GENESEO, N.Y. – Hamilton College's Garret Keyhani '26 scored 14 points, including the game-winning basket with 0.6 seconds remaining, and the Continentals secured a 74-73 comeback win over the SUNY Geneseo Knights inside Geneseo's Schrader Gym on Tuesday, Jan. 20.

Season Update

• Hamilton (5-12 overall) played its final non-conference game of the season and collected its first road win.
• The Knights (8-7), who are 4-2 in the Empire 8 Conference, were coming off an overtime win at Utica University on Jan. 17.

How It Happened

• Hamilton trailed Geneseo 71-63 with 1:52 remaining in the second half. Nate Raub '27 converted an offensive rebound putback with 1:40 left, and Keyhani came up with a block and a defensive rebound at the other end that led to a quick transition basket for Jack Stowell '27 at the 1:18 mark. Following a missed Geneseo free throw, Matthew Rideout '27 drove to the basket and finished a contested layup that cut the Continentals' deficit to 71-69 with 50 seconds remaining.
• Geneseo's Landon Brunken sank two free throws with 35 seconds to go and pushed the lead back to four, but Raub swished a 3-pointer from the top of the key at the other end and made it a one-point game. Hamilton regained possession after Geneseo missed the front end of a one-and-one.
• With four seconds remaining, Keyhani caught the ball near the top of the key, drove to his right and banked in a floater that gave the Continentals their first lead of the second half. The Knights inbounded the ball following a timeout, but were unable to get a shot off.
• Geneseo held a 10-7 lead with 15:42 remaining in the first half before the Continentals went on an 11-2 run and took their largest lead of six points at 18-12 with 11:41 left.
• Following a 3-pointer by Rideout with 9:06 left that made it 21-16, the Knights swung the momentum with a 13-0 run for a 29-21 advantage with 5:24 remaining.
• Stowell drilled a 3-pointer that ended the run and cut Hamilton's deficit to 31-29 with an old-fashioned 3-point play at the 2:38 mark. Keyhani scored the final basket of the first half with 15 seconds remaining, and Geneseo held a 38-35 edge at the intermission.
• The Knights' lead moved between one and six points the first seven minutes of the second half until Rideout scored five straight via a pull-up jumper from the right side and a triple from the top of the key that tied the score at 49-49 with 12:31 remaining.
• Geneseo used an 11-2 burst with the help of nine points from Trevor Hofer and took its largest lead of nine at 60-51 with 9:49 left. Hamilton responded with a 6-0 run that made it a one-possession game at the 8:19 mark.
• The Knights' Justin Yearwood scored four straight points and Jackson Casey sank a 3-pointer at the 3:03 mark following a layup by Hamilton's Jalen Reese '27 that extended Geneseo's lead to 69-61.
• The Continentals shot 58.62% from the field during the second half, including 15-of-22 (68.18%) on 2-pointers, and converted seven of their final nine shot attempts.

Notes

• Rideout scored a team-high 16 points for the Continentals. He leads the team in scoring and is seventh in the NESCAC with 15.2 per game.
• Raub shot 5-of-6 from the floor and 2-for-2 at the line and finished with 13 points. He added three blocked shots and is tied with Reese for second in the NESCAC with 1.4 per game.
• Reese also scored in double figures with 11 points to go along with a game-high eight rebounds.
• David Melson '29 and Stowell added eight points apiece.
• The Continentals shot 53.4% from the field, their second-best field goal percentage in a game this season.
• Hamilton outscored the Knights in the paint, 42-30.
• Hofer scored a game-high 17 points for the Knights. Robert Pericolosi tallied 16 points, seven assists and six rebounds.
• Josh Garelle and Yearwood also scored in double figures for Geneseo with 12 and 10 points, respectively.
• Geneseo shot 15-for-20 from the free-throw line, compared to 6-for-9 for the Continentals.
• Hamilton has won each of its last six meetings with Geneseo dating back to the 2017-18 campaign.

 

Next Game

Hamilton resumes conference play at Amherst College (11-5, 1-2 NESCAC) on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 3 p.m.