Dragons Hand William & Mary First CAA Loss of Season, 84-57

Saturday, January 18

Daskalakis Athletic Center

2 p.m.

Drexel University

William & Mary

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Dragons Hand William & Mary First CAA Loss of Season, 84-57

1/18/2020 4:11:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

Walton and Wynter Combine for 43 Points as Dragons Win Third Straight

PHILADELPHIA -The Drexel men's basketball team led from start to finish in a convincing 84-57 win against William & Mary on Homecoming at the Daskalakis Athletic Center. Zach Walton and Camren Wynter combined for 43 points as the Dragons (12-8, 5-2 CAA) handed the Tribe (14-6, 6-1) its first CAA loss of the season.

Drexel played a solid first half and took a 10-point lead to the locker room. While the Dragons were efficient on the offensive end, shooting 48 percent in the half, the real story was on the defensive end. William & Mary was held to just 24 first- half points and managed to shoot just 35 percent from the floor. The Dragons' defense held the Tribe without a point for a five-minute stretch that finally ended when Nathan Knight scored at the buzzer to make it a 34-24 Drexel lead at the half. Walton and Butler scored 18 of Drexel's 34 points in the half. They picked up the slack as Wynter, the team's leading scorer this year, picked up two fouls and played just 11 minutes in the opening half.

The Tribe came out aggressively in the second half and fed the ball into Knight repeatedly. The senior scored the first 10 points of the half for William & Mary, but the Tribe didn't have an answer for Drexel's balanced offense. The Dragons shot 62 percent over the final 20 minutes in what was their best performance of the season thus far. William & Mary got to within nine with just over eight minutes to play and appeared to be ready to mount a comeback. However, Coletrane Washington started a 9-0 run with a deep three-pointer as Drexel picked up its ninth home win in 11 games this season. The Dragons finished the game at 55 percent from the field, the fifth time this season they eclipsed the 50 percent mark.

Walton had one of his best games of the season. He was 5-for-7 from long range and finished with a team-high 23 points. Wynter scored 20 points, handed out seven assists and did not commit a turnover. Drexel committed just nine turnovers overall, which tied a season low. James Butler added 17 points and 12 rebounds as he picked up his 13^th double-double of the season. He finished 6-for-7 from the floor.

Defensively, Drexel limited William & Mary to 37.3-percent shooting with a 5-of-22 mark from deep. It was the third-straight game that the Drexel defense held its opponent to under 38 percent shooting.

Nathan Knight paced the Tribe with 28 points and nine rebounds. Knight was 11-for-22 from the floor and had a pair of blocked shots. Thornton Scott added 12 points, while Luke Loewe chipped in with 10 points.