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HACKENSACK, N.J. – The Fairleigh Dickinson University men's basketball team will travel to Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. for a Northeast Conference contest against St. Francis Brooklyn on Saturday, Jan. 19. Tipoff at the Pope Physical Education Center is slated for 4:30 p.m., following the FDU women's tilt with the Terriers.
The Knights will look to even their conference record after falling to 7-11 on the year and 2-3 in NEC play with an overtime loss to LIU Brooklyn on Thursday. In the loss, FDU senior Melquan Bolding (Mt. Vernon, N.Y./Bishop Stepinac) led the Knights with 22 points, while classmates Lonnie Robinson (Deerfield Beach, Fla./Deerfield Beach) and Kinu Rochford (Brooklyn, N.Y./James Madison) added 16 and 14 points for the Knights, respectively.
The trio leads the team on the season, each with double-digit points per game. Rochford has paced the Knights with 16.0 points and nearly 10 rebounds per contest and leads the NEC in rebounds per game and ranks among the top 10 in points per game.
Bolding and Robinson add 15.2 and 12.5 points per game and have both averaged over 36 minutes per game this season.
As a unit, the Knights are averaging 67.1 points per game and shooting 45.1 percent from the field, while connecting on 40.6 percent of three-point attempts. FDU has pulled down 29.7 rebounds per contest, six fewer than its opponents, while dishing out 13.7 assists, registering 5.7 steals and allowing 16.2 turnovers per game.
The Terriers of St. Francis Brooklyn are 7-9 on the year, with a 3-2 conference record after defeating Mount St. Mary's, Quinnipiac and Wagner but falling to Sacred Heart and Monmouth. Reigning NEC Coach of the Year Glenn Braica and the Terriers were selected to finish fifth in the conference this year in the preseason coaches' poll.
Sophomore Jalen Cannon leads the team with 16.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per game, while shooing 59.0 percent from the field. Ben Mockford and Akeem Johnson add 10.5 and 10.4 points per game for the Terriers, who combine for 69.4 points per game as a team.
The Terriers connect on 42.4 percent of shots from the field and bring down an average of 34.7 rebounds per contest, while similarly to the Knights, recording 13 assists, 6.5 steals and 12.9 turnovers per contest.
FDU and St. Francis Brooklyn have met 86 times since 1955. The Knights hold the advantage in the overall series, 51-35, but have fallen five times in the last six meetings. Last season, the Knights fell 62-51 at the Pope Physical Education Center before defeating the Terriers in the season finale, 45-44, at Stratis Arena.
Following Saturday's contest, the Knights will travel to West Long Branch, N.J. to face in-state rival Monmouth University on Thursday, Jan. 24. Tipoff at the Multipurpose Activity Center is scheduled for 7 p.m.
