Bahamian NCAA Hoopers Shine on Thursday Night

UNITED STATES – Deyton Albury of Queens University, North Carolina and AJ Storr of The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball teams both had big games for their teams on Thursday night. 

Albury, who is emerging as one of the best players in the Atlantic Sun Conference scored 22 points on 6 of 10 shooting and grabbed 6 rebounds as his Royals routed the Eastern Kentucky Colonels 94-76. 

The game was a season-changing one for the Royals as the Colonels were the best team in the conference, coming into the game with a 7-0 record against Albury’s 2-5 Royals. Despite being the underdog they never waivered, jumping on EKU early, and finishing the first half with a 42-35 lead before turning on the gas in the 2nd half. 

Wisconsin’s Storr also had himself a big night, matching his career high with 28 points and grabbing 3 rebounds. Unfortunately, he and his Badgers were upset by the Nebraska Cornhuskers 80-72. 

Wisconsin came into the game a heavy favorite, holding an 8-2 conference record against Nebraska’s record of 5-5. They looked the part early, shooting 56% to build an 18-point lead in the first half with Storr doing a lot of the work, scoring the team’s first ten points. 

Wisconsin came out like a completely different team in the second half, shooting 36% and having a stretch where they turned the ball over 8 times in 8 minutes, allowing Nebraska to erase the deficit and send the game into overtime, where they would eventually prevail. 

The loss was an embarrassing one for the number 6 Badgers who fall to 7-2 in the conference, but they have no time to sulk, they have a big matchup on Sunday when they play Purdue, the number 2 team in the nation.

Albury and his Royals will also have the chance to climb their conference ranks tomorrow when they play Bellarmine at 1 pm.