Box Score

Brooklyn, NY-- The Men's Basketball team (14-4, 7-2 CUNY) streaked past the Medgar Evers College Cougars (1-19, 0-9 CUNY) 91-83. It was the sixth consecutive victory for the Bridges, who moved into sole possession of first place in the CUNYAC South Division.

Brooklyn came out strong again, racing off to a 23-9 lead in the first six minutes of play. Sophomore forward Richard Jean-Baptiste (St. John's Prep / Queens, NY), the reigning CUNYAC Player of the week, scored 11 points during this opening run. Medgers Evers came back to cut the deficit to eight points at 27-19 midway through the opening stanza, but could get no closer. Jean-Baptiste and sophomore guard Daniel Nisbett (Michel Petrides/ Staten Island, NY) closed out the period with back-to-back tree-pointers, sending the Bridges to the locker room with a 52-33 lead.

Nisbett scored 11 of the first 14 points in the second half, stretching the BC edge to 25 points at 66-41. The Bridges kept the lead at around 20 points for much of the second stanza, until a 9-0 Cougar run brought the score to 71-61 with just over five minutes remaining. Medgar Evers stayed close in the game's final minutes, getting to within seven points on three occasions in the last four minutes. Clutch free-throw shooting by Thomas Guerin (St. Edmund Prep / Brooklyn, NY) and Corey McFarlane (Transit Tech / Brooklyn, NY) down the stretch helped seal the victory.

This was the third consecutive game that the Bridges shot better than 50 percent (33 for 65) from the field. The 10 three-point field goals for Brooklyn represented a season-high. Individually, Nisbett had a standout game, pouring in 32 points and adding nine rebounds, both team-highs. Jean-Baptiste reached the 20-point plateau for the seventh time in his last eight games, finishing with 24. Guerin added 14 points, five assists, and three steals.

The Bridges will return to Roosevelt Gymnsaium on Saturday afternoon for a 3:00 pm conference tilt with York College.