Harrisonburg, Va. - The William and Mary men's basketball team fell on the road at James Madison, 59-47, on Thursday night. The Tribe led by as many as four points earlier in the second half, but the Dukes put together a 14-1 run to seize control of the contest. W&M fell to 4-18 on the year and 2-8 in CAA play, while JMU upped its mark to 10-11 overall and 3-7 in league action.

Sophomore guard Brandon Britt led the Tribe with 14 points, including an 8-of-9 effort from the free throw line. Fellow classmate Tim Rusthoven finished with 10 points on 5-of-8 from the floor to go along with four rebounds, while senior Quinn McDowell added seven points and seven rebounds. Playing without reserve bigman Fred Heldring, who was out due to an illness, junior Andrew Pavloff gave the College some valuable minutes off the bench with three points and five rebounds.

Back-to-back 3-pointers from sophomore Julian Boatner and McDowell staked the College to an 8-4 lead just over three minutes into the contest. After five straight JMU points, a driving bucket by Rusthoven put the College back on top 10-9 with 15:20 left in the opening frame. Four straight JMU points put the Dukes in front once again, and after a Pavloff 3-pointer from the left side for W&M tied the game, ?Andrey Semenov scored on a lay-up at the 6:48 mark to give JMU a 20-18 lead.

W&M held the Dukes off the scoreboard for nearly five minutes, but offensively could only muster four points from Britt. His pair of free throws at the 1:55 mark gave the Tribe a 22-20 advantage. JMU rookie Enoch Hood scored back-to-back buckets to end the half and sent the Dukes to the locker room with the 24-22 advantage.

Out of the intermission, the College scored eight of the first 10 points of the second half to take a four-point advantage. The Tribe went to Rusthoven on the block for back-to-back lay-ups, before freshman guard Marcus Thornton and senior Kendrix Brown each knocked down a pair of free throws to give W&M a 30-26 lead with 16:40 left in the contest.

The Tribe cushion was 34-33 following a pair of Britt free throws when JMU opened up a double-digit lead with a 14-1 run. Semenov scored seven of the Dukes 14 points on the run. After back-to-back 3-pointers from Semenov and Humpty Hitchens, A.J. Davis scored on an offensive putback off his own missed free throw to push the margin to double-digits for the first time. Semenov's free throws at the 5:23 mark capped the run and gave the Dukes at 47-35 advantage.

Trailing 49-37 at the 4:33 mark, the Tribe went on an 8-1 run to close the gap to five. Britt highlighted the spurt for the College with six of its eight points. A McDowell elbow jumper at the three-minute mark cut the deficit to six, before a Britt free throw made it 50-45 with 2:26 left. W&M could get no closer the rest of the way as the Dukes made 7-of-10 from the free throw line over the final two minutes to pull out the win.

The Tribe finished the game shooting just 29.8 percent (14-of-47) from the floor and were just 4-of-17 from 3-point range to go along with a 75-percent (15-of-20) clip from the free throw line. JMU shot 38.5 percent (20-of-52) from the floor and was 5-of-13 from 3-point range. The Dukes, who were 14-of-21 from the free throw line, held a 40-30 advantage on the glass. Semenov led JMU with 15 points and eight rebounds, while Davis added 14 points and seven rebounds.

The Tribe will return to action when it travels to Old Dominion for a televised game on Saturday, Jan. 28, afternoon. Tip-off is slated for 4 p.m. and the game will be shown on Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, Philadelphia and New England. Fans can also catch the action over the Tribe Radio Network with Jay Colley and Charlie Woollum on the call. The Tide 92.3 FM in Williamsburg is the flagship station of the Tribe Radio Network and the broadcast will be available over the Internet at TribeAthletics.com.