#4 Salve Regina v. #5 Endicott

Summary: Salve Regina University men's basketball hosts Endicott College in a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championships quarterfinal meeting at the Rodgers Recreation Center (8 p.m. tip-off)

Match-up: #4 Salve Regina Seahawks (16-9; 11-7 CCC) versus Endicott Gulls (17-8; 11-7 CCC)

Game date, time and site: Tue., Feb. 25, 2014; 8 p.m. @ Newport, R.I. (Rodgers Recreation Center)

Live stats: http://livestats.prestosports.com/salveregina

Video/Audio: http://bit.ly/19Mpnue (Salve Regina men's basketball channel on ustream.tv; Andrew Pezzelli and Leon Bayles provide the call)

CCC Tournament Interactive Bracket: http://bit.ly/1hrHIip

Directions: http://bit.ly/1c4fubM

Tickets: $4/adults; $2/children under 12; FREE/students with ID

Series edge: Endicott leads, 15-12

Last Seahawk win in series: Salve Regina won, 80-74 in OT, on February 4, 2013, in Newport

Last Gull win in series: Endicott won, 87-76, on January 7, 2014, in Beverly

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• Head coach Sean Foster: "Our quarterfinal match-up will be a great challenge for our guys due to the balance and depth of the Endicott team. Our guys have played tough and together all year and we are confident that our effort will be at a high level in the CCC tournament."
• Salve Regina finished the regular season tied with Endicott for fourth place. The Seahawks gained the fourth seed over th e Gulls because of Salve Regina's win over Nichols earlier in the season.
• Salve Regina has now reached the postseason four consecutive years and is looking to advance to the second round of the CCC tournament for the third time in the last four seasons.

• Endicott leads, 15-12, in a series that began in 1994.
• Salve Regina swept the series in 2011-12 and again in 2012-13, but Endicott won the title match in 2012 and this season's first meeting on January 7, 2014 [BOX SCORE].
• Patrick Dinneen hit a 3-pointer with 27.4 seconds in overtime that lifted Salve Regina University men's basketball to an 80-74 victory over visiting Endicott College on February 4, 2014, at the Rodgers Recreation Center [BOX SCORE].
• Dinneen's career-high 26 points included a pair of free throws at the end for the final score as Salve Regina ended a two-game skid while splitting the season series with Endicott.
• The game featured 18 ties and 18 lead changes.

• Salve Regina enters the game with two members of its starting five in the top five offense leaders in points per game in the conference. Guard Barrett Hanlon (Hopkinton, Mass.) is third (18.0), while fellow guard Patrick Dinneen (Medfield, Mass.) is fifth (15.7)
• Senior forward Jeff Bielefeld (Littleton, Mass.) finished the regular season third in the CCC in rebounding, averaging 8.8 boards per game
• Bielefeld and Hanlon are third and fourth in the CCC in shooting field goal percentage, averaging 53.5% and 53.0% respectively

• Endicott is back in the tournament after missing the playoffs in 2013 (the Gulls won the title in 2012; similarly, last season's champion, Curry College, did not qualify for this year's postseason).
• The last time Endicott faced Salve Regina in the playoffs, the third-seeded Gulls took home the CCC championship 90-66 against the top-seeded Seahawks in 2012.
• Endicott is currently on a three-game winning streak with wins against Curry and Wentworth at home, and a road-win at Western New England on Saturday.
• Endicott guard Lachlan Magee (Melbourne, Australia) is second in the CCC in field goal shooting percentage (56.2%).
• As a team, Endicott finished the regular season second in the CCC from behind the three-point line, shooting 38 percent.
• The Gulls also boast the CCC?s highest scoring offense, averaging 80.7 points per contest.
• Last time out against Salve Regina, Magee led all starters for the Gulls in scoring with 13 points.
• The Gulls were aided by the scoring efforts of two reserves; Kamahl Walker (Worcester, Mass.) and Tell White (New Castle, N.H.) who both contributed 15 points.

• Salve Regina's 34-point victory in its home opener over Connecticut College on November 19, 2013, represents its largest margin of victory in a home game for the Seahawks since an 86-51 win against visiting Lesley on December 6, 2008.
• Salve Regina's largest margin of victory ever (51 points) came on February 12, 1995, in a 124-73 win against New England College at Rogers High School gymnasium (Newport, R.I.).

• Salve Regina men's basketball is 3-7 all-time on February 25.
• This includes two appearances in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championship game. On February 25, 1995, the Salve Regina won a 93-76 decision against Eastern Nazarene at Rogers High School (Newport, R.I.); on February 25, 2012, the Seahawks lost to Endicott, 90-66, at the Rodgers Recreation Center.

• Please click here for an up-to-date individual career history report (pdf) for the entire 2013-14 Salve Regina men's basketball roster. 

• Seniors Jeff Bielefeld and Joshua Hohlfelder share captains' duties for the 2013-14 season.
• 12th-year head coach Sean Foster remarks: "Our staff is excited to have such dynamic leadership going into the 2013-14 season. Jeff and Josh are tremendous people, excellent students and hard-working athletes. Their positive example will be extremely beneficial to our younger players." 

TEAM - POINTS (FIRST-PLACE VOTES)
1. Gordon - 90 (4)
2. Curry - 89 (4)
3. Endicott - 81 (2)
4. Nichols - 64
5. Salve Regina - 51
6. Eastern Nazarene - 49
7. Roger Williams - 40
7. Wentworth - 40
9. U. of New England - 28
10. Western New Eng. - 18

• Click here for an interactive tournament bracket. With live scoring and video links, viewers can stay up-to-date on the tournament.

• Jeff Bielefeld recorded his eighth double-double on the season during an overtime win against Endicott.
• Nicholas Bates has two double-doubles for the Seahawks, posting the first of his career in his first home game, and then a second in a one-point win against Roger Williams (career-highs with 18 points, 14 rebounds).
• Barrett Hanlon picked up his first collegiate double-double (20 points, 12 rebounds) in his return to the hardwood two weeks ago at University of New England. He added another at Western New England on Thursday.

• Sean Foster is in his 12th season as the head coach, the winningest in the history of the Seahawks (155-161; .491).
• His 4-0 start for the 2013-14 season marked the best in program history.
• Foster welcomes new assistants Matt Adams and Tyler Hundley to his coaching staff.

• Patrick Dinneen now has 1,122 career points to rank 13th all-time; ninth place is only 21 points away which would put Dinneen ahead of 12) Paul Graziano (1,128), 11) John Gallogly (1,133), 10) Chris Grasso (1,140), and 9) Bryan Dlugolenski (1,142).