Joe Sherburne scored 22 points, Ricky Council II added 14 and the UMBC men’s basketball team beat Coppin State, 71-60, in the Eagles’ home opener Monday night.

R.J. Eytle-Rock’s layup with 17:46 left gave the Retrievers (5-4) a 35-34 lead they’d never surrender. Five minutes later, Kent Auslander’s 3-pointer brought Coppin State within 46-40, but Eytle-Rock made another layup to start a 9-0 run and the margin stretched to 55-40 when Brandon Horvath made a 3-pointer. Eytle-Rock finished with 12 points.

Justin Steers led the Eagles with 10 points and Lamar Morgan and Chad Andrews-Fulton each scored nine.

Coppin State has dropped its first nine games to start the season after dropping its final six games last year. A loss at Richmond on Wednesday night would mark the third straight season that Coppin State has started the year with double-digit losing streaks. The Eagles lost 17 in a row to start 2017-18 and 12 straight at the beginning of 2016-17.

No. 4 Virginia 83, Morgan State 45: De’Andre Hunter and Kyle Guy scored 15 points each and the host Cavaliers beat the Bears.

Nine different Cavaliers scored during a 24-6 first-half burst that turned a 23-14 lead into a 47-20 runaway. Virginia (8-0) then kept the defensive clamps on the Bears, who didn’t make their third field goal of the second half until 1:57 remained.

Malik Miller and Victor Curry led the Bears (2-5) with seven points apiece. Morgan State was 5-for-28 (19.7 percent) from the field in the second half and missed all eight of its 3-point tries. For the game, the Bears shot 14-for-54 (25.9 percent).

Virginia was sloppy early with six turnovers in the first 12 minutes, but shot well from the start. The Cavaliers made 15 of 23 shots (65.2 percent) in the opening half, including seven of 11 (63.6) from 3-point range. Braxton Key began the long run in the first half with a pair of free throws, and by the time Cody Stattmann capped it with a 3-pointer, nine of the Cavaliers who scored in the half had done so during the run.

With the expected mismatch, Virginia coach Tony Bennett used his bench liberally, inserting 10 players in the first half.

The biggest cheer after halftime came in the closing minutes when team manager Grant Kersey, who gets to dress for home games, fed fellow walk-on Austin Katstra for a fast-break dunk. Moments later, Katstra fed Kersey for a layup and a three-point play.

The Bears’ paying-the-bills schedule has done them no favors as they lost 100-77 to No. 21 Villanova and 91-63 at DePaul before coming to John Paul Jones Arena. The tough schedule, though, could pay off later in the season when Morgan State gets into the thick of Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference play.

Women

Mount St. Mary’s 69, Gardner-Webb 62: Juliette Lawless scored 20 points to lift the visiting Mountaineers (4-3) over the Runnin’ Bulldogs (4-3).

Michaela Harrison scored 16 points and Rebecca Lee added 10 points and 16 rebounds for the Mount, who outrebounded Gardner-Webb 49-34 and shot 43.4 percent from the field.