Florida Atlantic beats Marshall, snaps 4-game skid

Florida Atlantic beats Marshall, snaps 4-game skid

Published Jan. 17, 2015 9:39 p.m. ET

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) Marquan Botley scored 17 of his season-high 23 in the second half, Solomon Poole added 18 points and Florida Atlantic took over down the stretch for a 76-62 win over Marshall on Saturday.

C.J. Turman added 13 points and Kelvin Penn scored 12 with nine rebounds for Florida Atlantic (8-8, 1-4 Conference-USA), which snapped a four-game losing streak.

Marshall (4-14, 0-5), which lost its eighth-straight game, took a 34-30 lead into halftime, and led 60-59 with 3:35 left, but was out-scored 17-2 down the stretch.

Ryan Taylor scored 24, one off his career high, for Marshall. Aleksa Nikolic added 15 points and Jay Johnson scored 10.

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FAU, which shot 56 percent in the second half, finished 8 of 24 from 3-point range while the Thundering Herd shot just 16.7 percent (2 of 12) from beyond the arc.

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