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The Fairleigh Dickinson men's basketball team will play its final contest of the season when they travel to Staten Island, NY to take on Wagner Saturday evening.  Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. and will be televised on Time Warner.
 
The Knights (2-24, 1-14 NEC) were outscored 30-6 in the first half after the score was tied at 11 this past Thursday night at Mount St. Mary's, allowing the Mount to cruise to a 77-63 victory.  The biggest difference in the game took place behind the three-point line as the Mount connected on 12-of-28 from downtown coupled with the Knights making only 4-of-13.  The Mount shot 51.5 percent (17-of-33) over the first 20 minutes and nailed 8-of-16 from three-point range, while FDU shot only 33.3 percent (8-of-24) and only 2-of-7 from behind the arc.  FDU shot a blistering 58.3 percent (14-of-24) in the second half to finish the game shooting 45.8 percent (22-of-48).  The Mount finished the game shooting 45 percent (27-of-60) after cooling off in the second half to 37 percent (10-of-27).  The Mount out-rebounded the Knights, 33-27, and outscored FDU on second-chance points, 16-8.  They also forced the Knights into 16 turnovers, while committing only 12. 
 
After being down as many as 24 in the first half and 19 (43-24) at halftime, the Knights started the second half on a 7-2 run to cut the lead to 45-31 with 17:06 remaining.  Right after FDU scored the basket to cut the deficit to 14, a technical foul was called on junior Kinu Rochford (Brooklyn, N.Y./James Madison).  The Mount then scored the next seven points and outscored FDU, 17-4, over the next six minutes to extend its lead to 62-35 with 10:55 left in the contest.
 
Junior Melquan Bolding (Mt. Vernon, N.Y./Bishop Stepinac) led the Knights with 20 points on 9-of19 shooting from the floor.  Graduate student George Goode (Raytown, MO/Raytown South) added 13 points and five rebounds, while sophomore Ayotunde Oyeniyi (Lagos, Nigeria/The Rock School (FL)) chipped in a career-best 12 points, grabbed a game-high eight rebounds to tie a career high and blocked two shots.
 
Scouting Wagner: The Seahawks (22-4, 13-2 NEC), who were picked to finish fourth in the Northeast Conference, have already set their program record for wins in a season with 22 and are off to their best start ever.  They finished the non-conference schedule with a school-record 9-2 record and won 10 games before the end of 2011 for the first time in school history.  Wagner comes into the game on a seven-game win streak after losing to LIU Brooklyn for the second time this season (only two NEC losses).  The Seahawks won at No. 15 Pittsburgh on December 23 and also won the championship at the 45th Cable Car Classic in Santa Clara, CA with victories over Air Force and host Santa Clara.  Wagner has played two common opponents that the Knights have played this season in Lafayette and Lehigh.  The Seahawks won at Lafayette (76-70), while the Knights fell 85-74.  Both teams lost to Lehigh at home (WC lost 70-69; FDU lost 72-61). The only other loss Wagner suffered was at No. 4 Connecticut (78-66).  The Seahawks are 10-2 in home games this season.
 
Sophomore guard Latif Rivers leads Wagner in scoring at 14.7 ppg and is shooting 88.5 percent (92-of-104) from the free throw line. Junior guard Jonathon Williams is the team's second-leading
scorer at 12.9 ppg and leads the team in rebounding at 4.7 rpg. He is also shooting 52.2 percent (121-of-232) from the floor. Senior guard Tyler Murray chips in 12.6 ppg, while knocking down 46.7 percent of his field goal attempts including 51.2 percent (65-of-127) from three-point range.
 
All-Time Series: This will be the 92nd meeting between the two schools which dates back to the 1955-56. The Knights hold a 49-42 advantage but on only 20-22 on Grimes Hill.  Wagner won earlier this season at FDU, 88-64, and last year in Staten Island, NY, 61-57, in the only meeting of season. FDU won, 70-65, at Stratis Arena two seasons ago and won at Wagner, 59-57, in double overtime during the 2008-09 campaign to snap the Seahawks' four-game win streak in the series.