STANDOUT PERFORMERS

• Becht – 18 points (6-14 FG, 3-7 3-FG, 3-3 FT), 5 rebounds
• Grad student Alex Rivera (Lowell, Mass.) – 14 points (5-16 FG, 3-9 3-FG, 1-2 FT), 6 rebounds, 4 assists
• Junior Derrick Grant Jr. (Plainfield, N.J.) – career-high-matching 13 points (6-9 FG, 1-1 FT), 6 rebounds
• Junior Paul Greene (Freeport, Bahamas) – 8 points (3-9 FG, 2-3 FT), 11 rebounds

KEY MOMENTS

• After Bentley scored the first basket of the game nearly three minutes in, Southern New Hampshire ripped off a 17-2 run – with 11 points from Rivera, who canned a trio of 3-pointers during the stretch – to open a 17-4 advantage with 11:16 remaining. Bentley would score 20 of the next 31 to trim its deficit to 28-24 with less than two minutes to go in the first half, but the Penmen would add the final three to bring a 31-24 lead into the break.
• The Falcons scored the first six coming out of the locker room to cut it to one, but would never take the lead. Back-to-back 3-pointers from junior Kurtis Henderson (Brockton, Mass.) and Becht would push the Penmen advantage to eight at 44-36 with 13:54 remaining, but seven straight over the next two-and-a-half minutes again slashed the Bentley deficit to one. The Falcons would get within one on three more occasions over the final 4:03, but a Becht triple with 1:34 on the clock made it 61-57 and sparked a game-closing 6-0 run that included a huge put-back by Greene.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Junior Jordan Brathwaite (Silver Spring, Md.) posted six points (3-6 FG), a season-high 10 rebounds and a pair of blocks.
• Henderson score three points (1-10 FG, 1-4 3-FG) and grabbed a career-best nine boards.
• Southern New Hampshire outshot Bentley, 35.2 percent (25-71) to 31.8 percent (21-66), including 28 percent (7-25) to 25 percent (8-32) from deep. The Penmen were also better from the line, 77.8 percent (7-9) to 58.3 percent (7-12).
• The Penmen captured the glass (52-45) and the paint (32-22), scored more second chance points (16-10) and received slightly more scoring from their bench (10-7). The Falcons featured a narrowly more impressive assist-to-turnover ratio (9/4-10/4) in what was a clean game that saw SNHU hold a 2-1 edge in points off mistakes.

NOTES

• Southern New Hampshire, which is receiving votes in the latest CBB Nation Division II Poll, has won six of its last seven and is 6-2 for the first time since 2019-20.
• Bentley, ranked 25th in the latest Division II College Sports Communicators (D2CSC) Media Poll, has now dropped three of its last five.
• Bentley leads the all-time series with SNHU, 33-29. While the teams have split the last 26 meetings, the Falcons have captured seven of the most recent 11 and five of seven, though the Penmen have now won two of three. SNHU had lost three of the most recent four at home, including two straight, but now defeat the Falcons on their home floor for the first time since Feb. 15, 2020 (87-81).

WHAT'S NEXT

• The Penmen are back in action Saturday, Dec. 9 (3 p.m.) when they take on Bloomfield College.
• The next home contest for SNHU is Saturday, Dec. 16 (3:30 p.m.) when it plays host to Molloy University at the Stan Spirou Field House in a contest that will air on WGIR 610-AM and Fox Sports 930-AM.