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Thursday, January 26, 2006
Lafayette 82, Army 61 (FINAL)
(Originally posted Wed. at 7:40 p.m., updated at 8:09 a.m.)

Don't look now, but Lafayette, sans scholarships, is emerging as a real threat to finish in the upper division of the conference. The Leopards snapped the trhee-game losing streak brought on by a horrendous bit of bad scheduling luck last week -- Lafayette played Ivy power Penn, then two of the top three in the Patriot in Bucknell and Lehigh -- and now sit 3-3 in the league, all alone in fourth, a full game ahead of American.

Four in double figures for Lafayette, led by Andrew Brown with 18. Andrei Capusan added 17. Pat Beltley with 12 and Bilal Abdullah with 10.

Lafayette shot 49 percent from the field and out rebounded Army 37-29.

Army's Matt Bell told Ken McMillan of the Times Herald-Record:
"It was a total bad team defensive effort. Our team is not going to win giving up that many points because we don't score 80 points a game."
Actually, the Black Knights did score 80 in their win over Navy Sunday. Before that, though, the last time they scored 80 was in an 85-72 win over Lafayette in the 2001-2002 season.

Jarell Brown had 29 for Army, but the rest of the Black Knights were 10 of 32 from the field.
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