Hempstead, NY - The Hofstra men's basketball team returns to the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex on Saturday when it hosts Drexel. 

Tip-off from the Mack Sports Complex is slated for 4 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.

The game will serve as Hofstra's Coaches Cure CF game as the program aims to promote and increase community awareness, to raise funds necessary to support Cystic Fibrosis (CF) research and to provide an ASSIST to those in need through the college basketball community, in furthering the mission to Cure CF. Coaches will be wearing warm-up suits to raise awareness. Wearing the warm-up suits at Coaches Cure CF Awareness games highlights and honors the dedicated discipline which those who struggle with this life-threatening illness must demonstrate every day. Also, a common test to diagnose this disease is a sweat chloride test. 

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

Hofstra is 14-7 overall and 5-3 in the league following a tough 73-71 loss against Delaware on Thursday. Senior Desure Buie led Hofstra with 19 points and six assists in the game, but the Blue Hens scored in the game's final second to earn the victory. Buie leads the Pride with 18.7 points per game and is also tops on the roster with 112 assists and 45 steals. 

Drexel is 12-9 and an identical 5-3 conference mark after dropping an 85-52 game against Northeastern on Thursday. James Butler had 16 points for the Dragons in the game. Camren Wynter leads Drexel with 15.1 points per game and also has dished out 111 assists. 

Hofstra is 43-46 all-time against Drexel in a series that began during the 1958-59 campaign. Hofstra won the first-ever meeting, 70-64, in the Middle Atlantic Championships. Heading into Saturday's game, the Hofstra/Drexel series ranks as the Pride's second-most played opponent all-time as the two schools have met 89 times. Hofstra has only faced one team more as the Pride has met Delaware 92 times. Hofstra has won five straight and nine of the last 10 games in the series. 

Hofstra Athletics has partnered with the University's Career Center for their Career Closet event that is being held in February. The University is looking for any fans attending upcoming home games to bring any new or gently-used professional attire to January home games. There will be a drop-off area located outside the ticket office of the Mack Sports Complex. These items will assist Hofstra students who are interviewing for jobs and internships.