Men's Basketball | November 11, 2015

PHILADELPHIA – The La Salle men's basketball team will open up its regular season on Saturday, November 14 vs. Towson at 3 PM. Homecoming festivities will take place throughout the day.

Towson Tigers at La Salle Explorers
Saturday, November 14 | 3 PM | Tom Gola Arena

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Pre-Game Information
The Homecoming tent opens at 12:00 PM on the tennis courts. More information here.

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Game Notes
La Salle | Towson

All-Time Series
The Explorers own a 3-1 all-time record versus Towson. La Salle picked up a 67-53 victory at Towson last season as Jordan Price scored what was then a career high 31 points in the victory. The Tigers were limited to just 32.6% shooting from the field and went without a three-pointer, going 0-14 from behind the arc. Amar Stukes scored seven points off of the bench while committing only one turnover in 28 minutes on the court. The Explorers have split two previous matches at home against Towson, grabbing a 79-78 victory in 1983 while dropping a overtime decision to the Tigers, 90-93, in 2010. 

Scouting the Explorers
Junior Jordan Price returns following a season that saw him earn Second Team All-Atlantic 10, First Team All-Big 5, and Second Team All-NABC honors in his first year on the court for La Salle. The Decatur, Ga. native has been named preseason All-Atlantic 10 First Team by the league's head coaches prior to the tipoff of the 2015-16 campaign. Price finished second in the Atlantic 10 averaging 17.2 ppg while adding 3.9 rebounds and 2.3 assists for the Explorers.
 
La Salle will look to fill the shoes of three graduating senior starters from last season in Jerrell Wright, Steve Zack and D. J. Peterson.  Zack and Wright were a force in the frontcourt for La Salle as the pair started 33 and 32 games respectively and accounted for 46% of rebounds on the season for the Explorers. The trio of redshirt sophomore Tony Washington, redshirt senior Rohan Brown, and sophomore Yevgen Sakhniuk will look to fill their shoes. Brown appeared in 28 games for La Salle, shooting an efficient .478 on the season. He averaged 1.6 rebounds a game. Washington appeared in 13 games off of the bench for La Salle pulling down six rebounds. Sakhniuk sat out last season after serving a NCAA mandated year in residence.
 
The Explorers return a wealth of experience in the front court to go along with Price. Redshirt junior Cleon Roberts returns after making 22 starts a season ago. Roberts was second on the team with 141 threes on the season while shooting .333 from the outside. Redshirt sophomore Amar Stukes also returns following a season that saw him make 15 starts at point guard on the season. The Philadelphia native averaged 1.3 assists per contest while shooting .448 from the field. Sophomore Johnnie Shuler is coming off as season that saw him appear in 23 games off the bench. Shuler provided a spark making 12 shots from beyond the arch while shooting .411 from beyond the arch against conference opponents.
 
Also in the mix at guard is a pair of freshman with Karl Harris and Dusan Majstorovic joining the program this season. Harris comes to 20th and Olney after earning Third Team 3A/4A All-State honors at De La Salle Institute in Chicago last season. Majstorovic joins the Explorers from Lee Academy in Main, the alma mater of D.J. Peterson. Majstorovic averaged 14 points and six rebounds at Lee Academy and has also played for the Under-16 Serbian national team.

Scouting the Tigers
Towson returns five of its top six scorers from last season's team that went 12-20 and 5-13 in the CAA. The top returner is junior John Davis who earned All-CAA honors last season after averaging 11.8 points and 8.1 rebounds per contest.

Sophomore Byron Hawkins (7.3 ppg), senior Timajh Parker-Rivera (7.1 ppg), sophomore Mike Morsell (6.4 ppg) and junior Walter Foster (5.7 ppg) round out the rest of the top five returning scorers for the Tigers. Davis (8.1 rpg), Parker-Rivera (5.9 ppg) and Foster (5.6 ppg) are the top three returners in rebounds for Towson from a season ago.

The Tigers add transfer Arnaud William Adala Moto this season after he sat out the 2014-15 season. Adala Moto spent the summer playing for the Cameroon National Team where he averaged 12.2 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 2.2 assists per game during the FIBA Africa Championships over the summer in Tunisia. Adala Moto started his college career at Wake Forest where he averaged 6.9 points and 5.2 rebounds during his sophomore campaign.
 
Up Next
The Explorers have a quick turnaround as they welcome Rider to Tom Gola Arena on Tuesday at 7 PM. The matchup will be streamed live as a part of the A-10 Network and as a special, one-time offer for fans, will be free to all viewers.