Hempstead, NY - The Hofstra men's basketball team will return home to the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex this Saturday when it hosts Northeastern. The game will also serve as "Joe Mihalich Day" as the University will honor the legendary former head coach all day long. 

Pregame festivities, followed by the tip of the contest between the Pride and the Huskies will occur at approximately 2 p.m. 

Tickets are available for purchase at HofstraTickets.com, by calling (516) HOF-TIXX, or by visiting the Hofstra Athletic Ticket Office in the lobby of the Mack Sports Complex during normal business hours. On game day the ticket office will open one hour prior to tip-off. There will be free Pride of Long Island t-shirts for the first 1,000 fans and first 1,000 students. 

The game will air on FloHoops and WRHU (88.7 FM) will have an audio-only broadcast on the Hofstra Athletics Web Channel. Links to both broadcasts, as well as the live statistics, can be found on this page and on the men's basketball schedule page at GoHofstra.com. 

On Friday evening, Hofstra Athletics will host a special "Cocktails and conversation with Joe Mihalich" at Vienna of Roslyn from 7-10 p.m. Visit GoHofstra.com/Mihalich for more information and how to register for the "Cocktails and conversation with Joe Mihalich". 

Cocktails and conversation with Joe Mihalich
Dinner and drinks served from 7-10 p.m.
Dinner tickets are $100 each and sponsorship opportunities are available

The highlight of the celebration will be the official unveiling of the renamed men's basketball locker room in honor of Coach Mihalich. 

Mihalich engineered a masterful resurgence of the Pride during his tenure, revitalizing a program that was coming off a seven-win campaign and, in three years, turned it into a team with back-to-back 20-win seasons and consecutive postseason appearances. He captured 141 wins while at Hofstra and averaged more than 22 victories per season over his last five campaigns on the sidelines. In his seven seasons coaching the Pride, Mihalich posted four 20-win seasons, led the Pride to three regular season Colonial Athletic Association titles, earned four postseason appearances, and captured the 2019-20 CAA title.

Hofstra earned a 97-64 win over Elon on Tuesday to improve to 18-9 overall and 10-4 in Colonial Athletic Association action. Senior Omar Silverio tallied a school and CAA record 11 three-pointers in the win over the Phoenix and finished with a career-best 40 points. 

Northeastern is 7-18 and 1-13 in the league and most recently dropped a 67-51 decision at Drexel this past Saturday. 

Hofstra leads the all-time series with Northeastern, 27-25. The series has been quite competitive over the last few years between two of the CAA heavyweights as the squads met in the conference championship game in both 2018-19 and 2019-20. The Pride has won 10 of the last 15 meetings between the teams. Northeastern won both meetings a season ago but Hofstra was victorious in all three contests in 2019-20.