Senior guard Loren Stokes (Buffalo, NY) scored a game-high 29 points and became the fifth player in Hofstra history to score 2,000 points, but Drexel prevailed with a 95-87 win in overtime over Hofstra on Thursday evening at the Mack Sports Complex.

Junior forward Frank Elegar scored 26 points and senior guard Dominick Mejia added 25, including the tying basket with 1.2 seconds left in regulation, as Drexel improved to 18-6 overall and 10-4 in the CAA with the win. Hofstra fell to 18-7 and 11-3 in conference play with the loss, while seeing its 28-game regular season home winning streak and its 22-game CAA home winning streak snapped. Hofstra also dropped into a tie for second place in the CAA standings with Old Dominion, two games behind conference leading VCU, which improved to 13-1 with a win over George Mason.

The game also marked the second time this season and the third time in the last four meetings that Hofstra and Drexel have gone to overtime. The Pride had won the last three meetings between the schools by a combined five points, all of which were decided when Drexel missed go-ahead threes before the final buzzer. The first meeting this season was a defensive struggle, with the Pride prevailing 55-53 in overtime on Jan. 11.

This time, though, the Dragons found the answer from Mejia in the closing seconds. Hofstra took a 78-76 lead with 31 seconds left as Stokes drove the lane and passed to sophomore forward Mike Davis-Sabb for a lay-up. Mejia missed a go-ahead three-point attempt, but sophomore guard Tramayne Hawthorne secured the offensive rebound. Drexel called time-out and Mejia drove to his left before pulling up for a tough fallaway jumper from 12 feet along the left baseline over the outstretched arm of sophomore forward Arminas Urbutis (Kaunas, Lithuania).

Drexel scored the first five points in overtime, the last four on shots in the paint from Elegar, to take an 83-78 lead. Hofstra pulled back within 85-83 on a 15-foot jumper from junior guard Antoine Agudio (Huntington Station, NY). After the Dragons made one of two foul shots, Agudio had a three-point attempt to tie hit off the rim, and Hawthorne hit a pair of foul shots to stretch the lead back up to five and Drexel was able to hold on at the foul line down the stretch.

Hofstra never trailed in regulation, leading by 11 points at the half (44-33) and as many as 14 in the second half, the last coming at 53-39 with 15:56 to play. Drexel, though, answered with a 10-0 run to close to within 53-49 on a three-pointer by Mejia. Drexel pulled even for the first time in the second half at 71-71 on two foul shots from Rodgers, and a Hawthorne three-pointer knotted the score at 76-76 with 51 seconds left.

Stokes came into the game with 1,999 points for Hofstra and went over 2,000 on the first possession of the game. He moved past Craig "Speedy" Claxton and into fourth place on the Pride's all-time list with 2,028 points, leaving him 17 shy of third place, held by Bill Thieben. Stokes also had his ninth straight game of 20 or more points, the longest streak for a Hofstra player since Rich Laurel did it 25 times in a row in the 1976-77 season. Agudio added 19 points for Hofstra and senior guard Carlos Rivera (San German, PR) added 14 before fouling out in regulation. Hawthorne and senior guard Bashir Mason each had 14 for Drexel.

Hofstra will next be in action when it travels to take on George Mason on Saturday at 4 p.m., in a game that will be televised nationally on ESPN.