ALBANY, N.Y. — Trying to level their record at .500 with their second straight win, Cameron Windt scored a game-high 24 as the Pratt Institute men's basketball team succumbed to Russell Sage College, 75-65, on Monday afternoon.
Windt logged his seventh 20-plus point game of his rookie campaign shooting 9-of-17 from the field with three rebounds, an assist, and a block. Patrick O'Gorman followed with 14 points while dishing out a game-best five dimes, also pulling down four rebounds. Jaden Young chipped in eight points. Efe Tuydes grabbed a game-best 12 boards in 23 minutes of action, both career highs.
Pratt (7-9) led by as many as four and remained on top for 10 minutes in the opening half, before a 13-2 Sage (7-8) run gave the Gators a 30-22 lead. The black-and-gold closed out the half with triples by Thomas Van Trier and O'Gorman to shrink the deficit to two, 30-28, headed into the lockers.
A Windt bucket to open the second knotted the game at 30-all, but Pratt wasn't able to regain the lead. A 13-4 run helped the Gators build a double-digit, 11-point lead at the 11:40 mark. Pratt made a late surge behind an 8-1 run powered by O'Gorman and Bibbs that cut a 13-point deficit to six with 2:24 to play, but the Cannoneers couldn't get any closer.
Jackson Brown and Marcus Gentile both scored 15 points apiece off the bench to lead Sage and Noah Girard added 12 points to round out three in double-figures for the Gators.
Pratt was more efficient shooting at a 39 percent clip (23-of-59) to Sage's 36 percent (22-of-62) but the Gators benefitted by 20 more attempts from the free-throw line and, shooting 25-of-35 (71 percent) to Pratt's 12-of-15 (80 percent).
Pratt makes a trip to the Bay State this Saturday, January 20th to face Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts with a noon tip-off.
