We won 81-49, and UNCW won 95-65 at halftime, so we had the larger marin of victory. Today's four CAA games that are over had an average margin of 23.
Plotnikov led all scorers with 20. He shot 8-9 including threes 4-5. Thomas scored 19, led all player with 10 rebounds, and led all players with 4 assists. Fritz shot 5-6 and free throws 3-3 to have 13 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists. 4 rebounds is okay because he only played 19 minutes. Sunday had 6 rebounds in 21 minutes, but shot 0-2 and did not score. Each forward committed 4 fouls. Dubar scored 13 and shot 4-13 by shooting threes 2-5 and twos 2-8. Carlos scored 6, and Robinson and Farmer scored 5. Plotnikov had 7 rebounds. Carlos had 7 assists.
Camian Shell led North Carolina A&T with 14 points and 3 assists. He shot field goals 3-10 and free throws 8-8. Their other double-digit scorer was Ahmad Hamilton with 11. Jason Murphy and Nikolaos Chitikoudis tied for their lead with 8 rebounds.
We shot 30-59 (.508) by shooting twos 19-37 (.514) and threes 11-22 (.500). We shot free throws 10-12 (.833), with all of them in the last 18:04. We had more rebounds 37 to 34, and more assists 14 to 6. North Carolina A&T blocked 1 shot, and we did not block any. North Carolina A&T shot 14-52 (.269) by shooting twos 11-35 (.314) and threes 3-17 (.176). It was our lowest opponents' field goal percentage in an away game from 2010-2011 to now, which includes 196 away games, so our defense traveled. They shot free throws 18-24 (.750).
Jayden Henriquez made his NCAA debut by playing the last 2:46, and his only nonzero statistic was missing a three 9 seconds after he entered. The bench played 55 minutes, which is a lot by our standards.
Jerry Beach wrote that on Thursday, Plotnikov became the first Hofstra starter to finish with no points, rebounds or assists since Stafford Trueheart did so over 10 minutes in a 90-84 win over William & Mary on Feb. 15, 2018. I wonder if we ever had a player have zeroes for all three of those and have at least 20 points and at least 7 rebounds in the next game.
Here are Analytics leaders:
Efficiency: Plotnikov 27, Thomas 22, and Fritz 17
Game score: Plotnikov 20.0, Thomas 14.0, and Camian Shell 11.6
Net points: Fritz 5.2, Thomas 4.2, and Plotnikov 3.3 (Ahmad Hamilton's +0.7 was the only positive on North Carolina A&T, and it adds up to a negative number for all players combined)
Edit:
https://gohofstra.com/news/2024/2/10/me ... ctory.aspx is titled "Hofstra Cruises To Fourth Consecutive Victory." We ended our team record streak of ten games decided by single-digits. Stony Brook had an 11 game streak of that end Thursday, meaning we entered today with the longeste active streak of that. Baylor trails 23-11 at Kansas, and if that game is decided by double-digits, the longest active streak of that will be 9 games by North Alabama, who extended their streak today, and East Tennessee State if their in progress game is decided by single-digits. Monmouth had a seven game streak end by losing by 12 at Northeastern. Dubar tied Rokas Gustys for 29th on our career points list, and Thomas moved up to 35th with 5 fewer points than Mike Moore, who led the CAA in points per game in 2011-2012, which was the first season after Charles Jenkins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uzKQeQ95FI is highlights. They are 1:37, which is shorter than usual, and that is with us making 30 field goals.
https://gohofstra.com/sports/mens-baske ... core/12804 is the box score. The attendance was 1,054, which was higher than the 1,004 at Hampton. Drexel gets low attendance, so we could play three consecutive away games that all get under 2,000. North Carolina A&T entered with an average attendance of 2,488, which is good by CAA standards.
Charleston won 80-70 hosting Drexel. Campbell won 95-77 as an underdog hosting Stony Brook. Delaware won 69-58 hosting William & Mary, and the margin of 11 was the smallest of today's six CAA games, which had an average margin of 18.8. Towson hosts Elon on Monday. The standings are:
1. UNCW 9-3 (2-0 vs. Charleston)
2. Charleston 9-3
3. Drexel 8-4 (1-0 against Us and Delaware combined, 1-2 against UNCW and Charleston combined)
4. Us 8-4 (1-0 against Drexel and Delaware combined, 0-1 against UNCW and Charleston combined)
5. Delaware 8-4 (0-2 against Drexel and Delaware combined)
6. Towson 7-4*
7. Campbell 6-6 (1-0 against Stony Brook and Monmouth combined)
8. Stony Brook 6-6 (1-1 against Monmouth and Campbell combined)
9. Monmouth 6-6 (0-1 against Campbell and Stony Brook combined)
10. North Carolina A&T 5-7 (1-0 against Northeastern and they do not play again)
11. Northeastern 5-7 (0-1 against North Carolina A&T)
12. Elon 3-8 (0-1 against William & Mary and they play again, Elon will fall behind William & Mary if Elon loses to Towson on Monday)
13. William & Mary 3-9
14. Hampton 0-12
* In the likely event that Towson beats Elon, the tiebreakers will make us third, Towson fourth, Drexel fifth, and Delaware sixth. In that case, one game will change the seeds of six teams.