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The Fairleigh Dickinson men's basketball team will look to end its nine-game losing streak on Thursday when they restart Northeast Conference play with a home contest against the red-hot Seahawks of Wagner.  Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at Stratis Arena in Hackensack, NJ.
 
The Knights (1-11) commenced the New Year with a 67-52 road loss at Columbia this past Monday.  With the game tied at 14 in the first half, the Lions scored the next 13 points and ended the half on a 17-3 run over the final 8:45 of the half to take a 31-17 halftime lead and would cruise to the victory.
 
Junior Kinu Rochford (Brooklyn, N.Y./James Madison) led the Knights with 15 points and grabbed six rebounds.  Junior Melquan Bolding (Mt. Vernon, N.Y./Bishop Stepinac) came off the bench to score 11 points, while junior Lonnie Robinson (Deerfield Beach, Fla./Deerfield Beach) added 10 points and pulled down a team-high seven rebounds which was a career high.

Scouting Wagner: The Seahawks (10-3), who were picked to finish fourth in the Northeast Conference, are off to their best start since the 1968-69 season.  They finished the non-conference schedule with a school-record 9-2 record and won 10 games before the end of the calendar year for the first time in school history.
 
Wagner comes into the game on a three-game win streak which started with a victory at No. 15 Pittsburgh on December 23.  The Seahawks also won the championship at the 45th Cable Car Classic in Santa Clara, CA with victories over Air Force and host Santa Clara.  Wagner has played two common opponents that the Knights have played this season in Lafayette and Lehigh.  The Seahawks won at Lafayette (76-70), while the Knights fell 85-74.  Both teams lost to Lehigh at home (WC lost 70-69; FDU lost 72-61).  The only other two losses Wagner suffered were at No. 4 Connecticut (78-66) and at NEC-favorite Long Island (78-73).   The Seahawks are 5-2 in true road games this season.
 
Sophomore guard Latif Rivers leads Wagner in scoring at 14.2 ppg and is shooting 90.4 percent (47-of-52) from the free throw line.  Junior guard Jonathon Williams is the team's second leading scorer at 12.8 ppg and leads the team in rebounding at 5.4 rpg.  He is also shooting 50.4 percent (63-of-125) from the floor.  Senior guard Tyler Murray chips in 12.7 ppg, while knocking down 49.5 percent of his field goal attempts including 51.7 percent (30-of-58) from three-point range.

All-Time Series: This will be the 91st meeting between the two schools which dates back to the 1955-56.  The Knights hold a 49-41 advantage including a 27-18 advantage at home.  Wagner won last season in Staten Island, 61-57.  FDU won, 70-65, at Stratis Arena two seasons ago and won at Wagner, 59-57, in double overtime during the 2008-09 campaign to snap the Seahawks' four-game win streak in the series.