NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Wes Cole came off the bench to score all 12 of his points in the second half as Hartford defeated Yale 60-51 in a nonconference game Thursday night.
Nate Sikma also scored all eight of his points for the Hawks (3-3) after halftime. All of them came during a 25-5 run to start the half as Hartford extended a 21-18 lead at the break to a 46-23 advantage with 11:36 left.
The Bulldogs (2-6) whittled the lead to seven points, 49-42, as Hartford scored just three points in the next 8 minutes. But Cole hit a 3-pointer at the 3:30 mark to push the Hawks' lead back to double digits, and he added another trey to make it 55-44 with 1:42 to play.
Hartford shot 55 percent (11 of 20) in the second half to Yale's 36 percent (9 of 25).
Austin Morgan led the Bulldogs with 15 points.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Hartford (3-3) « | 21 | 39 | 60 |
| Yale (2-6) | 18 | 33 | 51 |
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| Hartford Hawks | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Nwakamma, F | 28 | 3-12 | 2-2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| N. Sikma, F | 21 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| J. Peterson, F | 17 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Y. Moore II, G | 37 | 3-4 | 3-4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| C. Wroe, G | 21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| W. Cole | 21 | 3-5 | 3-4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
| E. Cooper | 20 | 1-3 | 3-5 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| O. Faulk | 13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Schneck | 12 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| T. Dyson | 5 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| P. U'u | 5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 20-44 | 11-15 | 30 | 13 | 21 | 60 | |
| 45.5% | 73.3% | ||||||
| Yale Bulldogs | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| B. Sherrod, F | 24 | 1-6 | 3-4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| M. Townsend, F | 23 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| A. Morgan, G | 32 | 4-12 | 6-7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| M. Grace, G | 22 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| S. Martin, G | 20 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Sears | 21 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| J. Duren | 19 | 0-3 | 2-2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| A. Cotton | 14 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| J. Pritchard | 13 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| J. Kreisberg | 10 | 0-2 | 1-4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| G. Kelley | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 14-47 | 18-23 | 32 | 10 | 16 | 51 | |
| 29.8% | 78.3% | ||||||
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