Blue Hens Head South Again To Face Elon Thursday

Delaware (5-16, 0-10 CAA) at Elon (13-10, 4-6 CAA)

Date: Thursday, February 4, 2016
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Alumni Gym - Elon, N.C.
TV: None
Video: portal.stretchinternet.com/elon
Radio: WDSD 94.7 FM (Scott Klatzkin)
Live Stats: www.elonstats.com
Twitter Updates: twitter.com/DelawareMBB
All-Time Series: Elon leads, 3-0

COACHES
Delaware: Monté Ross (Winston-Salem State '92), 10th season overall and at Delaware, 130-177
Elon: Matt Matheny (Davidson '92), seventh season overall and at Elon, 105-110

STORYLINES
    • Delaware opens its second southern swing in three weeks on Thursday with a 7 p.m. game at Elon. The road trip concludes on Saturday when UD takes on William & Mary at 2:30 p.m.
   • The Blue Hens have lost 13 consecutive games, while a loss to the Phoenix would tie for the longest losing streak in school history. UD dropped 14 straight contests during the 1964-65 season.
   • A defeat would also give Delaware a school record 11 consecutive conference losses.
   • The Blue Hens lost a tough 101-97 overtime contest at Towson on Saturday, posting their highest point total of the year.
   • Kory Holden (33) and Anthony Mosley (28) combined for 61 points, and scored 26 of Delaware's final 28 points of the game. Holden went a perfect 15 of 15 from the foul line, the most free throws without a miss by a UD player in school history.
   • Mosley's 28 points were a career-high, and eight more than his previous career-best. He finished 11 of 12 from the charity stripe.
   • Holden now ranks second in the CAA with an 18.3 scoring average, and has gone 35 of 39 from the foul line in conference games.
   • Elon has won all three meetings with the Blue Hens, including a season sweep last season during its first year in the CAA.
   • Delaware ranks ninth in the CAA with 76.6 points allowed per game, while Elon is 10th with 77.8 points allowed.

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