Army (15-10, 9-4 Patriot League) at Navy (9-17, 6-7 Patriot League)
Saturday, Feb. 15 • 1:30 p.m.
Alumni Hall • Annapolis, Md.

Series History
Overall: Navy leads, 86-56 / Patriot League: Navy leads, 44-23
Last Game: Navy, 66-53 / Jan. 26, 2025 (West Point, N.Y.)
at Navy: Navy leads, 47-25 / Patriot League: Navy leads, 21-13
Last Game: Navy, 57-53 / Jan. 20, 2024

Broadcast Information
Video: CBS Sports Network / Jason Knapp, Mo Cassara
Navy Radio: WNAV, WFED / Joe Miller, Mike Heary

Five Starting Notes
1 – The first Army-Navy game took place a few days shy of 105 years ago (Feb. 21, 1920).
2 – This is the 102nd season in which Army and Navy are facing each other.  The only four years in which the teams have not met since the first game were the 1928-29 through 1929-32 seasons.  Additionally, this is the 93rd season in a row in which there is an Army-Navy game.
3 – Navy has slightly outscored Army over the last 16 games by a total of 1,065-1,088 points and an average of 68.0-66.6 points per game.
4 – 12 of the last 13 games played in Annapolis have been decided by single digits.  This includes eight games determined by no more than five points.
5 – Navy's Ed DeChellis will be coaching in his 29th Army-Navy game on Sunday. That will tie Navy's Don DeVoe for the most Army-Navy games as a head coach by either school in the series.  Additionally, Navy assistant coach Emmett Davis will be coaching in his 43rd Army-Navy game on Saturday.

Game Information
•    Navy plays host to Army Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Alumni Hall in the annual Star Game -- part of the Army-Navy Star Series presented by USAA -- between the teams.
•    CBS Sports Network will televise the game.
•    WNAV and WFED will carry a radio broadcast of the game.
•    USAA also is the game sponsor.

Attending the Game
•    Only those vehicles driven by someone with a Department of Defense (DoD)-approved identification card will be allowed onto the USNA.
•    Fans without DoD approved vehicle access to the USNA must park outside of The Yard.  The simplest way to do this is to park ($10 per vehicle) at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (550 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis, Md., 21401).  Enter the blue / west parking lot through gate 5 off of Taylor Avenue.  The free fan shuttle bus will leave from and return to the Blue Angel jet.  The fan shuttle bus starts running at 9:30 a.m. and ends one hour after the conclusion of the second game.
•    Fans also can park downtown and walk through the gate one visitors center (52 King George St., Annapolis, MD, 21402) or gate eight.
•    Gate three will be open to pedestrians from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
•    Whether a visitor rides the shuttle bus or walks through one of the USNA gates, everyone ages 18 and over must have a valid picture ID (i.e.: State issued driver's license, student I.D., or a government issued passport). Visitors ages 17 and younger who do not have a valid picture ID must be accompanied by an adult. 
•    The doors to the seating area at Alumni Hall will open at 10 a.m.

Series History
•    The two service academy programs first met on Feb. 21, 1920, in West Point.  The Mids emerged with a 24-18 victory in that inaugural game.
•    Navy leads the all-time series by a count of 86-56.  This includes a 47-25 lead in games played at Navy and a 25-13 edge in games played in Alumni Hall.
•    The teams have been fellow members of the Patriot League since the 1991-92 season.  Navy holds a 44-23 lead in league regular season games played by the teams.  The Mids also are in front of the Black Knights, 21-13, in league games played at Navy, all of which have been played in Alumni Hall.

Trophy Game
•    The Alumni Trophy was first presented to the winner of the Star Game in 1984.  It consists of two 15-inch silver plates, one with the U.S. Military Academy seal and one with the U.S. Naval Academy seal.  
•    It was a gift of Capt. Victor Delano, USN (Ret.), a 1941 alumnus of the Naval Academy.
•    Due to natural wear and tear of the casing over the years, the trophy was refurbished during the 2022 summer.
•    Army posted a 69-67 overtime victory last year in West Point to earn possession of the trophy.

Close Games Are the Norm
•    Four of the last 10 games in the series have gone to overtime, as have six of the last 18 games.
•    20 of the last 27 games (since Feb. 11, 2012) have been decided by single digits.  This includes 10 games determined by five or fewer points.
•    12 of the last 13 games played in Annapolis (since Feb. 16, 2013) have been decided by single digits.  This includes eight games determined by no more than five points.

Series Longevity
•    This is the 102nd season in which Army and Navy are facing each other.  The only four years in which the teams have not met since the first game in 1919-20 were the 1928-29 through 1929-32 seasons.
•    Navy has faced Army in more seasons than any other opponent.
•    The 102 years of at least one Army-Navy game being played ranks second for the most seasons in which a Patriot League series has been contested
•    Army and Navy are meeting this year for the 93rd season in a row. That is the longest uninterrupted series among Patriot League programs.
•    Army and Navy will play for the 143rd time Saturday.  That ranks fourth for the most games played among Patriot League teams and first for the most games played by the Mids against an opponent.

Series Points Recently
•     The scoring between Army and Navy has been nearly identical over the last 16 games in the series.
•    Navy has outscored Army 1,088-1,065 in this span.

Series Three-Point Field Goals Made
•    The team that has made MORE three-point field goals has posted a 14-10 record over the last 24 games and a 42-31 record since the introduction of the three-point shot (there have been five games in which the teams made the same number of triples).

Halftime Leads in the Series
•    The team LEADING at halftime has posted an 11-4 record over the last 15 games and a 60-18 record since 1974 (there have been three games in which the score was tied at halftime).

Rebounding Leads in the Series
•    The team grabbing MORE rebounds has posted a 19-25 record over the last 47 games (there have been three games in which the teams grabbed the same number of rebounds) and a 47-42 record dating back to 1973 (there have been four games with the teams having the same number of rebounds).

Series by U.S. President
•    19 of the last 20 U.S. Presidents have been in office during an Army-Navy game.
•    The only President since the series began to not be in office during an Army-Navy game was Herbert Hoover (1929-33).  He began March 4, 1933, as the President, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn into office in ceremonies that began at noon prior to the start of that day's 2:30 p.m. Army-Navy game.

Series Venues
•    Alumni Hall will be playing host to its 39th Army-Navy men's basketball game on Sunday. 
•    That total ranks first for the most games in the series to be played in a venue.
•    The eight different Army-Navy venues is tied for fourth for the most in a Navy series against an opponent.

Army-Navy on the Airways
•    Saturday's game will be the 32nd Army-Navy game to be aired by the CBS Sports Network since its founding as CSTV in 2004-05.
•    Since the 1986-87 season, the series also has been televised by CBS (14), ESPNU (3), Home Team Sports (2) and Direct TV (2).

Army-Navy Head Coaches
•    Navy's Ed DeChellis will be coaching in his 29th Army-Navy game on Sunday.
•    He will tie Navy's Don DeVoe for the most games as a head coach from either school in the series.
•    Additionally, Navy assistant coach Emmett Davis will be coaching in his 43rd Army-Navy game on Saturday.  
•    Including his years as the head coach at Colgate, Davis will be facing Army for the 70th time.

Navy to Wear NASA Uniforms
•    Navy will wear its NASA-inspired uniforms during the game.
•    Fifty-four United States Naval Academy graduates have gone on to become astronauts, the most of any institution. The first Naval Academy graduate to become an astronaut was Alan Shepard ('45), who was the first American in space (May 5, 1961) and was one of NASA's first seven astronauts. Shepard's second space flight was on Feb. 5, 1971, when Apollo 14 landed on the moon and he went on two moonwalks.
•    The Naval Academy Athletic Association and Under Armour partnered with NASA to use the official "meatball" logo to accurately recreate the spacewalk suit.
•    The white uniform with red stripes and the American flag mimic markings on the NASA spacewalk suit. The Helvetica font was used for the numbers and wordmark.  This typeface has been used by NASA extensively for decades, from the space shuttle to signage and printouts. It is one of the most ubiquitous typefaces in the world.
•    The shorts' side-panels feature the NASA astronaut pin which was adopted in 1963. It was first given to Mercury 7 astronauts. The silver pin is awarded to astronauts after completing basic training and the gold pin is awarded after completion of a spaceflight mission.

On This Date
•    Navy has posted a 21-14 record in games played on Feb. 15.  This includes a 4-6 record in Patriot League games.
•    Saturday's game will be the first Army-Navy game to be played on Feb. 15.

Against New York
•    Navy has totaled a 234-190 record in games played against opponents located in New York.

A Look Back (Navy 66, Lehigh 53)
•    Navy held Lehigh without a made field goal for almost nine minutes, but that field goal drew the Mountain Hawks to within 8-5 of the Mids.
•    Navy soon took a 22-10 lead only to go into halftime holding a 26-16 lead.
•    The Navy lead grew to 15 points at 34-19 early in the second half.  Lehigh closed to within 39-32 and then 52-46 before making it a 56-52 lead with two minutes still to play.
•    It soon became a 58-55 game with 23 seconds left.  The Mids made 5-6 foul shots down the stretch to seal the decision.
•    Navy was 14-20 from the foul line and Lehigh was 7-14.  
•    Austin Benigni totaled 21 points, six assists and five rebounds.  Aidan Kehoe grabbed 15 boards.

A Look Ahead 
•    Navy returns to the road for a Wednesday game at Colgate.

Service Assignments
•     Seniors at the Naval Academy learned of their future service assignments on Nov. 21.
•    On the men's basketball team, Mitch Fischer received Navy aviation (flight officer), Lysander Rehnstrom received Marine Corps (ground) and Kam Summers received Navy aviation (pilot).

Benigni Scores 1,000th Point
•     Austin Benigni became the 27th Mid to score 1,000 career points during Navy's Jan. 18 game at Bucknell.
•    He reached the milestone in his 81st career game.  That ranks him 12th for the fewest games to score 1,000 points.
•    13 Mids who have played all four seasons during the program's Patriot League era have scored 1,000 points.
•    Ed DeChellis has now coached seven Navy players who have scored 1,000 career points.
•    The last to do so was John Carter Jr., on Jan. 22, 2022.
•    Benigni is in 24th place for the most career points by a Mid with 1,143.  

Kehoe On the Glass at Army
•     Aidan Kehoe set several standards during Navy's Jan. 26 game at West Point.
•    He snared 20 rebounds on the afternoon, which broke the record for the most rebounds by a player in an Army-Navy game (19, Army's Kevin Ferguson, Feb. 20, 2016, 2 OT).
•    Kehoe is the first Mid to grab at least 20 rebounds in a game since David Robinson had 21 against James Madison on Jan. 10, 1987.
•    Through games of Feb. 13, his 20-rebound total is tied for ninth for the most in the NCAA this season (the high by a player is 24).
•    The 20 boards also broke the Navy record for the most by a Mid in a league regular season game (19, Matt Fannin, American, Jan. 12, 2005).
•    Kehoe additionally grabbed eight offensive rebounds, which set a new record for the most offensive caroms by a player in the Army-Navy series (previous high was seven and attained four times).

Pennick on a Good Run
•    Jordan Pennick has scored in double figures in five of Navy's six Patriot League wins and two times in Navy's seven league losses.
•    Pennick totaled a career-high 20 points in Navy's Jan. 26 game at Army.  He was 4-6 from three-point range and 5-8 from the floor in scoring 15 second-half points. 
•    He scored all 17 of his points in the second half Jan. 29 at Lehigh.  Pennick was 5-7 from three-point range and 6-8 from the floor in the second half.
•    Pennick scored 12 points Feb. 5 at Boston U. and then 14 Feb. 8 at Lafayette.
•    He is averaging 13.3 points (93 total) and 4.0 rebounds a game (28) over the last seven games.  Pennick is shooting 41.9 percent (34-81) from the floor and 36.0 percent (18-50) from three-point land in this span.

Missing Home
•    Navy just finished a stretch of playing seven road games in a span of 10 games from Jan. 8-Feb. 8.
•    The Mids closed that span by playing four out of their last five games on the road.  Navy played games in four different states from Jan. 26-Feb. 5.
•    Navy has played back-to-back road games three times.
•     Navy will travel the second-most one-way miles for weekday regular season games this season during the Patriot League campaign.
•    Conversely, the Mids will travel the third fewest one-way miles for weekend league games.
•     Navy is the only team slated to travel for its first, second and third-longest road games of the league season on weekday games.  The Mids will play weekday games at Boston U., Colgate and Holy Cross this season.

Rehnstrom is Captain of the Captains
•    Lysander Rehnstrom was selected as the captain of the Navy basketball team for the 2024-25 season in a vote by the members of the team.
•    All Navy team captains participated in a leadership weekend at Gettysburg in June 2024 in preparation for the upcoming year.  At the conclusion of the trip, Rehnstrom was voted as the "Captain of the Captains," or more officially the Athletic Team Commander.
•    This leadership role was first established in the 2005-06 academic year.  Rehnstrom joins Cam Davis (2020-21) as men's basketball players to hold the position.

DeChellis On Top Spot for Navy Coaches
•    Ed DeChellis set the school record for the most games as a Navy head coach Feb. 12.  The Lehigh game was his 418th on the sideline, which is one more than Ben Carnevale's 20-year total.
•    Navy's Jan. 2 win over American moved Ed DeChellis into third place for the most wins as a Navy head coach.

Davis Leads Patriot League Coaches
•    Navy assistant coach Emmett Davis is in his 30th    season as a Patriot League coach. That leads all men's basketball coaches for the most Patriot League seasons in a career.
•    Davis also coached at Navy for five seasons (1987-91)
    prior to the Mids joining the Patriot League.
•    The Patriot League is in its 35th season of sponsoring men's basketball (began 1990-91).
•    Davis also ranks third among active assistant coaches for the most years as an assistant at one school.

Navy Good Again on the Offensive Boards
•    Navy has been very good over the last number of years at winning the offensive rebound margin.
•    The Mids ranked first in the Patriot League and 40th nationally during the 2023-24 season with an average of 12.45 offensive rebounds per game.
•    Navy stands first in the league and 123rd nationally with an average of 11.38 offensive boards a game this year.
•    Aidan Kehoe (3.69 OR/G, 1st PL, 11th NCAA) and Donovan Draper (2.12 OR/G, 4th PL) rank among the league leaders in offensive rebounds.

Second-Chance Points 
•    Navy has regularly turned those second-chance opportunities into points. 
•    The Mids have scored more second-chance points than their foes in 10 of the last 11 games.  Navy has totaled 118 second-chance points (10.7 ppg) and allowed 70 (6.4 ppg) in this span.

Five Mids with 20 Points
•    Carnegie Johnson became the fifth Mid to score at least 20 points in a game this season when he scored a career-high 21 points Feb. 1 vs. Bucknell.
•    The high for different Mids to score at least 20 points in a game during the Patriot League era is seven.

Benigni's 10+ Point Scoring Streaks
•    Austin Benigni saw his streak of games with scoring in double figures come to an end when he scored eight points in 18 minutes of playing time Nov. 25 against Washington (Md.).  
•    His run of 26 games is tied for fifth place for the longest streak of scoring in double figures in school history.
•    Benigni enters the Feb. 15 Army game having scored in double figures in 10-straight games and in 16 of the last 17 games.  The only outlier in this span was a nine-point game at Holy Cross.  He has scored 316 points (18.6 ppg) over this span.

At the FT Line – Austin Benigni / 2024-25
•    Austin Benigni ranks first in the Patriot League and fourth in the NCAA for free throws made (154).
•    He ranks second in the league and 13th nationally in free throws attempted (176). 
•    He also ranks second in the league and 42nd nationally with a free throw percentage of 87.5 percent.
•    Benigni ranks second at Navy during the Patriot League era (1991-92 to present) and 15th in program history for the highest career free throw attempts per game average with 438 attempts in 88 games (4.97 fta/g).

Benigni Leading in Points and Assists
•     Austin Benigni typically has led the Mids in either points or assists –– and occasionally both –– in a game since the start of the 2023-24 season.
•     Benigni is on pace to become the third Mid to lead the team in total points and assists in multiple seasons since assists began being tracked with the 1972-73 season.
•     Benigni is one assist shy of becoming the eighth Mid with 1,000 points and 300 assists in a career.
•     Benigni also has posted the second 400-point, 100-assist season of his career and the 10th by a Mid.
•    Benigni enters the game ranked second in the Patriot League in scoring and assists.
•    Since the league expanded to 10 teams starting with the 2013-14 season, a player has finished among the top-three in both statistical rankings three times.

Kehoe's Double-Double Run 
•    Aidan Kehoe saw his streak of double-doubles end at five when he registered six points and 11 rebounds Jan. 15 against Colgate.
•    The last Mid to have as many as five-straight double-doubles was David Robinson, who had 15 in a row (last 12 games of 1985-86, first 3 games of 1986-87).
•    Kehoe is second in the Patriot League and tied for 38th in the NCAA with eight double-doubles this year.
•    He has missed a double-double by one rebound in three additional games.
•    Kehoe is one double-double away from trying the Navy record for the most by a Mid in a single Patriot League regular season.

Kehoe on the Offensive Boards
•    Navy has scored on 33 of the 54 possessions (61.1%) in which Aidan Kehoe has grabbed an offensive rebound since the start of the 2025 Patriot League season.

Kehoe Lately
•    Aidan Kehoe moved into the regular rotation during Navy's Feb. 21, 2024, game at Loyola and made his first start in the next game against Holy Cross.
•    He had totaled 26 points (1.0 ppg) and 40 rebounds (1.5 rpg) in 26 career games prior to taking to the floor against the Greyhounds.
•    Since then, he has totaled 298 points (9.5 ppg) and 298 rebounds (9.1 rpg). 
    
Pennick Lately
•    Jordan Pennick had appeared in 16 games prior to Navy's Feb. 17, 2024, game at Boston U., and totaled 26 points (1.6 ppg) and 18 rebounds (1.1 rpg).
•    Since then, he has scored 296 points (9.0 ppg), made 53 three-point baskets (1.61 fgm/g) and grabbed 113 rebounds (3.4 rpg).