The first Army-Navy men’s basketball game of the season will be played on Saturday, when the Mids (9-10, 2-5) travel to West Point to take on the Black Knights (11-9, 5-2) at 1:30 p.m. Games broadcast on the CBS Sports Network.
five beginning notes
1 – This year marks the 100th Army-Navy game since the series began in 1919-20. In addition, the two teams met for the 91st consecutive season.
2 – A total of five players from both teams started the Army-Navy game at the Christl Arena. The team’s players have a career total of 72 points in Army-Navy games played at the stadium.
3 – Saturday’s game is the non-star game in the series. The All-Star game will be held in Annapolis on February 11.
4 – Ed DeCelis In Saturday’s game, he will become the 22nd active head coach to manage 800 games in the Division I. It will also be his 350th game as head coach of the Mids, which ranks second in school history.
5 – Navy is second in the Patriots and tied for seventh in the NCAA in three-pointers made. Colgate leads the league and is sixth in the country in 3-point percentage. The entire Patriots league ranks first in three-pointers in all leagues.
game day information
• The game will be televised on the CBS Sports Network.
• It will be streamed as part of a cable TV package to subscribers to that network.
• Contest will be played on WNAV (AM-1430, FM-99.9, www.wnav.com, Audacy app) and WFED (AM-1500, www.FederalNewsRadio.com).
• Live stats will be available via NavySports.com.
Last games – Navy 63, Boston University 45
• The Navy led 12-10 until the Mids closed the half with a score of 17-6 for a 29-18 lead at halftime. Nearly half of Navy’s points (13) came after the Hounds committed 13 turnovers.
• Navy led 32-20 early in the second half and then 39-26 later. Boston quickly got back into the game, 42-35, and had more possessions to close the gap.
• The Terriers missed a field goal and the Mids went 7-0, 13-3 for a 55-38 lead with 5:20 left.
• The Mids hold the Terriers 24.5 points below their season average of 69.5 points per game.
• Boston is 3-14 from beyond the arc and shot just 37.8 percent on the night.
• The Mids scored 22 points after Boston committed 23 turnovers and the Terriers scored 11 points after Navy committed 12 turnovers.
• sean yoder scored 14 points at the same time daniel deaver Got 13 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists. Patrick Dorsey A total of 11 points, three three-pointers and three steals.
about the army
• Army is 11-9 overall on the season and 5-2 in the Patriot League.
• The Black Knights ended their two-game winning streak with a 68-66 home loss to Bucknell on Wednesday night. Army is 6-2 in its past eight games.
series history
• The series began on February 21, 1920, when the Navy won the game 24-18 at West Point.
• Since that game, the teams have met every year except from 1928-29 to 1929-32.
• Navy leads 82-55 in the all-time series, including a 36-29 lead in the Army game and a 24-10 lead in the Crystal Arena game.
• Navy leads Army 40-22 in the Patriot League regular season between the two teams. That includes the Navy’s 21-9 lead in the Army League, all of those games played at Crystal Arena.
• The teams are evenly split in two games in 2022, with the Army winning by one point in overtime at Annapolis (74-73) and the Navy winning by three at West Point (52-49).
• Only once in the past seven seasons has a team won two regular-season games in a series (Army, 2020).
• Three of the final five games in the series have gone to overtime, and five of the last 13 games have gone to overtime.
Longevity series
• This is the 100th season of Army and Navy confrontation. The only years since the first game in 1919-20 that the two teams haven’t met are from 1928-29 to 1929-32.
• The Army and Navy met for the 91st consecutive season this year. This is the longest uninterrupted series of Patriot League programming.
• Army and Navy enter meeting today, having met 137 times before. That ranks fourth among Patriot League teams for the most games played and first among the Mids against opponents.
recent army and navy games at west point
• With COVID canceling the 2021 Army-Navy Games scheduled to be held at West Point, players from both teams have played in a maximum of two games in the Christl Arena series in their respective careers.
• Navy score lead Tyler Nelsonwho totaled 18 career points (16 in 2022) in two games at West Point, Jalen Rook led the Army with 18 last season.
• Nielsen and sean yoder are the only two Mids to have started a game in the Army, and Rucker, Chris Mann and Charlie Peterson are the only Black Knights to have started a game at home.
Miscellaneous Game Records
• The Mids are 230-185 against teams in New York.
• Navy went 80-106 in New York.
• The Navy has a 14-10 record in its Jan. 21 game. That included a 4-4 record in the Patriot League regular season that day.
• This will be the fourth Army-Navy game on January 21st.
next
• Navy returns to action for Wednesday night’s game at Bucknell.
• Bison enters Saturday’s home game against Holy Cross 8-12 on the season and 1-6 against league opponents.
