{"id":155343,"date":"2026-03-06T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155343\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:28:24","slug":"fairfield-71-60-manhattan-mar-5-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155343\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairfield 71-60 Manhattan (Mar 5, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5108879\/braden-sparks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braden Sparks<\/a> had 17 points in Fairfield&#8217;s 71-60 victory against Manhattan on Thursday in the opening round of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>              Sparks had five assists for the No. 7 seed Stags (20-11). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5311734\/brandon-benjamin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Benjamin<\/a> scored 15 points while shooting 6 of 9 from the field, and added nine rebounds and three blocks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5311732\/tony-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Williams<\/a> went 4 of 8 from the field (3 for 5 from 3-point range) to finish with 11 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5311735\/declan-wucherpfennig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Declan Wucherpfennig<\/a> had 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/4898280\/terrance-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terrance Jones<\/a> led the way for the No. 10 seed Jaspers (12-20) with 16 points and four assists. Manhattan also got 15 points and three steals from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5177116\/jaden-winston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaden Winston<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105895\/devin-dinkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Dinkins<\/a> finished with 11 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5311760\/anthony-isaac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Isaac<\/a> had 10 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>              Fairfield took the lead for good with 1:47 to go in the first half. The score was 31-27 at halftime, with Williams racking up eight points. Fairfield outscored Manhattan by seven points in the final half, while Sparks led the way with a team-high 14 second-half points.<\/p>\n<p>              Fairfield advances to face No. 2 seed Saint Peter&#8217;s on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. &#8212; \u2014 Braden Sparks had 17 points in Fairfield&#8217;s 71-60 victory against Manhattan on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-155343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}