CAA Men’s Basketball Recap – Jan. 15
Towson 61, Charleston 52
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Towson (10-9, 2-4 CAA) battled to a 61-52 victory over Charleston (11-7, 4-1 CAA) on CBS Sports Network, snapping the Cougars’ seven-game profitable streak. Tyler Coleman led the cost with 13 factors and 6 boards for the Tigers. Tyler Tejada chipped in 11 factors of his personal en path to his staff’s first win over the Cougars at residence since 2022.
Towson flew out to an early 11-3 edge as Coleman scored 5 factors within the opening 4 minutes. After the Tigers noticed their lead develop to double digits, Charleston’s Connor Hickman saved his staff inside attain with a pair of triples and a end on the rim to make it a seven-point deficit, 20-13, with 6:39 to play. Towson poured it on to finish the body after Womack hit a 3-pointer as time expired to cap off a 14-4 run and provides the house staff a 34-17 cushion.
Womack opened the second half the identical method he closed the primary, sinking a triple 17 seconds into the body to offer Towson its largest lead of the sport, 37-17. Charleston caught fireplace and stormed to inside 4, 46-42, on a 23-7 run capped off by a Chol Machot slam with 7:33 to play in regulation. The two groups traded five-point spurts earlier than Towson’s lead grew to eight, 55-47, following a pair of makes on the charity stripe by Caleb Embeya. The Tigers held Charleston to only two made area objectives over the ultimate 5 minutes of motion to safe the nine-point win. Hickman completed with a game-high 20 factors, seeing 4 of his eight makes fall from distance. Machot registered a 10-point, 13-rebound double-double. Jlynn Counter added 10 factors, seven boards and 6 assists.
Stony Brook 76, Hofstra 71
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Stony Brook (10-9, 2-4 CAA) took down Hofstra (13-5, 4-1 CAA), 76-71, snapping the Pride’s eight-game profitable streak. Richard Goods produced a 20-point efficiency within the win, with 4 of his seven makes coming from behind the arc. The Seawolves’ huge man additionally notched eight boards, six assists and two blocks. Andrej Shoshkikj matched Goods in scoring with 20 factors of his personal, recording three made triples, 4 rebounds and three helpers. Erik Pratt almost eclipsed the 20-point threshold with an 18-point, four-assist exhibiting on Thursday.
A defensive battle ensued to open the crosstown matchup till Stony Brook discovered themselves forward, 9-3, following consecutive finishes on the rim from Richard Goods and Rob Brown III with 14:10 remaining. Hofstra battled again behind Preston Edmead because the freshman completed a 9-3 run with a triple from the wing to take a 19-18 edge with 7:34 to play within the opening stanza. The Seawolves carried a 32-25 lead into the intermission after closing the half on a 14-6 run, with Erik Pratt beating the halftime buzzer with a midrange jumper.
Shoshkikj made it an 11-point edge, 39-28, out of the break with the primary seven Seawolves factors. It was the long-range recreation that continued to maintain Hofstra at bay for the opening 14 minutes, which had reduce its deficit to as few as six. Goods did it nearly single-handedly as he hit a trio of trifectas to reclaim a double-digit benefit, 62-50, with six minutes to play. Cruz Davis and AJ Wills linked from distance to slash the deficit in half, however Stony Brook responded with a five-point spurt to return forward by 11 with below 4 minutes left in regulation. The Seawolves staved off a late push by the Pride to carry on for the five-point victory. Edmead posted 22 factors and eight boards, whereas Davis chipped in 16 factors and 7 assists.
Northeastern 85, Elon 78
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Northeastern (6-11, 2-4 CAA) weathered the storm to safe an 85-78 residence win over Elon (11-7, 3-2 CAA). William Kermoury notched a career-high 31 factors with seven of his 11 makes coming from distance. The sharpshooter additionally added 5 assists and 4 steals to his last line. Xavier Abreu additionally reached double figures in scoring, unleashing 18 of his 22 factors within the second half alone. The Huskies notched 29 factors off turnovers and 19 second-chance factors in Thursday’s victory.
The Huskies got here out firing on all cylinders as Luca Soroa Schaller knocked down his first three makes an attempt contained in the arc and Kermoury drained his first three photographs from distance en path to a 17-6 lead on the under-16 media timeout. The early success continued out of the timeout as Northeastern closed out a 20-0 run on a pair of layups from each Kermoury and Abreu for a 25-6 cushion with 11:40 left within the opening body. Elon’s tandem of Bryson Cokley and Chandler Cuthrell led the comeback cost with a 15-2 run of their very own to tug inside six, 27-21, with 8:31 remaining. Cokley finally tied the sport at 38 with 2:24 on the clock after his trifecta marked the third straight make from distance by the Phoenix. Northeastern took a 41-39 lead into the break.
The shootout continued within the second half as Kermoury expanded the Huskies’ result in as many as 5 behind one other pair of 3-pointers. The Phoenix tied the sport twice earlier than Cuthrell completed on the rim and Cokley’s fifth trey of the sport sparked a 12-2 run that gave the guests a seven-point edge, 72-65, with 8:16 remaining in regulation. Abreu willed the Huskies again into the competition with eight unanswered factors, a part of a private 12-4 run that put Northeastern again in entrance for good, 77-76, with 2:37 left. The Huskies closed the sport on a 20-6 run en path to their seven-point win. Elon’s Cokley completed with 26 factors, seven assists and 6 rebounds within the setback. Cuthrell chipped in 19 factors and 5 rebounds, whereas Randall Pettus II hit 4 treys for 12 factors to spherical out these in double figures.
William & Mary 97, N.C. A&T 89
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With two-thirds of its photographs taking place within the last 20 minutes of motion, William & Mary (12-6, 3-3) picked up a 97-89 victory at North Carolina A&T (7-9, 0-5 CAA). The Tribe shot 66.7% from the ground (18-27 FG) within the second half, together with a 16-of-22 exhibiting contained in the arc. Reese Miller and Tunde Vahlberg Fasasi produced 19-point efforts on Thursday, with the latter notching six boards, 5 assists and 4 steals. Kilian Brockhoff posted 15 factors, six rebounds and two blocks. Jhei-r Jones rounded out these in double figures with 13 factors.
The Tribe and the Aggies saved tempo with one another to open the competition, neither seeing a bonus develop bigger than one possession via the opening 4 minutes. Jones rattled off a private 8-0 run earlier than Miller’s 3-pointer gave the Tribe an eight-point edge, 19-11, with 13:52 to go. W&M’s benefit grew to double digits as Ryan Jackson Jr. closed out a 6-0 spurt on the rim for a 33-21 benefit with 6:14 left. The Aggies battled again to make it a two-point recreation, 42-40, on the break as Lewis Walker and Trent Middleton Jr. surged over the ultimate 3:30 to assist N.C. A&T end the half on a 14-6 run.
An early 13-5 stretch for the Tribe discovered them up by double figures, 55-45, after Jackson completed on the rim 4 minutes into the body. Approaching the halfway level of the half, N.C. A&T’s Middleton sank a triple earlier than Zamoku Weluche-Ume went coast-to-coast for the layup to make it a four-point recreation, 65-61, as soon as once more. It was as shut because the Aggies would get as William & Mary’s Brockhoff, Vahlberg Fasasi and Miller mixed for 36 factors within the second half alone to carry on for the eight-point victory. The Aggies’ Walker completed with a game-high 33 factors, going 11-for-14 from the ground with three 3-pointers and an 8-for-10 exhibiting on the line. The Aggies’ rookie additionally logged probably the most factors by a CAA freshman in a convention recreation since James Madison’s Matt Lewis posted 33 factors towards Charleston on Feb. 15, 2018. Middleton chipped in a 20-point effort, whereas Weluche-Ume posted a 15-point, 10-rebound double-double.
Drexel 73, Monmouth 51
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For the sixth time this season, Drexel (9-10, 3-3 CAA) held the opposition to below 60 factors in its 73-51 street victory over Monmouth (8-10, 2-3 CAA). Shane Blakeney led the cost with 18 factors, flattening 5 trifectas to go together with seven rebounds and a pair of steals. Eli Beard additionally reached double figures with 15 factors, all coming from behind the arc and matching Blakeney with 5 3-pointers. Three gamers – Victor Panov, Kevon Vanderhorst and Josh Reed – produced nine-point showings within the staff’s third straight win.
The Dragons’ Vanderhorst and Beard every hit a triple to open the competition earlier than Monmouth’s Jack Collins pulled the Hawks again to inside two, 9-7, with a trey of his personal at 16:07. The Hawks stayed inside putting distance due to Cornelius Robinson Jr., watching the junior ahead rating 11 of the staff’s subsequent 12 factors to knot the sport at 19 with 8:07 to play within the first half. Shane Blakeney orchestrated a vital Dragons surge, hitting three treys and scoring 11 of the staff’s 19 unanswered factors for a 38-19 lead on the break.
Drexel continued to extend its lead after lacking its first three photographs of the second half, happening to sink six of its subsequent seven makes an attempt to take a 54-25 lead with 12:44 to play within the contest. The Dragons shot 50% from distance (7-14 FG) within the second half alone. Monmouth closed out the sport having made six of its last eight photographs. Robinson completed with 15 factors and three rebounds for the Hawks. Dok Muordar added a 10-point exhibiting with 4 boards and two blocks.