Saint Francis University (3-7) at University of Hawai'i (5-3)
Date | Time	Sunday, December 11, 2022 | 10 p.m. (EST)
Location	Honolulu, Hawai'i | SimpliFi Arena
Television	Kanoa Leahy (play-by-play), Artie Wilson (color analyst) | ESPN+
Live Stats	StatBroadcast
Printable Notes	Saint Francis | Hawai'i
Stats	Saint Francis | Hawai'i | Northeast Conference
Social Media	@RedFlashMBB  | #BELIEVE | #RideTogether | @RedFlashMBB | Facebook

OPENING TIP
• Sunday's game marks the first-ever meeting between Saint Francis and Hawai'i.
• It is not the team's first trip to the islands of Hawai'i, though. The Red Flash played three games in the 1975-76 season.
• Saint Francis opened the 1976 calendar year with an 82-81 win against Chaminade on January 2, 1976 and then earned its second win in the state with a 76-72 victory against Hawaii-Hilo on January 3 before the Vulcans split the two-game set with a 79-76 decision the very next day.
• The three games in Hawai'i in 1975-76 were part of an 18-day trip that started at Cleveland State and San Diego State before coming to Hawai'i. The squad then wrapped up its trip at Butler and at Kent State before returning to Pennsylvania.
• In another coincidence, the game at Butler was the only other meeting in the series before this season and the Red Flash game against Saint Vincent on February 7, 1976 was also the last time prior to Thursday the Bearcats were on the schedule.

THE WORD ON HAWAI'I
• The Rainbow Warriors come into the contest 5-3 after falling 77-62 to UNLV on Wednesday.
• Kamaka Hepa paced Hawai'i against the Rebels with 15 points, while Beon Riley tallied 12 points and eight rebounds.
• Noel Coleman leads the team with 16.0 points per game, while Bernardo da Silva is second on the team in scoring (11.1 ppg.) and fuels the team in rebounding (7.6 rpg.). Hepa is also averaging double figures in points with 10.3 points per game.
• Head coach Eran Ganot is a Swarthmore graduate, which is located in Pennsylvania.

LAST TIME OUT
• Redshirt junior Luke Ruggery posted a career-high 18 points on his 22nd birthday to power Saint Francis past Saint Vincent 88-58 on Thursday.
• Redshirt junior Josh Cohen notched his second-straight double-double with 14 points and a career-high 12 rebounds. Fellow redshirt junior Brad McCabe added 11 points.
• Freshmen Wisler Sanon II (11 points), Miles Webb (eight points) and Cam Gregory (seven assists) also notched career highs on the night. Gregory also had nine points.
• It was the first time the team has won a game when it trailed in a contest.
• The game was on the 50th Anniversary of the Maurice Stokes Athletic Center dedication and the first-ever game in the building was against Saint Vincent on Dec. 4, 1972.

AN SFU WIN WOULD
• Be the first win in Hawai'i since the Red Flash went 2-1 in the 1975-76 season
• Start the team's first two-game winning streak, the first since defeating Sacred Heart and CCSU on Jan. 21 & 23, 2002
• Give the Red Flash its first win against a team from the Mountain West Conference
• Be the first win when the team jumps more than one time zone since defeating Hawai'i-Hilo on Jan. 3, 1976

TRENDING UP
• Freshman Cam Gregory is averaging 10.0 points and 5.0 assists per game in his last three games.
• Gregory, who has a team-best 25 assists in his last seven games, is averaging 9.0 points and 3.7 assists per game on the road as a starter.
• Redshirt junior Josh Cohen has recorded back-to-back double-doubles for the first time in his career after tallying 18 points and 10 rebounds against No. 25 Ohio State on December 3 and 14 points and a career-high tying 12 rebounds against Saint Vincent on December 8. Cohen is looking to become the first player with three-straight double-doubles since Keith Braxton turned the trick during the conference season in the 2019-20 campaign.
• Sticking with Cohen, the redshirt junior has dished out at least two assists in nine of the 10 games and has five games with at least three helpers.
• Freshman Landon Moore, who recorded 18 assists in his first three games, has handed out 11 assists in his last two contests after registered 11 assists in the previous five games before the last two tilts.
• Freshman Wisler Sanon II became the second freshmen this season to post double figures in his first collegiate start with his career-high 11 points against Saint Vincent. Moore notched 14 points in his first start in the season opener against Saint Bonaventure on November 7. Gregory scored six points against Hartford on November 12 in his first career starting nod.
• Junior Ronell Giles, Jr. returned to play 18 minutes after recording one minute in the previous eight games. Giles averaged 10.5 points per game in his first 33 games but has only posted eight points in his last seven tilts.

FRANKIES TIDBITS IN A FLASH
• A note in the game notes last season was that the team traveled every game by bus in non-conference and had a round-trip total of 4,790 miles, and that included a trip to Hartford and Illinois in the same week for 1,914 miles round trip.
• Just with this trip alone to get from Loretto to Pittsburgh to Houston to Honolulu totaled 4,363 miles one away.
• Saint Francis is looking for its first winning streak of the season and the first since defeating CCSU and Sacred Heart in back-to-back home games at DeGol Arena on January 21 and 23, 2022.
• The trip to Hawai'i starts the only three-game road trip during the non-conference slate. In 2021-22, the Red Flash had two road trips that were three games or more before the league slate started.
• The Loretto team will play a team from the Big West Conference for the first since that 18-day trip in 1975-76 when the Red Flash faced San Diego State.
• The game start time is 5 p.m. Hawai'i time, but 10 p.m. EST. This will be the 17th time in program history the Red Flash will jump more than one time zone to play a game.
• Under head coach Rob Krimmel Saint Francis will be jumping more than one time zone for the fifth time in his 11 seasons and the first since the 2018-19 season when the squad played at No. 20 UCLA.
• Under Krimmel, the squad has also traveled to Denver (2013-14), San Francisco (2017-18) and Saint Mary's (2017-18) on the mainland West Coast.
• The Loretto program is 4-12 when jumping more than one time zone to play a game and are looking for its first time-zone-jumping win since defeating Hawai'i-Hilo in the 1975-76 season.
• The biggest time zone jump game in program history was the 1991 NCAA Tournament when Saint Francis met No. 2 Arizona in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• The Red Flash has lost its first four road games in a season for the first time since the 2018-19 campaign.  That season, the squad lost at Buffalo, No. 20 UCLA, No. 7 North Carolina and No. 13 Virginia Tech.
• That season, the Loretto program lost all seven games on the road in non-conference play and went 4-0 at home, but went on to win the NEC regular season with a 12-6 record in league play and went 18-15 overall.
• Junior Maxwell Land had started the last 39 games for Saint Francis before not suiting up against Saint Vincent on Thursday.
• Land was the only player on the roster to start every game last season. The junior has been in the starting lineup for every game that he has suited up to play.
• With Land out of the lineup, Krimmel started three freshmen Cam Gregory, Landon Moore and Wisler Sanon II. It was Sanon's first career start.
• It was the first time the Red Flash started three freshmen since Greg Brown, Ben Millaud-Meunier and Stephon Mosley each heard their name called against Sacred Heart on January 13, 2013, Krimmel's first season as a head coach.
• Gregory's uncle Anthony Ervin is also a Saint Francis men's basketball alumni and played in that game against the Pioneers, posting four points and two rebounds as a junior.
• Saint Francis will stay in the warm weather for its next game when it travels to Miami for the first time in program history.
• The Red Flash will wrap up non-conference play at Robert Morris and will play the game in Moon Township for the first time since the 2019-20 Northeast Conference Championship Game.