Captains Look to Proceed Successful Methods Wednesday Evening When They Journey to Arlington to Take On Marymount

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ARLINGTON, Va. –

Christopher Newport University has received its final 4 video games to enhance to 5-2 on the season, and the Captains hit the highway for 2 video games this week. John Krikorian‘s squad travels to Arlington, Va., to tackle the Saints of Marymount University. Tip off time is about for 7:00 p.m. Wednesday night time at Converse Family Fieldhouse on the Marymount campus.

The Captains concluded the month of November on Sunday with an 80-66 victory over Pfeiffer University on the Freeman Center. The sport got here within the Holiday INNvitational, the annual two-day event on the CNU campus. Junior switch Zyir Baskerville led the way in which for CNU, recording his first double-double as a Captain with 25 factors and ten rebounds. Junior Toa Hollenbeck added 18 factors, and junior Tyson Henderson additionally reached double digits in scoring with 11. Baskerville and Hollenbeck each got here off the bench as CNU out-scored Pfeiffer in bench factors, 51-7. Hollenbeck was named to the All-Tournament crew, and was additionally chosen because the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week.

Marymount University is off to a 1-6 begin to the season, and the Saints have dropped their final 4 video games. Most just lately, MU fell at Twenty second-ranked Catholic University final Tuesday, 69-56. The Saints are 0-2 at residence this season on the Converse Family Fieldhouse. Christopher Newport has a file of 12-3 vs. the Saints in Arlington, and the sequence dates again to December of 1987. Wednesday’s sport is the thirty first all-time within the sequence, and the Captains maintain a 26-4 benefit. CNU has received the final 5 video games within the sequence, together with the final three in Arlington. Last season on the Freeman Center, CNU recorded a 94-76 victory on December 4th. 

All Captains video games are broadcast reside on the Home of the Captains, Xtra 99.1 FM, and CNUsports.com. The pre-game present will start at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday night time. A hyperlink is supplied above to hearken to the play-by-play, and you may also entry the entire CNU sport notes bundle with the hyperlink on the high of thi story. The video of the motion shall be streamed reside by Marymount University, and hyperlinks to observe the motion in addition to observe the reside stats are additionally supplied on the high of this story.

Following Wednesday night time’s sport, Christopher Newport travels to Buena Vista, Va., on Saturday to play the Knights of Southern Virginia University. Tip off time is scheduled for 4:00 p.m.

Also, it was introduced on Tuesday that Christopher Newport University will participate within the DIII Champions Classic, a first-of-its-kind common season showcase bringing collectively former NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball National Champions for 2 days of elite competitors. The inaugural occasion will happen subsequent season on December 28–29, 2026, on the Henrico Sports & Events Center.

The 2026 discipline options 4 packages with deep championship pedigrees and a collective 98 NCAA Tournament appearances, 34 Sweet 16 runs, 12 Final Four berths, and 5 nationwide titles. The discipline will embrace:

• Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, Va.) – 2022 National Champion

• Christopher Newport University (Newport News, Va.) – 2023 National Champion

• Babson College (Wellesley, Mass.) – 2017 National Champion

• University of Scranton (Scranton, Pa.) – 1976 & 1983 National Champions

Designed to develop into the premier in-season nationwide occasion in Division III males’s basketball, the DIII Champions Classic will deliver high packages from throughout the nation collectively for high-caliber matchups forward of the championship push in March.

“This is a first-class field with historic basketball programs in a first-class facility. We are honored to participate,” Christopher Newport Head Coach John Krikorian stated. “Events like this give our student-athletes a chance to compete against elite opponents on a national stage. This unique event provides an outstanding setting for that experience.”

The Henrico Sports & Events Center, which opened in 2023, continues to develop its slate of high-impact sports activities programming, attracting groups, followers, and main occasions from throughout the nation. Additional occasion particulars, together with sport occasions and ticket data shall be introduced in 2026.