WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Trailing by 22 points in the second half, the Delaware Valley men's basketball team managed to cut the deficit to 12 thanks to 3-of-3 shooting from the long range, but the deficit was too great to overcome with the Aggies falling to King's 98-88.
 
Godly Marc, Kamal Johnson and Zoelin Pair combined to put DelVal in a four-point lead in the first minute and 30 seconds. King's fought back to take a single point advantage ended by Johnson to give the Aggies back a single-point lead, 10-9. Back-to-back threes from the Monarchs put them in a three-point lead, tied by a Godly Marc long ball, 15-15.
 
King's broke open the scoring over the final 12 minutes with a 35-19 run to take a 16-point lead into the half. Antonio Redding and Rasheem Dearry combined for 13 of the Aggies' 19 points during the run with Johnson and Marc contributing a combined six.
 
The Aggies kept pace with the Monarchs to start the second-half with each team putting up 13 points through the first 5:32. Alec Hilliard sunk the long ball to put the Aggies ahead in the run by three and cut the deficit to 13, 63-50.
 
The Monarchs responded with a 25-16 run over a seven-minute span putting up eight points from the free throw line alone to reach their largest lead of the game, 22 points, with just under seven minutes left on the clock. Tyriq Toney-Bailey stopped the bleeding and started the comeback for the Aggies knocking down the three to start 10-0 run comprised of two more three-pointers from Redding and Godly Marc cutting the deficit back down to 12, 88-76.
 
DelVal held the slight 12-10 edge over King's through the final five minutes with Godly Marc adding another six points in the stanza to bring the final deficit down to just ten to end the game, 98-88.