CAA Men’s Basketball Recap – Jan. 10
Hofstra 67, Monmouth 64 (OT)
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Freshman Preston Edmead knocked down 13 of his season-high 24 factors from the charity stripe, together with a pair of late free throws in time beyond regulation, to assist Hofstra (13-4, 4-0 CAA) safe a 67-64 win over Monmouth (8-9, 2-2 CAA). The Pride’s main scorer dominated contained in the arc, going 4-for-7 from in shut and pulled down six boards. Cruz Davis notched 19 factors, six boards, three assists and a pair of steals in his 45 minutes of motion. The Pride picked up their eighth straight win and recorded a 4-0 begin to open league play because the 2018-19 season.
The two groups traded makes from each inside and outdoors the arc earlier than a Cruz Davis 3-pointer gave the Pride a three-point edge, 8-5, on the 15:25 mark. Over the ultimate 12 minutes of the half, Monmouth’s Justin Ray and Jason Rivera-Torres labored in tandem to assist the Hawks safe a halftime lead. The tandem mixed for eight unanswered factors earlier than Rivera-Torres hit a triple and Andrew Ball despatched a two-handed slam by way of the basket to offer the Hawks an eight-point cushion, 22-14, with below 5 minutes to play. After the deficit grew to as many as 9, the Pride closed the half having made seven free throws earlier than a Preston Edmead midrange jumper pulled the house crew to inside 5, 29-24, at halftime.
After Rivera-Torres sank a trey to start the second half, Hofstra’s Davis and Edmead flipped the momentum because the duo went off on a mixed 16-3 run to assert a three-point lead, 40-35, with below quarter-hour to go. After hitting 4 of their first 5 pictures from distance to open the half, the Hawks’ Rivera-Torres made it a one-possession recreation, 44-43, on the rim with below 11 minutes to play. Monmouth rattled off a 9-2 run, capped off by one other Ray 3-pointer, to assert a four-point edge with 7:34 remaining. The Pride deadlocked the sport at 52 earlier than Edmead sank a operating floater down the left aspect to reclaim a 54-52 lead with 4:24 left. Monmouth’s Dak Muordar despatched the sport to time beyond regulation tied at 60, finishing an and-one end by way of visitors with 50 seconds to play in regulation. Hofstra’s AJ Wills hit a triple to open the additional body earlier than Davis and Edmead drained a pair of free throws to safe the three-point win. The Hawks’ Rivera-Torres noticed three of his 9 makes come from distance to go together with a 9-of-11 exhibiting on the line en path to a career-high 30 factors, including 9 boards and 4 steals in 44 minutes of labor. Ball additionally completed in double figures with 13 factors of his personal.
Charleston 74, Hampton 70
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Colby Duggan and Jlynn Counter accounted for 41 mixed factors en path to Charleston’s seventh straight win, a 74-70 victory over Hampton (8-10, 2-3 CAA). The Cougars (11-6, 4-0 CAA) shot 51.1% from the ground (23-45 FG). Duggan racked up 22 factors and noticed 4 of his seven makes come from distance.
Hickman and Counter orchestrated an early double-digit lead, 15-5, for the Cougars because the duo mixed for 12 factors within the opening 5:13 of the sport. Hampton’s Michael Eley hit a triple on the 11:15 mark to slash the Pirates’ deficit in half, 17-12. The two groups traded blows over the following eight minutes with the Cougars sustaining a two-possession lead or higher. Hampton closed the half on a 10-4 run with Xzavier Long flattening a triple earlier than Elijah Kennady completed in transition to make it a two-point recreation, 28-26, on the break.
Duggan was instrumental within the Cougars’ lead increasing to 12, 45-33, after notching 10 of the primary 17 factors of the second half. Shortly after, the Pirates sank seven of their subsequent eight pictures from the ground to battle again, 53-52, on the 8:01 mark. Hampton’s Eley hit a triple earlier than Jalyke Gaines-Wyatt scored 5 of the next seven factors to tug inside putting distance. Daniel Johnson accomplished the comeback with a pull-up jumper that deadlocked the rating at 59 with below 5 minutes to play. The Cougars surged with an 8-2 spurt, scoring 5 unanswered factors earlier than Christian Reeves drew contact on his putback slam to take a six-point lead, 67-61, with 2:22 to play. Hampton responded with a Johnson trey to slash its deficit in half at 1:12. The Cougars staved off the late push from the Pirates by hitting seven of their eight free throws late to seize the four-point win. Gaines-Wyatt led Hampton with 17 factors, whereas Eley notched 14 factors of his personal. Johnson matched Eley with 14 factors and added seven boards. Long recorded a 13-point, 11-rebound double-double on Saturday.
UNCW 75, Stony Brook 71
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UNCW (16-2, 5-0 CAA) went off for 54 factors within the second half to erase a 24-point deficit and seize its sixth consecutive win with a 75-71 victory towards Stony Brook (9-9, 1-4 CAA). The Seahawks had been down by 22 factors after the opening body and erased the most important halftime deficit in a victory in an NCAA Division I recreation this season, surpassing the 21-point halftime differential BYU overcame towards Clemson in December. The comeback victory additionally marked the fourth time UNCW has erased a double-digit deficit in a win. Nolan Hodge notched 17 of his 22 factors within the second half alone, hitting 5 triples within the last 20 minutes of motion. Patrick Wessler notched his league-leading ninth double-double with a 14-point, 12-rebound efficiency. Madison Durr posted 12 factors, whereas Greedy Williams produced 10 factors and 7 assists.
The Seawolves’ Pratt guided his crew out to an early 9-0 lead by scoring six factors out of the gate. After the Seahawks lower its deficit to 4 on a Madison Durr triple, Stony Brook shortly poured it on. The Seawolves registered makes on 9 of its subsequent 10 pictures and rattled off a 22-7 run to carry a 19-point cushion, 31-12, on the under-eight media timeout. Stony Brook shot 58.6% from the ground, because of Rob Brown III and Pratt scoring 12 factors apiece within the opening body and orchestrating a 22-point benefit, 43-21, for Stony Brook at halftime.
After a fast jumper within the paint from SBU’s Pratt to open the second stanza to take its largest lead (24), the Seahawks went off for twenty-four unanswered factors. UNCW’s Nolan Hodge hit three 3-pointers on the run that tied the sport at 50 over the opening 8:16 of the second half. The Seahawks’ main scorer continued to attach from distance, flattening two extra treys over the following 4 minutes to take a 58-55 lead with 9:07 left in regulation. The two groups went backwards and forwards down the stretch till Greedy Williams jumpstarted a 12-3 spurt with a nook triple, a run that gave UNCW a seven-point lead, 70-63, with 2:17 to play. The Seahawks staved off the late push from Stony Brook to carry on for the four-point win. Pratt and Brown chipped in 24 factors apiece.
Drexel 64, William & Mary 58
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A pair of 13-point efforts from Shane Blakeney and Kevon Vanderhorst propelled Drexel (8-10, 2-3 CAA) to a 64-58 victory over William & Mary (11-6, 2-3 CAA). The Dragons’ high scorers mixed to shoot 11-for-23 within the win, with Blakeney notching three 3-pointers, six rebounds and 5 assists. Josh Reed additionally reached double figures in scoring with an 11-point, four-rebound, two-assist outing on Saturday. The Dragons logged an help on 18 of their 24 makes from the ground and shot 51.1% from the ground (24-47 FG).
Drexel jumped out to a six-point lead, 12-6, following a Josh Reed triple at 13:28. William & Mary labored its approach again to take a one-point edge at 8:32, just for the Dragons’ Eli Beard join from distance simply 19 seconds later for a 19-17 benefit. Neither program led by a couple of possession till a Dillon Tingler sank a pair on the rim to seal a 14-3 run for a 35-24 lead with 70 seconds to play within the first stanza. The Tribe’s Chase Lowe beat the halftime buzzer with a bank-in off the glass to slash the deficit to 9, 37-28, on the break.
The Dragons and the Tribe locked down defensively to open the second stanza with neither crew registering a made area aim on the under-16 media timeout. William & Mary’s Reese Miller hit a jumper in near jumpstart a 10-5 spurt and introduced his crew to inside 4, 42-38, with 13:40 to play. Over the following two minutes, consecutive triples from Victor Panov and Vanderhorst completed off a seven-point swing in favor of the Dragons, lifting them again to a double-digit edge, 49-38. The Tribe’s Tunde Vahlberg Fasasi and Kyle Pulliam led a valiant comeback over the following 10 minutes because the duo mixed for 13 of the crew’s last 18 factors to tug W&M to inside one, 57-56, with 1:22 to play. The duo completed with 10 factors apiece. Drexel held on for the six-point victory after Panov hit a triple, Vanderhorst recorded a breakaway slam and Reed sank a pair of free throws to seal the sport.
Towson 87, Northeastern 78
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Towson (9-9, 1-4 CAA) picked up its first convention win of the season behind a 60.7% capturing clip (34-56 FG) as a crew to take down Northeastern (5-11, 1-4 CAA), 87-78, on the street. Dylan Williamson went 10-for-15 from the ground en path to a 22-point, four-rebound, four-assist efficiency. Jaquan Womack notched 17 factors on 7-of-11 capturing and pulled down 4 boards. Tyler Coleman recorded 15 factors and 7 rebounds, whereas Tyler Tejada chipped in 14 factors to spherical out these in double figures.
The Huskies pressured an early Tigers’ timeout after leaping out to an 14-2 lead, seeing Kermoury rattling off 5 straight factors earlier than a JB Frankel triple put Northeastern up by 12 at 15:29. Over the following 4 minutes, Towson’s Dylan Williamson capped off 11 unanswered factors with a layup to tug inside one, 14-13, with 11 minutes to play within the first half. Kermoury and Williamson traded 3-pointers earlier than one other 8-0 swing went in favor of Towson to assert a 24-19 lead with below seven minutes left within the opening body. Northeastern slashed its deficit to as few as two behind one other Kermoury 3-pointer; nonetheless, the Tigers closed the half flattening 10 of its final 11 pictures, that includes a 10-2 run over the ultimate three minutes, to assert a double-digit lead, 42-32, on the intermission.
The Tigers picked up the place they left off with makes on 11 of their first 15 pictures to take a 66-44 lead with 11 minutes remaining. The Huskies didn’t go down quietly after scoring 11 straight factors over the following two to carry the house crew again to inside 11, 66-55, on the nine-minute mark. Northeastern labored its deficit all the way down to as few as 5, 81-76, behind a 21-10 run capped off by three straight makes on the line from Xavier Abreu with 91 seconds to play. The Tigers held on to safe a nine-point win after Coleman sank 4 of the crew’s last six makes on the charity stripe. Kermoury noticed 5 of his 9 makes coming from behind the arc, ending with a game-best 28 factors, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. Frankel and Ryan Williams scored 10 factors apiece.
Elon 83, Campbell 82
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Elon (11-6, 3-1 CAA) escaped Saturday’s finale with an 83-82 dwelling victory over Campbell (9-9, 3-2 CAA), because of a pair of 20-point efforts from Chandler Cuthrell and Kacper Klaczek. The duo mixed to shoot 17-for-31 from the ground with 5 triples to go together with 13 boards and 6 assists. Ja’Juan Carr and Randall Pettus II additionally rattled off 17 factors apiece, each watching two of their seven makes go down from distance. The Phoenix shot 56.5% from the ground (35-62 FG) for the sport, together with a 61.8% clip (21-34 FG) within the second half alone.
DJ Smith and Cam Gregory guided Campbell out to a 12-point lead after combining for 19 factors within the opening 7:36 to go up 21-9. The Phoenix slowly slashed its deficit down to 3, 28-25, after operating rampant on a 16-7 stretch capped off by a Klaczek one-handed, fastbreak slam at 4:23. It was as shut as Elon would get to finish the half as Campbell’s countered a slew of 3-pointers with late makes from Smith and Dovydas Butka, securing a 43-37 lead on the break.
Elon’s Cuthrell knocked the guests’ benefit all the way down to 4, 49-45, with a pair of 3-pointers early within the second half. Campbell’s Smith countered with a triple of his personal to reclaim a seven-point edge 24 seconds later. After exchanging blows, the Phoenix slashed its deficit all the way down to as few as two; nonetheless, it was shortly countered by Smith and Tasos Cook from behind the arc to offer the Camels an eight-point cushion, 65-57, with 12:34 to play. Campbell maintained a two-possession lead or higher till Elon took its first lead of the sport at 1:38. The Phoenix surged out to a 12-2 run over the ultimate 5:03, watching Cuthrell go coast-to-coast for a two-handed slam and a Pettus right-handed end off the glass to take an 83-82 edge. Campbell had an opportunity to win the sport within the closing seconds, however Elon locked down defensively and compelled the Camels’ last try to miss in need of the rim. Smith went off for 32 factors, logging seven 3-pointers and going 9-of-10 from the free-throw line. Gregory matched Smith with 4 assists, recording 16 factors and seeing 4 of his six makes coming from behind the arc. Johnson rounded out these in double figures with 13 factors, 5 boards and three helpers.