Nov. 22, 2010

Box Score

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The Marist men's basketball team was defeated by Belmont by a score of 102-74 in the third round of the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off on Monday at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum at Wake Forest. Sophomore guard Sam Prescott (Philadelphia, Pa.) paced three Red Foxes in double digits with 15 points.

Belmont scored the game's first seven points, jumped out to a 21-5 lead with 11:42 left in the first half, and never led by less than 13 the rest of the way. The Bruins scored the final nine points of the first half to take a 46-19 lead into the locker room. Marist rebounded to score 55 points in the second half on .621 shooting from the field (18-for-29) and .800 shooting from three-point range (8-for-10), while Belmont scored 56 second-half points on .559 shooting from the field (19-for-34).

Prescott's point total was a season high. He shot 3-for-7 from the field, hit all three of his three-point attempts and went 6-for-8 from the free-throw line. Prescott also dished out a career-high four assists in 22 minutes off the bench. Freshman guard/forward R.J. Hall (East Orange, N.J.) scored 10 points while shooting 4-for-6 from the field and 2-for-3 from three-point range.

Scott Saunders led five Belmont players in double digits with 24 points in 22 minutes off the bench. Saunders shot 7-for-10 from the field and 10-for-13 from the free-throw line, and was tied for the team lead in rebounds with six.

For the game, Belmont shot .541 from the field (33-for-61). The Bruins outrebounded the Red Foxes 33-28, and committed just eight turnovers as compared to 21 for Marist.

Marist is now 0-4 on the season. The Red Foxes will conclude play in the 2010 Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off on Tuesday, when they take on Wake Forest at 7 p.m.