WORCESTER, Mass. \u2013 Competing on the road for the second time in three days,\u00a0the Boston University men’s basketball team posted a 72-64 victory at Holy Cross Monday night in front of a national audience on CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n
The Terriers (9-15, 4-7 PL) shot 54.3 percent from the field and held the Crusaders (8-16, 3-8 PL) to just 41.7 FG% to snap a three-game losing streak that included two overtime thrillers. BU doubled Holy Cross in free throws, 12-6, and finished ahead in made 3-pointers, 10-8, to help overcome an 11-2 disadvantage in points off turnovers.<\/p>\n
Both junior Michael McNair<\/a> (18 pts.) and sophomore Azmar Abdullah<\/a> (14 pts.) flushed four 3-pointers apiece with Abdullah adding eight rebounds. Sophomore Ben Defty<\/a> (17 pts.) nearly had a double-double as well with nine rebounds, and freshman Chance Gladden<\/a> compiled 14 points shooting 5-for-6 at the charity stripe.<\/p>\n For the Crusaders, DeAndre Williams went 4-for-6 from behind the arc on his way to 20 points, and Tyler Boston totaled 15 points alongside four assists. Aiden Disu\u00a0hauled in 14 rebounds but was limited to just six points shooting 3-for-8 from the field.<\/p>\n BU will rest up and next host Loyola Maryland on Saturday (Feb. 7) at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n MORE INFO TO COME…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORCESTER, Mass. \u2013 Competing on the road for the second time in three days,\u00a0the Boston University men’s basketball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-454883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}