Box ScoreGREENSBURG - Redshirt senior guard
Will Brown scored 37 points, including 24 in the second half, and East Stroudsburg University held off Seton Hill for an 82-71 road win in PSAC men's basketball on Sunday afternoon.
Brown's 37 points are ESU's most since 2003, when Wayne Bishop scored 44 against Shippensburg. Brown hit eight three-pointers, tied for the second-most in school history.
Freshman guard
Najee Walls had 13 points and 11 assists for his first career double-double, junior forward
Steve Harris had 12 points and eight rebounds, shooting 6-for-8 from the field, and junior forward
Rasheed Moore added eight points and nine rebounds for ESU (4-1, 2-1).
Kameron Taylor had 28 points and 13 rebounds for Seton Hill (0-3, 0-2), which used an 18-1 run to cut ESU's 66-46 lead to 67-64 with just under eight minutes remaining.
The Warriors responded with an 11-2 run, including a three-pointer by Brown that pushed the lead to 77-66 with four minutes left, to keep the Griffins at arms length.
After scoring 13 points in the first half, Brown had 10 in the first 3:09 of the second half as the Warriors used a 14-4 run to extend a 44-32 lead to 58-36.
He scored eight points in just over a minute midway through the half before Taylor helped bring Seton Hill back, scoring 14 points in the 17-1 stretch.
Brown shot 13-for-18 from the field, 8-for-11 from the three-point line and 3-for-5 at the foul line for ESU. He was two three-pointers from the school record of 10 set by Juwan Justice at Cheyney in 2001, and tied R.C. Kehoe's eight three's vs. West Chester in 2000.
His 37 points are ESU's third-most in the last 30 years, behind only Bishop's 44 vs. Shippensburg in 2003 and a 41-point game by Jonathan Roberts at Millersville in 1988.