{"id":527842,"date":"2026-03-09T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527842\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:39:08","slug":"mens-basketball-falls-to-monmouth-in-the-caa-tournament-quarterfinals-65-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527842\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Falls to Monmouth in the CAA Tournament Quarterfinals, 65-57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The Drexel men&#8217;s basketball team fell to the Monmouth Hawks in the quarterfinals of the CAA Tournament on Sunday, 65-57, at the CareFirst Arena. <a href=\"https:\/\/drexeldragons.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/kevon-vanderhorst\/10551\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10551\" target=\"_blank\">Kevon Vanderhorst<\/a> led the team with 15 points. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker&#8217;s Local 98 is once again the presenting sponsor of Drexel Men&#8217;s Basketball.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBY THE NUMBERS<br \/>\nVanderhorst also led the team in steals with three.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drexeldragons.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/shane-blakeney\/10541\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10541\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Blakeney<\/a> had 11 points while rebounding the ball nine times, blocking a shot and stealing one.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drexeldragons.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/garfield-turner\/10547\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10547\" target=\"_blank\">Garfield Turner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/drexeldragons.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/victor-panov\/10549\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10549\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Panov<\/a> both had 10 points and six rebounds.<br \/>\nDrexel outrebounded Monmouth 36-35.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHOW IT HAPPENED<br \/>\nThrees from Blakeney, Panov and Vanderhorst gave the Dragons a 9-2 lead early. The Hawks trimmed the lead to three before an and-one from Blakeney gave Drexel a 12-6 lead with 15:31 in the half. A three from Panov kicked off a 12-5 run for Drexel, which was capped off by a Turner jump shot at 10:57 to put Drexel ahead by 10. The teams went back and forth, with Drexel extending their lead to 11 off an <a href=\"https:\/\/drexeldragons.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/eli-beard\/11200\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11200\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Beard<\/a> three at 8:55. Monmouth took the lead with a 14-2 run before a Blakeney jump shot gave Drexel a 33-32 lead at the half.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Dragons shot 54.5% from three in the first half while outrebounding the Hawks 19-16.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMonmouth started the half on an 8-3 run. Back-to-back baskets and a free throw from Turner put Drexel ahead 41-40 with 14:25 to play. The Hawks tied things back up before a Beard three started a 7-2 Drexel run to give the Dragons a 48-43 lead with 10:31 to play. Monmouth responded with a 13-1 run, leading 56-49 with 2:37 remaining. Free throws from Vanderhorst made it a five point game but a 9-6 Monmouth run sealed the win for the Hawks.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the second half Drexel shot 55% from three and made the most of their second chance opportunities, outscoring Monmouth 8-3 in second chance points.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The Drexel men&#8217;s basketball team fell to the Monmouth Hawks in the quarterfinals of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-527842","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\/527842","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=527842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}