Belmont Abbey junior guard Tyshawn Good led all scorers with 27 points and became the 36th player in school history to record 1,000 career points with two free throws at the 13:27 mark of the second half as the Crusaders men's basketball team earned an 84-63 win over the visiting Lees-McRae Bobcats tonight at the Wheeler Center. The Abbey, winners of three of its last four, move to 13-7 overall and 7-3 in Conference Carolinas, while Lees-McRae drops to 5-13 overall and 5-5 in Conference Carolinas.

Good, who leads Conference Carolinas and is 11th in NCAA Division II in scoring average, entered the game needing 22 points to reach the 1,000 point mark and finished with 27 as he now stands in 35th place on the school's all-time list. He totaled 16 in the first half as his final line read seven of ten shooting from the field and 12-14 from the free throw line. He also had four steals. Kyle Phillips added 20 points on nine of 15 shooting with four rebounds, and Jay Council posted 13 points on five of eight shooting from the floor with five rebounds, three assists and a steal. The Abbey recorded a 53.6 percent (30-56) shooting effort from the field and was six of ten from three-point range. Council was three for three from beyond the arc, while Good and Kevin Orford had one each.

Asad Lamot led Lees-McRae with 15 points, while BJ Battle and Jeremiah Henry both finished with ten each. The Bobcats shot 34.4 percent (21-61) from the floor.

The Crusaders never trailed in the game and led by just seven at the half as their lead reached an apex of nine at 22-13 on a Good free throw with 8:07 left. Three-straight Lees-McRae baskets chopped the lead down to three, and the two teams traded baskets until four straight Abbey points extended the advantage to seven at 30-23 with 50 ticks left. DeAndre Tillman netted a free throw with 26 seconds left to allow the Bobcats to close to six at intermission.

The second half was all Belmont Abbey, as the Crusaders shot 62 percent (18-29) from the floor in the final 20 minutes to outscore Lees-McRae 54-39. After a free throw by Daniel Sepokas closed the Bobcats to within five, the Crusaders answered with a 22-7 run to break away and lead by 22 at 54-32. From there ,the lead never dipped below 18 points as every available player saw action and all but four scored points.