WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The William & Mary men's basketball team hosts instate rival Old Dominion as part of a Tribe basketball doubleheader at Kaplan Arena on Saturday. After the Tribe women host Loyola (Md.) at 3 p.m., the men's game tips off at 7 p.m., and will be broadcast regionally on Cox Yurview Virginia with Jay Colley and Charlie Woollum on the call.
The broadcast will also be available online on Tribe Athletics TV via Stretch Internet. Tribe fans can catch the men's basketball action over the Tribe Radio Network with
Andrew Phillips and former W&M Athletics Director Terry Driscoll on the call. The Tide 92.3 FM and 107.9 Bach FM are the flagship stations of the Tribe Radio Network and the audio is also available over the Web at TribeAthletics.com.
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W&M News and Notes
- W&M and ODU meet for the 45th-straight season dating back to 1974. The Monarchs lead the all-time series at 67-21, but the Tribe has won five of the last six meetings, including a 65-54 triumph in Norfolk last season. The Green and Gold has won the last three meetings in Williamsburg, including a 55-48 victory in 2015.
- The Tribe owns a 20-game home court non-conference winning streak, dating back to 2013. It is the second-longest streak in school history behind only the 31-game stretch from 1946 through 1952. The Tribe's home record over the last five seasons is 49-10 (.831).
- The Green and Gold hit a school-record 20 3-pointers vs. Shenandoah. In program history, W&M has 21 games of 15 or more 3-pointers with 17 of those coming under head coach
Tony Shaver. The Tribe is 73-45 under Shaver when hitting 10 or more treys. W&M is second in the CAA at 10.3 triples per game.
- The Tribe has been one of the top free throw shooting teams in the country. W&M is averaging 15.8 made free throws per game and shooting 77.8 percent at the charity stripe. The Tribe leads the CAA and ranks 37th nationally in free throw percentage.
- W&M dished out 27 assists in its victory over Shenandoah on Nov. 21, which was the eighth-best single-game total in program history. The Tribe had 10 games of 20 or more assists last season and is 30-1 over the last eight seasons when accomplishing the feat.
- The Tribe ranks second in the CAA in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.3) and third in assists per game (14.8). Over the last five years, W&M led the CAA in assist on four occasions and ranked first or second in assist-to-turnover ratio every season.
- Sophomore
Justin Pierce, who recorded his first career double-double in leading the Tribe with 19 points, 10 rebounds and five assists at UCF, ranks among the CAA leaders in nine different statistical categories, including topping the league in assist-to-turnover ratio (5.5). He is also fifth in rebounding (8.3) and blocked shots (1.0), sixth in offensive (3.0) and defensive rebounds (5.3), seventh in free throw percentage (.818) and field goals percentage (.533) and 13th in scoring (15.0) and assists (2.8).
- Over the last three contests, sophomore
Matt Milon is averaging 15.3 points per game, while shooting 60 percent (12-of-20) from 3-point range. On the year, he ranks second in the CAA in 3-pointers per game (3.3), sixth in 3-point percentage (.542) and 13th in scoring.
- As a team, W&M leads the CAA and ranks 16th nationally in blocked shots per game (6.8). A trio of Tribe players, junior
Paul Rowley and sophomores
Nathan Knight and
Justin Pierce, ranks among the top 5 in the CAA in blocked shots. Knight is second (2.8) followed by Rowley in third (1.8) and Pierce in fifth (1.0).
- Against Hampton on Nov. 15, sophomore
Nathan Knight established a new Kaplan Arena record, going 18-of-22 from the free throw line. Along with facility records in both attempts and makes, it was the second-most attempts and third-most most makes in program history.
- Sophomore
Nathan Knight set career-highs with 31 points and 14 rebounds in the win over Hampton. It was the first 30-point, 10-rebound double-double for W&M since Danny Sumner in 2008 and only the second in the 55 years of Tribe basketball.
- Junior
Paul Rowley holds a distinction that few ever have in college basketball. After graduating from W&M in just three years with a double major in finance and computer science, Rowley started his first year of law school this fall. Last year, he became the first men's basketball player since 1912 to be named Phi Beta Kappa. Rowley is currently one of two Division I players in law school (Pepperdine's Kevin Hempy), but he is the only men's player to be a recruited scholarship player and attend law school at the same institution that he earned his undergraduate degree.
- Sophomore
Nathan Knight ranks fifth in the country in made free throws (35) and seventh in attempts (43). According to KenPom.com, he leads the country in fouls draw per 40 minutes at 12.0 and 13th in free throw rate at 108.6.