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Win at Pratt
82
Winner Medgar Evers MEDGAR 3-10
78
Pratt PRATT 4-9
Winner
Medgar Evers MEDGAR
3-10
82
Final
78
Pratt PRATT
4-9
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Medgar Evers MEDGAR 40 42 82
Pratt PRATT 40 38 78

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Cougars beat Pratt 82-78 on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Box Score

The Medgar Evers men's basketball team picked up a hard-fought, much-needed victory on Monday evening, turning back the Cannoneers of Pratt Institute in a non-conference battle of Brooklyn by a score of 82-78. The game took place at the Pratt ARC on Willoughby Avenue. With the victory, the Cougars improved to 3-10 on the 2021-2022 campaign, while the Cannoneers slipped to 4-9.

In the victory for Medgar Evers, senior Keison McIntosh led the way for the Cougars, draining four shots from downtown and finalizing his evening with a game-high 18 points. The standout also snatched three rebounds while registering a pair of dimes. Point guard Andre Evans Jr. netted 17 points, grabbed seven boards, added three assists and tied for the game-high of three steals, and it was Prince-Malachi Reid and Dimitri Weeks scoring 13 and 12 points, respectively.

Despite the loss for Pratt Institute, Cameron Hatcher nailed four shots from long range, scoring a team-high 16 points. He also tied for the game-high in the rebounding column, snatching 11, while leading all players with six swatted shots. Daniel Golub tied for the team-high of 16 points while grabbing 11 boards and collecting a game-high seven assists, and Patrick O'Gorman and Aaron Nisbett scored 12 points apiece.

Things looked extremely bleak for the Cougars early, as Medgar Evers fell behind by scores of 8-0, 14-4, and 17-5 in the opening stages of the contest. The Cougars settled in and outscored the Cannoneers 28-14 over a span of 9:42 to grab a 33-31 edge with 3:52 remaining in the opening session. Medgar Evers did take a four point lead (37-33) with 2:43 left in the stanza, before the teams eventually headed to the locker room at halftime all knotted at 40 apiece.

After Pratt scored first in the second half to go ahead 42-40, the Cougars used an 11-0 spurt to grab a 51-42 advantage. That aforementioned run included a converted jumper by McIntosh, a drained free throw by Mousa Sinera, a drained trifecta by Evans Jr., a made three-pointer by Weeks, and another basket by Evans Jr. The pendulum then swung the Cannoneers' way, as Pratt used a 12-1 run over 3:31 to jump back ahead 54-52.

Over the next 9:38 of play, the teams exchanged the lead five times, and neither squad went up by more than three points. Then, with 2:00 left and the Cougars leading 78-76, McIntosh nailed a huge three-point basket to push Medgar Evers' advantage to five (81-76). From there, the Cougars didn't allow another basket, eventually holding on to win the game by four. Overall, in the final 4:52 of regulation, Medgar Evers allowed just one field goal, including no converted buckets in the last 3:54.

Medgar Evers converted on 38.4 percent of its attempts from the floor for the evening (28-73), including a whopping nine-for-15 from long range in the second half (60 percent). Pratt Institute hit on 45.3 percent of its shots (29-64). The Cougars registered nine steals compared to just four for the Cannoneers, but Pratt held edges in the rebounding, assists, and swatted shots columns. Pratt out-rebounded Medgar Evers 49-42, tallied 21 assists to the Cougars' 16, and blocked eight shots to Medgar's four. Free throws continued to be problematic for the Cougars, as Medgar misfired on 16 freebees (13-29, 44.8 percent) while the Cannoneers hit on 63.2 percent of theirs (13-19).

The Cougars will look to make it two consecutive victories on Wednesday evening, as Medgar Evers will travel to the Doghouse to battle CUNYAC foe John Jay College in a conference clash. Start-time for the pivotal league contest is scheduled for 7:00pm.
 
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