WEST HARTFORD, Conn. –The Hartford men's basketball team took down visiting Bowling Green on Saturday, scoring a 76-63 victory inside Reich Family Pavilion. Senior Jason Dunne scored a game-high 19 points on five three-pointers to pace the Hawks, who forced 18 turnovers and used a 23-for-24 effort from the free-throw line to come away with the win.
 
Redshirt-senior John Carroll (18 points) and senior J.R. Lynch (16) also netted double-figures for Hartford, which improves to 3-6 on the season. The Falcons, who dip to 4-4, also placed three in double figures, led by 17 points by Justin Turner.   

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HARTFORD 76, BOWLING GREEN 63
Trailing by four early at the 16:52 mark, Hartford heated up and delivered a 23-5 run to go up by 14 points at 25-11 with 7:30 remaining in the opening stanza. The Hawks held the Falcons scoreless for a five-minute stretch during that run, scoring 11-unanswered points off of four Bowling Green turnovers. The Falcons responded with a 10-0 run of their own to close the gap to four, but Hartford finished the half strong, using five-straight points from Carroll to take a 32-23 lead into the break.
 
After exchanging three-pointers to open the second, Dylan Frye knocked down back-to-back threes to ignite a 14-0 Falcons' run that put them in front, 41-40, with 10:59 left to play. The lead was short-lived, though, as a 9-2 spurt capped by Dunne's third three of the stanza made it a 51-45 Hartford lead with 7:33 to go. Two more triples from Dunne just 31 seconds apart would push the Hawks' lead back into double figures (59-49), before eight-straight makes from the line and a fast break bucket by Lynch put the game out of reach in the final minutes. 
 
INSIDE THE BOX & NOTES

• Dunne, who knocked down six triples at Sacred Heart on Tuesday, continued his hot shooting from behind the arc with a 5-of-8 effort.
• The Hawks were sensational from the free-throw line, making their first 23 attempts of the game before finishing 23-for-24. 
• Lynch led the way with a 12-for-12 performance from the free-throw line, while Carroll made 6-of-6.
• Hartford's 95.8-percent effort from the line in a season-best, and the highest mark since a 90.0-percent performance (9-for-10) against New Hampshire on Feb. 10, 2015.
• Hartford scored 20 points off of Bowling Green's 18 miscues.
• Bowling Green held a commanding 45-25 advantage on the boards, pulling down 20 offensive end. More than a quarter of the Falcons' scoring came off second-chance opportunities (17 points).
• Hartford shot 41.5 percent from the field (22-of-53) on the afternoon to Bowling Green's 37.7 percent (23-of-61).
• Junior Romain Boxus scored a career-best seven points, while senior Travis Weatherington led the Hawks on the board with seven, a personal-best.

 
NEXT ON TAP
Hartford heads to Durham, N.C., to take on No. 3 Duke on Wednesday evening. The first-ever meeting between the Hawks and Blue Devils is slated or 7 p.m. on ESPN2.