CAA Men’s Basketball Recap – Jan. 23
Dylan Smith
William & Mary 94, Hampton 83
Box Score
Gabe Dorsey eclipsed 1,000 career points as he led William & Mary (12-8, 6-1 CAA) to a 94-83 win over Hampton (10-10, 3-5 CAA) with a personal-best 30 points on 8-of-11 shooting. The senior forward knocked down seven treys and went 7-for-8 from the charity stripe to go with seven boards in the victory.
Trailing by as many as seven to open the game, William and Mary recorded seven straight makes to claim a three-point lead, 22-19, with 8:48 to play. Dorsey knocked down two of the team’s four consecutive 3-pointers during the stretch. After six of its next eight unanswered points came from the charity stripe, the Tribe held Hampton to just two field goals before taking a 49-31 lead at the break. The Pirates’ George Beale Jr. and Noah Farrakhan evenly split the Pirates’ 10-0 run to open the second half, pulling within eight, 49-41. Hampton dwindled its deficit down to one, 66-65, just past the midway point as Tyler Rice and Wayne Bristol Jr. drained back-to-back triples. A 16-6 run over the next four minutes put the Tribe back ahead by double digits, 82-71. Keller Boothby scored nine of his 11 points across the final 5:31 of action to hold on to an 11-point victory. Hampton’s Beale finished with a team-best 19 points.
UNCW 85, Charleston 83
Box Score
UNCW (15-5, 5-2 CAA) held on for an 85-83 victory over Charleston (15-5, 5-2 CAA), handing the Cougars their first home loss in conference play. The Seahawks have won four of their last five meetings inside TD Arena. Bo Montgomery led four in double figures with 18 points, while Donovan Newby chipped in 17 points of his own.
UNCW jumped out to a 30-20 lead after Newby knocked down three treys in the first six minutes and Sean Moore finished off the early stretch with five straight points. Charleston quickly brought its deficit down to one, 30-29, with nine unanswered points over a span of 80 seconds. The two teams exchanged five leads over the final seven minutes of the first half before the Seahawks surged with an 11-3 run and took a 49-42 advantage at halftime. UNCW increased its lead to as many as 11 through the first two minutes of the second frame. Charleston cut into the deficit once again with a 15-6 stretch capped off by consecutive treys from CJ Fulton and Justus Stonkus to pull within two, 61-59, at 13:23. UNCW prevented Cougars from making it a one-possession game through the under-four media timeout, nearly matching every Cougars’ shot and run. Derrin Boyd, who registered a game-high 22 points, finished at the rim to bring Charleston to within two, 85-83, with 18 seconds remaining. The Seahawks held on for the win after seeing Boyd’s final 3-point attempt rattle the rim and bounce out at the buzzer.
Towson 83, North Carolina A&T 67
Box Score
Towson (11-9, 6-1 CAA) is off to its best conference start in program history following its fifth-straight win, an 83-67 victory over North Carolina A&T (4-17, 0-8 CAA). Tyler Tejada led all scorers with 20 points to go with a trio of 3-pointers and a 7-for-7 clip from the line in the win. Nendah Tarke also chipped in 17 points and six boards for Towson.
The Tigers found balanced scoring through the first 10:11 of the game as they claimed a 30-15 lead after a pair of in-close finishes from Tomiwa Sulaiman. North Carolina A&T’s Ryan Forrest brought the team’s deficit down to single digits, 43-34, at the intermission as the sharpshooter scored the Aggies’ final six points inside the arc. Towson utilized the charity stripe to open the second half as eight of its first 13 points came from the line, seeing Tejada and Tarke knock down three free throws apiece for a 56-44 lead with 15:40 to play. N.C. A&T slashed the Tigers’ advantage in half, 56-50, with six straight points before another Dylan Williamson triple halted the stretch. Towson outscored the North Carolina A&T, 24-16, down the stretch to earn the 16-point win. Landon Glasper led four Aggies in double figures with 13 points.
Hofstra 93, Delaware 68
Box Score
Hofstra’s Cruz Davis flirted with a triple-double, registering a career-high 28 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists in the team’s 93-68 victory over Delaware. The junior guard went 12-for-17 from the floor and knocked down four 3-pointers in the win. The Pride (11-9, 3-4 CAA) shot at a 60 percent clip for the third time this season, firing 60.3 percent (38-63 FG) from the field against the Blue Hens (11-9, 4-3 CAA).
After three early lead changes, the Pride increased its advantage to as many as nine, 34-25, after Davis knocked down his third trey of the half at 5:54. Hofstra maintained a seven-point edge, 43-36, at the intermission as the 6-foot-3 guard registered 17 points through the opening 20 minutes. The Pride came out flying from distance to open the second half with five of its eight 3-pointers of the stanza coming in the first 10:02 to take a 70-51 lead. Delaware slashed its deficit to as few as 15 down the stretch, but Hofstra proved to be too much. German Plotnikov and Jean Aranguren notched 14 and 13 points, respectively. The Pride shot 67.7 percent from the floor in the latter stanza, knocking down 21 of its 31 attempts from the floor over the final 20 minutes. The Blue Hens’ Niels Lane and Erik Timko registered 16 points apiece in the setback.
Campbell 79, Stony Brook 54
Box Score
Sophomore forward Colby Duggan recorded 27 points on 11-of-17 shooting with five treys in Campbell’s 79-54 victory at Stony Brook (4-16, 0-7 CAA). The Camels (9-11, 4-3 CAA) scored 40 of their 79 points in the paint, going 23-for-35 inside the arc against the Seawolves.
Duggan and Cam Gregory combined to score the first 13 points for the Camels. After the Seawolves slashed their deficit to as few as two, Campbell went on a 28-8 run, finished off by Eric Van Der Heijden with a 3-pointer to take a 41-19 lead into the intermission. Duggan led all scorers in the first half with 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting. Stony Brook’s CJ Luster and Collin O’Connor pulled the Seawolves’s deficit to as few as 17 with back-to-back 3-pointers inside the 15-minute mark. Campbell’s Caleb Zurliene responded with eight of the next 11 points to reclaim a 65-40 lead. The graduate forward finished with 13 points, three steals and a trio of assists. The two teams were equal in scoring over the final 8:16 of the contest for the Camels to secure a 25-point victory. Stony Brook’s Andre Snoddy and Ben Wight finished in double figures with 11 and 10 points, respectively.
Northeastern 70, Drexel 61
Box Score
A pair of 19-point efforts from JB Frankel and Rashad King lifted Northeastern (11-9, 3-4 CAA) to a 70-61 victory over Drexel (11-9, 3-4 CAA). Frankel knocked down five treys in the win, while King chipped in seven boards, seven assists and three steals.
Northeastern’s Frankel knocked down back-to-back triples out of the gate before Youri Fritz produced a pair of finishes in the lane to claim a 12-3 lead through the first four minutes of action. Drexel cut into the Huskies’ advantage down to as few as one point over the next eight minutes, but another Frankel trey at 8:36 put his team ahead by six, 21-15, with 8:36 to play in the first half. The two teams exchanged blows until Northeastern stopped the Dragons’ late 7-0 run with a layup from Fritz and a 3-pointer by Harold Woods in the final minute to give the Huskies a 32-26 lead at the break. Drexel claimed a five-point lead, 44-39, after jumping out to an 18-7 run led by a combined 13 points from Yame Butler and Jason Drake. Butler finished with a team-best 17 points. Northeastern turned in a 20-6 stretch of its own shortly after to reclaim a 59-50 lead it would not relinquish. The Huskies expanded their advantage to as many as 10, following consecutive slams from Fritz and King with under three minutes to play, before securing the nine-point victory.
Elon 83, Monmouth 71
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TJ and TK Simpkins combined for 44 points to guide Elon (14-6, 5-2 CAA) to an 83-71 victory over Monmouth (5-15, 3-4 CAA). TJ finished with a game-best 26 points on 7-of-13 shooting from the floor and an 11-for-13 clip from the charity stripe. TK added 18 points in the win, while Nick Dorn and Sam Sherry chipped in 13 and 12 points, respectively.
Elon and Monmouth exchanged six leads to start the game. The Phoenix broke out to a 15-3 run with the Simpkins brothers combining for nine points on the stretch to put Elon ahead by double digits, 31-20, with 4:16 remaining in the first. TK Simpkins sent the Phoenix into intermission up by 12, 41-29, after drawing contact on a 3-pointer and sinking all three of his free throws before the halftime horn. Monmouth’s Abdi Bashir Jr. helped erase the team’s double-digit deficit in the second half with 17 points on the team’s 27-11 run to take a 62-58 lead with 6:24 to play. The conference’s leading scorer finished with 22 points in the contest. Elon’s Dorn hits a pair of crucial treys over the next three minutes that flipped the advantage in favor of the Phoenix, 68-64, with 3:14 remaining. Dorn and TJ Simpkins combined to shoot 13-of-14 from the charity stripe to end the game and lift Elon to a 12-point win.