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MEN'S BASKETBALL TO TAKE ON ADELPHI, WEDNESDAY AT 7 PM IN SECOND HALF OF BASKETBALL DOUBLE HEADER AT TED GRANT COURT

11/30/2021 5:18:00 PM

By: James McGlynn, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

Syracuse, N.Y. - Le Moyne College will host a basketball double header on Wednesday, December 1 at Ted Grant Court as both programs will take on NE10 adversary Adelphi University Panthers.

The two women's programs will play first with tip-off scheduled for 5 p.m. EST. The two men's programs will battle afterwards with tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m..
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The Le Moyne College men's basketball team currently holds a 3-2 record and is most recently coming off a dominant 70-44 road win over University of the Sciences on Sunday afternoon. Prior to that the Dolphins lost a nail-biter at The College of Saint Rose by a score of 88-84.

In Philadelphia, during the win over USciences, the Dolphins were led in scoring by redshirt-freshman guard Jack Poirier (Scituate, Mass./Scituate), who finished the contest with 14 points. Christian Davis (Denver, Colo./Mullen/New Hampton School) contributed 13 points during the impressive team performance, marking the fifth consecutive game that the redshirt-freshman guard has scored at least ten points.

Davis is shooting a scorching 46% from three-point land, a commendable 51% from the field, and a perfect 100% from the free-throw line (in 12 attempts). The 6'6" guard is leading the team in scoring with 16.6 points per game while grabbing 5.0 rebounds per contest.

Through the first five games of the season fellow redshirt-freshman guard Kevin Constant (Lawrence, Mass./Central Catholic/Tilton School) is nearly also residing in the heralded .50/.40/.90 shooting club. Constant is averaging 11.6 points in 28 minutes per game while shooting 58.5 from the field, a perfect 2-2 from outside the three-point line, and 8-9 from the free-throw line.

Senior guard Nino Hernandez (Gardner, Mass./The Winchendon School/Bryant) was second in scoring for Le Moyne during the close loss at Saint Rose, finishing the game with 18 points.

Hernandez is the third Dolphin currently averaging double-digit points, scoring 11 per game to go along with 4.8 rebounds in 23.8 minutes.

In the absence of several sidelined Le Moyne big men, versatile forwards Xavier Wilson (Spring Valley, N.Y./Archbishop Stepinac/The Hotchkiss School/Central Connecticut State) and Nicholas Johnson (Silver Springs, M.D./John F. Kennedy/Frostburg State/Montgomery College) have performed admirably for the Dolphins in the interior.

Wilson is averaging 9.6 points and 4.2 rebounds per contest, and Johnson is grabbing 5.6 rebounds per game off the bench.

Sophomore point guard Jeremiah Washington (Chicago, ILL./Bogan/Ferris State) is playing a team-high 32.0 minutes per game. Washington is scoring 8.8 points, grabbing 2.0 rebounds and providing 5.2 assists per contest.
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The Adelphi University Panthers are led by head Coach Dave Duke, and currently hold a 4-1 record. Their one loss came on November 20 during their only NE10 Conference game so far this season against The College of Saint Rose, a 82-81 setback at home.

Since the loss to Saint Rose the Panthers earned a 70-65 victory over Jefferson University on November 23, and cruised to an 84-69 win over the College of Staten Island on November 29.

Senior guard Ronnie Silva leads the team in scoring, averaging 19.6 points per game. Silva is shooting 46.8 percent from the field, 39.1% from beyond the arc and 85.7% from the foul-line. The 5'9" guard from Nashua, New Hampshire is making on average 3.6 three-point field goals per game, and went off for 37 points, including six made three-pointers, during Adelphi's win over CSI on the 29th.

Graduate guard Adonis Williams plays 29.8 minutes a game for the Panthers, and shoots an impressive 66% from the field while scoring 15.6 points and grabbing 7.4 rebounds per contest.

Fellow graduate guard Chris Coalman scored 20 points during his team's first NE10 battle of the season against Saint Rose, and is averaging 12.2 points and 4.2 rebounds per game.

Freshman shooting guard Jake Hlywiak is converting on a blistering 47% of his three-point field goal attempts. 32 of the 34 shots that Hlywiak has taken during his first five games as a Panther have come from behind the three-point line. Hlywiak is averaging 9.4 points in 23.4 minutes per game so far this season.

Redshirt-senior Isaiah Salter is playing 31.8 minutes a game for Adelphi and averaging a team-high 6.4 assists per contest.
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The last time these two men's basketball programs met in February of 2020, Adelphi came away with a 107-99 win on Ted Grant Court. Prior to that loss, Le Moyne had won the previous eight meetings between the two sides dating back to February of 2016.

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