| Matt Drake led Carleton with 22 points as the Knights said good night to the long winning streak of No. 7 Gustavus Adolphus. File photo for Carleton athletics by Nathan Klok |
Carleton ended Gustavus Adolphus’ MIAC unbeaten run for the second year in a row, Hood rallied from down eight late, a No. 1 team actually won, and Medgar Evers got its first win of the season in Division III men’s basketball action on Wednesday, Feb. 11.
Nearly a year ago, Carleton handed Gustavus Adolphus its first loss of the season, as the Gusties went on the road and lost last Feb. 19 in the teams’ MIAC regular season finale to deny Gustavus a perfect run through the MIAC. This year, the Knights did it two games earlier in the secondly, snapping the Gusties’ 19-game winning streak with a 74-70 upset. Trailing 30-25 at halftime, the Knights exploded for 49 second-half points, shooting a scorching 60.7 percent (17-of-28) from the field and knocking down 6-of-9 three-pointers to erase the deficit and seize control. Matt Drake led the way for Carleton, matching a game-high with 22 points on 7-of-15 shooting while dishing out five assists. He was joined in double figures by Josh Engelberg and Patrick Smith, who each tallied 13 points. Smith was a force on the glass, pulling down a team-high nine rebounds to help give the Knights a 35-19 rebounding edge.
Bakhi Rogers-Robinson scored 28 points for New Jersey City, but it wasn’t nearly enough as top-ranked Montclair State defeated the Gothic Knights 98-85. Jacob Morales scored 28 for the top-ranked Redhawks, who won their 23rd consecutive game and are the sole unbeaten team in Division III men’s basketball. Montclair used a 15-4 run in the first half to push the lead to double figures and NJCU did not get within three possessions the rest of the way.
The file name on the Medgar Evers website for the Wednesday night game program was PLEASE_GOD, followed by 16 underscores. That about said it all, as the Cougars entered the night 0-22 in men’s basketball and 0-11 in CUNYAC play, hosting 6-16 CCNY. And their PDF file naming convention prayer was answered, as Medgar Evers got 26 points apiece from Joash Beaton and Michael Perezin a 73-66 overtime win. The win snapped a 25-game losing stream dating to Feb. 11 of 2025, exactly one year. Beaton hit back-to-back threes late in the second quarter as MEC rallied from a nine-point deficit with 6:44 left. Beaton also went 5-for-6 from the line in the overtime, while the rest of the Cougars were a combined 4-for-15 from the strip in the extra time.
Hood improved to 11-0 in the MAC Commonwealth for the first time in program history as Jevon Yarbrough hit a game-winning shot from the elbow with nine seconds left to lift the Blazers past Alvernia 81-80 on the road. Hood was down by eight with six-plus minutes left and down by six three minutes later. Following a Yarbrough layup, on the other end a contested rebound would hit off of a Golden Wolf and provide the Blazers with the ball and a one-point deficit. With 19 seconds left the Blazers took the ball up the court and while Huseby set a high screen, Yarbrough went around and pulled up at the elbow over two defenders and swished the game-winner. The Golden Wolves had a chance at the buzzer with a pump fake and an attempt from beyond the arc but it hit back rim. “He didn’t have his best game by any means, but there’s no one else in the conference you want with the ball in their hands in that situation than Jevon Yarbrough,” said Hood coach Chad Dickman. “Then we had an outstanding defensive effort to end the game.”
UW-River Falls knocked off No. 18 UW-Stevens Point, 70-69, on a game-winning jumper from Reggie Postel with just 0.03 seconds remaining. Trailing 69-68 in the closing seconds, the Falcons used a timeout to set up the final possession. Off the inbound, Gavin Ralph found Postel cutting into the paint, where the sophomore rose and delivered the dagger. The bucket capped off a back-and-forth battle that featured eight lead changes and four ties.
Reggie!! Great team win! #FFT pic.twitter.com/mGqHHlCoYS
— UWRF Mens Basketball (@UWRFMensbball) February 12, 2026
Guilford handed No. 21 Roanoke an upset loss and remained in contention for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament, as Braylen Salters reached 30 points for the third time in four games to help the Quakers get past the Maroons 89-85. Salters poured in 33 including going 14-for-16 at the charity stripe to lead the Quakers. Ke Edwards scored a career-high with 25 points on 10-of-16 shooting, adding nine rebounds. Jackson Bell went shot-for-shot with Salters, finishing with 35 points on 12-of-21 shooting for the Maroons. Bell took over midway through the second half with a 9-0 run by himself, to grab the lead for the Maroons, 62-60 and the score only got outside of two-possessions once the rest of the way as the adversaries went blow-for-blow throughout the final minutes. The Quakers claimed the lead for good in the games’ final minute. Tied at 83, Edwards made a short two then the Quakers got the stop they needed. Salters made his free throws down the stretch and GC grabbed the upset. At 6-7 in the conference (12-10 overall), Guilford is all alone in eighth place.
Scranton rallied from a 17-point deficit and led just once, for the final two seconds as the Royals got past Lycoming on the road, 70-69. Brendan Carr was fouled with two seconds left and hit them both, giving the Royals (18-4, 11-4 Landmark) the only lead they would need. Sammy Tornabene scored a game-high 27 points, shooting 11-for-24 from the floor. Lycoming fell to 6-16, 2-13 in conference play. Freshman Ben Robinson came up with a steal on Lycoming’s final possession to seal the win.
The win, combined with Catholic’s loss, pulled Scranton within one game of the lead in the Landmark as KJ Carson found Jackson Van Wagener for a long, stepback three-pointer at the buzzer in regulation to get homestanding Susquehanna to overtime. Carson then hit two buckets in the final 10 seconds of the extra session, including the game-winner at the buzzer, to lift his team to the 81-79 overtime win. Catholic was setting up for the final shot in the waning seconds of overtime before Van Wagener got the steal and Carson outraced everyone to the basket, sinking the layup at the horn. Carson finished with a team-high 18 points, as did Brandon Lavitt, who also added 10 rebounds. The River Hawks shot 6-for-9 in the overtime.
MBB | And here they are, tonight’s buzzer beaters, courtesy of Jackson Van Wagener and KJ Carson!
Susquehanna now three wins in a row and alive and well in the Landmark playoff picture!@LandmarkConf x @FloCollegeHoops#ALLIN x #GOSUSQU x x #d3hoops pic.twitter.com/xGNbnIjuMN
— Susquehanna Athletics (@GOSusqU) February 12, 2026
Remijo Wani scored 42 points, shooting 17-for-24 from the floor, as St. Joseph’s (Maine) remained unbeaten in GNAC play, downing Rivier in double overtime on the road. Izaiah Shaw-Glen had 37 for the Raiders, who fell to 10-12 overall, 4-6 GNAC. Wani Donato hit a big bucket with just a couple of seconds left in regulation for SJC to send the game to OT, and Daylen Dalcour did the same late in the overtime for Rivier to extend the game. St. Joseph’s of Maine and their counterpart in Connecticut are each tied for first in the GNAC with 9-0 conference records, while the Monks improved to 14-8 overall. The two St. Joe’s battle in what seems likely to be a game for the top seed in the conference tournament in their only meeting, on the season’s final regular season day, Feb. 21. The Joes of Connecticut rolled past Colby-Sawyer on Wednesday night.
Gwynedd Mercy (16-6, 9-2) took home a well-fought 61-57 Atlantic East Conference victory on the road at Marymount (13-8, 10-1), handing the Saints their first conference loss of the season. The affair featured nine lead changes and five ties, but late-game defense and free throws secured the Griffins victory. Sophomore guard Bruce Smith led the Griffins with 14 points, four rebounds, and a block, while senior guard D.J. Johnson factored in with 12 points, seven rebounds and four assists.
DePauw shot a season-best 63.3 percent from the field and knocked off North Coast Athletic Conference-leading Denison by an 83-79 count. The Big Red evened the score at 76-76 after Kellon Smith’s 3-pointer at the 2:07 mark. Sam Jacobs countered with a trey and, following a Denison miss, Jacobs made two free throws with 43 seconds left to make it 81-76. Smith hit one of two free throws and, after a DePauw miss, Samson Zack hit two charity tosses to cut the lead for DePauw (16-7, 9-5) to 81-79 with nine seconds remaining. Washington hit a free throw to extend the lead to three, but Denison (14-8, 9-4) missed a three before Washington sealed the win with a free throw. Denison had shared the conference lead with John Carroll, which defeated Oberlin on Wednesday night. The top of the NCAC remains tightly packed, with JCU at 10-4 in NCAC play, followed by Wittenberg and Denison at 9-4, DePauw at 9-5 and Wabash at 8-5.