BROOKLYN, N.Y. (January 16, 2016)—Cane Broome (East Hartford, Conn.) led the Pioneers with 18 points as the Sacred Heart men's basketball team fell to St. Francis Brooklyn 85-67 Saturday in the Pope Physical Education Center. The loss drops SHU to 3-14 on the season and 2-4 in Northeast Conference play, while the Terriers improve to 7-12 overall and 3-3 against NEC foes.  SFBK's Tyreek Jewell led all players with 23 points. 

The Pioneers return home Thursday, Jan. 21 to take on Mount St. Mary's in the annual "Pack the Pitt" event live on CBS Sports Network at 7:00 p.m.

Noteworthy:

• Matej Buovac (Zagreb, Croatia) tied a career-best pulling down eight rebounds

How It Happened:
First Half:

• Broome put the first point on the board going one-for-two from the free throw line before Yunis Hopkinson sparked a six-point run for the Terriers. Broome landed a trey in hopes of halting the streak, but SFBK answered with seven straight points from Hopkinson and Amdy Fall expanding the Terriers' lead to nine points, 13-4, before the 14:49 media timeout
• The break didn't slow down the Terriers' offense, who scored eight straight points coming out of the break before Quincy McKnight (Bridgeport, Conn.) ended a nearly six-minute SHU scoring drought finding the lane for the layup. Buovac added two more for SHU before Jewell and Kean Williams stunted the Pioneers' run combining for three points
• Eyimofe Edukugho (Warri, Nigeria) and Sean Hoehn (Morristown, N.J.) answered with three for the Pioneers cutting into SFBK's lead, 22-11, just under halfway through the first half
• The Terriers continued to expand their lead throughout the first half, never allowing SHU more than one basket at a time, to go into halftime up 41-18

Second Half:

• After Jordan Allen (Bayshore, N.Y.) opened second-half scoring, Jewell went two-for-two from the charity stripe kick-starting a nine-point streak for the Terriers, who took their largest lead of the game, 30 points 50-20, on Amdy Fall's layup before the 14:54 media timeout
• Buovac tried to get something going for the Pioneers putting up five straight points, but SFBK answered with a 6-1 run as Hopkinson drained a three right before the 11:16 media for a 57-28 Terrier lead
• With 8:11 remaining in the game, McKnight sparked an 11-2 SHU run with four straight points, that cut SFBK's lead to 20 points, 67-47, with Broome's triple with 6:13 left
• The Pioneers chipped away with another 11-4 streak, but were unable to get within 15 points of St. Francis Brooklyn