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The Sacred Heart University men's basketball team returns to the road, for the first of three road games, when it travels to Loretto, Pa., to take on Saint Francis University. The Pioneers have won three straight and are 3-1 in league play, while the Red Flash have won four straight, and are 4-1 in NEC action. The game will air on NEC Front Row with Pat Farabaugh and Bernie Jubeck on the call.

The Pioneers and Red Flash 34th time, with the Red Flash leading the series, 19-14. The Pioneers won the teams last meeting, 94-84, in the regular season finale last season. That ended a five-game Red Flash win streak in the series. SFU has won 10 of the 12 last meetings between the two teams. SHU owns the longest series win streak, seven games, from 2005-05 through 2009-09.

Quick Hitters

• The Pioneers play the first of three straight road games and are in the midst of a stretch of five games on the road out of six
• E.J. Anosike has eight double-doubles, three straight, this season and is the only player in the NEC averaging a double-double for the season
• Cameron Parker has 25 assists in the last three games and is second in the nation with 139 assists (through 1/15) with four of the top-24 single-game efforts in the NCAA this season - including the top two performances
• SHU ranks 8th in the nation at 41.82 rebounds per game (through 1/15)
• Kinnon LaRose had his first double-double of the year vs CCSU
• The win over CCSU was the 80th for Anthony Latina as the Pioneers head coach

Within The NEC

• SHU is +13 in rebounding margin in NEC play
• Jare'l Spellman has 10 blocks in league play
• The Pioneers are shooting 43.1 percent from the field 37.5 percent from behind the arc and 65.5 percent from the line against league foes
• Six Pioneers are scoring 8.0 or more in league play, led by the 16 points per game of Koreem Ozier
• E.J. Anosike has led the team in rebounding in every league game this season and is corralling 13.0 per game

Notable Numbers

• SHU recorded 51 rebounds against CCSU, its third game with half a century on the boards; also reaching the mark at Binghamton (53) and versus Pine Manor (50)
• The 55-points SHU allowed to CCSU is the lowest total for an opponent this season
• E.J. Anosike is fifth in the country in offensive rebounds (4.2/game) and is ninth in rebounds per game (11.2/game) 
• Cameron Parker has scored 368 points and handed out 352 assists in his Pioneer career
• SHU has had 40 or more rebounds 10 times this season and leads the NEC with 711 total rebounds

Keep An Eye

• The next Pioneers NEC win will be the 50th for head coach Anthony Latina 
• E.J. Anosike's needs five made field goals to reach 300
• Koreem Ozier needs four made field goals to reach 200 for his career
• Aaron Clarke's next three-pointer made will give him 50 for his career
• Jare'l Spellman is four blocks shy of tying Tevin Falzon for the third-highest single-season block total in program's Division I history
• Anosike will play in his 80th career game tonight, a number Kinnon LaRose reached against CCSU