BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — William & Mary secured the program's first road game against the Mid-American Conference behind a 82-74 victory at Bowling Green at the Stroh Center on Wednesday night. 

The Tribe put four guys in double figures and used a decisive 18-1 run in the first half to jump out to as much as a 17-point lead. W&M (3-2) held off a Falcon second-half rally by hitting 14-of-16 (87.5%) from the free throw line in the second half and turning 18 turnovers into 26 points off miscues. 

Junior Tunde Vahlberg Fasasi led the Tribe with 16 points, hitting 4-of-7 from 3-point range to go with five rebounds and a career-high five assists. Senior Chase Lowe scored 14 points, converting all five of his field goal attempts. Senior Kyle Pulliam had a nice all-around stat line with 13 points, making all eight of his free throw attempts, while collecting seven rebounds and four assists. Junior Reese Miller added 10 points. 

Bowling Green (3-2) took the early lead, 6-2, after a Javontae Campbell lay-up just over three minutes into the game. The Tribe responded with five straight, including a Vahlberg Fasasi 3-pointer at the 16:13, to move in front for the first time, 7-6. 

The Green and Gold's game-changing 18-1 run extended the lead to double-digits. Vahlberg Fasasi (6), graduate student Jhei-R Jones (6), and Lowe (4) combined for 16 of the Green and Gold's points during the run. The Tribe retook the lead at 14-13 following a pair of Cade Haskins free throws. Vahlberg Fasasi sandwiched a pair of 3-pointers around back-to-back Lowe buckets in the paint to push the margin to double digits. Jones capped the spurt with consecutive 3-pointers. The first at the 8:13 mark forced a Falcon timeout, but he drilled a second less than a minute later to extend the margin to 30-14. 

Bowling Green briefly pulled within 10, 30-20, with six-straight points, including two baskets from Josiah Shackelford. Miller answered with five straight for the Tribe, and sophomore Ryan Jackson, Jr., stretched the advantage to 17 points, 41-24, with just 1:19 left on a lay-up. W&M connected on six 3-pointers in the half to take a 15-point advantage into the locker room. 

The Tribe lead remained 15, 56-41, after a Lowe old-fashion 3-point play with 12:45 left. Bowling Green used an 12-2 run to draw within five. Back-to-back steals and lay-ups from Javon Ruffin and Justin Thomas narrowed the gap to seven. In total, Thomas scored six during the spurt and his free throws at the 10:28 mark to cut the deficit to 58-53. 

Five different W&M players scored as part of a 15-4 run to stretch the lead back to 73-57 with 3:52 left. Pulliam tallied five during the run, including a 3-pointer, while Brockhoff added four. Jo'el Emanuel's alley-oop dunk off an inbounds pass from Miller punctuated the run. 

The Falcons made one last push with a 10-0 run. Back-to-back 3-pointers from Mayar Wol and Ruffin cut the Tribe lead to 75-69 with 56 seconds remaining. W&M put the game away by hitting 7-of-8 from the free throw line over the remainder of the contest. 

W&M finished the game shooting 46.4% (26-of-56) from the field, including nine 3-pointers. The Tribe connected on 87.5% (21-of-24) at the free throw line and dished out 19 assists on its 26 made field goals. The Tribe capitalized on 11 steals and received a strong contribution from the bench, which added 33 points. Jackson, Jr. and Jones tallied eight points apiece off the bench, while Emanuel was 3-of-3 from the field and finished with seven points. 

Campbell led BGSU with 17 points before fouling out. Shackelford and Ruffin tallied 11 points apiece. The Falcons shot 43.1% (25-of-58) from the floor, but hit just 3-of-19 (15.8%) from 3-point range. 

The Tribe returns to action hosting Education Day on Friday, Nov. 21, when it welcomes Regent to Kaplan Arena. W&M will welcome more than 1,000 elementary school students, faculty, and chaperons from around Williamsburg, including Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools, for the game. Tip-off is set for 11 a.m. and the game will be streamed on FloCollege. Fans can also listen into the action over the Tribe Sports Network with Jay Colley and Bobby Dwyer on the call. The Tide 92.3 FM in Williamsburg is the flagship station of the Tribe Sports Network.