KUTZTOWN, Pa. – Four Kutztown University men's basketball players scored double-digit points, led by
Anthony Lee (Willow Grove, Pa./Abington)'s game-high 26 to help lead KU to a 91-75 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) win over Lock Haven University Wednesday night at Keystone Arena, and in doing so, gave head coach
Bernie Driscoll his 300th win at the helm of Kutztown.
Driscoll, in his 18th season as head coach of KU, is the winningest coach in Kutztown history, and only added to that mark, earning his 300th career victory. He is the eighth coach in PSAC history to reach the milestone, and now sits 21 victories behind Dick Dehart in seventh (321 wins), who was Millersville University's head coach from 1956-1982.
Behind Driscoll, Kutztown has clinched 14 PSAC playoff berths, six PSAC East Division Championships, including the last two, four PSAC title games, and four NCAA Tournament appearances. The 2017-18 Golden Bears (14-3 overall, 10-3 PSAC) are well on their way to another PSAC tournament berth with their latest victory against the Bald Eagles (6-12, 4-10).
Lee led all scorers, dropping 26, his fourth highest total of the season. The redshirt-junior entered the game leading the NCAA Division II in three-point percentage (54.3), and only further strengthened his grasp on the top spot, shooting 5-for-7 from the three-point line Wednesday night to raise his season percentage to 55.6 percent. He went 8-of-11 from the field and 5-of-6 from the free-throw line while also coming one rebound shy of a double-double with nine rebounds, and also dished out four assists.
Sophomore
Max Wagner (Perkasie, Pa./Pennridge) scored a career-high 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds. Senior
Ethan Ridgeway (West Chester, Pa./Bayard Rustin) finished with 13 points and seven assists, giving him 600 assists in his career as he ranks seventh all-time in PSAC history. Redshirt-freshman
Moe Williams (Townsend, Del./Life Center Academy) was the other KU player in double-figures, recording 10 points and eight rebounds.
It wasn't just those four that made an impact against Lock Haven.
Josh Townsend (Philadelphia, Pa./Imhotep Charter),
Ricky Hicks (Coatesville, Pa./Polytech),
Rafiq Marshall (Philadelphia, Pa./Simon Gratz (Cheyney)) and
Facundo Arens (Buenos Aires, Argentina/Bahia Blanca) all tallied six points. Townsend also had five rebounds, Marshall contributed three rebounds and three assists and Hicks had three assists. Arens had two assists and one block to go along with his career-high six points.
Senior captain
Demetrius Bennett (Conshohocken, Pa./Plymouth-Whitemarsh (Neumann)) also made it into the scoring column, recording two points and one rebound.
Kutztown led from the opening tip after Townsend converted a layup, and it never looked back. KU had a 20-point lead twice in the first half, and went into the halftime locker room ahead 50-32.
Lock Haven got to within 10 (74-64) with 5:33 remaining, but a 15-2 KU run in the next 2:05 sealed the victory. The Kutztown defense held the PSAC's leading scorer Amir Hinton (23.4 ppg) to 19 points on 6-of-14 shooting from the field.
The Golden Bears made 10 three-pointers over the course of the game, twice as many as the Bald Eagles (five).
Kutztown hits the road for its next game as it travels to Shippensburg University Saturday, Jan. 27 for a 3 p.m. tip.