CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Jarrell Brantley scored 30 points, Nick Harris added 21, both career highs, and College of Charleston rolled to an 89-67 win over Drexel on Saturday for its eighth-straight win.
 
Grant Riller added 16 points for the Cougars (20-6, 11-3 CAA), who won their 15th straight at home and avenged an earlier overtime loss at Drexel.
 
Brantley had eight points, including a 3-pointer and a 3-point play, in a 15-0 run that put the Cougars up 71-56 with 7:50 to play. The Dragons missed five-straight shots with three turnovers.
 
Brantley was 12-of-18 shooting from the field, making all four of his 3-pointers. Harris was 9-of-10 and Riller 7-of-11. The Cougars shot 55 percent (37-of-67) and had 16 assists with just one turnover – a new school record for fewest turnovers in a single game.
 
Tramaine Isabell had 17 points for the Dragons (11-16, 5-9 CAA), whose previous five games were decided by three points or less, four of them wins.
 
CofC will play three of its final four games of the regular season on the road including its next road test at James Madison (7-18, 3-9 CAA) on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. (ET) in Harrisonburg, Va. The Dukes postponed both of their league games this past week versus UNCW and at Elon.
 
POSTGAME NOTES
• For the 14th CAA game in a row, the College of Charleston went with the starting lineup of Joe Chealey, Grant Riller, Cameron Johnson, Jarrell Brantley and Nick Harris.
• With the win, College of Charleston split the regular-season series with Drexel and avenged an 87-82 overtime loss to the Dragons in Philadelphia earlier this season. The Cougars take an 8-5 lead in the all-time series.
• The Cougars remain an undefeated 13-0 at TD Arena this season and have won 15-straight home games since the end of the 2016-17 campaign.
• CofC has now turned in back-to-back 20-win seasons under head coach Earl Grant. It marked the program's 18th all-time 20-win campaign since becoming a NCAA Division I member in 1991-92.
• Jarrell Brantley became the third CofC Basketball player to score 30-or-more points in a single game this season with a career-and game-high 30 points on 12-of-18 shooting from the field and perfection from three-point range (4-for-4) and the free throw line (2-for-2) versus Drexel. He joined the 30-Point Club with Grant Riller (37 points vs. William & Mary) and Joe Chealey (33 vs. Hofstra). Brantley has now tabulated 1,136 career points to date which ranks 30th all-time in the school record books.
• For the eighth time this season, Nick Harris scored in double figures with a career-high 21 points including 12 in the first half alone versus Drexel. He also grabbed a team-high six rebounds.
• Grant Riller extended his double-digit scoring streak to four games with 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the field against Drexel.
• Jaylen McManus came off the bench and tied a season-high with six rebounds in 21 minutes of action versus Drexel.
• Reserve Samba Ndiaye recorded a career-high four points and added three rebounds in nine minutes of play for the Cougars.
• CofC has now scored 80-or-more points in the last three-straight games against Hofstra (86 points), William & Mary (82 points) and Drexel (89 points). It marked the Cougars' third-highest scoring output of the season (89 points) and most versus a league foe.
• The Cougars dished out 16 assists with just one turnover in the ballgame versus Drexel. It marked a new school record for fewest turnovers in a single game which was previously three turnovers at Wofford on Jan. 3, 2000. Between 2000-18, the previous low was four turnovers twice in 2009-10 and twice in 2010-11.
• CofC defeated Drexel by a 22-point margin of victory which was its second-largest of the season behind a 32-point victory over NCAA Division II North Greenville on Dec. 10.
• The CofC defense held Drexel, who came into the game averaging 74.8 points per game, to just 67 points.
 
POSTGAME QUOTES
College of Charleston Head Coach Earl Grant
On the game …
"Unbelievable unselfishness tonight (by our team) with 16 assists. We had great ball care with one turnover. It was really frustrating early in the game, because they (Drexel) were scoring too much. We had a few breakdowns on defense. But, I give our players credit for hanging in there and finding a way to hunker down in the guts of the game. With about 15 minutes left in the game, I thought we did a great job of having an eight-minute stretch of being who we are – getting consecutive stops and executing on offense. It was a really efficient night for us. I'm really happy for our guys and proud of them that they were able to find a way to dig that game out. More importantly, the unselfishness was what stuck out the most to me."
 
On that eight-minute stretch …
"It was some of our best basketball. We really executed. We did a great job of defending and taking care of the ball. We played against a team who had won four out of five and had scored over 90 points in two of those games. They (Drexel) were capable and have one of the better guards in the league. I thought we did a good job of holding them under their (scoring) average tonight."
 
College of Charleston Junior Forward Jarrell Brantley
On the game …
"Everyone came together and we knew that we had to dig. This was a big game for us. We haven't won this big in conference (22-point victory), but always won the close games. I think we had an opportunity tonight to figure out who we truly are when things are getting really tough. We kept on fighting and found a way."
 
College of Charleston Junior Forward Nick Harris
On his career-high 21-point performance …
"I was feeling it out there tonight. I was getting some great passes and grabbing some of the balls right under the rim. Others were moves that I make in practice. Nothing different. Just great passes from my teammates."
 
On the team's assist-to-turnover ratio …
"We were sharing the rock, which is one of our standards and we did a good job."