WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – After opening Colonial Athletic Association play 2-0 with a pair of home wins last week, the William & Mary men's basketball team hits the road for the first time in league play as it heads to Delaware on Thursday night. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. from the Bob Carpenter Center in Newark.

The W&M-Delaware game will be broadcast regionally on NBC Sports Philadelphia +, NBC Sports Washington +, and SNY. In Hampton Roads, NBC Sports Washington + is channel 119 on Cox, 642-1 on DIRECTV and 445 on DISH. To find the channel in your area, click HERE for NBC Sports Philadelphia +, HERE for NBC Sports Washington +, and HERE for SNY. The contest will be streamed online at YouTube.com.

Tribe fans can catch the men's basketball action over the Tribe Radio Network with Jay Colley and Charlie Woollum 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
- The Tribe started 2-0 in CAA play under head coach Tony Shaver for the second-straight season and eighth time during his tenure. Prior to Shaver's arrival in Williamsburg, W&M had started 2-0 in CAA play on just four occasions. Last season, the Green and Gold set a program mark starting 5-0 in the CAA. In total, the Tribe has started CAA play at 3-0 on three occasions in program history, including the 1994-95 and 1997-98 seasons.
 
- For the second time this season, freshman Chase Audige was named the CAA Rookie of the Week on Monday. He averaged 16 points, four assists, three rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocked shots per game, while shooting 60 percent from the field and 66.7 percent from 3 last week. He is one of three CAA players to earn the league's top rookie honor on two occasions this season and the first W&M player since Omar Prewitt in 2013-14 to win multiple honors. Audige ranks fourth among CAA rookies in scoring at 9.1 points per game.
 
- Defense has been a key to W&M's 2-0 start in CAA play. In league action, the Tribe ranks second in defensive efficiency (101.8), turnover rate (20.4) and 3-point percentage (30.3). The 61 points against Towson was the lowest total for a CAA opponent in nearly two years (Jan. 26, 2017), while the Tigers shot only 14.3 percent (2-of-14) from 3, which was the lowest for a league opponent vs. W&M since 2015. In its last five games, W&M is 4-1 and has held opponents to 73.4 points per game.
 
- The Tribe dished out 22 assists in each of its first two CAA wins over James Madison and Towson. W&M has dished out 20 or more assists in three of the last four games and five times overall this season. The Tribe is 4-1 in those contests. Over the last nine seasons, the Green and Gold is 41-3 when dishing out 20 or more assists in a game.
 
- The Tribe leads the CAA in blocked shots at 4.3 per game, which also ranks 88th nationally. W&M has ranked among the top three in the league each of the previous four years, including leading the CAA at 4.9 rejections per game in 2016-17. Each of the last four seasons has ranked among the top 10 in W&M history, and the Tribe has averaged 4.3 per game over the last five years and 136.5 per season during the last four.
 
- Juniors Justin Pierce and Nathan Knight are the only two players in the CAA to rank among the top 10 in the league in scoring, rebounding and assists. Pierce is sixth in scoring (16.6), third in rebounding (9.3) and ninth in assists (3.6), while Knight is fourth in scoring (18.7) and 10th in both rebounding (7.1) and assists (2.9).
 
- The Tribe has turned the ball over 10 or fewer times in each of the last seven games, averaging just 8.7 miscues per contest during that stretch. In the first seven games of the season, W&M averaged 15.9 turnovers per contests. The Tribe leads the CAA and ranks 36th nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.37). The Green and Gold has also ranked among the top 20 nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio each of the last three years.
 
- Pierce recorded his sixth double-double and flirted with a triple-double vs. James Madison in the CAA opener with 20 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists. He ranks 19th nationally in double-doubles. Pierce, who is among the top 15 in the CAA in 10 different statistical categories, is one of only six players in the country averaging 15 points, nine rebounds and three assists per game.
 
- Knight scored 22 points at No. 3/5 Virginia on Dec. 22, which equaled the most points scored against the Cavaliers this season. He ranks third in the CAA with seven 20-point games. Knight became the 40th player in school history and 13th under head coach Tony Shaver to score 1,000 career points with his 24-point effort at Hampton on Dec. 8. He was named the Lou Henson National Player of the Week on Nov. 26.
 
- Paul Rowley was named one of 30 candidates for the 2018-19 Senior CLASS Award®. The award recognized DI seniors with notable achievements in four categories (community, classroom, character and competition). W&M is one of three schools (out of 353 in DI) to have both a men's and women's player recognized as Bianca Boggs was also honored. Rowley, a second-year law student who graduated magna cum lade in just three years with a double major in finance and computer science, is the third Tribe player to be named a candidate, joining Quinn McDowell '12 and Omar Prewitt '17. The CAA led all conferences with four players on the men's 30-player list. The 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award will be named in February.
 
- W&M, which has led the CAA five of the last six years, once again tops the league in assists at 16.8 per game in 2018-19. That number also ranks 31st nationally. The Tribe is 12th in the country according to KenPom.com in assists percentage, recording an assist on 62.4 percent of its made field goals. W&M has ranked among the top 50 in the category in 10 of head coach Tony Shaver's 16 seasons, including each of the last four.
 
- Pierce is one of the top rebounders in the country, ranking 35th at 9.3 per game. He averages 7.4 defensive rebounds per game which ranks second in the CAA and 25th nationally. His defensive rebounding percentage (27.7) is 26th in the country.
 
- Knight was named one of 21 players nationally to the Watch List for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award presented by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The 6-10 center was selected to the CollegeInsider.com Lou Henson Mid-Major Player of the Year Watch List and was an NBC Sports Preseason Mid-Major All-America Second Team in September.