VESTAL, N.Y. - Visiting UMBC (8-18, 3-8 America East) hit 12 three-pointers, built a double-digit cushion and held off Binghamton men's basketball (11-13, 3-8 AE) 89-78 Thursday night at Dr. Bai Lee Court at the Events Center. The Retrievers shot 56 percent in the second half to keep their 11-point halftime margin. 

Binghamton trailed by as many as 16 points midway through the second half before pulling to within six, 82-76, with 3:17 to play. But UMBC drilled its 12th three-pointer with 2:46 left for the final dagger. 

Graduate forward Armon Harried filled in at point guard for the third straight game and wound up with team-highs of 19 points and six assists. Senior guard Tymu Chenery added 16 points, senior forward Nehemiah Benson had 11 points in 19 minutes and sophomore Chris Walker chipped in 10 points and a team-high nine rebounds in a season-high 31 minutes of work. 

In the first half, UMBC broke away from a 17-17 tie midway through and used a 22-9 run spanning 6+ minutes to take control. The Retrievers hit 9-of-18 from 3-point range and carved a 46-35 lead at intermission. Harried had 12 of his points in the opening period and Benson added nine. But BU couldn't match UMBC from beyond the arc, where they hit just 2-of-11 for the half. 

In the second, Chenery took over with 13 of his 16 points and the Bearcats shot 49 percent but couldn't get enough stops to complete the rally.

"It's hard to win when you are giving up that many points," head coach Levell Sanders said. "We have to get back to playing defense the way we did the previous five games. Before tonight I thought we were defending at a high level. Today that wasn't the case. We have to have a different commitment level ... if you aren't ready to scrap and claw ... nobody is giving you anything. We have to do the little things that end up being big things if you don't do them."

Binghamton now plays three of its final five regular season games on the road, beginning with a Saturday afternoon tilt in Newark against NJIT (7-16, 2-8 AE).