BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Greg Gantt scored 23 points, and Florida Atlantic opened the second half with a 19-5 run to hand Troy an 80-59 loss in Sun Belt Conference play on Thursday night.
FAU swept the season series, having beaten Troy 61-54 on Dec. 27 behind Gantt's 26 points.
Stefan Moody scored 15 points for the Owls (10-9, 5-3), Pablo Bertone had 14 and Jackson Trapp 11
Antoine Myers had 15 points for Troy (7-11, 2-5), and Emil Jones chipped in 10 points and seven rebounds.
FAU made 13 of 24 3-pointers in the game to Troy's 3 of 14.
Florida Atlantic scored the first 10 points in the second half, including 3-pointers from Bertone and Moody, which led to a 42-28 advantage 3:36 in. Gantt's 3-pointer made it 47-32 with 14 minutes to go, and his layup pushed the lead to 51-32 with 13:08 remaining.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Troy (7-11) | 28 | 31 | 59 |
| Florida Atlantic (10-9) « | 32 | 48 | 80 |
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| Troy Trojans | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Calhoun, F | 13 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W. Hinton, F | 13 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| J. Warren, C | 21 | 3-3 | 1-3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| H. Williams, G | 29 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| R. Scott, G | 28 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| E. Jones | 26 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| D. Jethroe | 23 | 3-7 | 2-2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| A. Myers | 15 | 6-6 | 3-4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| R. Chambers | 14 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| J. Mullahey | 11 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| B. Dixon | 5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| S. Muwallif | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-58 | 6-9 | 35 | 7 | 6 | 59 | |
| 43.1% | 66.7% | ||||||
| Florida Atlantic Owls | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. McCoy, F | 24 | 2-4 | 4-5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| K. Penn, F | 15 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| G. Gantt, G | 35 | 10-21 | 0-0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 23 |
| S. Moody, G | 35 | 6-14 | 0-0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
| P. Bertone, G | 27 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Sekelja | 21 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| J. Trapp | 19 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| C. Bryant | 15 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| C. Baker | 4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Mattison | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Lacunza | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 31-59 | 5-7 | 29 | 22 | 12 | 80 | |
| 52.5% | 71.4% | ||||||
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