Wayne, NJ --- The Brooklyn College Men's Basketball team dropped an overtime thriller, 86-79, on the road against the Pioneers of William Patterson University on Monday night. With the loss, BC falls to 3-9 overall on the season, while William Patterson improves to 10-5 overall on the year.

Senior Kavon Baker played all 45 minutes on the night, while netting a game-high 32 points on 10-for-20 shooting from the field, including going 11-13 from the free throw line. He also added six assists. Baker's 32 points is also a career-high.

Freshman Egzon Gjonbalaj posted his first-career double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Both are career-high's. Senior Jeffrey Noel added 12 points, while classmate Steven Grant chipped in with 11 points and six rebounds coming off the bench.

William Patterson's Lance Brown scored a team-high 19 points to go with seven rebounds, while Terik Bridgeman finished the night with a double-double with 18 points and a game-high 17 rebounds, to help the Pioneers out-rebound the Bulldogs 44-36 for the game. Jaques Conceicao added 12 points off the bench, while Rick DeStefano ended the night with 11 points.

The Bulldogs would take control of the game early on jumping out to a 10-point advantage, 17-7, with 14:18 remaining in the first half. The lead would vanish fairly quickly, as William Patterson answered with a 13-1 run to take a 20-18 advantage at the 11:05 mark. The run included three straight three-pointers by the home team.

From there on out the teams would exchange baskets until the Pioneers took control and built a lead to as many as seven on two occasions. William Patterson would eventually take a five point cushion, 38-33, into the halftime break.

William Patterson continued to push its advantage in the second half and would lead by as many as 11; however, the Bulldogs would not go down lightly and began to chip away at its deficit.

Trailing 46-35 with 16:27 left in the game, BC used a 23-11 to regain the lead, 58-57, with 8:56 remaining. The teams would once again trade baskets and leads as the game would head into overtime. Down by three, 69-66, with just 2:35 left in the game, Baker drilled a three to knot the game at 69 all with 2:04 remaining before the final buzzer. However, the offenses would go cold as neither team would score for the remainder of the period, as the game headed into OT.

William Patterson opened the extra period on an 11-1 run and never looked back as the Pioneers would take the hard fought 86-79 win.

In all, the game featured 10 lead changes and seven ties.

For the game, BC shot 47.4% (27-57) from the field, but struggled from three converting 22.7% (5-22) from beyond the arc. The Bulldogs also shot 80.0% (20-25) from the free throw line.

William Patterson shot 42.5% (31-73) from the field, including going 11-for-28 (39.3%) from downtown. The Pioneers also shot 61.9% (13-21) from the charity stripe.

Brooklyn returns to action this Wednesday, January 16th, as the Bulldogs will be on the road to take on the Hawks of Hunter College in a vital CUNY Athletic Conference tilt. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 pm.