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Clinton Efinda looks to make a pass to a teammate in the first half of a road game at Penn State on Nov. 2, 2026.
Anthony Militello
86
Winner Canisius Canis 2-2,0-0 Metro
81
Brown BRN 1-3,0-0 Ivy League
Winner
Canisius Canis
2-2,0-0 Metro
86
Final
81
Brown BRN
1-3,0-0 Ivy League
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Canisius Canis 44 42 86
Brown BRN 30 51 81

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Men’s Basketball Scores Road Win at Brown

The Canisius men's basketball team shot 57.4 percent from the field, made 13 3-pointers and turned 16 Brown turnovers into 24 points en route to an 86-81 victory over the Bears in non-conference action Thursday night at the Pizzitola Center in Providence, R.I.
 
Junior Michael Wilson Jr. led all scorers with a game-high 31 points as the Golden Griffins posted their second-straight win to even their record at 2-2 on the year. Brown fell to 1-3 with the loss.
 
Senior Clinton Efinda scored 16 points and grabbed seven boards, while graduate student Vinny Sigona added 10 points, four rebounds and a pair of steals. Graduate student Nate Fouts chipped in nine points, six rebounds and six assists and sophomore Jerry Guerrero came off the bench to score nine points as well, as Canisius scored its first true road win in the month of November since beating St. Bonaventure in Olean, N.Y., on Nov. 11, 2023.
 
For Brown, Isaiah Langham came off the bench and scored 19 points, while Jeremiah Jenkins and Brady Loughlin added 13 points, apiece. The Bears shot 56.7 percent (34-for-60) from the field in the game, highlighted by a 66.7 percent (20-for-30) effort in the game's second half, but it was not enough to overcome the Griffs' best scoring output against a Division I team since the Blue and Gold scored 86 points in an overtime loss to Marist at home on Jan. 30, 2026.
 
Midway through the first half, Brown led Canisius 22-16, but the Griffs took over from there, outscoring the Bears 28-8 over the final 9:33 of the opening half to take a 44-30 lead into the locker room at the break. In that surge, Wilson Jr. and Guerrero accounted for 19 of Canisius' points, with Guerrero's nine points coming on the power of three 3-point field goals.
 
In the second half, a pair of free-throws by Wilson pushed the Griffs' lead to 70-54 with 10:48 left to play. However, the Bears battled back and trimmed the Canisius lead to just three points at 72-69 thanks to a 15-2 run over the span of 3:53 that forced a Canisius timeout. With 3:18 left on the clock, Brown cut the Griffs' lead to two points at 77-75, but a bucket by senior Preist Ryan and another free-throw make by Wilson Jr. pushed Canisius' lead back to five at 80-75 with 2:24 left on the clock. Fouts and Sigona hit four straight free throws in the game's closing 18 seconds to seal the victory for Canisius, giving the program its first road win over an Ivy League opponent since beating Brown on the road on Jan. 3, 2006.


 
GAME NOTES
• Thursday was the 10th all-time meeting between Canisius and Brown. Canisius leads the series, 6-4.
• The Griffs snapped a three-game losing skid to Brown with the victory, a skid which dated back to the 2018-19 campaign.
• The Griffs' 11 steals are the most for the team since the Blue and Gold had 13 steals at Mount St. Mary's on Feb. 16, 2025.
• In their last two outings, Canisius has made 28 3-point field goals after making a total of nine treys in the first two games of the season.
• Canisius was credited with 18 assists on 27-made field goals in the win, with Fouts' six assists falling one short of matching his career high.
• Wilson Jr. is the 10th Canisius player in program history to score 31-or more points in a road game, and he is the first Griff to do it since Paul McMillan IV had 31 points at Fairfield on Jan. 18, 2025.
 
UP NEXT
Canisius returns to action on Sunday when the team travels north on Main Street to meet cross-town rival Buffalo at Broadview Arena. Game time is set for 5:30 p.m., and the contest will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
 
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