Men's Basketball News
Men's basketball blasts Berea 74-44
Playing for the first time in over a week, the Centre College men's basketball team allowed a season-low 22.1% opponent shooting percentage in a 74-44 win over Berea College Monday, Dec. 1 in Alumni Gymnasium in Danville, Ky.
With the win, the Colonels remain unbeaten against Berea during the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) era at 10-0 and improve to 3-1 overall this year. The loss drops the Mountaineers to 4-3 on the season.
The two teams exchanged a pair of three-pointers each for a 6-6 score, but three-pointers by seniors Kris Bentley (Pikeville, Ky.) and Ryan Crowdis (Louisville, Ky.) gave Centre a 12-6 lead it would not relinquish.
The Colonels pushed the lead to 11 points (25-14) and then to 14 points (30-16) before Berea cut the lead to nine points (34-25) at the half.
Centre opened the second half with a 19-5 run to take a 22-point lead and would extend the lead to as many as 35 points (72-37) before finishing with the 30-point victory.
The Colonels shot 44.1% (26-59) on the evening while limiting Berea to only 15 of 68 from the floor, including only 5-29 (17.2%) from beyond the three-point arc.
Senior guard T.C. Thomason (Russellville, Ky.) lead all scorers with 14 points. He also had four rebounds and three assists. Crowdis finished with 12 points and four assists, while Bentley added 11 points, four rebounds and three assists in the win.
Cody Hornsby led the Mountaineers with eight points and five rebounds. Charles Wandera scored six points and grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds in a losing effort.
Centre will return to action Friday, Dec. 5 with its first SCAC contest against Sewanee-University of the South. The game will be played as part of a men's/women's doubleheader and is set to start at 6 p.m. CST in Sewanee, Tenn.
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