Box Score A week after suffering its first loss of the 2016-17 campaign, the McMaster men's basketball  team defeated the visiting Guelph Gryphons 92-77  Wednesday night in Hamilton.

The Marauders got off to a hot start, scoring the first nine points of the game and looking like a team upset about seeing its win streak snapped.  But credit the Gryphons for staying composed and slowly they crept back into the game, eventually tying the score 15-15. McMaster scored the last three hoops of the quarter, including a circus-shot from Connor Gilmore at the buzzer to take a 21-15 lead after 10 minutes.

The second quarter saw Guelph get to within 23-22, when the men in Maroon went on a 14-2 run to open a 37-24 lead.  But the Gryphons had a small rally of their own to end the half and at intermission, the Mac margin stood at 39-31.

McMaster opened the third quarter strong, and had opened a 15-point advantage within the first four minutes, sending Guelph scrambling to stop the bleeding. The Marauder push continued through the quarter behind some solid work from Rohan Boney and Gilmore, and heading to the final quarter McMaster held a 70-46 lead.

The fourth quarter saw the Marauder advantage get up to 29 points, before Coach Amos Connolly cleared his bench for the final minutes, and Guelph was able to cut the lead down to the final 15-point margin.  Guelph outscored McMaster 31-22 in the final period.

Both Boney (24 & 12) and Gilmore (21 & 10) were terrific and finished the game with double-doubles in points and rebounds; while Mac's Danylo Kostecki provided a nice lift off the bench by dropping in 12 points. Guelph's Taylor Boers led the Gryphons with 16.

McMaster dominated the boards, out-rebounding Guelph 53-30.

The Marauders now enter a tough stretch of games, and will next play their rival, the Brock Badgers on Saturday, November 26th in St. Catharines.   McMaster  will be looking to even the season series with the Badgers, after Brock won the first meeting between the teams last week in Hamilton.

Tip-off at Brock is set for 3 p.m. and the game can be viewed online at OUA.tv.