Huntington, WV - Senior
Justin Wright-Foreman poured in a game-high 34 points, but the Hofstra Men's Basketball team dropped a highly-entertaining contest to Marshall, 76-72, on Sunday afternoon at the Cam Henderson Center. Junior
Eli Pemberton added 19 points for Hofstra in the contest.
The loss drops the Pride's record to 1-1 this season, while Marshall improves to 2-0.
Hofstra led by as many as six in the opening stanza as a pair of free throws from Wright-Foreman made it 45-39 with 47 seconds left before intermission. Wright-Foreman was the star of the first 20 minutes with 25 first half points. The Pride took a three-point lead into the break but the Herd used a 12-0 run spanning the two halves to lead 51-45 early in the second half.
Trailing 54-45 with under 16 minutes remaining in the second half, Hofstra would put together an 11-0 scoring run to take a 56-54 advantage with 11:33 left after a three-pointer from sophomore
Jalen Ray.
With the game knotted at 66, Pemberton drained a three-pointer to push the lead to three for Hofstra with 3:40 left. Marshall responded, though, and the Herd used a 7-0 run to take a 73-69 lead with under two minutes to play and would hold on for the four-point victory.
Pemberton added 12 rebounds for his third career double-double, while graduate
Dan Dwyer had eight rebounds for the Pride. Jon Elmore finished with 30 points for Marshall, while C.J. Burks added 23.
Hofstra is back in action on Wednesday when it hosts North Carolina A&T at 7 p.m. For ticket information visit HofstraTickets.com, call (516) HOF-TIXX or stop by the Hofstra Athletics Box Office in the lobby of the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex.
NOTES
- Hofstra is now 2-1 all-time against Marshall. The two previous matchups occuring during the 2006-07 and 2012-13 seasons.
- With his 34 points,
Justin Wright-Foreman moved into 12th place all-time at Hofstra in scoring. He now has 1,433 career points and passed Rick Apodaca, who had 1,422 points from 1999-2003.
- Wright-Foreman crossed the 30-point plateau for the 12th time in his career.
- Wright-Foreman has now scored in double figures in 55 straight games and it ranks as the nation's 4th-longest streak. Ironically, the nation's 3rd-longest streak is on Marshall as Jon Elmore is at 66 straight games with his 30 points in the game.
