WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
>> Saint Francis falls 81-71 to FDU in Northeast Conference (NEC) men's basketball action on Monday.
>> Cam Gregory (Accokeek, Md.) paced the Red Flash with a career-high 25 points, which was also the most points scored by a Frankies player this season.
>> Eli Wilborn (Middletown, Conn.) tallied 14 points and 11 rebounds in the loss.

TURNING POINT OF THE GAME
Gregory gave the Red Flash a 44-43 lead with 18:56 left in the game on a 3-pointer before the Knights took the lead for good on a triple of their own. After FDU extended the advantage to 57-49, the Frankies cut the margin to three points midway through the final frame only to see the Knights answer with a 6-0 run and Saint Francis could get no closer than five points the rest of the night.

FLASH QUOTES
"I thought we took a step forward tonight. Unfortunately, we needed to take two steps forward to win a game like that. I thought we executed for the most part for 40 minutes and did a pretty good job of taking care of the basketball against their pressure. Unfortunately, we needed again probably another step or two in order to win the game but we did do some good things. It's disappointing to play hard and come up short." – head coach Rob Krimmel on the game
 
"There have been situations in my playing career and in my coaching career where you just got to understand that it's going to be tough at times, but you got to dig down and find that override switch and everybody has it. There is no exact plan for it and here are some things that you can do as a coach and there's some things that you can do as a player. I'm excited to see where this group can go. I really am because they do have an in them, but just have to find the ability to do it consistently day in and day out, night in night out." – Krimmel on the current stretch
 
"Everything is about the team for me. I know that we're better than this. I know that we are the tougher team every night and we just have to keep displaying that and there's going to be ups and downs throughout the season. But we will we will reach that point." – Gregory on the current stretch
 
He definitely plays hard every night. Aidan's a fierce rebounder, and he might not score a lot of points, but he plays the hardest out of everybody every night. He's the glue guy for us. And he's a great player, no matter if he scores 20 points, or zero points." – Gregory on Aidan Harris
 
"My family and I were very stoked. I mean, I've been working my whole life to play at a school just like this and the emotions were through the roof when Saint Francis University allowed me to come play here on a full ride scholarship. I've never been more grateful in my entire life." – Aidan Harris on coming to Saint Francis
 
"Coach Eric Taylor brought a word to me that I've actually never knew existed when it came to basketball and it's called grime. I know it means to work hard, and push that override button. And I'm going do whatever it takes to make that word speak into existence." – Harris on grime

FLASH MOMENTS
Trailing 11-9, the Red Flash went on a 6-0 spurt to take its largest lead at 15-11 with 13:47 left in the first half. Wilborn, Gregory and Carlos Lopez, Jr. (Egg Harbor, N.J.) all had a basket in the surge.
 
Fueled by 11 points by Gregory, Saint Francis closed the half on a 20-10 run to close the half to go into the locker room trailing, 41-39.
 
The Red Flash started the second half scoring five of the first seven points to take its final lead at 44-43. Wilborn had a bucket and Gregory hit from downtown for the one-point lead 64 seconds into the final frame. The Frankies scored five unanswered points thanks to a layup by Gestin Liberis (Havertown, Pa.) and a 3-ball by Bobby Rosenberger III (Quakertown, Pa.) to cut the margin to 57-54 with 10:15 on the clock, but could not trim the margin again.

FLASH NUGGETS
After Lopez tied Gregory with two 20-point performances thanks to his 21 points against CCSU on Saturday, Gregory said I can do better and notched his third 20-point game along with becoming the first Flash player to score 25 points in a game this season. Gregory and Lopez have accounted for all five 20-point performances and all five have come at DeGol Arena. Gregory, who was held to single digits in back-to-back games for the first time this season, registered his 11th game with 10+ points and seventh game with 16 points or more. The sophomore added four rebounds and four assists on the night.
 
Wilborn registered his sixth double-double of the season and his seventh 10+ rebound game. It was also his third double-double in four conference games and his sixth in his last 12 contests with half of his tricks coming at home and the other half on the road. Wilborn also dished out a career-high four assists and continued his string of consecutive games with a block to 10 games, but had his string of consecutive contests with at least three rejections stopped at four games.
 
Rosenberger finished the game with eight points, while Aidan Harris (Annapolis, Md.) tallied six points, seven rebounds and two steals. Harris has recorded at least four rebounds in the last five tilts and posted seven or more in three of those contests.
 
Saint Francis made 10 baskets from behind the arc for the fourth time this season and the third time in Loretto.
 
The Frankies are 0-4 in league play for the second time under head coach Rob Krimmel, joining the 2021-22 team.

NEXT UP
Saint Francis returns to action on Friday to conclude a three-game homestand against LIU. Game time is 7 p.m.