GLENSIDE, Pa. – In his first game as a Lycoming College men's basketball player, junior Nasir Akram (Newark, N.J./La Plata (Md.)) scored seven points and pulled down six rebounds, but Arcadia shot 50 percent from the field to post a 77-51 MAC Commonwealth victory on Friday, Jan. 18 in Alumni Gym.
 
Sophomore D'Yante Doughty (Baltimore, Md./Calvert Hall) finished with a team-high 11 points and six rebounds. Sophomore Darius Dangerfield (Abingdon, Md./Harford Tech) scored 10 points to go along with two steals and two assists. Freshman Matt Ilodigwe (Wilmington, Del./Concord) knocked down two 3-pointers on his way to nine points and junior Ryan Hollis (Centreville, Md./Saints Peters & Paul) went 3-of-5 from the field for eight points.
 
Both squads knocked down 35 percent of threes with Lycoming (7-11 overall, 1-8 MAC Commonwealth) going 11-of-31 and Arcadia 7-of-20. The Knights  (15-2 overall, 9-0 MAC Commonwealth) won a school-record 12^th game in a row, thanks to the hot performance from the floor.
 
Back-to-back 3-pointers from Doughty and solid defense through the game's first four minutes helped the Warriors jump out to a 10-1 lead. The Knights countered with 13 unanswered points to go up 14-10 with 11:23 remaining in the half. A pair of free throws by Akram and a layup by Dangerfield brought the Warriors within a possession, at 21-19, with eight minutes to go. Arcadia took their largest lead of the half, 36-28, with 1:18 left in the period. The Warriors, however, closed the gap to six following an offensive put-back by Akram before to the break.
 
The backcourt duo of Dangerfield and Doughty were responsible for 18 of the Warriors first-half points, while helping the team win the turnover battle 9-2 and hitting five threes to the Knights' three.
 
The Knights started the second half on a 22-5 run to extend their lead to 58-35 with 11:43 remaining. The Warriors scored nine unanswered off two triples from Ilodigwe and another from Hollis to cut the lead to 13 with 6:11 to go. However, that was as close as Lycoming could get.
 
Da'Kquan Davis led Arcadia with a game-high 22 points on 4-of-7 from three. Evan Slone added 10 points and nine rebounds for the Knights.
 
The Warriors are back on the court on Wednesday, Jan. 23, when they host MAC Commonwealth foe Lebanon Valley College at 8 p.m. in Lamade Gym.