Roos Open Season with 23-Point Win over Trojans

Monday, November 4

Kansas City, Mo.

6:00 PM

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Roos Open Season with 23-Point Win over Trojans

11/4/2024 9:12:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score Coach Menzies Postgame Faas/Brown Postgame Photo Gallery

Jamar Brown dropped 26 points and nine rebounds, Davontae Hall dished eight assists in the win

KANSAS CITY - Kansas City Men's Basketball (1-0) opened up the 2024-25 season with a 91-68 win over Hannibal-LaGrange (0-1) this evening, outscoring the Trojans by 20 points in the second half. Jamar Brown led the Roos with 26 points, nine rebounds and four steals, shooting 8-of-8 from the field in the second half. Davontae Hall impressed in his first game as a Roo, earning the start at point guard and dishing out eight assists to go along with three steals. Jayson Petty and Cameron Faas joined Brown with double-digit scoring, dropping 17 and 15 points, respectively.

KEY MOMENTS

1H - 19:50 / 3-0 | Hall found Anderson Kopp on the left wing for a three-pointer and Kansas City's first points of the day.
1H - 10:53 / 22-5 | Kasheem Grady picked the pocket of HLGU's Russell Nyoo, driving the other way and hitting a floater to cap a 14-0 run for Kansas City.
1H - 3:25 / 37-22 | Petty knocked down a three-pointer, extending the Roos' lead to 15. The Trojans would end the half on a run and cut KC's lead to three at the break.
2H - 16:45 / 51-40 | After scoring just seven points in the first half, Brown went on an 8-0 run by himself to give the Roos an 11-point lead early in the second.

They let @jamar_brown2 take over ?? pic.twitter.com/jjoDyfyHU1
— Kansas City Men's Basketball (@KCRoosMBB) November 5, 2024

2H - 2:40 / 88-61 | Babacar Diallo forced the Trojans' Josh Talton into a turnover and on the other end, Hall found Faas for a triple that gave the Roos' their largest lead of the game.

STATS TO NOTE

Brown reached double-digit scoring for the 29th time in his Kansas City career and went for 20-plus for the seventh time. The Roos are 17-12 in games that he scores 10-plus and 6-1 when he reaches 20.
Kansas City led wire-to-wire, the second-straight regular season game that the Roos have done so reaching back to last year's regular season finale at Oral Roberts on Mar. 3.
The Roos have now won back-to-back season openers, defeating Avila 79-48 on Nov. 6 of last year.
With the win, Kansas City moves to 3-1 in the Marvin Menzies era when scoring 90-plus points.

POSTGAME INTERVIEWS
Head Coach Marvin Menzies | Cameron Faas/Jamar Brown

UP NEXT
The Roos will look to remain undefeated with a home game against Kansas Christian on Friday evening. Tickets can be purchased here.