DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - It took awhile for the Embry-Riddle men's basketball team's three-pointers to start falling on Saturday night, but once they did the 19th-ranked Eagles rolled past visiting Palm Beach Atlantic, 105-80. The Eagles (9-1, 3-1 SSC) set a program record with 52 three-point attempts on the night, making 17 of them, while dominating the glass, especially in the first half, sending the Sailfish (6-3, 1-2) to their second-straight loss of the series. Embry-Riddle got it's first win as a ranked team since March 14, 2015 when the Eagles knocked off Southern Oregon in the quarterfinals of the NAIA II National Tournament in Branson, Missouri.

Freshman Dru Nickson led six players in double-figures offensively, scoring a career-high 19 points off the bench for an Eagle team that shot 47 percent from the field for the game (38-for-81). Cj Henagan had a season-best 15 points with seven rebounds, four steals and three assists, while Tylin Lockett-Fuller stuffed the stat-sheet to the tune of 14 points, a career-high 11 boards, a career-high seven assists and three steals, flirting with a triple-double. Similarly, Luka Majstorovic flirted with a triple-double, going for 13 points, eight rebounds and seven blocks, extending his NCAA Division II-leading season total to 38.

The Eagles trailed 2-0 early, but it didn't last long as Romeo Crouch made a pair of layups to put ERAU up 4-2, and the Eagles pushed the lead out to 10-3 when Elijah Jenkins made a corner three. The Sailfish battled back and tied the game at 17-17 when Darhius Nunn hit a layup around the 10-minute mark, but the home team took over from there, ending the half on a 34-12 run, including a 13-0 spurt in the final three-and-a-half minutes.

Majstorovic made a layup to retake the lead for Embry-Riddle, and after some free throws from David Park and a layup from Chris Murray, Nickson nailed a trey to put the Eagles up nine. Lockett-Fuller's triple at the 4:42 mark made it 36-24 ERAU and after Jules Jasmin made a layup at with just under three minutes left, the Eagles held the Sailfish scoreless, getting contributions across the board, including a buzzer-beating jumper from Nick Heard to end the half, set up perfectly by a baseball pass from Nickson in the backcourt.

ERAU led 52-29 at the break and the Sailfish never got closer than 25 in the second period after Henagan opened the final period scoring with a three. The Eagle rotation pushed the lead out to as many as 43 in the closing half when DeJean Desiré slammed one home off a feed from Nickson.

As has been their M.O. this season, the Eagles shared the ball extremely well, racking up 28 assists on 38 made field goals, and setting season-highs in points off turnovers (32) and bench points (60). Also in double-figures for ERAU were Park with 11 and Heard with 10.

Embry-Riddle reached triple-digits for the sixth time in 2019-20, already the ninth-most in a season in program history.

The Eagles host Truett McConnell in the ICI Center on Thursday, Dec. 19 for a 7 p.m. tip.