HOBOKEN, N.J. – Hamilton College's Hank Morgan '25 netted a career-high 32 points and the Continentals posted a 78-57 win against the York College of Pennsylvania Spartans in the Stevens Institute of Technology Holiday Classic championship game inside Canavan Arena on Saturday, Jan. 4. 
 

Season Update

• Hamilton (11-1 overall), which advanced to the title game with a 72-61 victory against the hosts on Jan. 3, earned its 10th straight win. 
• York (7-4), which is a member of the MAC Commonwealth, had won its previous three games.  

How It Happened

• Tied 13-13, the Continentals got hot with a 12-3 surge and took a 25-16 lead with 10:19 left in the first half. Morgan, Garret Keyhani '26, Nate Raub '27, Matthew Rideout '27 and Jalen Reese '27 all scored during the run. 
• The Spartans went on a 6-1 spurt and sliced their deficit to five points at 32-27 with a little over five minutes remaining. 
• The Continentals responded with the next seven points for a 39-27 cushion with 3:25 to go. 
• Keyhani buried a jumper at the buzzer for a 41-31 advantage at the break. 
• A fast-break layup by Keyhani and another by Morgan at the start of the second half gave the Continentals a 14-point lead. 
• The Spartans were able to narrow the margin down to nine points at 45-36 with 17:05 left.
• Hamilton put some distance between itself and York with a 12-0 run for a 73-50 lead with 4:23 remaining. Morgan tallied six of those points, while Raub, Keyhani and Teja Singh '25 combined for the other six.

Notes

• Morgan finished 13-of-19 from the floor, including 3-of-6 from beyond the arc. He also made a team-best three steals and was selected the tournament's most valuable player. 
• Keyhani chipped in nine points and Singh had eight. 
• Reese contributed seven points, a team-best seven rebounds and three blocks off the bench.  
• Owen Kane '25 grabbed six defensive rebounds. 
• Raub recorded seven points while Rideout added six. 
• Sharif Nelson '26 dished out a career-high five assists. 
• Hamilton received 27 points from its bench to York's 12. The Continentals gathered 15 fast-break points. 
• The Continentals shot 55.9 percent (33-59) from the floor, including 35.3 percent (6-17) from the 3-point line, and was 6-for-8 at the charity stripe. 
• York finished 35 percent (21-60) from the field, and struggled from long range (3-19), but went 12-for-17 at the free-throw line. 

Next Game

Hamilton returns to Margaret Bundy Scott Field House on Tuesday, Jan. 7 for a non-conference matchup against Franklin & Marshall College (7-4) at 1 p.m.