WASHINGTON (November 6, 2023) – Junior Bryce Harris (Brentwood, N.Y.) scored a team-high 23 points and fellow classmate Marcus Dockery (Washington) added 21 to lead five players in double figures as the Howard University men's basketball team pulled away to a 92-80 win over Hampton University in a nonconference opener at Burr Gymnasium.
 
The two rivals battled back-and-forth through the first 20 minutes, exchanging blows before the Bison managed a 40-36 lead at the half.
 
Dockery, a 6-foot-2 sharpshooter, did most of the damage as he hit three straight three pointers. Harris, a 6-foot-4 wing and preseason second team All-MEAC selection, muscled his way for 12 of his points, scoring on a variety of power moves and putbacks.
 
The Pirates (0-1) refused to let the Bison (1-0) pull away as Tedrick Wilcox matched Dockery with some outstanding shooting from beyond the arc. A 6-foot-6 graduate guard, Wilcox finished with a game-high 24 points, 18 coming from a 6-for-6 effort from the three-point line.
 
Sophomore Dom Campbell (Scarborough, Maine), graduate Joshua Strong (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and second-year Bison Shy Odom (Roxbury, Mass.) took turns adding to the Bison's scoring output. Campbell, a 6-foot-9 center finished with 10 points, Strong, a 6-foot guard, added 12 points and Odom showed why he is the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Preseason Player of the Year. The 6-foot-6 sophomore filled the stat sheet with 12 points, eight rebounds, five assists and four steals.
 
For the game, Howard shot 56-percent from the floor, including 50 percent (9-of-18) from three-point land, 81-percent (29-of-36) from the charity stripe and outrebounded Hampton, 34-21.
 
The Pirates were led by Wilcox and Kyrese Mullen (14 points) and Tristen Maxwell (11 points).
 
The two will have a rematch February 3 in the Michael B. Jordan Classic in Newark, N.J. at 4 p.m.
 
NEXT UP: Howard travels to Atlanta to take on the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech Thursday (Nov. 9) at 7:30 p.m. on the ACC Network.
 
For more information visit the Howard Athletics website www.HUBison.com.