PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Brandeis University men's basketball senior Toby Harris (Durham, N.C./Durham Acad.) became the 36^th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point career plateau when he hit a free throw with 21 seconds to go in the game, helped the Judges to a key University Athletic Association road win, 92-76, at Carnegie Mellon University.

TEAM RECORDS

• Brandeis: 12-4, 3-2 UAA.
• Carnegie Mellon: 10-6, 1-4 UAA.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The first half was tight, featuring nine lead changes and four ties.
• CMU had the largest lead of the first half at seven points when RJ Holmes' hook shot capped a 9-0 run and gave the Tartans a 16-9 lead with 13:07 on the clock
• The Judges were still behind by six points six minutes later after a pair of Holmes foul shots made it 30-24 at the 7:21 mark.
• Brandeis caught fire from beyond the arc at that point, with Harris connecting from deep to cut the deficit in half, grad student Sam Adusei (Worcester, Mass./St. George's School) tying it up and Harris dialing long distance again to give the Judges a 33-30 lead with 1:10 later.
• The lead traded hands five more times over the last five minutes of action, with the Judges closing on a 7-5 run to take a 49-48 lead into the locker room.
• Both teams shot 55.2% from the field (16-29) in the first half, with Brandeis hitting 64.7% from beyond the arc (11-17) compared to 43.8% for CMU (7-16). The Tartans had a 9-6 edge from the free throw line to balance things out.
• Adusei finished with 13 first-half point points and Harris had 12. Holmes led CMU with 20 points as Brandeis kept the Tartans' Justin Allen – Division III's second-leading scorer – to just two points.
• Brandeis opened the second half by scoring the first six points, including two buckets by junior Elias Rodl (Berlin, Germany/Schulund Leistungssportzentrum Berlin) to take a 55-48 lead three minutes in, and the Judges never trailed again.
• A Rodl bucket with 13:05 to go in the game gave Brandeis its first double-digit lead at 65-55, and the Judges never let the hosts any closer than three possessions the rest of the way.
• Harris's milestone foul shots were the last points scored in the game.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• The Judges had a balanced attack to defeat the Tartans, with a season-high six different players scoring in double figures.
• Rodl scored 15 of his team-high 20 points in the second half. He finished 9-olf-16 from the field and 2-of-6 from 3-point range.
• Harris added 18 points. He hit just 4-of-14 overall, but made 3-of-6 from downtown and all seven of his free throws.
• Adusei finished with 15 points and a game- and season-high eight rebounds.
• Grad student Aedan Using (Old Lyme, Conn./Old Lyme), junior Matthew Cadogan (Weston, Fla./Cypress Bay) and junior Ethan Edwards (Brooklyn, N.Y./Woodstock Acad.) each scored 10 points.
• Using also led all players with eight assists and tied his career high with four blocked shots.
• The Judges, who entered the game second in Division III in field goal percentage and first in 3-point percentage, finished shooting 52.5% from the field (31-59) and 50% from beyond the arc (14-28).
• Harris and Adusei had three trifectas each, while Cadogan, Rodl and Using each had two.
• CMU was led by Holmes, who scored 24 points, but just four in the second half. Isaac Higgs finished with 15 points and Aidan Murphy had 14. Allen scored nine points in the second half to finish with 11, his lowest total of the season and 15 points below his season average.
• Buckley Desjardin led Carnegie Mellon with seven rebounds, while Holmes had five assists and three blocked shots.
• After shooting 55.2% in the first half, the Tartans shot just 30.6% in the second (11-36), including 23.1% from 3-point range (3-13).

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

• Harris is Brandeis's first 1,000-point scorer since Collin Sawyer '21/M'22 in 2022.
• Brandeis had never swept a Case Western Reserve/Carnegie Mellon road trip before. The last time the Judges beat both schools on the road was in 2009, when each had different travel partners.
• Brandeis has won four of their last five games on the road in Pittsburgh.
• The Judges remain a game behind NYU, Washington University and the University of Chicago in the UAA standings.

UP NEXT

• The Judges wrap up the first half of the UAA schedule next weekend with the annual Midwest trip, starting Friday evening at Washington University in St. Louis at 6:30 p.m. Eastern/5:30 Central.