BOSTON, Mass. -- The Towson University women's basketball team heads north for a pair of Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) games, kicking things off Friday night at Northeastern. Game time in the Cabot Center is slated for 7 p.m. in a rematch of a Dec. 29, 2017 matchup between the Tigers and the Huskies.

THE FAST BREAK

• Towson heads for the northern climes of the CAA for a pair against the northern-most schools in the conference: Northeastern and Hofstra.
• The Tigers are looking to avenge a 70-61 loss at SECU Arena back on Dec. 29, 2017. Towson has dropped the last four against the Huskies.
• Towson split its games at SECU Arena last week, besting Hofstra before falling to league-leading James Madison.
• Last week against Hofstra, Towson set a record with 14 blocks, which also represents a SECU Arena record. Sophomore forward Nukiya Mayo was responsible for four of those swats, while Mary Cuevas knocked aside six.
• For her efforts that Friday, Mayo was selected as the fan vote CAA Player of the Night on Twitter.

SERIES HISTORY

Towson and Northeastern will meet for the 37th time in series history.

Friday night's winner will take control of the series, which is tied 18-18 after the Huskies evened the slate in December.

Towson and Northeastern have only met in the regular season for each of the last six seasons. The Tigers and Huskies clashed just once during the 2011-12 season when the CAA had a different scheduling format.

SWAT CITY I

• One of the country's best blocking teams, Towson, continued its swatting ways last Friday night, stopping 14 Hofstra shots.
• Those 14 blocks set numerous program records.
• It was the most blocks ever in a single game for Towson, besting the previous mark of 13 against Glassboro State (now Rowan University) in 1980.
• The 14 blocks were the most ever by a collegiate basketball team at SECU Arena, men's or women's.
• It was the fifth-most blocks in CAA history and ranks tied for second-most in a single CAA contest.
• Towson's 14 blocks were the fifth-most by a Division I team in a game this season.

SWAT CITY II

• Since league play began, the Tigers have knocked away 81 opponent shots, including 14 on Friday night against Hofstra
• Towson has out-blocked seven of its 13 CAA foes this season. In only four have the Tigers been out-blocked. In each meeting with William & Mary, the two teams blocked the same number of shots.
• Towson ranks ninth nationally in total blocks (152) and sits sixth in blocks per game (6.3).
• Towson enters Friday's game with 152 blocks on the season. It is the most blocked shots for a Tiger team since Towson joined the CAA for the 2001-02 season.
• Five Tigers have recorded 10 or more blocks this season (Cuevas-59, Nukiya Mayo-33, Daijha Thomas-16, Maia Lee - 13, Rainer Bankston - 11).

UP NEXT

• Sunday  completes a northern swing for Towson, taking on Hofstra for the second time in as many weeks.
• Game time in Hempstead, New York is set for 2 p.m.
• Towson has just one game the following week, hosting Drexel on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 2 p.m.
• Towson concludes the regular season on Thursday March 1 at UNCW with a 7 p.m. tipoff before hosting Delaware on Saturday, March 3 at 2 p.m. for the regular season finale.