Salve Regina opens season at Johnson & Wales
| Final | 1 | 2 | T | |
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Salve Regina (0-0) | 40 | 33 | 73 |
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Johnson & Wales (RI) (0-0) | 25 | 43 | 68 |
Summary: Salve Regina University men's basketball opens its 2013-14 season at Johnson & Wales University with a 7 p.m. tip-off.
Match-up: Salve Regina Seahawks (0-0) versus Johnson & Wales Wildcats (0-0) - season-opener for both teams
Game date, time and site: Fri., Nov. 15, 2013; 7 p.m. @ Providence, R.I. (Harborside Recreation Center)
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Tickets: Free admission
Series edge: Salve Regina leads 12-7
Last Seahawks' win in series: Salve Regina won, 79-75, in Newport, R.I., on November 15, 2012
Last Wildcats' win in series: Johnson & Wales won, 77-75, in Providence, R.I., on December 2, 2010
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SALVE REGINA VS. JOHNSON & WALES
- This is the 20th meeting between the Seahawks and Wildcats.
- Salve Regina, which leads the series 12-7, earned a four-point overtime victory (79-75) against Johnson & Wales in Providence, R.I., last season.
- Isiah Pringle hit 10-of-18 shots from the field to lead all players with 24 points. Pringle added two assists, three treys, and a pair of steals, while Joshua Hohlfelder drained 7-of-9 from the field for 17 points and four rebounds. Jeff Bielefeld notched a double-double with 10 points and 11 boards.
- The Wildcats were led by Quarry Greenway who stuffed the stat sheet with 14 points, 11 rebounds, four assists, three steals, and three blocks. Curtis Lucas and Tom Garrick Jr. each dropped 15 points, while Frank Robinson finished with 12 points, six boards, four assists, and a pair of steals.
- Last year's Seahawk victory ended a four-year win streak for the Wildcats in the series.
- With last season's victory against the Wildcats, Salve Regina men's basketball has won three of four contests on November 15.
- Salve Regina first played on this date in 2008 (Saturday), posting a 66-61 victory over Albertus Magnus in New Haven, Conn.
- Since a 71-64 loss to Barrington College on November 9, 1982, Salve Regina has never started earlier than November 15.
- Seniors Jeff Bielefeld and Joshua Hohlfelder share captains' duties for the 2013-14 season.
- 12th-year head coach Sean Foster remarks: "Our staff is excited to have such dynamic leadership going into the 2013-14 season. Jeff and Josh are tremendous people, excellent students and hard-working athletes. Their positive example will be extremely beneficial to our younger players."
- Salve Regina ranks fifth in the conference's pre-season coaches' poll, released on Friday.
- Gordon and Curry both received four first-place votes, but the Scots edged the Colonels in total points.
- Salve Regina finished just ahead of Eastern Nazarene in the poll, a team the Seahawks lost to in first-round action of the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Men's Basketball Championships last season.
TEAM - POINTS (FIRST-PLACE VOTES)
1. Gordon - 90 (4)
2. Curry - 89 (4)
3. Endicott - 81 (2)
4. Nichols - 64
5. Salve Regina - 51
6. Eastern Nazarene - 49
7. Roger Williams - 40
7. Wentworth - 40
9. U. of New England - 28
10. Western New Eng. - 18
- Salve Regina hosts Connecticut College on Tuesday, November 19, at the Rodgers Recreation Center (7:30 p.m.).
- Salve Regina is 14-17 all-time in season openers.
- Last season, the Seahawks opened in Providence, R.I., with a four-point win in overtime against Johnson & Wales, 79-75.
- The largest margin of victory in a season-opener (35 points) came in an 87-52 win against Emerson College in Boston, Mass., on November 24, 1986.
- Sean Foster enters his 12th season as the head coach, the winningest in the history of the Seahawks (140-152; .479).
- A win tonight for Coach Foster would even his career season-opener record at six wins and six losses.
- Foster welcomes new assistants Matt Adams and Tyler Hundley to his coaching staff.