{"id":44758,"date":"2024-11-15T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=44758"},"modified":"2024-11-15T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T00:06:14","slug":"mens-basketball-terriers-look-to-change-season-momentum-vs-dartmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2024\/11\/15\/mens-basketball-terriers-look-to-change-season-momentum-vs-dartmouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball: Terriers Look to Change Season Momentum vs. Dartmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Featured image by Spirit Veron<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By Ryan Abazari<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boston University Men\u2019s Basketball (0-3, 0-0 PL) return home to Commonwealth Avenue on Saturday, Nov. 16 with a game against the Dartmouth Big Green (2-1, 0-0 IL) where they\u2019ll look to turn the tide on this season after a disappointing trip to Southern California of back-to-back losses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The matchup remains one rooted in history, but has only recently become a staple, with home and away series being played since 2018. The positives for the Terriers lie in their 3-2 record in the brief series, winning both games at home and stealing a win in Hanover in 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2023 road trip was unsuccessful as the Terriers couldn\u2019t make it four straight wins, losing 63-54.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately for the Terriers, after dropping the home opener to Northeastern their road trip would only add to the loss column. The trip started off promising with a strong first half against the University of San Diego Toreros, but the Toreros pulled away to take the first game of the trip.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latter game just up I-5 against the UCLA Bruins was not as competitive and the Terriers lost both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers will look towards scoring leaders sophomore Kyrone Alexander with an average of 28.7 points per game, and graduate student Miles Brewster with 27.7 points per game to take on the burden of the Big Green.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting the season with a massive win against over-matched Vermont State, they would follow it up with a close win at home to Sacred Heart. The winning ways ended against the University of Albany, meaning Big Green will go on the road for the first time above .500.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BU\u2019s biggest challenge defensively takes shape in senior Cade Haskins, Dartmouth\u2019s leader in scoring thus far.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The game is set for Saturday afternoon at Case Gymnasium with tipoff set for 1 p.m. and streaming available on ESPN+.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured image by Spirit Veron By Ryan Abazari Boston University Men\u2019s Basketball (0-3, 0-0 PL) return home to Commonwealth Avenue on Saturday, Nov. 16 with a game against the Dartmouth Big Green (2-1, 0-0 IL) where they\u2019ll look to turn the tide on this season after a disappointing trip to Southern California of back-to-back losses. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23099,"featured_media":44546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1027,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44759,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44758\/revisions\/44759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}