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Sr. G Jamal Nwaniemeka had his 10th career game with 20+ points in ESU's win vs. Mansfield.

ESU Men's Basketball Wins 6th Straight, 102-62 vs. Mansfield

1/13/2016 12:00:00 AM

Box Score

EAST STROUDSBURG - Senior guard Jamal Nwaniemeka scored a season-high 22 points and redshirt junior guard Quindell Brice had a career-high 16, leading East Stroudsburg University to its sixth straight win with a 102-62 victory vs. Mansfield in PSAC East men's basketball on Wednesday night at Koehler Fieldhouse.

Redshirt senior guard Will Brown scored 12 points and junior forward Steve Harris added 12 points and nine rebounds for ESU (12-3, 8-3).

Freshman guard Najee Walls had five points, four rebounds and 10 assists in 20 minutes after ranking second in the PSAC and fourth among Division II freshmen in assists per game (5.8) entering the night.

ESU, the PSAC's top scoring team at 89.0 ppg, scored at least 85 points for the 10th time in 15 games and hit the 100-point mark for the fourth time - including the third in its last five PSAC contests.

Nwaniemeka had his 10th career game with at least 20 points. He had 13 points and Brice scored 10 in the first half as the Warriors led 47-22 at intermission.

Thomas Moore scored 20 points to lead Mansfield (3-13, 1-10).

ESU shot 50.6 percent (40-for-79) and hit nine three-pointers. The Warriors held Mansfield to 32.3 percent (20-for-62) overall and 4-for-18 from the three-point line while gathering 14 steals on 19 Mansfield turnovers.

Nwaniemeka (963) and Brown (944) are both closing in on the 1,000-point mark for their careers after junior forward Rasheed Moore hit the mark in an 87-60 win at No. 22-ranked West Chester on Saturday.

Senior forward Wes Cherry scored eight points, sophomore guard Ryan Krawczeniuk had five points, four rebounds and six assists and junior forward Sultan Aminu grabbed a career-high eight rebounds to highlight ESU's other contributors.

The Warriors host Kutztown (12-3, 9-2) in a PSAC East game on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Koehler Fieldhouse. The Golden Bears fell 89-82 at Philadelphia University in a non-conference game on Wednesday night, ending a four-game winning streak.

GAME NOTES
* ESU improves to 77-3 all-time when scoring 100 points and has won 31 straight (4-0 this season).
* ESU scored 100 points a record 7 times in 2013-14 (scored 100 points 5 times in 1970-71 and 1993-94).
* ESU's highest scoring season was 87.9 ppg in 1993-94 (averaging 89.9 ppg this season).
 
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