FRANKLIN, Mass. – November 19, 2022 – The Dean College men's basketball team led from the opening tip in Saturday's 76-64 non-conference victory over Fitchburg State.
Dean (2-2) has a quick turnaround with a 1 p.m. home game tomorrow against Medgar Evers. Fitchburg State (2-5) travels to WPI on Tuesday for a 6 p.m. tip against the Engineers.
Junior
Jayden Madise (Palmdale, Calif.) paced 10 Bulldogs in the scoring column with 13 points on 6-9 shooting. Junior
Nick Grant (Houston, Texas) scored 12 points off the bench, while junior
AJ Weston (Kansas City, Mo.) added 10 points and four assists. Junior
Jakobi Greenleaf (Houston, Texas) pulled down a team best 10 rebounds.
Fitchburg State was led by a game best 16 points from sophomore Frederick Siayor (Worcester, Mass.). Juniors Javon Taylor (Cambridge, Mass.) and Nathaniel Semedo (Bridgewater, Mass.) contributed 11 points apiece. Junior forward Quincy Taylor (Boston, Mass.) grabbed a game-high 12 boards.
The game was tight in the opening seven minutes of the contest with Dean holding just a 1-point lead (13-12). The Bulldogs then used a 14-3 spurt, capped by a Madise jumper, to go on top by a 27-15 score with 6:19 left in the first. The Falcons clawed back to cut the deficit to one, 29-28, thanks to five points apiece from Taylor and Siayor during the rally. A 10-2 run to end the half by the Bulldogs, gave Dean a 39-30 lead at the break. Madise had nine points for Dean, while Taylor scored 10 to lead the Falcons.
Dean took a 15-point lead, three minutes into the second, when senior
Mark Blair (Rosedale, N.Y.) found Madise on the break who threw down a dunk for the 50-35 advantage. Fitchburg State once again showed some fight to pull within six after a Siayor trey at 12:56, but Dean gradually pulled away to eventually take a 20-point lead with less than four minutes left in the game. The Falcons finished strong to cut the deficit, but Dean's big lead was enough to secure the 76-64 victory.
Dean pushed the pace and ended the game with a 26-5 advantage in fastbreak points. The Falcons won the battle of the glass by a 51-37 margin.
