Gettysburg College Athletics

OPENING TIP: Tonight's Centennial Conference (CC) game marks the 56th all-time meeting between Gettysburg (8-4, 4-1 CC) and Haverford (4-8, 1-4 CC) in a series that dates back to 1922. The Bullets lead the all-time series 40-14 but the Fords have won six of the last eight matchups. The teams split last year’s series with each winning on its home court.

WHEN LAST WE MET: Haverford limited Gettysburg to just six second-half field goals to rally for a 70-67 win in Haverford on Feb. 11 to split last season’s series. Nate Williams was one of two Bullets to score 15 points, adding five rebounds and four assists. Jordan Stafford also added 15 points. Nate Torres led the Fords with 18 points and seven assists. (Full Recap) (Box Score)

LAST TIME OUT: Jordan Stafford put up 18 of 38 Gettysburg's first-half points to carve out a 13-point lead after the first stanza, and the defense and offense worked in lockstep to nearly replicate the opening 20 minutes in the final period en route to a 74-51 final score at Swarthmore on Saturday. Stafford finished with a career-high 23 points. Michael Caprise led the Garnet with 27 points. (Full Recap) (Box Score)

THREE IN A ROW FOR No. 3: Jordan Stafford has scored 20 or more points in each of Gettysburg's last three games. He scored 20 points against both WPI and Stevens at the Stevens Holiday tournament to claim Centennial Conference Player of the Week last week. In the return to conference play on Saturday, the junior netted a career-best 23 points, hitting eight of his 12 field-goal attempts and going 7-for-9 from the free-throw line. Stafford enters this week averaging a team-best 15.7 points per game and shooting 54.8 percent from the floor. He has scored eight or more points in all 12 games this season and 15 or more seven times. 

LAST TIME OUT: Haverford returned to Centennial Conference action on Saturday, enduring a heartbreaker against visiting Dickinson with the Red Devils escaping by a final score of 51-50 in a contest that featured 22 lead changes and 14 ties. Gabriel Franklin had a game-best 17 points to lead the Fords. (Full Recap) (Box Score)

FIRST TIME AROUND: Three of Haverford's top four scorers this season are freshmen. Nick Klaiber is averaging a team-high 14.1 points per game and has reached double digits nine times this season. Gaven Marr and Logan Brown are chipping in 8.8 and 8.6 points per game, respectively. Marr has been up-and-down during his rookie season with four games where he has scored five or fewer points and four double-digit scoring outings. Brown has scored eight or more seven of the last eight games after netting just 16 total points in his first four collegiate games.