Hempstead, NY - The Hofstra men's basketball team will host Manhattan on Sunday in the team's final non-conference game of the 2019-20 campaign. At the game, Hofstra will be holding a Teddy Bear Toss at halftime. We kindly ask that you bring new or gently used stuff animals to the game to toss onto the court at halftime. All items collected will be donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Long Island.

Tip-off from the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex is slated for 12 p.m. For ticket information visit HofstraTickets.com, call (516) HOF-TIXX or stop by the Hofstra Athletics Ticket Office in the lobby of the Mack Sports Complex during normal business hours. 

There will be Pride Productions live video and audio of the game, with the audio courtesy of WRHU (88.7 FM). Links to both, as well as the live statistics, can be found on this page and on the men's basketball schedule page at GoHofstra.com. 

Hofstra is coming off one of its best performances of the season as the defeated Princeton, 87-72, on Thursday on the road. Senior Eli Pemberton posted a game-high 27 points, while fellow senior Desure Buie added 13 points, seven assists, and a career-high seven rebounds. Juniors Tareq Coburn (14), Jalen Ray (14) and Stafford Trueheart (11) all reached double figures as well. It was an especially strong outing for Trueheart (also six rebounds), who had totaled 11 points for the Pride all season through 11 games and doubled that total against the Tigers. 

Pemberton is the Pride's leading scorer in a very balanced offensive attack for Hofstra. He is averaging 16.9 points and 6.1 rebounds per game, while Buie is second with 16.4 points and ranks first with 5.9 assists and 2.5 steals. Ray is averaging 13.3 points and has drained a team-best 23 three-pointers, while Coburn ranks fourth on the team with 11.8 points and is tops on the squad with 7.2 rebounds per outing. 

Manhattan is 4-4 this season and most recently dropped a narrow one-point decision, 59-58, to Western Michigan, on December 14, at home. The Jaspers are led in scoring by Samir Stewart, who is averaging 9.7 points per game, while Tykei Greene is second with 9.3 per outing. Greene also leads the team with 6.8 rebounds per game, while Nehemiah Mack has 2.6 assists per game to pace Manhattan. 

Hofstra is 23-42 all-time against Manhattan. The Pride won last season's meeting, 80-50, in Riverdale as Coburn posted 22 points and 10 rebounds, while Buie added 18 points and Ray chipped in with 13. The first-ever meeting between the schools was during the 1937-38 season, Hofstra's second-ever season of men's basketball. The Pride won that first encounter, 40-35. The 65 all-time meetings between Hofstra and Manhattan ranks as the fourth most common opponent for the Pride (Delaware – 91, Drexel – 89 and Towson – 69) and the most common current non-conference opponent in program history.