The Storyline
The Harvard men’s basketball team will face its first road test of the season this weekend when it travels to Vermont on Saturday, Dec. 6, for a 7 p.m. tip. The game can be seen live online via CatamounTV.

Harvard is 5-1 overall but has played all six of its games in the Boston-Cambridge area. The Crimson is a perfect 5-0 at home with its lone loss coming on a neutral floor at TD Garden. Vermont, meanwhile, is unbeaten at Patrick Gymnasium with a 3-0 mark.

What To Watch For
• Harvard has held five of its first six opponents to fewer than 65 points and under 40.0 percent shooting. Last year, the Crimson held 20 opponents to fewer than 65 points, and 14 opponents to under 40.0 percent shooting.

• Harvard has shot over 50.0 percent from the floor in each of its last four outings, matching the longest stretch of consecutive games shooting over 50.0 percent under head coach Tommy Amaker (Nov. 11, 2007 - Nov. 24, 2007). The Crimson has shot better than 50.0 percent a total of five times this season, with the 2010-11 and 2012-13 teams having done it a program best 13 times under Amaker.

• Wesley Saunders has led Harvard in scoring in each of the team’s six games, joining Jeremy Lin ’10 as only the second player under head coach Tommy Amaker to lead the Crimson in scoring in six straight games. Lin did so as a senior in 2009-10, averaging 21.0 ppg during the stretch, while Saunders has averaged 20.2 ppg.

• In six games, Harvard has had more than two student-athletes score in double-figures only once (vs. Houston). Eight Crimson are averaging over 5.0 ppg, but only one is averaging in double-figures (Wesley Saunders, 20.2).

• Harvard is 4-1 this season when Wesley Saunders scores at lesat 15 points, and is 29-8 when he has done so in his career. Harvard is 4-1 this season when Siyani Chambers dishes out at least five assists, and is 32-7 when he does so in his career.

• Under head coach Tommy Amaker, Harvard has started 5-1 or better in five of the past six years, including last season when the Crimson began 13-1.

• Head coach Tommy Amaker has moved into second place on Harvard’s career wins list with 144 victories. Frank Sullivan is the program’s all-time winningest coach, having guided the Crimson to 178 triumphs from 1991-2007.

Last Time Out
The Harvard men’s basketball team held Northeastern to just 33.3 percent shooting as it remained perfect at Lavietes Pavilion with a 60-46 win Wednesday evening.

The Huskies shot just 17-of-51 from the floor against the smothering Crimson defense, including a 2-of-10 performance from beyond the arc. Harvard, meanwhile, finished the game shooting 52.2 percent (24-46), marking the fifth time this season that the team has shot better than 50 percent from the field.

Wesley Saunders turned in another well-rounded effort with 12 points, five rebounds, three assists and a career-high five steals. Saunders, who was held scoreless in the first half, has led Harvard in scoring in all six games this season.

Siyani Chambers nearly matched Saunders’ output with 11 points and seven assists. Agunwa Okolie added nine points on 4-of-4 shooting as Steve Moundou-Missi chipped in eight points and seven rebounds. Kenyatta Smith played the enforcer at the other end of the court, swatting away a season-high four blocks to go with six points.

Stuffing the Stat Sheet
Wesley Saunders, the 2014 Ivy League Player of the Year, currently ranks among the Ancient Eight’s top 10 in 10 statistcal categories. As a senior, Jeremy Lin ’10 finished ranked among the conference’s best in nine statistical categories.

Born to Assist
Siyani Chambers, whose 6.2 apg leads the Ivy League, has dished out at least five assists in each of the team’s last five games. Chambers boasts 39 career games with five or more assists, including a stretch of eight straight games as a freshman (Dec. 11, 2012 - Jan. 26, 2013).

Player of the Week
Wesley Saunders was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Dec. 1 after averaging 25.5 ppg, 6.5 rpg and 3.5 apg in wins over Houston and UMass.

Saunders has earned a total of nine player of the week awards in his career, tying him with Princeton’s Ian Hummer and Brown’s Earl Hunt for the most in Ivy League history. Saunders garnered the honor five times in 2012-13, three times in 2013-14 and has one award so far in 2014-15.

Home is Where the Wins Are
Harvard has posted a 54-3 (.947) record at Lavietes Pavilion since the start of the 2010-11 season, ranking the Crimson behind only Belmont (55-2, .965) and Duke (67-3, .957) for the third highest home-court win percentage in the country over the last four-plus seasons (as of games played Dec. 3).

Harvard is 5-0 at home this season and has won seven straight at Lavietes Pavilion dating back to last year. Since 2010-11, the Crimson has enjoyed two home win streaks of at least 20 games; 28 games (Feb. 20, 2010 to Feb. 25, 2012), 20 games (Dec. 1, 2012 to Feb. 7, 2014).

Double-Trouble
Wesley Saunders recorded three double-doubles in the team’s first four games, becoming the first member of the Crimson to post three double-doubles in a four-game stretch since Keith Wright ‘12 did it in four consecutive games in 2011-12.

Watch This
Wesley Saunders was named to the Naismith Trophy, Wooden Award and Lou Henson Award watch lists as one of the elite student-athletes in the country.

Saunders is the first Ivy Leaguer to be included on the Naismith Trophy Top 50, while he joined Jeremy Lin ’10 as the second member of the Crimson to be named to the Wooden Award Watch List. Saunders was also included on the 2013 Lou Henson Award Watch List.

Cousy Award
Siyani Chambers was named to the 2015 Bob Cousy Award Watch List, marking the third-straight year that the junior has been tabbed among the top point guards in college basketball. Chambers is one of just three individuals to have been included on the watch list in each of the last three years along with Duke’s Quinn Cook and Gonzaga’s Kevin Pangos.

Last year, Chambers was one of 23 Cousy Award Watch List finalists after being among the original list of 80 watch list candidates along with teammate Brandyn Curry ’13-14.

In the Polls
Harvard was ranked No. 25 in the Associated Press Preseason Top 25, marking the first time Harvard has appeared in the AP’s preseason poll and the first time an Ivy League program has been included since the 1974-75 season.

Harvard also received 47 points in the USA TODAY Preseason Coaches Poll, ranking first among those schools listed in the “also receiving votes” category and coming in just nine points shy of a place in the top 25. This marked the first time since the 1993-94 season that an Ivy program has been at the head of the “also receiving votes” category in the preseason poll.

Moving on Up
Head coach Tommy Amaker continus to move up the ranks of the Ivy League’s winningest coaches. Amaker’s 144 wins at Harvard are the 10th most since the conference began competition in 1956, while his 67 Ivy League victories rank 14th.

Amaker has led Harvard to four-straight Ivy League championships, tying him with former Princeton head coach Butch van Breda Kolff and fomer Penn head coach Chuck Daly for the fourth most Ivy titles won.

On The Sidelines
With 144 victories under his belt, Tommy Amaker ranks second all-time in Harvard coaching annals.

Amaker's .667 win percentage (144-72), meanwhile, ranks first among Harvard coaches who have spent at least two seasons at the helm of the team.