Canton, NY – Robert Holliday, Jr. scored a game-high 23 points and Jordan Stewart added 17 points but visiting SUNY Potsdam earned a 77-74 win v. the SUNY Canton men's basketball team on Tuesday evening at Stan Cohen Court.

THE BASICS

• Result: SUNY Potsdam 77, SUNY Canton 74
• Location: Stan Cohen Court – Canton, NY
• Records: SUNY Potsdam 5-3 | SUNY Canton 4-4

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Holliday, Jr.'s 23 points and four made three-pointers (4-for-7) are both season-highs. Stewart tallied 17 points and a season-high four made treys. Brandon Adkisson chipped in 11 points, while Brandon Palmer hauled down a team-best eight rebounds. Joseph Werner tied a game-high with five assists, while adding six rebounds.
• The Roos jumped out to a 12-point advantage leading 26-14 just over midway through the first half after Kahdean Bennett found Stewart for a layup.
• Canton extended its lead to as many as 14 (30-16) before the Bears responded with a 21-5 run to take their first lead of the game at 37-35. The Roos responded with a mini 5-0 run to take a 40-37 lead into intermission.
• The hosts shot 46 percent from the field and from three-point range in the opening half, while Potsdam hit on 38 percent of its field goals and 25 percent of its three-point attempts. Jordan Stewart and Danny Delsol-Lowry posted 12 first-half points each.
• Canton led 65-64 after a Stewart three-pointer with 6:58 remaining but the Bears used an 8-0 run to take a 72-65 lead with 5:41 to play. The Roos responded with a 9-2 run tying the game with 50.6 seconds left after a Holliday jumper in the lane.
• Serigne Kane hit a jumper in the paint off a loose ball with 26.6 seconds left to give the Bears a two point lead. The Roos turned the ball over on the ensuing possession with three seconds left and Kane split a pair of free throws with two seconds left to preserve the win as Stewart's last attempt heave came up short.
• The teams had seven ties and nine lead changes in a back-and-forth contest as they were even in most statistical categories. The Bears shot slightly better from the field (44.8% | 40 %) and from the three-point line (40% | 36%)
• Delsol-Lowry finished with 18 points for Potsdam, while Dante Langley (15), Kane (14) and Jayquan Thomas (13) all finished in double figures.

FROM THE BENCH
"Tonight was a tough loss for our guys," Head Coach Ben Thompson said. "I thought that we played hard, but our execution was really poor late in the game. That is something that we will need to be better with for us to compete at a high level."

WHAT'S NEXT
The men's basketball team will travel to take on Alfred University in non-conference action on Saturday at 2 p.m.  
 
About SUNY Canton
SUNY Canton is Northern New York's premier college for career-driven bachelor's degrees, associate degrees and professional certificate programs. The college delivers quality hands-on programs in engineering technology, health, management and public service and recently received number one rankings in library resources, library services and tutoring services in the SUNY Student Opinion Survey. The college's faculty members are noted for their professional real-world experience in addition to outstanding academic credentials. SUNY Canton OnLine offers hundreds of flexible and convenient courses as well as 13 exclusively online degrees. The college's 15 athletic teams compete at the NCAA Division III level and are conference members of the North Atlantic Conference.