PITTSBURGH, Pa. - William & Mary men's basketball knocked down 15 3-pointers and erased a five-point deficit with 4:33 remaining to win its sixth in a row, 83-79, at Duquesne on Tuesday night at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse.
 
The Tribe (8-2), which led by as much as 16 in the first half, trailed by five, 74-69, with 4:33 remaining, before surging in front behind a 7-0 run.

Graduate student Cade Haskins drilled his fourth 3-pointer of the contest to cut the gap to two. Sophomore Ryan Jackson, Jr. and graduate student Jo'el Emanuel made two huge free throws each over a 10-second span to give W&M the lead for good. Both players stepped to the line facing 1-and-1 situations. The final two from Emanuel put the Tribe on top for good, 76-74, with 3:38 left.
 
The Tribe advantage was just one with under two minutes remaining when senior Chase Lowe made perhaps the biggest play of the game. He elevated over the Duquesne defense and pulled down an offensive rebound, before finding junior Tunde Vahlberg Fasasi open on the left wing for the clinching 3-pointer with 1:43 remaining. Vahlberg Fasasi's third triple of the game and the team's season-best 15th stretched the lead to 81-77.
 
Defensively, W&M forced a Duquesne (5-3) shot-clock violation with 13.8 seconds remaining, and after a pair of Vahlberg Fasasi free throws, Jackson Jr. make the game-ending steal.
 
Five Tribe players scored in double figures led by 17 from Vahlberg Fasasi on 6-of-11 shooting, including 3-of-6 from 3-point range. Haskins tallied 16 points on 4-of-8 from 3, while junior Kilian Brockhoff added 14 on 4-of-6 from deep to go with four assists.
 
Emanuel finished with 12 points, while junior Reese Miller returned to the Tribe lineup and finished with 10. Lowe was strong all around with eight points and team-highs of six rebounds and seven assists.
 
W&M shot better than 50% from the floor for the second game in a row, hitting at a 50.9% clip (28-of-55). The Tribe was an impressive 15-of-30 (50%) from 3-point range and hit 12-of-14 (85.7%) at the free throw line. They finished with 20 assists on 28 made field goals and recorded nine steals.
 
The Tribe hit its first six shots from the floor, including four 3-pointers, in opening a double-digit lead just 3:08 into the contest. Emanuel connected on a pair of 3-pointers during the stretch, while Vahlberg Fasasi and Haskins each scored five apiece. Emanuel's second triple of the sequence gave W&M a 16-4 lead and forced a Duquesne timeout at the 16:52 mark.
 
The Dukes answered with six-straight points, including four from Jakub Necas, to draw within six, but W&M answered with nine in a row to push the lead to 15. Vahlberg Fasasi book-ended the run with a 3-pointer and a lay-up off a Brockhoff pass to push the margin to 25-10 with 12:22 left in the half.
 
W&M's advantage reached as much as 16. Brockhoff and Miller hit back-to-back 3-pointers to stretch the lead to 38-22 at the 5:31 mark.
 
A 10-1 Duquesne run narrowed the gap to seven. Alex Williams and Necas each scored five each during the spurt, and Necas's free throws at the 2:59 mark narrowed the gap to 39-32. W&M led by eight, 48-40, at the half thanks to shooting 56.7% from the field, including 9-of-16 (56.3%) from 3-point range in the opening 20 minutes.
 
The Tribe lead was 13, 61-48, thanks to five-straight Haskins points 7:29 into the second half.
 
Duquesne used an extended 20-2 to take its first lead of the contest. The Dukes scored 14 in a row capped by a Jake DiMichele 3-pointer from the right comer to give the home team the lead at 67-66 at the 7:03 mark. A Jimmie Williams driving lay-up with 5:47 left pushed the Duquesne advantage to its largest at 73-68 to cap the run.
 
Jimmie Williams led five Duquesne players in double figures with 16 points, while the A-10's leading scorer Tarence Guinyard posted 13 points. The Dukes shot 45.8% (27-of-59) from the floor, but was just 8-of-29 (27.6%) from 3 and hit just 17-of-24 (70.8%) at the charity stripe. Duquesne held a 36-24 advantage on the glass and turned 13 offensive rebounds in 20 seconds chance points.
 
Up Next
The Tribe wraps up the road portion of the nonconference schedule at George Washington on Saturday, Dec. 6. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m., and the game will mark the 50th anniversary of the Charles E. Smith Center. The contest will be streamed on ESPN+. Fans can listen into the radio broadcast on the Tribe Sports Network with Jay Colley and Brandon Britt '14 on the call. It will be available on The Tide 92.3 FM in Williamsburg, the flagship station of the Tribe Sports Network.