Box Score

CHEYNEY - Redshirt senior guard Will Brown scored 26 points, including eight three-pointers, to lead East Stroudsburg University to a 104-62 win at Cheyney in PSAC East men's basketball on Saturday afternoon at Cope Hall.

Brown shot 9-for-13 from the field and 8-for-10 from long distance for ESU (16-5, 12-5), which eclipsed the 100-point mark for the sixth time this season and leads the PSAC with 89.9 points per game.

ESU shot 57.4 percent (39-for-68) from the field, 15-for-26 (57.7 percent) from the three-point line and had 25 assists against just 10 turnovers in an efficient offensive performance. ESU's 15 three-pointers are tied for its most vs. a PSAC school in the last 14 seasons.

Freshman guard Nick Giordano scored 16 points (12 in the second half), shooting 6-for-8 overall and 4-for-6 from behind the arc.

Freshman guard Najee Walls had 12 points and six assists and led the PSAC in assists per game (5.7) entering the weekend.

Junior forward Rasheed Moore had 10 points after returning from an injury which had kept him out of the last game and a half. Moore missed the second half of a 91-84 loss vs. Bloomsburg on January 30 and ESU's 74-69 loss at Shippensburg on Monday.

Redshirt junior guard Quindell Brice scored eight points, senior guard Jamal Nwaneimeka and junior forward Steve Harris had seven each and redshirt sophomore guard Steven Stoney had six points for the Warriors. Sophomore guard Ryan Krawczeniuk had two points and six assists.

Craig McLeod scored 14 points, Imir Bailey had 13, Khaalis Carter 12 and Juwan Mullen 11 for Cheyney (2-17, 1-15).

The Warriors led 44-24 at halftime as Brown scored 11 points before intermission. He had two flurries in the second half, hitting three triples in a four-minute stretch early in the half and two more within a half-minute with four minutes left.

Giordano made four three's in the final 13 minutes and ESU was 10-for-15 from the three-point line in the second half en route to a 60-point stanza.

Brown, who scored his 1,000th career point late in Monday's loss at Shippensburg, hit eight three-pointers in a game for the second time this season. He was 8-for-11 from long distance and scored 37 points in an 82-71 win at Seton Hill on November 22. He had his fifth career game with 20+ points with the first three coming off the bench.

ESU hosts West Chester (18-3, 14-3) in a key PSAC East game on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m at Koehler Fieldhouse. The Golden Rams have won six of their last seven games since ESU's 87-60 road win on January 9.


GAME NOTES
* Brown ranks 3rd at ESU in career 3-pointers (217) behind only Whis Grant (268 - 2011-15) and Andy Heimbach (236 - 2006-10).

* Brown has 2 of the 4 games in ESU history with 8+ 3-pointers.  Juwaan Justice made 10 at Cheyney in 2001 and R.C. Kehoe had 8 vs. West Chester in 2000.

* Moore (1,063), Nwaniemeka (1,038) and Brown (1,028) were the first trio of 1,000-point scorers on the floor at the same time in ESU history when the game tipped off.
* Moore entered with 1,053, Nwaniemeka with 1,031 and Brown with 1,002.
* Nwaniemeka's career total includes 11 points at Rider in 2012-13 (1,027 points in 3 years at ESU).

* ESU's 6 100-point games this season are the 2nd-most in school history:
7 - 2013-14
6 - 2015-16
5 - 1970-71, 1993-94

* ESU has won 15 straight games vs. Cheyney, tied for the longest stretch in the series for either team. Cheyney won 15 straight from 1980-81 through 1987-88.

* ESU has won 16+ games for the 11th straight season, the longest active streak in the PSAC.