HOBOKEN, N.J. (November 27, 2016) – The Stevens Institute of Technology men's basketball team built a 13-point halftime lead Sunday afternoon en route to a 75-58 rout over Rutgers-Newark in Canavan Arena. 

The win moved Stevens above .500 at 2-1, while R-N fell to 0-5. 

Senior Patrick Barron led the Ducks offensively with 17 points on 7-for-13 shooting, while sophomore Jayson Winick and junior Chris Cosgrove scored 14 and 10 respectively. Sophomore Ryan Coffey pulled down 12 rebounds, and junior Jake Krantz went for six points with seven boards. 

As a team Stevens shot 52 percent from the field, and recorded 52 of its 75 points in the paint. Defensively the Ducks held R-N to just 36 percent shooting from the field.

Stevens stormed out to a 15-3 lead capped by a three from senior Evan Klimchak, before a layup from freshman Dylan Walsh made it 17-5 with 14:12 left on the clock. R-N chipped away at the lead from there however, getting to within seven with less than five to go.

The Ducks answered R-N's spurt with a 9-0 run of their own though started by a three-point play from Cosgrove, while the defense forced back-to-back shot clock violations late in the half as Stevens took a 41-28 into the break.

Barron gave Stevens its largest lead of the day at 19 four minutes into the second, before Cosgrove made it 21 with a layup six minutes in. 

Freshman Michael Zignorksi made it 23 midway through the half, giving the Ducks more than enough cushion the rest of the way as R-N never got closer than 14. 

Stevens will continue its homestand Thursday when it hosts Staten Island at 7 p.m. at Canavan Arena. 

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