His numbers won't jump out at you, and his dunks don't wow you.

But senior Kurt Huelsman etched his name into the record books Tuesday night when he started his school record 120th consecutive game.

That beats the mark previously held by Mark Ashman who played for the Flyers from 1996-2000.

It's an honor that UD's big man is humbled by.

"It means a lot," Huelsman said. "It shows that my coaches really appreciate what I do, and they believe in me."

Many detractors will point to the fact that a career scoring average of 4.2 to go along with an average of 3.7 rebounds, are less than stellar numbers for a starting center.

However, Huelsman's importance to the program lies in the intangibles, the things that don't show up in the stat sheet but that make a team win.

It's defense and it's role playing. It's boxing out the other team's center so that the guys with the 40 inch verticals can fly for the rebounds without turbulence.

It's a team-first mentality, one that prompted Huelsman to drop 20 pounds prior to the 2008-09 season in order to ensure he wouldn't slow down a fast-break oriented team.

It's an importance that his head coach understands all too well.

"He's anchored our defense for four years and been our most dependable guy," Head Coach Brian Gregory said. "Because he's a big guy, he never gets that credit."

Longevity in sports is something to be admired, especially in a position as physical as center, and it's certainly not something that comes by accident.

"It's not like high school," Huelsman said. "In college, since the season is so long and so hard on your body, you really got to take care of that."

Throughout the streak, Huelsman has played against some of the best in the country. In 2007, he held current NBA player DeJuan Blair to just nine points and six rebounds.

Then last season, he held the Atlantic 10 player of the year and second round draft pick Ahmad Nivins to his third lowest point total of the season.

With 10 games left to go in the regular season, Huelsman has two more school records on the horizon. Playing in just six more games will give him sole possession of the record for consecutive games played with 126, a record currently held by four former Flyers including Brian Roberts and Jimmy Binnie.

Fourteen more games and Huelsman will be the program's all time games played leader with 134, a record that will obviously need to be aided by postseason play.

However don't expect UD's iron man to lose sight of the bigger prize.

"I really haven't even been thinking about it since people started asking me about it," Huelsman said. "It's a great accomplishment and I would take a lot of pride in it, but there's other things that come first."

Records like these don't get broken often as players like this rarely come around.

Take note of it Flyer fans; this one could stand for a very long time.