The Navy (12-11, 5-6) men's basketball team heads back out on the road this weekend to close its season series with Holy Cross (8-16, 5-6) with a Saturday afternoon game (2 p.m.) in Worcester.

Five Starting Notes
1 – Saturday's game is the fourth road game in a five-game stretch for the Mids.  Navy will play just two road games over the last six games of the regular season, with one of those two road games being a short drive to Washington, D.C., to face American.
2 – Five of the last seven games in the Navy-Holy Cross series have been decided by single digits.
3 – With one more point, Tyler Nelson will become the 11th Mid on the team to set a new personal single-season scoring high this year.
4 – Sean Yoder enters the weekend with 99 career games played.  Nelson played career game No. 100 Jan. 21 at Army.
5 – Seniors at the USNA who received surface warfare officer for their service assignment selected their initial ships on Feb. 2.  Christian Jones selected the USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), a destroyer based in San Diego, Calif.  Tyler Nelson selected the USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), a landing helicopter dock ship based in Norfolk, Va.

Game Day Info
•    The game will be streamed through ESPN+ and televised by NBC Sports Boston.
•     Live statistics will be available through NavySports.com.

Last Game - Navy 53, Lafayette 34
•    Lafayette held a 21-19 lead when the Mids scored the next eight points to points to take a 28-21 lead on its way to holding a 30-23 lead at the half.
•    After a second-half opening basket by the Leopards (30-25), the Mids built leads of 36-25 and 43-28.
•    A Lafayette basket with 7:21 remaining made the score 47-34.  Those were the last points scored by the Leopards, who shot 16 percent from the field after halftime.
•    Navy held Lafayette to 11 second-half points.
•    Daniel Deaver was 8-11 from the floor in scoring a game-high 16 points.  He also led the Mids in rebounds (9), steals (3) and blocks (2) and shared the lead in assists (3).

Mids Hold Leopards to Scoring Lows 
•    Navy allowed just 11 second-half points in its 53-34 victory at Lafayette on Feb. 1.
•    The 11 second-half points tied the Navy record for the fewest points allowed in a half in a league regular season game.  
•    The 34 points scored by the Leopards also tied the Navy record for the fewest allowed in a league regular season game.
•    Those marks tied the 11 first-half points and 34 points in all scored by Holy Cross on Feb. 7, 2018.
•    Additionally, those are tied, respectively, for the fourth-fewest points scored in a half and in a game by any Navy foe since box scores became available in 1952-52.

Statistical Rarity by Deaver 
•    Daniel Deaver led Navy in points (16), rebounds (9), steals (3) and blocks (2) and shared the team lead in assists (3) in the team's Feb. 1 game at Lafayette.
•    The last time a Mid led or shared the team lead in all five statistical categories was exactly seven years ago (Feb. 1, 2016) when Will Kelly did so at Army.  
•    Kelly led Navy in points (15), rebounds (10), assists (2) and blocks (2) and shared the team lead in steals (2).

About Holy Cross 
•    Holy Cross has posted an overall record of 8-16 and a Patriot League record of 5-6.
•    The Crusaders have compiled home records of 5-6 overall and 2-3 in league play.
•    Holy Cross won, 82-70, at Boston U. Wednesday.  It had posted a 1-5 records in its six prior games.

Navy-Holy Cross Series
•    Holy Cross holds a 47-27 advantage in the all-time series with Navy.  The Crusaders lead the Mids, 25-8, in games played in Worcester.
•    Holy Cross leads Navy, 37-24, in Patriot League regular season games played between the teams.  The Crusaders hold a 22-8 advantage in league regular season games played in Worcester.
•    The teams have split the two-game regular season series in each of the last three years (2019, 2020, 2022).
•    The road team has won each of the last three games, which followed a stretch where the home team had won four-straight and 13 of 15 games.
•    The series dates back to the 1947 NCAA Tournament when Holy Cross won a 55-47 decision in a first round game played in New York City.  The second game in the series also occurred in the NCAA Tournament.  The Crusaders defeated the Mids, 87-74, in another first round game played in Philadelphia.

Dorsey vs. Dorsey
•    Saturday's game will feature Navy's Patrick Dorsey going against his brother, Nolan Dorsey, from Holy Cross.
•    The siblings were on the same floor for one game last season and the first game this season.
•    Patrick and Nolan each wear No. 21 in honor of their late father, Alan Dorsey, who wore that number while playing at James Madison.

Miscellaneous Game Records
•    The Mids have tallied a 61-70 record against teams located in Massachusetts.
•    Navy has totaled a 24-35 record in games played in Massachusetts.
•    Navy has posted a 16-13 record in games played on Feb. 4.  This includes a 2-5 record in Patriot League regular season games played on the date.

Up Next
•    Navy plays the first of back-to-back home games Wednesday when it faces Bucknell in Alumni Hall.
•    The Bison won a 78-71 decision at American Wednesday to give them an overall record of 9-15 and a league record of 2-9.

Navy Relying on Long-Range Shot
•    Through games of Feb. 2, Navy is tied for 10th nationally in three-point field goal percentage (.389) and 66th in three-point field goals made per game (8.64).

Life on the Road 
•    Navy has posted a 1-4 record in league home games and a 4-2 record in league road games.
•    The Mids have compiled an 11-4 record in league road games since the start of the 2021-22 season.  Navy posted a 7-2 record in league road games last year.