STANDOUT PERFORMERS

• Becht – 21 points (7-18 FG, 7-17 3-FG), 8 rebounds
• Senior Noah Kamba (Lynn, Mass.) – 12 points (5-8 FG, 2-3 3-FG), 2 steals
• Senior Preston Santos (Providence, R.I.) – 11 points (5-8 FG, 1-3 3-FG), 5 rebounds, 2 assists
• Junior Derrick Grant Jr. (Plainfield, N.J.) – 10 points (4-10 FG, 2-2 FT), career-high 14 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals
• Junior Jordan Brathwaite (Silver Spring, Md.) – 8 points (4-8 FG), 9 rebounds, 2 blocks
• Graduate student Alex Rivera (Lowell, Mass.) – 8 points (3-10 FG, 2-8 3-FG), 5 rebounds, career-high 4 blocks

KEY MOMENTS

• Southern New Hampshire led by one nearly six-and-a-half minutes into the contest, when 10 straight gave Saint Anselm its largest lead of the game at 20-11 with 10:46 remaining. The Penmen responded with 21 straight as part of a 27-3 barrage to close the half with the hosts in front, 38-23. Santos and Kamba both led the way during the 21-0 blitz with seven points each, while Becht paced the larger run with nine.
• Saint Anselm scored the first five points of the second half to make it a 10-point game, but a 13-4 run – bookended by a pair of Becht 3-pointers – ran the SNHU advantage to 54-35 a little more than five minutes into the second half. Five points from Kamba powered a 10-2 run later on that increased the lead to 25 at 66-41 with 8:42 to go. Nine straight would get the Hawks to within 16 with six-and-a-half minutes left, but the Penmen ended the game on a 16-2 run. Six different scorers combined during the stretch, including junior Brenden Choate (Nashua, N.H.), who netted the final four to give SNHU its largest lead of the night at an even 30.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Junior Kurtis Henderson (Brockton, Mass.) tallied five points (1-6 FG, 3-4 FT), four assists, two rebounds and two steals.
• Choate chipped in four points (2-2 FG) and a block.
• Junior Kyle Rocker (Lawrence, Mass.) added three points (1-2 FG, 1-1 3-FG).
• Southern New Hampshire outshot Saint Anselm, 43.8 percent (32-73) to 33.8 percent (22-65), including 35.1 percent (13-37) to 25 percent (6-24) from deep. SNHU also shot it better from the line, 83.3 percent (5-6) to 28.6 percent (2-7) from the stripe.
• The Penmen dominated the glass (56-30), captured the paint (32-24), scored more second chance points (18-0) and more points on the fast break (13-9), received more scoring from their bench (27-2) and featured a better assist-to-turnover ratio (12/11-8/11), while the Hawks held an edge in points off mistakes (13-12).

NOTES

• Southern New Hampshire has won three of its last five.
• Saint Anselm leads the all-time series with SNHU, 41-37, having won 10 of the last 13 meetings, including nine of 10, but the Penmen have now captured three of the last four. The Hawks have also won five of seven at SNHU, dating back to the 2017 NE10 Championship title game March 4, 2017, though the Penmen have taken two of the last three.
• Following an 83-72 win at Saint Anselm back on Nov. 21, the Penmen sweep the regular-season series from the Hawks for the first time since 2014-15.
• The 30-point margin of victory is the largest for SNHU in its 37 wins in the series, surpassing the 29 in an 84-55 victory on Dec. 14, 2003.
• This marks the first time ever the SNHU men's and women's basketball teams swept both regular-season doubleheaders from Saint Anselm.
• SNHU earns another point in the Queen City Cup standings and now leads, 14-6, in the battle for Manchester supremacy.
• Grant's double-double is the second of his career, with both having come in the last three games.
• Grant, who was a 59 percent free throw shooter last season, started this campaign 15 of 24 (62.5%) from the line over his first six games, but has since gone 32-for-40 (80%) over his last 11, including 13-for-14 (92.8%) in the last four.
• After scoring 10 total points through the first three games of the year, Santos is averaging 10.9 ppg over his last 11 and has scored in double figures eight times, including five straight.

WHAT'S NEXT

• The Penmen return to action Saturday, Jan. 27 (3:30 p.m.) when they take on in-state rival Franklin Pierce University.
• The next home contest for SNHU is Saturday, Feb. 3 (3:30 p.m.) when it plays host to the University of New Haven at the Stan Spirou Field House.