Bucknell’s leading scorer Donald Brown came up big again with a game high 19 points. Shooting 7-for-11 from the field, Brown consistently took in to the Lafayette defense and he effectively drove the lane opening up the outside for Jason Vegotsky, who followed close behind with 18 points.

The Leopards set the tone of the game with an early 10-1 run before Bucknell head coach Pat Flannery took a timeout with 15:42. The most surprising aspect was how the Leopards converted those early points: from inside the paint. Bilal Abdullah had a nice old-fashioned three-point play followed by 2 Everest Schmitt inside lay-ins to start off the game.

Donald Brown soon woke up with a huge inside put back dunk at the 13-minute mark to kick-start the Bison offense. He would have 10 of his 19 points in the first half on 4-for-6 shooting. Donald Brown’s performance was a bright spot in an overall dismal first half performance from the Bison, who shot 38.5 percent from the field and did not take control of the lead for the entire half, although they did bring the deficit to 2 points at halftime.

Coming out of the locker room in the second half, the Leopards looked like they would extend their lead, as Andrew Brown drained 2 three-pointers in the first 5 minutes. Andrew Brown led the Leopards with 14 points 4-for-9 shooting, with all of his hits being on three-pointers. Lafayette’s lead would not last as Vegotsky hit back-to-back threes at the 11:48 mark to give the Bison their first lead at 41-40. The game from there went back and forth at an up-tempo pace as the Bison maintained their lead, but not by much. Lafayette kept it within a possession all the way up until the end, when it became a free throw contest. Bucknell proceeded to go perfect from the line to seal the hard-fought road win.