TEANECK, N.J. – The Saint Francis men's basketball team out-shot and out-rebounded Fairleigh Dickinson, but the Knights made 32 free throws to defeat the Red Flash 69-56 on Thursday night at the Rothman Center.

Saint Francis shot 45.1 percent and had 34 rebounds, and FDU made 38.3 percent of its field goal attempts and pulled down 30 rebounds. However, the Knights capitalized on 78 percent of 41 free throw attempts, while the Red Flash struggled at the foul line with seven makes in just 15 attempts.

SFU will try to bounce back with a 4 p.m. contest on Saturday at St. Francis-NY. The Red Flash won a meeting earlier this year against the Terriers, 69-65, at DeGol Arena.

Junior Devin Sweetney (Washington, DC /Riverdale Baptist) (Washington, D.C. / Riverdale Baptist) had a team-high 12 points – all in the second half – to go with four rebounds and three steals, and senior Grant Surprenant (Palatine, IL /Palatine) (Palatine, Ill. / Palatine) and junior Mislav Jukic (Zagreb, Crotia/Life Center Acadamy) (Zagreb, Croatia / Life Center Academy) had 11 points each. Senior Cale Nelson (Newville, PA /Big Spring) (Newville, Pa. / Big Spring) dished out six assists and had three points. He is inching closer to the SFU record books with 317 career assists, just six shy of tying Garrett Farha (2004-06) and Don Graham (1975-69) for sixth on the school's all-time list.

Eric Moore paced all scorers with 17 points for the Knights, while Cameron Tyler and John Galvin had 16 and 10 points, respectively.

Overall, there were eight ties and eight lead changes in the ballgame with Fairleigh Dickinson taking the lead for good on a Galvin bucket – FDU's final field goal of the evening - with 4:18 remaining to make it 55-53. After that bucket, the Knights scored their final 14 points from the charity stripe.