BOSTON, Mass. – The William & Mary men's basketball team closes out the road portion of the CAA schedule traveling to Northeastern on Saturday afternoon. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. from historic Matthews Arena in Boston. The contest features the top two shooting teams in the CAA and pits the league's top 3-point offense (W&M at 43.8 percent) against its best 3-point defense (Northeastern at 30.7 percent).

The game will be streamed online via CAA.TV and Stretch Internet. Tribe fans can catch the men's basketball action over the Tribe Radio Network with Jay Colley and Kris Sears 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.

With March approaching, get prepared for the CAA Tournament in Charleston by visiting TribeAthletics.com/MarchOnTribe. Catch up with the Tribe through social media. Fans can keep up with W&M men's basketball by following the program on social media as well. Be sure to check out the Tribe on Twitter (@WMTribeMBB), Facebook (WMTribeMBB), Instagram (WMTribeMBB) and Snapchat (TribeMensHoops).
 

W&M News and Notes
• With its nine CAA wins, W&M is one away from hitting double-digits for the fifth-straight season. It would be a first in program history. The Tribe owns six seasons with 10 or more CAA wins under head coach Tony Shaver. Prior to his arrival in Williamsburg, the Green and Gold had just one such CAA season. W&M would become the sixth CAA program on the eighth occasion to produce five-straight seasons of 10 or more CAA wins.
 
• The Tribe ranks 28th nationally with seven road wins, which is also sixth in W&M history. It marks the 11th time W&M has accomplished the feat. Head coach Tony Shaver has led the Tribe to four seasons with seven road wins, including three of the last five years. W&M is 5-3 in CAA road games this season.
 
• On Thursday at Hofstra, senior guard David Cohn broke the Tribe's single-season assists record and owns 170 on the year, surpassing Scott Coval's 1985 record of 168. Cohn leads the CAA and ranks 13th nationally at 6.5 assists per game. Cohn is also W&M's all-time leader in career assists (453) accomplishing the feat in just three years.
 
• The Tribe is the best shooting team in the country, as the only program to rank among the top 10 nationally at all three levels. W&M leads the country in 3-point percentage (43.8), while ranking second in free throw shooting (79.9) and sixth in field goal percentage (50.7). No team in NCAA history has shot 50 percent from the field, 40 percent from 3-point range and 80 percent from the free throw line in the same season, and only three have shot 50-40-75.
 
• Over the last seven games, sophomore Justin Pierce is averaging 23 points and 10.3 rebounds per game, while shooting 57.6 percent from the floor and 47.5 percent from 3. He poured in a career-high 33 points, the second most by a Tribe sophomore in school history, vs. Delaware on Feb. 10. He posted a 30-point, 12-rebound double-double vs. Elon on Feb. 1. Pierce ranks among the CAA leaders in 10 different categories. He is third in the league and 43rd nationally in rebounding (9.0).
 
• The Tribe has hit 286 3-pointers on the season, which ranks third in program history. W&M is only nine triples away from the school record of 295 held by the 2009-10 team. The Green and Gold ranks seventh nationally at 11 3-pointers made per game and is 13th in total triples made.
 
• Over the last five years, the Tribe is the winningest program in the CAA in terms of league wins (52) and overall winning percentage (60.8). W&M's 93 wins over the last five years are just two behind Towson's league-leading 95. The Tigers have played nine more games than the Tribe during that stretch. 
 
• For the sixth-straight season and 10th time in the last 11 years, the Tribe topped the 400-assist mark. W&M has 460 assists in 2017-18 and is looking for its third-straight 500-assist campaign. The Tribe's assists total ranks sixth in school history. W&M is ninth nationally at 17.7 assists per game, which would top last year's school record mark of 17.5.
 
• Sophomore Nathan Knight was named to the Lou Henson Award Mid-Season Watch list given annually to the nation's top Division I mid-major player. He ranks fifth in the CAA and 96th nationally at 18.3 points per game to go along with 7.4 rebounds. Knight owns eight double-doubles this season, including three of the 30-point, 10-rebound variety. He is 38th in the country shooting 57 percent from the floor.
 
• According to advanced statistical website KenPom.com, the Tribe ranks fifth nationally in effective field goal percentage (58.9) and 40th in adjusted offensive efficiency  (114.4). W&M has been in the top 60 in adjusted offensive efficiency each of the previous four seasons with a high of No. 31 in 2015. W&M has ranked among the top 25 in effective field goal percentage each of the last six seasons, including as high as No. 6 in both 2013-14 and 2014-15.
 
• Senior Connor Burchfield is the top 3-point shooter in country both this season and over his career. He currently leads the nation at 51.4 percent from long range, while ranking 45th in 3-pointers made (2.9). Burchfield is the active NCAA Division I career leader at 50.3 percent from 3-point range. His 166 career 3-pointers rank ninth in Tribe history, while his 76 triples this season are fifth in program lore.
 
• Sophomore Nathan Knight is just one blocked shot away from becoming the first player in W&M history to record 100 career blocked shots in his first two seasons. Knight's 58 blocked shots in 2017-18 rank fifth in program history, and he is second in the CAA and 28th nationally at 2.2 per game. He would be the sixth player in Tribe lore with 100 career rejections. 
 
• Senior guard David Cohn is closing in on 1,000 points in his collegiate career. He is just 29 points shy of the milestone with 971 career points. Cohn tallied 120 points in his freshman season at Colorado State, before transferring to W&M where he has tallied 851 points in his three seasons. He currently ranks 17th in the CAA at 13.9 points per game in 2017-18, including a 16.5 scoring clip in CAA play.