VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton men's basketball begins a stretch of five straight away from home when the Bearcats (2-4) travel to New Britain, Conn. to face Central Connecticut State (2-3) Sunday afternoon. The teams will tip at 1 p.m. at Detrick Gym. 

Graduate forward Ben Callahan-Gold leads three Bearcats in double-figure scoring with 13.8 points per game. Graduate guard Tymu Chenery (12.2) and sophomore forward Gavin Walsh (10.3) are also in double digits. Walsh is pulling down a conference-high 10.3 rebounds per contest. 

ABOUT CCSU
•    Public university in New Britain, Conn. with enrollment of 10,000
•    Longtime members of the Northeast Conference (27 years)
•    Reached NCAAs three times in an eight-year span between 2000-07
•    Reigning NEC regular season champion
•    Return two starters and eight lettermen from 20-11 team that went 13-3 in NEC and reached tournament semifinals to champion Wagner
•    Picked tied for first in NEC Preseason Poll (with Wagner)
•    Led by reigning second team all-conference guard Jordan Jones
•    Coming off 67-54 loss at Sacred Heart on Thursday
•    Boast road win over Atlantic 10 member St. Joseph's (73-67)    

ALL-TIME SERIES VS. CCSU
•    CCSU leads the all-time series 4-2
•    Teams haven't played in eight years (2016)
•    Binghamton has won the last two matchups, 81-75 on road in 2015 and 72-70 at home in 2016
•    In New Britain, CCSU is 2-1
•    Binghamton is 27-24 all-time vs. teams from the NEC 
•    Binghamton's most common NEC foe is Sacred Heart (8) 

BEARCATS PUSH LONGWOOD TO WIRE
On Tuesday, BU shot 60% in the first half, led by seven in the second half and extended reigning Big South champion Longwood to the closing minute before coming up short 66-60 at the Events Center. The Bearcats held the Lancers to just 32% shooting but surrendered 20 offensive rebounds and got the short end of the whistle at home (23 fouls, 25 Longwood FTs).    

WALSH DOUBLE-DOUBLE STRING NOW AT FOUR
Sophomore forward Gavin Walsh has produced four consecutive double-doubles (Miami, Fordham, Misericordia, Longwood). Walsh tallied 11 points and 12 rebounds against Longwood and is now within one game of tying the school record of five straight double-doubles set by Mahamoud Jabbi in 2010-11. Walsh is averaging a double-double on the season with 10.3 ppg. and a league-leading 10.3 rpg.

EARLY AMERICA EAST STAT LEADERS 
Six games into the season, several Bearcats are near the top of the statistical rankings in the America East. Sophomore forward Gavin Walsh leads the conference in rebounds (10.3/game) and his 19-rebound performance at Fordham is still the second-highest single-game mark in the nation. Graduate forward Ben Callahan-Gold leads the conference in 3-pointers per game (3.2). Graduate guard Tymu Chenery is sixth in field goal percentage (.500) and sophomore guard Jayden Lemond is sixth in assists (3.7). As a team, BU is third in assists (15.7), defensive rebounds (27.7) and field goal percentage defense (40.8%), and fourth in rebound margin (+1.3) and field goal percentage (46.5%).   

FEAST OR FAMINE EARLY IN 2024-25
Binghamton has played six games this season and all but one has resulted in a 15+ point margin. The average margin of victory in BU's first five games was 25.8 points. Tuesday's six-point loss to Longwood was the first single-digit game of the season for the Bearcats, Last season, 19 of the team's 30 games were decided by double figures, and BU went 8-11 in those games. Seven games last season were decided by six or fewer points and BU was 5-2 in those games.    

WALSH TIES REBOUND RECORD WITH 19 BOARDS
Sophomore forward Gavin Walsh tied the school record for rebounds in a game with 19 (10 in first half) at Fordham on Nov. 12, equaling the mark set by Thomas Bruce against UMass Lowell on Jan. 21, 2018. His rebound total is the second-highest in the NCAA this season (Maryland 6-foot-10 freshman Derik Queen had 20 vs. Manhattan on Nov. 4).   

NEWCOMER CALLAHAN-GOLD BRINGS SHOOTING RANGE
Binghamton, which averaged just five 3-pointers last season (8th in AE), focused on long-range firepower in its recruiting class. Graduate forward Ben Callahan-Gold made 88 3-pointers for Trinity last season, helping the D3 power reach the NCAA semifinals. Through six games, he is averaging 3.2 "3s" a game (on 39% accuracy), which leads America East. In his last three games, Callahan-Gold has averaged 4.0 3-pointers on 46% shooting. As a team, the Bearcats have bumped up their 3-pointers per game to 7.2, which ranks sixth.    

HECTIC PACE TO START SEASON; 3-GAME TOURNEY AHEAD
The Bearcats opened their season with a stretch of four-games-in-nine-days and on the horizon is a stretch of three-games-in-three-days at the Lafayette Classic next weekend. The Bearcats will play games on three consecutive days for the first time since competing at the CBE Classic, hosted by Western Carolina in 2009. The only other time the program played games on three straight days was at the Alaska Top of the World Classic to open the 2003-04 season. Both times, the Bearcats went 1-2 in the event, winning on the final day.