Newark, DE - Junior guard Charles Jenkins (Queens, NY) had 30 points to lead the Hofstra Men's Basketball team to an 82-69 win over Delaware on Tuesday evening at the Bob Carpenter Center.

With the win, the Pride improves to 15-13 overall and 8-8 in the Colonial Athletic Association, including three straight wins and six wins in its last seven games. Delaware falls to 7-20 overall and 3-13 in the CAA, remaining alone in last place, as it suffered a sweep in the series with Hofstra for the second year in a row.  

Hofstra also has clinched the seventh seed in the CAA Tournament with the win. The Pride is two games behind VCU and Drexel with two games to play, but it would lose either tiebreaker (due to a head-to-head loss to VCU and Drexel's sweep of Northeastern).

Senior guard Cornelius Vines (Syracuse, NY), who was coming off a school-record tying seven three-pointers in Saturday's 87-70 win at UNC Wilmington, stayed hot by knocking down five more to finish with 18 points. Jawan Carter led Delaware with 18 points.  

Vines picked up where he left off against UNC Wilmington, knocking down his first three shots from beyond the arc in the first 11 minutes to help put Hofstra ahead 16-10. Jenkins scored five straight points on a three-pointer and two foul shots to give the Pride a 31-18 lead with 3:58 left in the half, and after Delaware cut the lead to six, Hofstra scored the final four points of the half to take a 37-27 lead into the break.  

Delaware came as close as six points in the second half at 43-37 on an Alphonso Dawson three-pointer with 14:24 to play, but freshman guard Chaz Williams (Brooklyn, NY) answered right back with a three-pointer of his own. The two teams traded baskets for the next seven minutes, with a Dawson three-pointer cutting the Hofstra lead to 63-56 with 8:24 to play, and Jenkins answering right back with a three-pointer at the 8:12 mark.

Two Carter free throws with 6:33 left made the score 71-63, but Jenkins hit a lay-up to stretch the lead to 10. A Carter jumper again brought the Blue Hens within eight, but Jenkins nailed a three-pointer with 5:40 to go to make the score 76-65, and Delaware finally ran out of gas as the Pride maintained a double-digit lead the rest of the way.  Hofstra scored on 15 of its 16 possessions from the 14:45 mark through the 5:15 mark, as it held off the Blue Hens.

Only one of Hofstra's last 13 games has been decided by less than 10 points (a 73-66 loss at William & Mary on January 16). The Pride is 7-6 in that span, with all seven of wins coming by double figures. The closest win in that span was the first meeting with Delaware, a 77-67 win on Jan. 30.   

Jenkins and Vines each knocked down five three-pointers for the Pride, the first time two Hofstra players have had three-pointers in the same game since Carlos Rivera and Antoine Agudio on February 24, 2007 at James Madison.  Adam Pegg and Hakim McCullar each had 10 points for Delaware.

Hofstra will next be in action when it hosts Rider on Saturday for a 4 p.m. contest at the Mack Sports Complex as part of Bracket Buster Weekend.