Males’s Basketball Pushes Profitable Streak to Eight Video games with Wire-to-Wire Victory over Rutgers-Newark

UNION, N.J. (12/3/22) – Griffin Barker totaled 19 factors and 5 steals because the Kean College males’s basketball crew pushed their successful streak to eight video games with a 74-58 wire-to-wire victory over Rutgers-Newark on Saturday afternoon.

Heem Burno tallied eight assists, 5 steals, 5 factors, and 4 rebounds for the Cougars who stay unbeaten at 8-0 total and 3-0 within the New Jersey Athletic Convention.  Eli Camacho totaled 11 factors for the Scarlet Raiders who fall to 1-6 total and 0-2 within the NJAC.

Barker scored seven of his 10 first-half factors as Kean opened the competition on a 16-9 run. Newark answered with a 10-1 run to chop the lead all the way down to 19-16 with simply over 9 minutes to play. The Cougars closed out the half on a 20-9 run for a 37-25 benefit at halftime.

Within the second half, the Scarlet Raiders opened with an 8-3 run to shave Kean’s lead all the way down to 40-34 with 14:37 remaining. The Cougars answered with a 19-5 run that shut the door and prolonged the benefit to twenty factors.

The Cougars maintained their double-digit lead for the rest of the competition.

Letrell West totaled 13 factors, whereas JD Daniels tallied 11 factors and Jailen Jamison notched 9 factors and 4 assists.

Head Coach David Turco and the Cougars will return to motion in Ewing, N.J. on Wednesday, Dec. 7^th, towards the Lions of the School of New Jersey at 7:00 p.m.