Hasan Abdullah scored a career-high 23 points with six rebounds and six assists and host Navy scored seven unanswered points in the final 1:17 to beat American, 77-67, in men’s basketball on Wednesday night.

George Kiernan added 17 points with four 3-pointers for the Midshipmen (8-14, 5-6 Patriot League), who were outscored 46-28 in the paint but made nine 3-pointers to the Eagles' four.

American tied it three times before taking a 49-48 lead on Larry Motuzis' layup with 12:31 to play and the lead traded hands until Kiernan's 3 and layup put Navy up 60-55 with 8:30 left. The Eagles closed to 66-65 on Sa'eed Nelson's layup but Abdullah's bucket sparked an 11-2 run and Navy won going away.

The Midshipmen scored eight straight in the first half and led 33-27 at halftime as neither team had a double-digit lead. Nelson scored 24 points with nine rebounds and six assists for American (12-10, 6-5), which saw its four-game win streak end. Mark Gasperini added 13 points.

Bucknell 84, Loyola Maryland 72: The host Greyhounds (8-16, 4-7 Patriot League) lost their third straight. The Bison improved to 15-8, 9-2. Andrew Kostecka finished with a game-high 29 points for Loyola. Kimbal Mackenzie (John Carroll) had 24 points and Nate Sestina had 22 points for Bucknell.

Hartford 70, UMBC 61: J.R. Lynch scored 20 of his 28 points in the second half and the visiting Hawks (12-12, 5-4 America East) Hartford ended the Retrievers’ five-game winning streak.

Hartford has won two of its last three games, and also beat UMBC (14-10, 6-3), 66-64, on Jan. 9.

Jason Dunne's 3-pointer gave the Hawks the lead for good, 43-40, with about 14 minutes left and they stretched it to 59-49 with 3:20 remaining. UMBC pulled to 59-54, but Hartford made 9 of its last 10 free throws.

Women

Hartford 92, UMBC 47: The visiting Retrievers (8-14, 1-8 America East) turned the ball over 15 times in the first quarter and trailed 32-10 to the host Hawks (16-8, 9-1) in the opening stanza. Tyler Moore had 11 points for UMBC.