Mahwah, NJ: The Ramapo College men's basketball team outlasted the University of Scranton tonight in overtime, 86-82 at the Bradley Center. The Roadrunners improve to 5-1 overall while the Royals now stand at 2-2.

With 2:16 left in regulation Jermaine Emanuel hit two foul shots to tie the game at 72 before he put them in the lead 74-72 with 1:17 on the clock on another pair of made foul shots. The Royals came within in on, 74-73 with a made foul shot of their own at 1:06 by Ross Danzig. before they took a one point lead with 37 seconds left in the game on a jumper by Mark Bevacuqa.

Will Sanborn then hit a big three point shot with 18 seconds on the clock to take a two point lead, 77-75 before the Royals' Tommy Morgan made a pair of foul shots to tie the game with six seconds left. The Roadrunners got a shot off before the final buzzer sounded but it was not good sending the game into overtime.

In the overtime period, Danzig drove to the basket and scored before Sanborn hit another three point shot to go up three, 80-79 (3:43). The Royals made one foul shot by Morgan to tie the game at 80 with 2:03 left in the game before Ramapo took the lead for good on two made foul shots by Stephon Treadwell, 82-80 with just 55 seconds in the game. A pair of made foul shots by Nick Jaskula were sandwiched between Garret Thiel and Emanuel's made foul shots as Ramapo came away with the 86-82 win.

The game was tied at the half 30-30 while the second half saw both teams go on scoring runs to take the lead in the game. Both teams shot 46% from the field in the game while the Royals made 10 of 26 three pointers and Ramapo made nine of 22. Sanborn led the team with 24 points as he hit six three pointers while going 6-14 from the foul line. Emanuel, Treadwell, LaQuan Peterkin and Rich Grant all tallied 11 points in the game. Garret Thiel dished out a team high seven assists while Emanuel was 6-6 from the charity stripe.

Ramapo returns to action on Wednesday when they travel to NJAC rival William Paterson University at 8:00pm.