Box Score SALISBURY, MD – Matt Green scored a team-high 19 points to help Rowan to an 84-74 win over Salisbury in non-conference men's basketball action. The win ended a four-game losing streak for the Profs (4-4).
 
Green shot 7-for-14 from the field and made five three-pointers while Austin Kearney added 17 points on 7-for-10 shooting, along with a team-high 10 rebounds. Connor Dickerson scored 13 points and Jerry Price added 11 for the Profs. Diante Bah was 4-of-6 for nine points while grabbing seven rebounds.
 
The Profs led by double digits a few times in the second half, but fought off a Salisbury comeback, as the Sea Gulls took a brief lead, 66-65, with over eight minutes to play. But Rowan responded with back-to-back three-pointers from Green that pushed the Profs' lead back to five, 71-66. Kearney added another three that increased the lead to 74-68 while a pair of free throws and a three-pointer by Dickerson at 1:02 gave Rowan an 80-70 lead to ice the win.
 
"Our group has been persevering and has stayed together through early adversity. We competed well and played together tonight on both ends. It certainly feels good to go into the break with a win," said head coach Joe Crispin
 
In the first half, Rowan led by as much as eight points, 36-28, after Green hit back-to-back threes, and took a 40-33 lead into halftime.
 
Rowan connected on 11-of-31 three-pointers in the game while the Profs held Salisbury to 7-of-31 shooting from beyond the arc.
 
The Profs are off until December 29-30 when they participate in the Randolph-Macon College Coaches Tournament, taking on Dickinson College in the first round.