Box Score

SAN FRANCISCO — Friday night was all about the numbers at Kezar Pavilion, and the Academy of Art University and Simon Fraser University men's basketball teams put up plenty of them.
 

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The Urban Knights equaled their highest-ever point total in a game while combining with the Clan to score 201 total points in a fast-paced game, coming away with a 107-94 victory.
 
ART U (2-2) set single-game program records Friday in field goals made (40) and rebounds (58) while holding the explosive SFU offense to under 100 points for the first time this season. The Urban Knights shot 55.6 percent (40-for-72) in the game. Simon Fraser (3-1) shot 41.9 percent, including 35 percent in the second half alone.
 
The Clan missed 50 shots (36-for-86), helping the Knights achieve their team-record 58 boards. Simon Fraser was 8-for-40 from beyond the 3-point arc alone. ART U outrebounded SFU 58-35 in a game that saw 23 ties and 15 lead changes. It wasn't until a 3-pointer by senior guard Alexis Moore with 7 minutes, 52 seconds to play that ART U finally got – and kept – a two-possession lead at 86-82.
 
Moore was one of two players in the game with a double-double, tallying 11 points and 13 rebounds. Moore had 12 defensive boards and also had four assists and four steals. SFU's Roderick Evans-Taylor also had a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds before fouling out with 5:34 to play in the game.
 
Sango Niang led all players with 29 points on 12-for-22 shooting. He also had eight rebounds, four steals and three assists. SFU had four players in double figures, with Patrick Simon (12) and Justin Cole (11) joining Niang and Evans-Taylor.
 
The Urban Knights had five players in double-digit scoring, led by junior forward Yanick Kulich's 24 points. Kulich was 11-for-14 from the field. His 11 field goals made were tied for eighth all-time in a single game by an Urban Knight and his 78.6 field goal percentage was tied for seventh best. Junior forward Nick Cary had 19 (7-for-10), sophomore guard Herman Pratt IV just missed a double-double with 13 points and eight boards, and freshman guard Uchenna Okeneme poured in 11.
 
No team led by more than four points in the first half, and they both took their turn doing so at different times. It was Simon Fraser's quick 8-4 run in the final 75 seconds of the half that helped give it a three-point, 51-48 lead at halftime.
 
The Clan pushed its lead to as many as eight at 66-58 just 3:29 into the second half, but a 9-0 run over the next 1:50 by the Urban Knights, accentuated by a 3-pointer from the corner by Cary, put the Knights up 67-66 – and the race was on.
 
The teams went back and forth for the next six minutes after Cary's trey, with no team pulling farther away than three points and the score getting tied on six different occasions. But ART U would prevail in the end, going on a 10-2 run to close the game's final 3:19 for the victory.
 

Turnovers again played a factor, as the Knights turned it over a season-high 30 times, including 20 in the first half alone. The Clan did its share of turning it over too, handing the ball over 23 times. The teams combined for 59 points off turnovers and 22 fast break points.
 
Academy of Art University next travels across town at 7 p.m. Tuesday to face inner-city rival San Francisco State.