Box Score
Score: No. 14 Keiser 87, Johnson & Wales 74
Records: No. 14 Keiser (17-3, 9-1 TSC), Johnson & Wales (6-12, 2-8 TSC)
Location: Student Life Center, West Palm Beach, Fla.

No. 14 Keiser men's basketball pulled away from visiting Johnson & Wales down the stretch, sweeping the season series while extending their winning streak over the Wildcats to nine straight games.
 
The Keiser coaching staff wore sneakers along with their suits, as part of Coaches vs. Cancer.




No. 14 Keiser 38, Johnson & Wales 34

• Keiser held a 10-3 lead at the 15:32 mark, holding the Wildcats to just one made field goal over the course of the game's first four and a half minutes.
• Johnson & Wales was able to tie the contest at 12-12 as the offense pace began to quicken a bit. The Seahawks, however, netted the next seven points to go right back in front by seven, 19-12, with 12:21 on the clock after a Jermar Perkins's three-pointer.
• Perkins' three-pointer proved to be part of what grew to become a 13-4 KU run, as the hosts established a 25-16 advantage to force a Johnson & Wales timeout with 10:50 on the clock.  
• The Wildcats drew to within four points, 27-23, as the Seahawks' offense dried up a bit and JWU strung together five unanswered points.
• The run was halted by a Chance Anderson basket and a Malcolm Mabry lay-in, as KU went ahead 31-23 as the clock approached five minutes remaining in the half.
• An 8-2 run from the guests, capped off by their sixth made three-pointer of the half, brought JWU to within just two points, 33-31.
• The Seahawks were able to produce five of the half's final seven points, and went into the locker room holding the 38-34 edge.
• Keiser's most noticeable advantages after the first 20 minutes of play were in the rebounding category (25-17) and points in the paint (22-10), as the Wildcats' offense relied on perimeter shooting.

 
No. 14 Keiser 87, Johnson & Wales 74

• The second half's early moments were firmly in favor of Johnson & Wales. The Wildcats staked claim to their first lead of the game amidst a 10-0 run, and led 46-42 at a media timeout with 14:15 remaining.
• After two free-throws from Mark Gordon, the Wildcats lead proceeded to swell to as large as seven points, 51-44, after the team's eighth conversion from beyond the arc.
• The JWU lead was six, 52-46, when the Seahawks started a run of their own, however, netting the next six points to make it all square at 52-52 with 11:31 on the clock. The last four points during that stretch came from Charles Chung, who canned a three-pointer and hit one of two during a trip to the free-throw line.
• Keiser was unable to regain the lead, and Johnson & Wales accounted for the next seven points to lead 59-52.
• The Wildcats' advantage remained at seven points, 61-54, until Keiser got things going offensively. Seemingly in the blink of an eye, the Seahawks took back the lead, 64-63, with a 10-2 run culminating in an Anderson dunk off the bounce pass from Perkins.at the 6:59 mark.
• The lead changed hands twice and there were two ties over the course of the ensuing possessions, but Keiser still clung to a one point lead, 68-67, after Anderson converted on an old-fashioned three-point play with 5:04 remaining.
• Anderson's three-point play proved to be the beginning of an 8-0 KU run, with the last five coming from Gordon as he began to enforce his will to help the Seahawks go in front 73-67.
• The Wildcats proceeded to draw to within four points, 73-69, but it would be the closest that the visitors would get to KU down the stretch.
• Keiser scored the next four points, highlighted by an emphatic one-handed slam from Gordon in transition, and the knockout punch had been delivered.
• As the clock continued to dwindle down, the KU lead reached as large as 16 points, 87-71, and the Seahawks went on to claim their third consecutive victory while sweeping the season series with the Wildcats in the 87-74 result.

• 9: The Seahawks have now won the last nine matchups with JWU.
• 14: Perkins (8) and Chung (6) combined for 14 points off the Keiser bench
• 18-4: The vast majority of fast break points went to KU, 18-4.
• 18: Gordon's streak of games with 20 or more points is now at 18.
• 19-7: Anderson contributed 19 points and seven rebounds in the victory, and went 8-of-13 from the floor.
• 22-7: Keiser outscored JWU 22-7 over the course of the final 5:04 of play, with Gordon accounting for 11 of the Seahawks' points.
• 26-2: The all-time series is firmly in favor of the Seahawks, 26-2.
• 29-9-7: Gordon paced KU in points (29), rebounds (9), and assists (7). The game-high 29 points came on 11-of-20 shooting from the floor, and 22 points came in the second half. His seven assists were also a game-high total and new season-high.
• 47-32: Keiser dominated the Wildcats on the glass, 47-32.
• 52-22: Keiser produced 52 points from inside the paint, while holding a perimeter-oriented Johnson & Wales team to just 22 points from in close.
• 350: The victory over Johnson & Wales was win No. 350 for the KU program. 

No. 14 Keiser

• PTS: Gordon, 29
• REB: Gordon, 9
• A: Gordon, 7
• STL: Three with 2… 
• BLK: Orlic, 2

Johnson & Wales

• PTS: Pace, 20
• REB: Rostamian, 11
• A: Doane, 6
• STL: Ventulan/Pace, 3
• BLK: Three with 1…

No. 14 Keiser hosts Webber International on Thursday, January 30 at 7:30 p.m. inside the Student Life Center.