consistent scorers with the latter the top 3-point threat at 17-of-43 (39.5 percent).
• Scanlon and Mahoney are the top rebounders at over five per game apiece, and BU makes hitting the boards a team effort, besting the opposition by over two rebounds per game.
• The Terriers have struggled a bit at the foul line, hitting just 64.2 percent of their free throws, though McCoy is at a robust 85 pct. (17-of-20).
• Former Columbia head coach Joe Jones (SUNY Oswego '87) is in his eighth season at BU with a 128-106 record entering this game. The brother of Yale head coach James Jones also spent seven seasons helming the Lions and is an even 214-214 in 15 years as a D-I head coach.

Above .500
The 82-73 win over Sacred Heart boosted Dartmouth's record to 6-5, the latest the Green have been above .500 after at least 11 games since the 2013-14 team began the season with seven wins in its first 11 contests. Dartmouth has not finished a season at .500 or better in 20 years (14-12 in 1998-99).

Jackson Breaks Out
Sophomore Adrease Jackson led the Big Green in scoring through six games, but failed to reach double figures in the next four contests. That slump ended against Sacred Heart as the 6-8 forward dropped 20 points on the Pioneers thanks to hitting all eight of his shots inside the arc. It was his second 20-point game of the season and third of his career.

Near Triple-Double
Although Chris Knight struggled from the floor in the 82-73 win over Sacred Heart on Dec. 10, shooting just 3-of-13 from the floor, the sophomore quietly nearly pulled off the sixth triple-double in program history. The Big Green's leading scorer on the season only had seven points, but he matched a personal best with 12 rebounds, and dished out a career-high nine assists. Those are the most helpers by a Dartmouth player since Brendan Barry handed out 10 at Notre Dame last year, and nearly doubled his previous best output. He even added four blocks to tie a career high for good measure.

Lighting It Up
• Dartmouth ranks fifth in the nation in 3-pointers made (11.7 per game) and seventh in percentage as a team (.423) after going 11-of-29 from the perimeter against Sacred Heart.
• The Big Green are well on pace to shatter the program record of 263 3-pointers made — set in the 2001-02 season — with 129 treys after just 11 games. At that rate, Dartmouth would finish the regular season with 352.
• Dartmouth started the year with four straight games with at least 10 3-pointers, its longest such streak since a six-game stretch in 2002.
• Brendan Barry ranks sixth in the country at 54.5 percent (36-of-66) behind the arc while James Foye (54.8) and Ian Sistare (53.8) have not made quite enough triples to qualify for the rankings.
• The Big Green hit 22 trifectas in the season opener, breaking the team record of 18 set in a win over Albany on Jan. 20, 2001.
• Dartmouth has had 15 or more 3-pointers in a game three times this season after reaching that total just four times previously since the 3-point line was instituted 32 years ago.

49 Percent Threshold
It seems that Dartmouth has set the bar for its shooting percentage at 49 percent in order to win a game. The Big Green shot 52.4 percent from the floor against Sacred Heart in the 82-73 win, improving to 6-0 when shooting at least 49 percent. Below that mark and they are 0-5. Granted, the threshold could be 48 or 47 percent since the highest field goal percentage in a loss thus far is 46.4 percent at Davidson back on Nov. 9.

Ivy League Player of the Week
Chris Knight picked up his second career Ivy League weekly award a day shy of exactly a year after getting his first (Rookie of the Week) when the conference office selected him as the Player of the Week on Dec. 10. The sophomore forward had a career-high 23 points in a loss to Quinnipiac before registering his second double-double of the season — 17 points, career-high 12 rebounds — in the 78-52 triumph over Maine. Knight averaged 20.0 points and 7.5 rebounds for the two contests.

Foye, Sistare … Twins?
OK, James Foye and Ian Sistare don't look anything alike, but statistically speaking, they look very similar this year. Let's do a comparison!

Statistic	Foye	Sistare
Field Goals	42-74 (.568)	39-73 (.534)
3-Pointers	23-42 (.548)	21-39 (.538)
Free Throws	9-10 (.900)	15-17 (.882)
Rebounds	36 (3.3)	35 (3.2)
Points	116 (10.5)	114 (10.4)

Foye has only the slightest of edges, just like his extra inch of height, but you probably can't see that difference either.

I Know You!
Just throwing this in here … Adrease Jackson and BU freshman Jordan Guest were high school teammates at Santa Margarita High in California two years ago.