BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - Senior Ky Mauras (Reading, Pa./Reading) became the 30th member of the 1,000-point club in program history as he helped the Bloomsburg University men's basketball team to an impressive 82-55 victory over visiting Mansfield University on Wednesday night at the Nelson Field House. With the win, the Huskies improved to 9-15 overall and 6-12 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division while the Mountaineers dropped to 6-17 overall and 5-13 in the division.

Needing 14 points to reach the milestone entering the night, Mauras scored exactly 14 points against the Mountaineers with his 1,000th point coming on a free throw with just under eight minutes left in regulation. He moved into a tie with Karl Zachman for 29th place on the school's all-time scoring list with exactly 1,000 points. Zachman accomplished the feat while playing with the Huskies from 1989-93.

The senior guard struggled to get his shot to fall on Wednesday as he went 4-of-22 from the field and 1-of-10 from long range while knocking down five of his seven free-throw attempts. However, Mauras flirted with his second career triple-double as he added 12 rebounds and eight assists to go along with his milestone-reaching 14 points.

Freshman Justin Anderson (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Carroll) led the Huskies with 26 points on 11-of-15 from the field, 2-of-4 from deep, and 2-of-2 at the charity stripe. It was his eighth 20-point effort of the season. Redshirt senior Sam Saxton (York, Pa./Central York) added 14 points and a career-high 12 rebounds while sophomore Travis Elmore (Tobyhanna, Pa./Pocono Mountain West) also hit double figures as he finished with 11 points and seven boards. The double-double by Saxton was the first of his collegiate career.

Redshirt junior Max Wagner (Perkasie, Pa./Pennridge) chipped in with nine points and eight rebounds in the convincing win.

Mansfield grabbed its only lead of the night, 4-2, early before the Huskies went on a 14-2 run to take a 16-6 advantage with 13:33 left in the opening half. Saxton led the way with five points over the three-minute span while Anderson added three. Mauras, Elmore, and Wagner chipped in two apiece as Bloomsburg opened up its double-digit lead. The Mountaineers fought back and trimmed the deficit to three, 18-15, with 10:07 left in the first half, but the Huskies responded with the next eight points to extend the lead to 26-15 with just over seven minutes remaining in the opening stanza. Anderson had four points during the spurt.

The teams exchanged baskets the rest of the half as the Huskies took a 40-29 lead into intermission. Anderson had a dozen points in the opening twenty minutes to lead all scorers.

Bloomsburg scored the first four points of the second half to push the margin to 44-29 with the Mountaineers cutting the lead to ten - 46-36 - with 16 minutes left in regulation. That, however, would be as close as Mansfield would get as the Huskies outscored the visitors by a 27-11 margin over the next 12 minutes to balloon the advantage to 73-47 with 4:26 left. The hosts led by as many as 29 late before a pair of Mountaineer foul shots in the closing seconds decided the final margin.

Anderson had 14 points in the second half while Saxton nearly double-doubled over the final twenty minutes as he scored nine points and grabbed nine rebounds after the break.

The 55 points allowed by the Huskies on Wednesday night proved to be the second-fewest given up on the season. Bloomsburg posted a 96-50 win over visiting Cheyney University back on December 2.

Bloomsburg shot 31-of-69 (44.9%) from the field and hit 7-of-22 (31.8%) from beyond the arc while going 13-of-19 (68.4%) from the foul line. The Huskies' defense limited the Mountaineers to a 23-of-70 (32.9%) shooting performance from the field and a 5-of-24 (20.8%) showing from three-point range. Bloomsburg also out-rebounded Mansfield by a 51-39 margin.

Freshman Jake Nelson (West Chester, Pa./West Chester Rustin) added six points and four rebounds while junior Maqi Watson (Philadelphia, Pa./Mathematics, Civics, and Sciences Charter) contributed the other two points on the night for the Huskies.

Jonathan Ward led Mansfield with 13 points and seven rebounds.

Bloomsburg, which moved to within a game-and-a-half out of the final playoff spot in the PSAC East with the win, will look to make it two straight wins as it heads to West Chester University on Saturday, February 15. After starting the season with a 13-0 record, the Golden Rams are just 2-8 in their last ten games, including a 102-89 setback to the Huskies at the Nelson Field House back on January 25. Tip-off is slated for 3:00 p.m. from Hollinger Field House.