Hoboken, N.J. – Mike Goodall had 26 points, including 15 in just 12 minutes in the second half, hitting 1,000 career points in a 97-64 win for the Stevens Institute of Technology men's basketball team in Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom play against King's Saturday afternoon at Canavan Arena.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The game quickly turned into a track meet, with the teams combining for 42 points in the opening 7:14. Goodall, Kyle Maddison and Tommy Scholl all knocked down three-pointers in the first 2:15, putting Stevens (12-3, 4-0 MACF) up 11-2 and forcing a King's timeout just 2:15 after the opening tip.

Harmehar Chhabra answered a King's three with one of his own, keeping Stevens up nine, but a 9-1 Monarchs spurt, capped by consecutive four and three-point plays, cut the Ducks' lead to a single point. Stevens came right back with two three-pointers from Matt Leming plus one from Goodall in a string of four possessions, pushing the lead back to six, 24-18.

Nearly three scoreless minutes followed before a Chhabra layup, Spellman jumper, and Goodall three-pointer capped a 10-0 run for the Ducks, who opened a 31-18 lead. The game of runs swung back in King's favor as the Monarchs responded with an 11-2 stretch that spanned more than four minutes, cutting the lead back to four, 33-29.

The Red and Gray worked the lead back to 10 just over a minute later following three layups from Spellman, Chhabra, and Goodall. The Monarchs trimmed it back to seven but three-balls from Leming and Spellman (his first of the season) put Stevens up 47-34 at the half. The Ducks shot better than 52 percent from the floor, including a 10-for-18 clip from beyond the arc, in the opening 20.

Stevens opened the second half much the same way they did the first, knocking down four of five, including three of four from distance (two from Maddison and one from Goodall), nearly doubling its halftime lead to 24, 58-34, in the first three minutes.

As the lead grew to 26, then 28, then 33 -- all before the midway point of the half – the only question that remained was whether Goodall would reach the mark. After two free throws at the 10:55 mark put him on 997, the Toms River native missed a three from the left wing on his first attempt, then hit nothing but net from the left corner on his second opportunity before disappearing into a sea of celebration as the Ducks' bench came sprawling onto the court.

Stevens eventually opened a 41-point cushion, with Peter Gray, Grant Sloan, and Jack Liedtka all adding their names to the score sheet in the closing minutes.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Goodall finished 9-for-17 from the floor and 6-for-11 from distance.
• Chhabra finished with 17 points, just one off his season high.
• Spellman finished with a 14-point, 16-rebound double-double.
• Leming matched his season-high with nine points.
• Maddison handed out a career-best 14 assists, part of a 27-assist day for the Ducks, the team's most in a single game since January 7, 2016 against Utica.
• The Ducks finished the day shooting exactly 50 percent from the floor (36-72) and from three-point range (18-36).
• The 18 made three-pointers were the team's most in a single game since hitting 22 against Kean back on November 15, 2016.
• The team's 97 points were the most in a single game since also hitting 97 against Hartwick on January 8, 2019.

 
UP NEXT
In a battle between the two most recent MAC Freedom Tournament Champions, DeSales comes to Canavan Arena Wednesday night, January 22, for a 7:00 tip.
 
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