Box Score Feb. 28, 2015 Box Score
OLEAN, NY - Marcus Posley scored a game-high 29 points - including six 3-pointers - as St. Bonaventure snapped a two-game Duquesne winning streak with a 92-75 win at Reilly Center.
Dominique McKoy posted his first double-double of the season with a career-high 20 points and 15 rebounds and Derrick Colter added 22 points and seven assists for DU.
Andell Cumberbatch added 18 points, including four 3-pointers, and Dion Wright scored all of his 15 points in the second half for SBU, which went 11-of-24 from 3-point and 29-of-41 from the foul line in posting its seventh consecutive home win over the Dukes.
Duquesne, whose lone lead came at 1-0, shot 42.9 percent, including 3-of-15 from the arc.
St. Bonaventure hit seven of its first 11 shots, including three 3-pointers, in jumping out to an 18-9 lead.
The Dukes cut it to four on a Colter 3-pointer with just over 10 minutes left, but couldn't get any closer as the Bonnies, who went 9-of-15 from the arc in the half, buried four 3-pointers in the final 2:57 to take a 46-34 lead.
Posley, who led the way with five threes in the opening 20 minutes, drilled one from deep beyond the top of the key with under three seconds left for the Bonnies final points of the half.
McKoy had 15 points in the first half for Duquesne.
The Dukes opened the second half with an 11-4 run to pull within five on a Jeremiah Jones three-point play just under five minutes in.
Duquesne held the Bonnies to 37 percent shooting over the first 15 minutes of the half, but couldn't close the gap as the Bonnies turned eight second half offensive rebounds into trips to the foul line, where they hit their first eight attempts and 24-of-35 for the half.
Duquesne heads to Bronx, N.Y. for its final Atlantic 10 road game at Fordham on Wednesday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. DU concludes the regular season at home vs. Davidson on March 7.
NOTES
- The win was St. Bonaventure's seventh in a row over the Dukes at Reilly Center ... Duquesne's last victory at SBU was on Jan. 10, 2009 (98-80).
- Dominique McKoy finished with a career-high 20 points, including 15 in the first half, on 9-of-13 shooting ... his previous career best was 16 vs. Robert Morris last year ... McKoy added 15 rebounds - one shy of his career high - for his fifth career double-double and first this season.
- Derrick Colter (22 points), went 7-of-7 from the foul line in posting his 11th career 20-point game ... it was the fourth time he has scored 20 or more in a game this season ... his seven assists tied his season high.
- Jeremiah Jones finished with 13 points ... he has scored in double digits in six of his past seven games.
- Duquesne, which went 18-of-26 (.692) from the foul line, is now 106-of-144 (.736) from the stripe in its past eight games.
- Duquesne's lone lead was at 1-0 ... there was one tie and one lead change before Youssou Ndoye gave the Bonnies the lead for good at 4-3 on a free throw with 18:12 left in the first half ... DU cut a 12-point halftime deficit to five twice in the first 4:15 of the second half, but could get no closer ... SBU's largest lead was the 17-point final margin.