Philadelphia, PA - Senior Desure Buie had a game-high 26 points and a team-high six assists, while sophomore Isaac Kante added 20 points and six rebounds and senior Eli Pemberton posted 19 points and six rebounds to lead the Hofstra men's basketball team to an 81-74 victory over Drexel on Thursday evening at the Daskalakis Athletic Center. The win extended Hofstra's win streak to seven games and also gave the Pride its nation's best 10th road victory of the season. 

Hofstra is now 21-7 overall and 12-3 in Colonial Athletic Association play. The Pride continues to stay in first place in the league standings. Drexel falls to 13-15 and 6-9 in conference action. 

Hofstra took an early 11-7 lead as the Pride got back-to-back baskets from junior Jalen Ray and Kante just four minutes into the contest. Trailing 15-11, Hofstra would put together a 9-0 scoring run to lead 20-15 with 10:39 left before intermission. Buie got the run started with a jumper and Pemberton had five of the points during the run to push the Pride to the advantage. A back and forth first half would see Drexel rally back and take a three-point lead on a layup from Zach Walton with 4:14 left before a Kante basket and two free throws from Buie put the Pride back in front with less than two minutes left. Drexel took the lead into the break with a basket from Walton with 10 seconds left. 

Trailing by three, 41-38, early in the second stanza Hofstra would score six straight points as Pemberton, Buie, and Coburn teamed up for the quick run to put the Pride back in front, 44-41, with 17:19 left in regulation. Another highly-competitive half would see the game knotted at 59 later in the half before Buie and Pemberton had buckets on consecutive possessions to make it a 63-59 Pride lead with 9:24 left and force a Drexel timeout. Hofstra would fall behind by two, 67-65, with 4:56 left before Pemberton ignited a quick 5-0 run with a three-point play and Hofstra would lead 70-67 at the under-four media timeout with 3:42 showing on the clock. As the half winded down, Hofstra would extend the lead to nine, 78-69, as the Pride scored eight straight points, including four from Buie. Hofstra would go on to capture the big road win as they made six free throws in the game's final 1:14. 

Ray added 10 points for the Pride, which shot 51.9% from the field in the game and also 21-24 (87.5%) from the free throw line. James Butler had 23 points, 14 rebounds, and nine assists for Drexel, which also got 21 points from Walton. 

Hofstra is back in action on Saturday when it travels to Delaware for a 4 p.m. contest. 

NOTES
- Hofstra is 43-44 all-time against Drexel in a series that began during the 1958-59 campaign. Heading into Thursday's game, the Hofstra/Drexel series ranks as the Pride's second-most played opponent all-time as the two schools have met 89 times. Hofstra has only faced one team more as the Pride has met Delaware 92 times. Hofstra has won seven straight and 11 of the last 12 games in the series. 
- Buie moved into 24th place all-time at Hofstra in scoring. He now has 1,207 career points and passed Rokas Gustys (1,181 from 2014-18), Brian Bernardi (1,186 from 2014-17), and Juan'ya Green (1,186 from 2014-16). 
- That was Kante's second straight game with at least 20 points. Buie reached the 20-point plateau for the ninth time this season and 12th time in his career.