Staten Island, NY - The College of Staten Island Men's Basketball team opened the conference portion of their schedule with a defeat at the hands of Daemen College, 80-61. The Dolphins remain winless through four games as the Wildcats improved their season mark to 2-3. 

KEY MOMENTS

The Wildcats seized control of the game from the opening jump and were ahead by thirteen points less than seven minutes into the game. The Dolphins would get back within seven on an Austin Mick three-pointer, one of his three makes from beyond the arc, but would not get any closer than that the rest of the way. CSI would trail by as many as nineteen in the half, but another buzzer-beating three by Mick would send them into the locker room down 47-32. CSI trailed by as many as twenty-seven in the second half, but Michael Ashley's strong play at both ends of the floor kept the deficit from growing any further as the Dolphins would go on to lose the game by nineteen.         

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

The Dolphins shot the ball well, 42% from the field and 31% from downtown, but the Wildcats shot it even more efficiently with a 48% mark from the floor and 39% from long range. The most notable disparity on the stat sheet came in the rebounding column as the Wildcats held a 44-25 advantage on the glass. CSI also struggled to score inside with only eighteen points in the paint. For the Wildcats, exactly half of their total offense came on forty points scored in the paint.

DOLPHINS OF THE GAME

Despite being plagued by early foul trouble, Michael Ashley provided the Dolphins with a much-needed spark off the bench. Ashley finished the game with a season-high seventeen points to go along with six rebounds. Austin Mick also had his best performance of the season scoring fifteen points on 6-11 from the floor and 3-6 from downtown.

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