PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. - The Saint Michael's College men's basketball team lost to 14th-ranked Pace University, 80-68, on Saturday during Northeast-10 Conference play in the Goldstein Center. The Setters were 14th in this week's D2 CSC national poll and 15th in the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) rankings.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (2-7, 0-5 NE10), Pace (9-0, 4-0 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior CJ Crews (Tampa, Fla./Bayshore Christian School), 18 points, 5-for-11 field goals, 4-for-9 three-pointers
• Sophomore TJ Henaghen (Hampden, Maine/Williston Northampton School), 15 points, 6-for-10 field goals, 2-for-5 three-pointers
• Senior Alan Brzezinski (Örebro, Sweden/Western Reserve Academy), 14 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, 6-for-6 free throws
• First-year Abdur-Rahman De Leon (Roxbury, Mass./Saint Thomas More School), 10 points, 3 assists, 4-for-7 field goals
• Redshirt first-year Marcus Meeks (Prairie Village, Kan./Brewster Academy), 6 points, 5 rebounds, 3-for-5 field goals
• Junior Nolan Marold (Highlands Ranch, Colo./Brewster Academy/Loyola Chicago), 4 assists

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Sophomore Trey Boyd III, 20 points, 7-for-14 field goals, 4-for-8 three-pointers
• Junior Jaden Kealey, 18 points, 7-for-10 field goals
• Graduate student Tray Alexander, 14 points, 17 assists, 5-for-10 field goals
• Junior Jabari Nurse, 11 points, 5 steals
• Redshirt senior Jamaal Waters, 10 points, 6 rebounds

GAME FACTS

• Crews pushed his career point total to 997; 46 Purple Knights have 1,000 for a career.
• Pace entered the day among 10 remaining undefeated Division II teams.

THE ACTION

• Boyd scored his team's first seven points as Pace led 10-4 by 16:22 of the opening half, but Saint Michael's trimmed its deficit to a single point three times without allowing the Setters to lead by more than two possessions prior to Kealey's lay-in at 6:26 (26-19).
• Boyd's three-pointer pushed the lead to a half-high 36-24 with 1:52 left, but the visitors scored the final five points, including as Brzezinski hit a triple at 23 seconds to send his team into halftime down seven.
• Henaghen's driving lay-up at 15:49 of the second half capped a 17-6 run that brought the Purple Knights within 42-41, but Boyd knocked down a pair of triples in a 9-0 response.
• Kealey's basket at 8:11 extended the lead to 63-49 with 8:11 to go, but the Purple and Gold slowly chipped away, making it 70-64 on Henaghen's trey at 2:54 and 72-67 on De Leon's three-point play with 2:07 remaining.
• Kealey countered with a lay-up 27 seconds later, and a Saint Michael's turnover was met with a pair of Boyd free throws with 47 ticks remaining. Alexander added a pair of freebies 10 second after that to cap the key 6-0 spurt.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday at Georgian Court University, 1 p.m.