ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Mike Black scored 21 points and Jacob Iati 20 as Albany continued its dominance over St. Francis (N.Y.) with a 77-73 win Wednesday night.
St. Francis (2-4) played catch up all game long, and pulled within 70-69 following Ben Mockford's 3-pointer with 33 seconds to play, but the Great Danes (7-2) hit 7 of 8 free throws after to earn the win.
Albany, which is now 5-0 all-time against the Terriers, opened with an 18-0 run that spanned over 10 minutes.
The Terriers pulled within 25-22 on Dre Calloway's layup with 4:37 left, but went into another lull and entered halftime down 35-26.
The Terriers tied the game at 41-all on Kevin Douglas' layup with 16:12 left in the second half, but never took the lead.
Travis Nichols led the Terriers with 21 points on 8-of-12 shooting, while Mockford hit six 3-pointers for 18 points.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| St. Francis (N.Y.) (2-4) | 26 | 47 | 73 |
| Albany (7-2) « | 35 | 42 | 77 |
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| St. Francis (N.Y.) Terriers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Cannon, F | 27 | 4-7 | 3-5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| K. Douglas, F | 17 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| B. Mockford, G | 31 | 6-14 | 0-0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 18 |
| A. Johnson, G | 23 | 4-10 | 1-2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| B. Jones, G | 21 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Nichols | 27 | 8-12 | 2-2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 |
| D. Calloway | 19 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| A. Isailovic | 18 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| P. Santavenere | 11 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| M. Milk | 5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| A. White | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 28-64 | 6-11 | 27 | 16 | 23 | 73 | |
| 43.8% | 54.5% | ||||||
| Albany Great Danes | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| B. Metcalf, F | 33 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| J. Guerrier, F | 12 | 1-5 | 3-4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| J. Puk, C | 15 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| J. Iati, G | 37 | 5-9 | 6-6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| M. Black, G | 36 | 6-13 | 5-8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 21 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| P. Hooley | 28 | 3-4 | 3-4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| S. Rowley | 18 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| D. Evans | 10 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| L. Devlin | 8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| D. Wiegmann | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 23-43 | 20-27 | 37 | 15 | 16 | 77 | |
| 53.5% | 74.1% | ||||||
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