Feb. 12, 2016 Gameday Information
Navy (17-9, 8-5 PL) at Lafayette (5-19, 2-11 PL)
Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016 at 2 PM (ET)
Easton, Pa. | Kirby Sports Center (3,500)
TV: RCN / WBPH-60 in local Easton area
Live Video: Patriot League Network
Live Statistics | Navy Game Notes
Navy Radio Network: 1430 AM / 99.9 FM WNAV
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Navy men's basketball team (17-9, 8-5 PL) will play at Lafayette (5-19, 2-11 PL) on Saturday at 2 PM. Navy will seek its 11th road win of the season and will look to complete a season sweep of the Leopards.
Saturday's game will have free live streaming on the Patriot League Network and on navysports.com. The game will be televised in the local Easton area on RCN and WBPH-60. Pete Medhurst will announce the game on the Navy Radio Network on 1430 AM / 99.9 FM WNAV. Live statistics will also be available.
Midshipmen Storylines
• Navy enters Saturday's game at 17-9 overall and 8-5 in Patriot League play.
• Navy is in a three-way tie for second place in the Patriot League standings at 8-5 with Lehigh and Boston U. The three teams trail first-place Bucknell (10-3) by two games. Navy has five games left in the regular season.
• Navy is coming off a 71-51 win at Loyola on Wednesday evening.
• Tilman Dunbar scored 20 points with six assists, Shawn Anderson added 18 points and Will Kelly posted 14 points, five rebounds, four assists and four blocked shots against Loyola.
• Navy established a program record with its 10th road win of the season at Loyola.
• Navy is 10-2 in true road games this year and is one shy of Monmouth (11-4) for the most in the NCAA.
• Dunbar is on a career-best six-game streak of scoring in double figures. He is averaging 17.3 points during the stretch.
• Dunbar has 986 career points and 395 career assists. He is 14 points and five assists from becoming the fourth player in program history with 1,000 points and 400 assists.
• He would be joining Erik Harris ('91), Kylor Whitaker ('86) and Rob Romaine ('84).
• Anderson leads Navy in scoring at 12.6 points per game and is joined in double figures by Dunbar (10.7) and sophomore Jace Hogan (10.4).
• Kelly averages 9.7 points, a team-best 5.3 rebounds and a Patriot League-best 2.7 blocked shots per game.
• Kelly ranks seventh in the NCAA in total blocks (69) and is 14th in blocks per game (2.7).
• Kelly ranks third in school history with 181 career blocked shots. He is eight blocks from tying Sitapha Savane ('00) for second-place in school history with 189.
• Kelly's 69 blocks this season are the seventh-most in a single season at Navy.
• Navy leads the Patriot League in scoring defense (62.5), field goal percentage defense (.408), rebounds allowed (30.8), rebounding margin (+4.5), blocked shots (3.9) and turnovers forced (13.8).
• Navy ranks 14th in the NCAA in scoring defense (62.5).
• Navy has already increased its overall win total for the fourth straight season under head coach Ed DeChellis (13-19 last season).
• Navy has also matched last year's conference win total (8-10).
• DeChellis won his 50th game at Navy on Wednesday against Loyola.
• Navy is seeking its best overall record since going 19-11 in 2008-09.
• Navy is receiving votes in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25 Poll for the ninth time this season.
Lafayette Storylines
• Lafayette enters Saturday's game at 5-19 overall and 2-11 in Patriot League play. Lafayette sits in 10th place in the Patriot League standings.
• The Leopards are coming off a 67-53 loss at Holy Cross on Wednesday.
• Lafayette has dropped eight straight games with two of those contests being overtime losses to Army West Point and Boston University.
• Senior guard Bryce Scott led Lafayette with 18 points on 5-of-8 3-point shooting against Holy Cross on Wednesday.
• Junior guard Nick Lindner leads Lafayette in scoring (14.3) and assists (4.2) this season.
• Sophomore forward Matt Klinewski is second on the team in scoring (13.5) and first in rebounding (5.4). Scott is third in scoring at 12.9 points per game.
• Lafayette is last in the Patriot League in scoring defense, giving up 81.8 points per game.
• Lafayette won the 2015 Patriot League Tournament Championship as the #4 seed before falling to Villanova in the NCAA Tournament, 93-52.
• Fran O'Hanlon is in his 21st season at Lafayette and is the longest-tenured coach in the Patriot League.
Series History vs. Lafayette
• Navy is seeking to finish off a season sweep of the Leopards.
• Navy earned an 87-61 win over Lafayette in Annapolis on Jan. 16.
• Will Kelly posted 17 points and eight rebounds and the Mids shot 56 percent.
• Navy had a season-best nine 3-pointers and scored a season-high 87 points scored against the Leopards in January.
• Navy has not swept the season series against Lafayette since 2007.
• Navy leads the all-time series, 44-32, and has won three of the last five contests.
• Lafayette is 19-11 in games played in Easton.
• Navy won the last meeting at the Kirby Sports Center, posting a 69-65 win on Jan. 3, 2015.
Looking Ahead
• Navy will return home to host Lehigh on Wednesday at 7 PM before hosting rival Army West Point on Saturday at 1:30 PM.
• Navy defeated Lehigh, 69-64, in Bethlehem on Jan. 20 and also beat Army, 64-50, in West Point on Feb. 1.
Mids Set Program Record for Most Road Wins
• Navy set a program record with its 10th road win of the season with its 71-51 win at Loyola on Feb. 10.
• Navy has a 10-2 record in true road games this season and Navy is also 2-1 in neutral-site games for an overall record of 12-3 in games played away from home.
• The previous road win program record was nine. Navy's 1985 team was 9-4 in road games and the 1987 team was 9-3.
• Navy played seven-straight games away from home during the non-conference slate and the team developed "Road Warriors" as a team moniker and mentality. Navy was 6-1 during that stretch.
• Navy's road wins this season have come against USC Upstate, UMBC, UNCG, Penn, VMI, Boston University, Colgate, Lehigh, Army and Loyola.