ANDERSON, S.C. – The No. 20/25 Queens University of Charlotte men's basketball team collected an 86-60 win over Anderson University (S.C.) on Monday night, giving Head Coach
Bart Lundy his 300
th career win in the Queen City. Lundy now has 396 career wins spanning 19 seasons as a collegiate head coach at Queens and NCAA Division I High Point University.
Queens improved to 13-4 overall and 12-3 in South Atlantic Conference play by forcing a season-high 23 turnovers and scoring 25 total points off of the miscues. The Royals shot 53.2 percent from the floor and held the Trojans (5-7, 5-7 SAC) to 42.3 percent shooting on the night.
Anderson jumped out to an early 9-4 lead before the Royals used 13 unanswered points to build a 17-9 lead following a 3-pointer from junior
Kenny Dye with 12:45 to play in the first half.
A 3-pointer from redshirt-sophomore
Jamari Smith just two minutes later put the Royals ahead by double digits, 24-14, as Queens's largest lead of 25 points came via a
Quan McCluney 3-pointer with 2:11 on the clock. The second half of action saw the Queens lead continue to rise as the Royals largest lead of the game, 69-36, came with 13:32 remaining.
Redshirt-freshman
AJ McKee led all scorers with 17 points, while Smith finished with 16 points of his own in just 21 minutes on the court. Sophomore
Gavin Rains followed with 14 points and six rebounds and Dye had 13 points with six assists.
Queens returns home this weekend for a Top 25 matchup with League rival Lincoln Memorial University on Saturday, February 20 at 2 p.m. inside Curry Arena.