Box Score ALBANY, N.Y. - The Saint Michael's College men's basketball team earned its third straight one-point win by holding off The College of Saint Rose, 78-77, on Tuesday evening during Northeast-10 Conference play in Nolan Gymnasium. The first-place Purple and Gold has made a last-second defensive stop in each of the three contests. The Purple Knights, who received votes toward this week's National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) national poll, extended their winning streak to six games while starting 5-0 in NE10 play for the first time since 2000-01.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (6-1, 5-0 NE10), Saint Rose (3-5, 2-3 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Jhamyl Fricas (Lawrence, Mass./Worcester Academy/Connors State), 22 points, 8-for-15 field goals, 4-for-9 three-pointers
• Sophomore Darrel Yepdo (Dracut, Mass./Brooks School), 12 points, 6 assists, 5 steals, 5-for-11 field goals, 2-for-4 three-pointers
• Sophomore Nolan Marold (Highlands Ranch, Colo./Brewster Academy/Loyola Chicago), 12 points, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks, 5-for-8 field goals
• Senior Romar Reid (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Woodstock Academy/Manhattan), 10 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists
• Junior Jacob Duniver (Fredericksburg, Va./Woodstock Academy), 9 points, 6 rebounds, 3-for-7 three-pointers
• Sophomore Alan Brzezinski (Örebro, Sweden/Western Reserve Academy), 6 points, 2-for-5 three-pointers

OPPONENT LEADERS

• First-year Christian Pierre-Louis, 21 points, 10-for-16 field goals
• First-year Alex Barnhill, 12 points, 6-for-8 field goals
• First-year Trey Boyd III, 9 points
• Junior Ata Turgut, 8 points, 6 rebounds
• First-year Dante Weise, 6 assists

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights shot 15-for-34 (44.1%) from three-point range to Saint Rose's 5-for-12 showing.
• Fricas scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half, one game after Yepdo scored 20 of his 26 points in the second stanza.
• In addition to receiving national votes from the NABC, the Purple Knights are sixth in this week's D2CSC East Region poll.
• Saint Michael's was last 5-0 in NE10 play in 2000-01, when it started 10-0 in league.
• The Purple and Gold earned just its fourth win in 19 all-time visits to Saint Rose, but improved to 3-1 in its last four games in Nolan Gymnasium.
• Saint Michael's last won six in a row amid a school-record 15-game streak between the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 campaigns.
• The Purple and Gold erased a double-digit deficit for the second straight game, having trailed by as many as 14 points on Tuesday after falling behind Pace University by 18 in Saturday's 66-65 victory.
• In more than 100 years of existence, Saint Michael's men's basketball had never previously won three consecutive one-point games.

THE ACTION

• Saint Rose used a 10-0 run to take a 16-8 lead at 12:41 of the first half on Louis's lay-up.
• Four Purple Knights scored in a 10-0 run that later put the visitors up 28-24 at 5:27 on Reid's triple.
• The Golden Knights countered with the next 11 points en route to leading by a game-high 14 (46-32) with 18:34 to go in the second half.
• Saint Michael's used a 19-4 comeback to go back in front at 51-50 with 12:06 to go on first-year Sebastian Andersson's (Stockholm, Sweden/Korrespondensgymnasiet/Eastern Washington) lay-up. That proved to be the first of six lead swings in a matter of 2:13. Neither team lead by more than five points again until Louis' bucket staked Saint Rose to a 69-63 edge at 4:45.
• The teams combined to shoot 6-for-6 between 3:39 and 2:16, with Fricas' scoring all seven Saint Michael's points. His jumper capped the run to bring the visitors within 75-72, and another Fricas jumper made it a one-point contest at 1:51. On the ensuing possession, Yepdo's steal and breakaway lay-up provided the Purple Knights a 76-75 lead at 1:21, and Fricas canned two free throws at 51.3 seconds to cap an 8-0 spurt.
• Barnhill's lay-up at 34.3 seconds brought Saint Rose within a single point.
• After the teams exchanged turnovers with around 20 seconds remaining, the Purple Knights went to the line with 8.2 seconds remaining. The first free throw was missed, but Duniver snagged the offensive rebound at 5.3 seconds. Another miss ensued, but tight defense by Marold and Reid on an inbound pass in front of the Golden Knight bench with 1.4 ticks to go denied the hosts a look at a winning shot.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday at Roberts Wesleyan College, 3 p.m.