ALBANY, N.Y. - The Saint Michael's College men's basketball team lost a non-conference game to The College of Saint Rose, 82-76, on Friday evening in Nolan Gymnasium. The Northeast-10 Conference counterparts meet in league play on Jan. 11 in Colchester.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (3-5), Saint Rose (5-4)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Patrick Gardner (Merrick, N.Y./Calhoun/Nassau CC), 18 points, 8 rebounds, 6 blocks
• First-year CJ Crews (Tampa, Fla./Bayshore Christian School), 12 points, 6 rebounds
• Junior Kasai Brown (Brooklyn, N.Y./Millbrook School), 11 points, 11 rebounds (career high), 4 assists
• First-year Chuma Oyigbo (Stoughton, Mass./Redemption Christian [N.Y.] School), 11 points, 3-for-4 three-pointers, 4 assists, 2 steals
• First-year Nic Button (Skaneateles, N.Y./Cheshire Academy), 9 points
• First-year Jacob Duniver (Fredericksburg, Va./Woodstock Academy), 8 points, 4 rebounds, 3-for-3 field goals, 2-for-2 three-pointers
• First-year Stefano Spassof (Athens, Greece/ACS Athens), 4 rebounds, 2 assists

OPPONENT LEADERS

• First-year Shane O'Dell, 23 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists
• Sophomore Josh McGettigan, 19 points, 4 assists, 5-for-7 three-pointers
• Sophomore Eric Fleming, 13 points, 6 rebounds
• Senior Adam Anderson, 12 points, 5 rebounds, 4 steals
• First-year Tray Alexander, 9 points, 12 assists
• Fifth-year Kevin Lynch, 10 rebounds, 7 offensive rebounds

GAME FACTS

• Both teams nabbed 43 rebounds, with the Golden Knights holding a 17-14 edge on the offensive glass.
• The Purple and Gold blocked seven shots while narrowly being outshot, 42.9%-41.8%.
• Each of the Purple Knights' losses has come by 11 points or fewer.
• The teams played through 12 lead changes.
• Gardner blocked the most shots by a Purple Knight since Delbert Randall '04 rejected seven shots at Merrimack College on Dec. 4, 2001.
• Gardner passed the 1,200-point plateau (1,213) for his college career, which began at Nassau (N.Y.) Community College.
• Brown registered his second double-double of the season, and third of his career. Two have occurred at Saint Rose.

THE ACTION

• Neither team led by three points until O'Dell capped his team's 6-0 run with a lay-up that put Saint Rose up 16-9 at 14:18 of the first half.
• Button, making his first college start, responded with a three-pointer 25 seconds later, and Duniver and Gardner later drilled back-to-back threes to tie the game at 20-20 at the 11-minute mark.
• Three Golden Knights scored during an ensuing 6-0 run, and Anderson's dunk pushed the lead to a half-high 30-22 with 7:30 left.
• Down 39-33 after a pair of O'Dell free throws at 4:22, Saint Michael's tallied the next nine points in a run that bridged halftime. Junior Dario Milojevic (Windsor, Ontario/Herman Academy/Mississippi Valley State) beat the buzzer with a lay-up that sent the visitors into the locker room up 40-39, and Gardner's bucket 27 seconds into the second half extended the lead to three.
• Between McGettigen's three-pointer at 17:19 and Gardner's jumper with 7:26 to go, the teams exchanged nine leads while forging four ties, with Saint Rose nabbing the largest lead in that 9:53 stretch, twice leading by five.
• O'Dell snapped the final tie with consecutive jumpers, pushing the Golden Knights into a 74-70 lead by 4:19, but Crews accounted for the next three points, including knocking down a jumper that brought Saint Michael's within one point with 2:12 to go.
• McGettigen responded with a three 32 seconds later, and the Purple Knights missed their next three shots as Saint Rose built its lead to 81-73 on McGettigen's dunk with 11 seconds to go.
• Oyigbo drained a triple two ticks later, creating a five-point margin, and the Golden Knights split their ensuing two free throw attempts, but the Purple Knights were off the mark on their final shot while attempting to make it a one-possession game.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Sunday vs. Post University, 2 p.m.