Monmouth closes the home time plan with an electrifying victory against Elon, 79-76

West Long Branch, NJ – Abdi Bashir Jr. made eight three hands, Cornelius Robinson III Had a career -sister 21 points and Jack Collins It added 10 templates for career height when the men's basketball at MONMOUTH University returned 79-76 to Elon University in the second half on Thursday.

Elon led from six at the beginning of the second half, but Bashir cut it to one fifth three of the night at 14:46. Bashir then hit home two threes in 33 seconds to take the Hawks to the extreme at 12:15 p.m. With 5:13 remain in a tie game, Jaret Valencia Seven in a row scored seven points at 4:21 a.m., including a corner three, which made the Hawks to stay. The tour never grew more than five, but Mu made six foul shots in the last minute to secure victory.

Elon built an early 11-point lead, but Monmouth came back with a 6-0 run to cut it to five. Elon followed this with an 11: 3 advance to achieve her biggest lead at 13, but the Hawks closed with 10 of the last 14 points to go into the changing room within six, 42: 36. Robinson had 17 points in the first half, and Collins recorded his career high in assists in the first half alone.

Notes and quotes

“I would like to give Elon a lot of recognition, they played a crazy run today. This shows them the growth of my team and plays against a team that plays their zone for 40 minutes if nobody did that this year. I knew that we would find it out, we stagnated for a while and then we started.” – head coach Royal deal

“It was difficult, but it was all about self -confidence, I talked about Coach Rice all the season. I just get lost in defense and everything else just opens.” – Forward Jaret Valencia

“I took open shots out there, it felt good to finally get open shots. Jack Collins I chose this zone apart, he got me these open shots and I owed him to fall down. ” – Wache Abdi Bashir

“Again I have to give our fans, our students and our school so much recognition. If they are out there and every section is full, and we know how it started this year, this shows how these children carry around the campus and the city who want to support people.” – rice on the crowd

-The victory was Monmouths 600^TH As a Division I program.
– –Cornelius Robinson III scored 21 points for the career best 10 career goals.
– –Jack Collins achieved a career height in assists with 10, most of a falcon in a game this season.
-Bashirs eight threesome marked his fourth game with eight or more this season and now have four of the nine games in the history of Monmouth, in which one player hit eight or more.
-Monmouth ends the home plan 8-2, its 12^TH Season with a record of 0.500 or better in 14 years under Royal deal.
– –Jack Collins played every 40 minutes for the second game in a row and the fourth time this season, the 40-minute games from a Hawk under Royal deal.
-For the third game in a row, Mu had a player went on a personal 7-0 run to finally prepare the Hawks. Jaret Valencia It did this evening after Robinson had done it against Northeasters and Andrew Ball Against Hofstra.
-Monmouths 55.6% of three were the best this season and ideally since shooting 57.1% against Lehigh on November 21, 2023.
-Abdi Bashir made 530 Field Goal tests this season, the ever of a HAWK.
-Bashir has now also taken 297 threesome, most attempts in one season with a falcon.
-Collins tied Mustapha Traore for ninth place on the list of ever with 525.
– –Jaret Valencia Was a point of a high season and two of a career best with 17.
-Valencia's nine were free throws were a career.
– –Sam Fagan made his first career.
-Five -Mouth players were honored as part of the senior night before the game, including guards Sam Fagan And Madison Durrforward Chris Morgancenter Tadhg Crowley and manager Andrew Solomon.

Numbers crunch


-MOUTH registered 19 assists for 24 made field goals.
-MU Outshot Elon 49% to 46%.
-The Hawks shot 55.6% of three and occupied Elons 37.5%.
-Monmouth was better on it, 17-8.
-MU dominated the bank, 46-15.

Next on
-MOUTH closes the regular season in Drexel on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. This game is broadcast on the NBC Sports Philadelphia, Flocollege and on the radio via the Monmouth Digital Network and the Varsity Network app.