BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Jerrelle Benimon scored a career-best 29 points and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds and Mike Burwell hit two late free throws to help Towson hold off Vermont 68-64 Wednesday night.
Burwell finished with 12 points for Towson (4-4). His two free throws with 11 seconds showing gave the Tigers a 67-64 lead.
Benimon, Towson's leading scorer on the year, was 11 of 15 from the field and hit 7 of 10 free-throw attempts.
Towson opened an 11-2 lead but watched Vermont cut the deficit to 38-33 at the break and tie it at 40 just 3 minutes into the second half.
Vermont (4-3) took its first lead since scoring the game's first basket, 45-44, behind a Brendan Kilpatrick jumper but Towson retook the lead, 63-61, on Marcus Damas' layup.
Damas scored six of Towson's final nine points.
Luke Apfeld led Vermont with 23 points and Trey Blue had 14.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Towson (4-4) « | 38 | 30 | 68 |
| Vermont (4-3) | 33 | 31 | 64 |
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| Towson Tigers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Benimon, F | 38 | 11-15 | 7-10 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 29 |
| M. Damas, F | 32 | 3-5 | 3-4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| B. Dixon, F | 12 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| J. Hairston, G | 34 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| M. Burwell, G | 23 | 4-11 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Parker-Rivera | 25 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| K. Walden | 18 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| R. Guthrie | 15 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| B. Alston | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Totals | 26-52 | 13-18 | 33 | 9 | 24 | 68 | |
| 50% | 72.2% | ||||||
| Vermont Catamounts | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| L. Apfeld, F | 33 | 8-11 | 5-8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 23 |
| B. Voelkel, F | 31 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| E. O'Day, F | 12 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| S. Carissimo, G | 33 | 2-7 | 4-5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| C. Rusin, G | 18 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Blue | 23 | 4-8 | 3-6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| C. Rugg | 22 | 0-3 | 4-8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| B. Kilpatrick | 19 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| J. Elbaum | 9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 19-40 | 18-33 | 27 | 13 | 17 | 64 | |
| 47.5% | 54.5% | ||||||
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