VESTAL., N.Y. - Binghamton men's basketball (5-18, 1-7 America East) closed the game with a 10-0 run to overtake Bryant (6-15, 2-5 AE) 63-60 Thursday night at Dr. Bai Lee Court at the Events Center. The win, Bing's fifth at home this season, gave the Bearcats their first conference victory and kept them in the playoff race at the halfway point of the 16-game slate. 

Junior guard Jeremiah Quigley tallied eight of his team-high 21 points in the final five minutes as the Bearcats rallied. Down 57-49 with 4:47 left, Binghamton got the needed spark from Quigley, who made his final three shots, sank two clinching free throws with one second left and added two assists to lift the team. His post feed to classmate Zyier Beverly and Beverly's subsequent dunk gave the Bearcats a 61-60 lead with 8.8 seconds remaining. After a Bryant 3-point miss on the other end, Quigley sealed the win with a pair of free throws.  

"Its's good to get the 'W,'" head coach Levell Sanders said. "I thought the guys were resilient tonight. We made winning plays. It feels good to finally make more plays than our opponent to win it. It was a game that we controlled for most of it, but then lost the lead. We didn't panic and executed on both sides of the basketball, especially late in the game."

The Bearcats led by as many as 10 points in the first half and were ahead on the scoreboard for nearly 25 minutes of the game. But the reigning champion Bulldogs used a 23-9 second-half run to pull ahead 57-49 with 5:06 left. Quigley snapped a 2:39 scoreless stretch with a step back jumper that started the Bing rally. Junior guard Bryson Wilson then took a feed from Beverly and soared for a dunk with 3:19 left, cutting the deficit to four, 57-53. After Bryant stabilized with a 3-pointer, Quigley and Wilson countered with layups to pull the Bearcats back to within three, 60-57 with 1:54 left. Another Quigley driving layup brought Bing to within one, 60-59, with 1:17 remaining. A Wilson steal on the other end gave the ball back to the Bearcats and set up the Beverly go-ahead jam.

Quigley, the conference leader in assists (6.3/game), added eight more to his ledger. He entered the game ranked 19th in the country. Wilson tallied 14 points and six rebounds. Beverly finished with nine points and six boards in 25 minutes. Leading scorer (14.4 ppg., AE play) Wes Peterson was limited to 16 minutes after a first-half injury. With Peterson out, Binghamton closed the game with six available scholarship players.  

Binghamton led 30-28 at half and then shot 52 percent in the second period.  

The Bearcats are off until beginning a two-game, four-day road trip next Thursday at UMBC.