HACKENSACK, N.J. - FDU men's basketball took the lead 15 seconds into Saturday's Northeast Conference matchup against LIU and didn't look back as the Knights rolled to 3-0 in NEC play and 7-2 in their last nine as FDU, now 10-8 on the season, fished the Sharks, 101-89.

Nearly halfway through the first, the Knights' offense exploded for a 16-6 stretch over three minutes long with four Knights (Demetre Roberts, Ansley Almonor, Sean Moore and Brayden Reynolds) contributing - holding the Sharks to just three field goals inside the arc over the run. Roberts and Almonor led the scoring affair with six points each while Moore and Reynolds each contributed a bucket.

Roberts, who came off the bench for the first time this season, would finish with 28 points setting a single-game high in 31 minutes of action. The Mount Vernon, N.Y. native shot 8-for-13 in the bout and contributed three scorers from distance.

Singleton was the hero of Saturday's tilt posting his first double-double as a Knight with 19 points and 11 assists, the latter a new career best.

15 of Singleton's 19 points came by way of five three-pointers as FDU would score 14 in the game, two shy of the program single-game record. The matchup against LIU, FDU's 57th in the all-time series, marked just the third time FDU finished a game with 14 made threes. The Knights sit second in the NEC in three-point shooting with a clip of 44.8 percent and a team total of 26, averaging 8.7 per night.

"Not a defensive explosion but definitely an offensive explosion," remarked head coach Tobin Anderson following the win. "We shot the ball well, I didn't like how we played defensively in our press. We just weren't as sharp as we should have been. We got a win, a win at home, we did some good things with things to build on. Good to get a win."

With the victory Saturday the Knights post their first 3-0 start to NEC play since the 2016-17 season, one year after the Knights were crowned champions of the NEC.

FDU hits the road as league play carries on with a pair of road games in the coming week, first at Central Connecticut on January 14 followed by an MLK Day showdown with Stonehill in the first-ever meeting between the now-conference rivals on Monday, Jan. 16. Both contests will air live on NEC Front Row and the NEC on the Run app.

The 2022-23 men's basketball season is presented by Bogota Savings Bank.