Birmingham, AL - Manhattan is the lone remaining unbeaten team in the MAAC and will play at Samford on Tuesday, November 19 at 7:30 pm (EST) in a game will be streamed live on ESPN+.
Start Me Up!
* The Jaspers have opened up the year with back-to-back wins for the second time in three years and third time under Head Coach Steve Masiello.
* Manhattan will be aiming for its first 3-0 start since the 2008-09 season, when the Jaspers opened the year with wins over NJIT, Morgan State and Fordham.
Roadtrippin
* Tuesday night's game opens up a five-game road trip, as Manhattan will play nine of its next 10 games on the road.
UAlbany Recap
* The Jaspers defeated UAlbany 57-51 while improving to 51-9 (.850) under Masiello when limiting the opposition to less than 60 points.
* Greene scored 10 of his career-high 17 points over the final six-plus minutes against UAlbany, while also corralling a personal-best nine rebounds.
* Sophomores Samir Stewart (14 points), Elijah Buchanan (9 points, 8 rebounds) and senior Pauly Paulicap (8 points, 9 rebounds) also had strong outings.
* Over the final six-plus minutes against the Great Danes, Manhattan posted a dominating 11-2 advantage on the glass, while ending the game on a 14-8 run - including scoring the final seven of the contest.
Leading The Way
* Greene is averaging a team-best 16.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game.
* Over the first two games of the year, the sophomore quartet of Buchanan, Greene, Christian Hinckson and Stewart have combined to average 45.5 points per game, which is 64.1 percent of the team's offense.
Welcome Home
* Legendary Manhattan Head Coach Fran Fraschilla attended the win over UAlbany and spoke to the team prior to the Jaspers' come-from-behind win.
Pretty, Pretty Good"Everybody loves a winner, especially an underdog!"@franfraschilla was absolutely ?? in speaking to our guys prior to last night's win!
— Manhattan Basketball (@JaspersMBB) November 17, 2019
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Delaware State Recap
* Greene paced five double-figure scorers in the 85-74 victory over the Hornets, registering a team-high 15 points.
* The Jaspers placed five in double-figures for the first time since an 101-96 double-overtime victory at Marist on January 2, 2018.
* Manhattan forced 25 miscues that led to a 33-14 advantage in points off turnovers, while also registering 16 steals.
Start Me Up
* The Jaspers scored 10-straight points against UAlbany after scoring 13-straight to start the Delaware State game.
Up Next: Samford
* Manhattan will be playing just its second game ever against a team from the state of Alabama on Tuesday at Samford, previously dropping an 87-86 decision to Alabama in the 1973 NIT.
* Samford is coached by former Jasper assistant coach Scott Padgett, who spent one year on the sidelines under Masiello from 2011-12. The Bulldogs' Associate Head Coach is Shawn Finney, who coached in Riverdale from 2016-18.
* Both Masiello and Padgett played at the University of Kentucky, and were teammates from 1996-99, before Padgett was drafted by the Utah Jazz in the first round of the 1999 NBA Draft.
* Samford enters Tuesday night's game with a record of 2-3 and are led by the duo of Robert Allen (17.0 ppg, 8.4 rpg) and Josh Sharkey (15.5 ppg, 5.5 rpg).
Mas = Defense = Success
* Since Masiello took over 2011-12, the Jaspers are 43-14 when notching double-figures in steals and 27-14 when forcing at least 20 miscues.
* Manhattan's aforementioned 25 forced turnovers (3x last- Siena (1/13/18)) and 16 steals (Buffalo (12/21/13)) match the most recorded by Masiello in his nine years at the helm of the Jaspers.
* Last year, the Jaspers ranked 15th nationally in scoring defense, yielding a MAAC-low 62.8 ppg, 54th in turnovers forced (14.8/game) and 92nd in steals (6.9/game).
More Mas
* Masiello is one of just seven Division I coaches that is 42 or younger with two conference titles and two trips to the NCAA Tourney.
* Masiello also has a school-record 10 MAAC Tournament wins, while his 129 victories are tied for fourth in program history.
* Additionally, Masiello holds a sterling 63-38 (.624) record at Draddy Gymnasium, including 48-27 (.640) vs. league opposition, and just five behind Bobby Gonzalez's school-record total of 68 victories.
* Masiello has led Manhattan to a 129-131 (.496) record, including going 80-72 (.526) during MAAC play, over his nine seasons.
* He has won two MAAC Titles, advanced to title game three times, claimed two Metropolitan Coach of the Year awards with a pair of 20-win campaigns. Masiello has also participated in the NCAA Tournament in 13 of his 24 seasons as a player or coach, including being a part of eight conference champions and one National Title.
* Now in his 24th season as either a player or a coach, Masiello has a career collegiate record of 490-277 (.638), including 369-249 (.597) on the sidelines, with one National Title, two National Championship Game appearances, two Final Fours, six Elite Eight berths, eight conference championships, 13 NCAA Tournament appearances and 15 20-win seasons.
More From The Win Over Delaware State
* Manhattan now holds an all-time record of 75-39 in season openers.
* The Jaspers opened the season with a 13-0 run to fuel a wire-to-wire victory over Delaware State and were led by Buchahan, who scored all of his career-high 12 points in the opening stanza.
* Manhattan converted a blistering 78.4 percent (29-of-37) from the line in moving to 75-39, all-time, in openers.
* The Jaspers were the 351st team in the Division I ranks to tip.
* Hinckson also notched double-figures for the third time in his career with 10 points and grabbed a game and career-high eight rebounds.
Preseason All-MAAC Recap
* Paulicap who returned the line-up after missing the bulk of last season, and sophomore Warren Williams were each named to the 2019-20 Preseason All-MAAC Third Team, while Manhattan was tabbed fifth as a team.
* Paulicap averaged 8.5 points per game in limited action a year ago, while Williams notched a team-leading 9.2 points each time out in earning MAAC All-Rookie Team honors.
* Two years ago, Paulicap was named the MAAC Defensive Player of the Year following an outstanding year in which ranked 16th nationally with a MAAC-best 2.6 blocks per game (16th NCAA) to go along with 10.0 points and 6.9 rebounds per game.
* Williams recorded double-figures a team-leading 16 times last season while pacing the MAAC with a .571 field goal percentage, and saved his best for last with a career-high 27 points against Canisius in the quarterfinals of the MAAC Championship.
The Returners
* Manhattan's returners have scored all but three points this year.
* The Jaspers bring back a MAAC-best 86.5 percent of their scoring, 85.4 percent of their rebounding and 83.3 percent of their assists.
DYK
* Manhattan was one of 20 teams in the Division I ranks to not lose a transfer, returning 14 letterwinners, including 10 scholarship student-athletes.
Off The Bench
* Junior Nehemiah Mack scored nine points off the bench against Delaware State after starting all 32 games a year ago, and was matched by classmate Ethan Lasko, who had a career-high nine points.
* Fueled by the duo, the Jasper reserves outscored their counterparts by a 28-20 count.
* Last year, the bench posted a scoring advantage over the opposition in 28-of-32 games.
Newcomers
* Joining the Jaspers this year are junior Michael Okafor, freshman Adam Cisse and classmate Romar Reid.
The Non-Conference Schedule
* Manhattan will play a nine-game non-conference schedule, highlighted by home games against Delaware State (MEAC), UAlbany (A-East) and Western Michigan (MAC).
* The Jaspers will also travel to Samford (Southern), Elon (CAA), URI (A-10), Stony Brook (A-East), Fordham (A-10) and Hofstra (CAA).
Repping Team USA
* Last summer, sophomore Daniel Schreier helped lead the United States to gold in the 15th European Maccabi Games.
Silver Anniversary
* This year, the Jaspers will be recognizing the 25th anniversary of the 1994-95 team's NCAA at-large berth and subsequent win over Oklahoma in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament.
What Is A Jasper?
* The unique nickname of Manhattan College's athletic teams, the Jaspers, comes from one of the College's most memorable figures, Brother Jasper of Mary, F.S.C., who served as the College's athletic director in the late 19th century. One of the greatest achievements of Brother Jasper was that he brought the then little-known sport of baseball to Manhattan College and became the team's first coach. Since Brother Jasper was also the Prefect of Discipline, he supervised the student fans at Manhattan baseball games while also directing the team itself. During one particularly warm and humid day when the college was playing a semi-pro baseball team called the Metropolitans, Brother Jasper noticed the Manhattan students were becoming restless and edgy with the team coming to bat in the seventh inning of a close game. To relieve the tension, Brother Jasper called timeout and told the students to stand up and stretch for a few minutes until the game resumed. Since the College annually played the New York Giants in the late 1880's and into the 1890's at the old Polo Grounds, the Manhattan College practice of the "seventh inning stretch" spread into the major leagues, where it has now become a time-honored custom practiced by millions of fans annually.
This Is Manhattan College
* Why is Manhattan College in the Bronx? Our campus was originally located in Manhattan at the intersection of 131st Street and Broadway. In 1923, Manhattan College moved to its present Riverdale location in order to accommodate a growing student body. But with more than 60 years of history established as Manhattan College, the institution decided to retain the name despite the geographic misnomer.
* 17 alumni are members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering — an impressive number for an institution the size of Manhattan College.
* Alumni include Rudy Giuliani '65, former mayor of New York City; James Patterson '69, best-selling author; and Raymond Kelly '63, former commissioner of the NYPD.
* Manhattan is one of only 182 remaining colleges founded in the United States before the Civil War.
This Is Manhattan Basketball
* Manhattan has three wins in NCAA Tournament play, defeating West Virginia (1958), Oklahoma (1995) and Florida (2004).
* The Jaspers have won five MAAC Tournament titles in the last 25 years (1993, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2015).
* Manhattan received an at-large berth in 1995 and defeated Oklahoma before falling to Arizona State.
* Was the first team in NCAA history to a win a game in Europe, defeating Holy Cross 70-54 on December 1, 2017 as part of the inaugural Belfast Classic.
Up Next
* The Jaspers will play at Elon on Saturday, November 23 with opening tip tabbed for 4:00 pm.