Nov. 19, 2010
Final Stats
BOSTON, Mass. - Despite leading with as late as under 14 minutes to play, the Marist men's basketball team suffered a 58-37 loss at Boston University on Friday. Sophomore guard Candon Rusin (Surf City, N.C.) led the Red Foxes with 16 points, including three three-pointers.
Rusin was the lone Red Fox to score in double digits. Red-shirt freshman forward Menelik Watson (Manchester, England) led Marist with five rebounds, and red-shirt senior guard Dejuan Goodwin (Baltimore, Md.) had a team-best three assists against just one turnover in 21 minutes at the point. Playing in his first collegiate game, freshman forward Adam Kemp (Sherrill, N.Y.) blocked three shots in 18 minutes.
Boston University jumped out to an early 10-3 lead, but the Red Foxes stayed in the game by holding the Terriers scoreless for nearly seven minutes and without a field goal for almost nine. Boston University led 15-7 with 7:13 left in the first half, but a 10-0 Marist run - with Rusin scoring every point - gave the Red Foxes a two-point lead. The Terries answered with a 6-0 spurt of their own, but the Red Foxes trailed just 21-20 at halftime thanks to a conventional three-point play by Rusin with 26 seconds left in the first half.
With 14:04 to play, a jumper by freshman swingman Jay Bowie (Tampa, Fla.) gave the Red Foxes a 28-27 lead. However, consecutive three-pointers by BU's Matt Griffin gave his team the lead for good. Griffin's three-pointers started the Terriers on a 23-1 run over 8:16. In that span, Griffin scored 16 points. The Red Foxes went 11:10 without a field goal until a three-pointer by Rusin with 2:54 remaining.
Griffin led all scorers with 21 points, and did not miss a shot in 29 minutes. He went 7-for-7 from the field, 5-for-5 from three-point range, and 2-for-2 from the free-throw line. The Terriers' Patrick Hazel had a game-high 13 rebounds.
Marist shot just .267 (12-for-45) from the field and .235 (4-for-17) from three-point range.
The Red Foxes (0-3) will return to action next week, as they play their third- and fourth-round games in the 2010 Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off. Marist will face Belmont on Monday at 4:30 p.m., and Wake Forest on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Both games will take place at Wake Forest.
