PURCHASE, N.Y. (February 14, 2017) - Sophomore Tyler Christie matched his career-high with 16 points to help the FDU men's basketball team snap an eight game losing streak as the Devils topped Manhattanville 90-82 Tuesday.

The Devils move to 7-17 and 4-9 in the MAC Freedom, while the Valiants dropped to 8-16, 4-9 in conference.FDU closes out the regular season with a home game against King's Saturday.

The hosts used a 6-0 run to go up 18-9 just 6:44 into the game, and saw the lead hover around eight points for a majority of the opening half. Freshman Rajaan Dixon, who was making his second straight start, converted 10 straight markers in a 2:03 stretch to give the Devils a two-point lead. With seven ticks remaining in the first stanza, sophomore Anthony Mitchell canned a trey to FDU a four point edge heading into the halftime break.

FDU saw the lead balloon to 10 four minutes into the second period, but an 8-0 spurt by the hosts brought the gap back to two. Sophomore Eric Ray banged home his first three pointer of the season which started a 12-0 run for the Devils, and a trey from Mitchell stretched the lead to 15. The lead got as high as 20, before the Valiants whittled the lead down towards the end of the game, eventually getting to within eight just before the final buzzer.

Mitchell had a team high 22 to go along with five assists, five rebounds and five steals, while Christie had his 16 on 7-of-11 shooting. Dixon pumped in 18 with six helpers, while senior Donte Ali had a double-double of 14 points and 13 boards. The team shot 11-of-17 from behind the arc, and hit 55.7% of their shots from the field.

Alex Tuci had 31 points and 15 rebounds for Manhattanville, while JoJo Cobbs and Charles Nardone had 15 each.