Box Score

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Junior guard Whis Grant scored 18 points, including four three-pointers in a 29-12 run to start the second half, as East Stroudsburg University improved to 4-0 with a 79-72 win over UDC on Saturday afternoon in the District of Columbia.

Grant was one of seven Warriors who scored at least eight points, with senior forward Zechariah Runkle and freshman forward Rasheed Moore also in double figures with 11 each.

Sophomore guard Jamal Nwaniemeka and junior forward Lamont Tillery both scored nine points, and junior guard Matt Tobin and redshirt junior guard Will Brown added eight points each.

ESU shot 50.0 percent from the field (29-for-58) and the three-point line (13-for-26) - including 7-for-11 in the second half.

Tobin and Tillery also hit three's in the run that spanned the first 10 minutes of the second half, as the Warriors overcame a 40-37 halftime deficit.

UDC (0-2) led for most of the first half with its biggest advantage a nine-point lead (21-12) with 11:14 left in the period. The Warriors led 25-23 on three's by Brown, Tobin and Runkle before trailing at the half for the first time this season.

UDC had three players combine for 57 of its 72 points in Quasim Jones (23), Lenjo Kilo (18 points, 9 rebounds) and Reggie Sidbury (16).

Grant, an All-American and the returning PSAC East Athlete of the Year, has 981 career points through two years and four games. He can become the third in school history to score 1,000 points as a junior, joining Jonathan Roberts and Don Bones.

He tied a career-high with five three-pointers and moved into third on ESU's career list with 130, behind only Andy Heimbach (236, 2006-10) and Juwan Justice (162, 1998-02).

Moore hit double figures for the fourth straight game to open his career. He led ESU with 13.0 points and 5.7 rebounds per game entering Saturday and has scored 12 at St. Thomas Aquinas, 17 vs. PSU-Lehigh Valley, 10 vs. USciences and 11 at UDC during the Warriors' 4-0 start.

ESU has four players averaging double figures and three more over 7.0 points per game in posting 89.5 points per game through four outings - Grant (14.0), Moore (12.5), Brown (11.5), Nwaniemeka (10.8), Runkle (8.7), Tobin (7.3) and Tillery (7.3).

The Warriors host Mansfield in their PSAC East opener on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Koehler Fieldhouse. They are coming off their second PSAC East regular season title in four years (2010, 2013) and have made four straight trips to the PSAC Final Four, including the 2012 conference title.

GAME NOTES

* ESU's 4-0 start is its 2nd in the last 5 years (2009-10) - and just the 5th since World War II:
1961 - 4-0
1972 - 10-0
1992 - 7-0
2010 - 13-0
2014 - 4-0