LORETTO, Pa. – The Saint Francis men's basketball team moved into a three-way tie for first place in the Northeast Conference after its 91-82 victory over Central Connecticut on Saturday afternoon at DeGol Arena. Ronnie Drinnon (Jamestown, Ohio/Greenview) had career highs with 23 points and 20 rebounds. Ben Millaud-Meunier (Montreal, Quebec/Vanier) led all scorers with 27 points, including making 8-of-11 from three-point range.

The Red Flash (12-11, 8-4) scored 48 points in the first half, its highest output against a Division I opponent this season in the first half and just four points shy of matching its first half total against Westminster in November.

Millaud-Meunier led the way in the first. He scored 18 points and made five three pointers. He followed a Malik Harmon (Queens, N.Y./Christ the King) three pointer with back-to-back threes to give the Flash a 26-13 lead with 10:50 left in the half. He hit another to push the lead to 33-18 with 8:35 to play. Drinnon pitched in with seven points and eight rebounds in the first half. His fast-break layup after a steal and feed by Harmon pushed the lead to its biggest point of the half, 38-21, with 6:02 left. Harmon scored all eight of his points and Josh Nebo (Katy, Texas/Cypress Lakes) scored his six points in the first half. The Flash led, 48-32, at the half. SFU played turnover-free basketball in the first half and finished with 16 assists to just six turnovers.

Nebo also finished with five blocks to become the first Saint Francis player to hit that mark since Scott Eatherton had five at Monmouth in January 2012. Nebo has 35 blocks this season, moving him into the top-10 and all the way into a tie for sixth place on the single-season blocks list.

Millaud-Meunier made another three on the Flash's first possession of the second half to expand the lead to its largest of the day at 51-32. Central Connecticut fought back to cut the lead as close as six on a Jahlil Nails layup with 8:14 to play. Saint Francis went on a 12-2 run to push the lead back to 77-61 with 4:43 left on a Basil Thompson (Philadelphia, Pa./Imhotep Charter) breakaway dunk after a Jamaal King (Salisbury, Md./Bishop O'Connell) steal. CCSU again cut its deficit to single digits with just over a minute to play, but the Blue Devils ran out of time to make any sort of serious threat. Greg Brown (Odenton, Md./Archbishop Spalding) scored 15 points and Thompson finished with 10.

Drinnon took center stage in the second half, amassing 16 points and 12 rebounds in the final 20 minutes. He became the first Red Flash player to reach 20 rebounds in a game since Earl Brown (Philadelphia, Pa./Imhotep Charter) had 25 against Central Connecticut in January 2013. He's just the sixth NEC player to have a 20/20 game in the last 19 years. He's also just the seventh player in Division I since 2010 to have a 20-point, 20-rebound, five-assist game. He joins LSU's Ben Simmons as the only two players to pull off that feat this season.

Millaud-Meunier's 27 points allowed him to easily surpass the 900-point plateau. Head coach Rob Krimmel earned career win No. 43 to move into sole possession of ninth place on the school's coaching wins list.

Saint Francis hits the road Thursday to face Robert Morris. The game will be nationally televised on ESPNU with a 5 p.m. start time.