Salve Regina hosts Wheaton College

Summary: Salve Regina University men's basketball opens its 2014-15 home schedule with Wheaton College in a non-league meeting at the Rodgers Recreation Center (7 p.m. tip-off).

Match-up: Salve Regina Seahawks (0-2) versus Wheaton Lyons (1-1) - home-opener for the Seahawks

Game date, time and site: Thu., Nov. 20, 2014; 7 p.m. @ Newport, R.I. (Rodgers Recreation Center)

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Video: http://www.salveathletics.com/sports/mbkb/video/livevideo_20141120

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Tickets: Free admission

Series edge: Wheaton leads, 13-6

Last Seahawks' win in series: Salve Regina won, 74-58, in Norton, Mass., on November 21, 2013

Last Lyons' win in series: Wheaton won, 84-65, in Norton, Mass., on November 15, 2011

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• This is the 20th meeting between the Seahawks and Lyons.
• Wheaton won the first six meetings before Salve Regina broke through in 2000 with an 86-73 triumph in the Rodgers Recreation Center.
• Salve Regina has won five of the last nine meetings with Wheaton.
• The Seahawks have won the last two meetings in Newport (80-66 on Nov. 30, 2010; 70-61 on Dec. 6, 2012).
• Salve Regina won last season in Norton, Mass., 74-58, on Nov. 21, 2013.
• Salve Regina had three student-athletes register double-figures highlighted by Barrett Hanlon's 17 points, seven rebounds, five assists, two blocks and one steal in last year's win.
• The victory over the Lyons was the third of four straight to open the 2013-14 season.

• Bryce Boggs led Salve Regina with 14 points in a consolation game with the Bison.
• Isiah Pringle came off the bench to score 10 points in 20 minutes.
• Scott St. Lawrence led the team with seven rebounds.
• Seahawks were plagued with 19 turnovers.
• Bison made 18-of-43 3-point attempts (41.9%).

• Billy Battaglia, who was named to the All-Tournament team at the conclusion of the game, led the offense with a career-high 34 points on 13-of-23 shooting from the field, and also added seven boards and two steals.
• Senior co-captain Eddie Capstick pulled down a game high 12 rebounds and chipped in with 10 points, while classmate and fellow co-captain Mike Cannon also registered 10 points and grabbed six rebounds of his own.

• This is the 10th time Salve Regina has played on November 20.
• The Seahawks have a 5-4 record on this date.
• Last time played on this date was 2011 in New London, Conn., and suffered a last-second defeat to Mitchell College, 65-64.

• Seniors Eric MacKinnon and Scott St. Lawrence share captains' duties for the 2014-15 season. 

TEAM - POINTS (FIRST-PLACE VOTES)

1. Eastern Nazarene - 87 (3)
2. Gordon - 84 (2)
3. Endicott - 80 (2)
4. Salve Regina - 77 (3)
5. Nichols - 66
6. Roger Williams - 50
7. Wentworth - 39
8. Curry - 27
9. Western New Eng. - 22
10. U. of  New England - 18

• Salve Regina plays Worcester State University on Saturday (1 p.m.) at the Laska Gymnasium on the Assumption College campus.
• The Seahawks return to Rodgers Recreation Center on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, to host the Bears of U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
• Wheaton hosts Roger Williams on Saturday in Norton, Mass. (1 p.m.).

• Salve Regina is 14-18 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.
• Salve Regina raced out to a 15-point lead by halftime on Friday at Johnson & Wales, and hung on for a 73-68 victory against the Wildcats.

• Isiah Pringle entered the season with 931 career points. With 15 against Babson and another 10 against Nichols, the Seahawk graduate student now needs just 44 points to reach the 1,000-point milestone.