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ST. LOUIS - Rhode Island outscored Saint Louis 8-3 over the final 4:48 of the game and registered a 59-57 Atlantic 10 Conference victory over the Billikens Wednesday night at Chaifetz Arena.
Jordair Jett led the Bills (7-12, 2-4 A-10) with 14 points and 7-of-10 shooting. Kyle Cassity had 11 points and a game-high five assists, while Dwayne Evans and Mike McCall netted nine points apiece. Evans (six rebounds) and Cody Ellis (five) led the Billiken effort on the boards.
Delroy James (10-of-19 FG) scored a game-high 21 points and added six rebounds and three blocks for Rhode Island (13-7, 4-2 A-10). Marquis Jones scored 13 points, while Will Martell collected a game-high eight rebounds.
Rhode Island shot 54.2 percent in the second half and finished at 49 percent for the game to SLU's 38.3 percent.
The Rams nudged the Billikens 35-34 on the boards. The teams combined for just 15 turnovers, with Saint Louis committing six and Rhode Island suffering nine.
Rhode Island stretched a one-point halftime lead to four, 34-30, in the opening moments of the second half. Saint Louis earned a 35-34 edge with two Ellis free throws and a Cassity 3-pointer. After the Rams pulled even with a free throw, the Billikens completed a 9-1 run with Jett's baseline drive and two Christian Salecich free throws for a 39-35 advantage.
Cory Remekun answered Delroy James' long 2-pointer with a dunk that restored SLU's four-point edge at 41-37. URI made it a one-point game on Nikola Malesevic's 3-pointer, but McCall responded with an offensive rebound and layup to give Saint Louis a 43-40 lead.
When Rhode Island tied it at 43 on a free throw and a dunk, it was the first of four deadlocks that occurred during the next three minutes. Jett's reverse layup on a baseline drive, followed by an Evans free throw, put the Billikens in front 52-49. James hit a spinner in the lane, but Jett's pull-up jumper allowed SLU to regain a three-point margin, 54-51, with 4:48 remaining.
However, those were the last points the Bills would score until less than a second remained on the clock. Two straight buckets by James put Rhode Island in front to stay, 55-54, but SLU could not take advantage of missed shots on the Rams' next two possessions. Following a URI timeout with 38.8 seconds left, Martell gathered a James miss, made a layup and finished a traditional three-point play with 18 seconds to play for a 58-54 Rhody lead.
The Billikens had two chances on their next possession but failed to convert. Martell made one of two free throws with three seconds left, and Cassity's 3-pointer with two-tenths of a second left was not enough.
The Billikens jumped out to an 8-3 lead on an Evans fast-break layup, McCall's jumper from the right wing and drives by Evans and Cassity. James then scored five points in an 8-0 spurt that gave Rhode Island an 11-8 lead.
Following a McCall 3-pointer that tied it, Rhode Island regained the lead on Jones' baseline jumper. Cassity's trey put the Bills back on top, the first of five lead changes in a span of less than two minutes.
SLU led by three points on three occasions, the final time 24-21 on a Salecich jumper from the top of the key at the 4:55 mark. But the Billikens scored just two more points the rest of the half, and Rhode Island took a 27-26 lead into the break.
The Billikens travel to Washington, D.C., to face George Washington Saturday, Jan. 29. Tip time is 1 p.m. (CT).
