PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. - The Pace University men's basketball team defeated the University of New Haven on Tuesday night with a final score of 77-61. The Setters improve to a perfect 6-0 heading into the Thanksgiving Break. The last time Pace started a season with six straight wins was in 1996 when the team started 7-0.

The Setters got off to a bit of a slow start trailing by as many as eight points in the first half, but managed to cut the deficit to three heading into the break.
 
In the second half, Pace took its first lead of the game since leading 4-2 in the first few minutes of play. A defensive rebound by Christian Adams (New Haven, Conn./Hamden Hall) turned into a layup on the other end, lifting the Setters in front 42-40.
 
Pace would go on to dominate the second half, shooting 63 percent from the field and 60 percent from three-point range, sparking several small runs which resulted in a 19-point lead with just over five minutes to play.
 
Peyton Wejnert (Point Pleasant, N.J./Southern Regional) led all scorers with 30 points on 11-of-16 from the field and a perfect 2-for-2 from three-point range. The senior added five rebounds, three blocks and a steal to cap off his second highest scoring total of 2019.
 
Brandon Jacobs (Cambria Heights, N.Y./Long Island Lutheran) reached a career milestone when he delivered a pass to teammate Austin Gilbertson (Etters, Pa./Trinity) who converted on the three-point bucket in the second half. Jacobs now has more than 300 career assists and ranks No. 14 on the program's all-time list. He finished the night with 12 points, five rebounds and eight assists.
 
Christian Adams (New Haven, Conn./Hamden Hall) was the second leading scorer for the Setters on the evening. Adams has now scored 15 points in back-to-back games, while also adding a pair of blocks in Tuesday's contest.
 
Gilbertson was one of four Setters to score double-digits and one of three to sink two shots from beyond the arc. Gilbertson finished with 13 points while registering season highs in assists (7), rebounds (6) and steals (3).
 
However, Gilbertson's three steals were topped by classmate Ray Montilus (Union, N.J./Pope John XXII) who came up with the ball on the defense end four times – his highest total thus far in 2019.
 
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The Setters are back home on Sunday (Dec. 1), hosting Molloy College at 3 p.m.