The Belmont Abbey men's basketball eased their way to a 78-64 victory at Lees-McRae Tuesday night on the strength of a 26-point performance by junior guard Tyshawn Good. With the win the Crusaders improve to 8-4 overall and 2-0 in conference play while Lees-McRae falls to 0-9 overall and 0-1 in conference play.

The Crusaders, whch led by as many as 24 and only trailed once, zoomed out to a 5-0 lead in the first half before a 7-0 run gave Lees-McRae their only lead of the game at 7-5. A 9-0 Crusader run followed to make the score 14-7. The Crusaders continued to build the lead and gained their largest advantage of the half on Terrone Sheffey's layup with 1:10 left to make it 31-15. The Crusader advantage stood at 31-17 at the half.

The second half began much as the first as the Crusaders scored the first six points to move the lead to 21. A Matthew Graves layup at the 12:51 mark gave the Crusaders their largest lead of the contest at 49-25. The Abbey never lead by less than 13 in the second half, as the final tally was 78-64.

The Crusaders were led by a Good's team high 26 points and two steals. Graves contributed the only other double digit scoring effort with 12 points. Darryl Durham pitched in a team high eight rebounds.