Men’s Basketball Catches Fire, Downs Shenandoah in Home Opener Win

Saturday, November 14

Radford, Va.

2:30 PM

Radford University

1-3,0-0Big South

102

Shenandoah

1-2,0-0ODAC

Team	1	2	F
Shenandoah	33	30	63
Radford	57	45	102

Photo by: Rob Simmons

11/14/2026 5:02:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

RADFORD, Va. – Looking to get back in the win column for their home opener, the Highlanders did just that Saturday afternoon dispatching Shenandoah for a dominant 102-63 team victory.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

Scoring was a team effort as six different Highlanders finished in double figures. Gabriel Ferreira's career-high 17 points led the way with Frederik Erichsen (15), Mathieu Grujicic (14), Zion Walker (13) and Jordyn Kee (12).
The Highlanders just missed the program record for shooting percentage in a game at 67.3% (the record being 70%, set back in 2014). Radford shot an obscene 76% in the opening half, and hit 12 of their first 13 shots to vault ahead.
Radford's scoring effort came from all over, only hitting nine threes. They would outscore Shenandoah in the paint 56-20.
Radford's 19 assists were also by far a season high with four different Highlanders recording at least three. Grujicic led the team in assists with four.
Radford's bigs combined for 15 rebounds as the team eclipsed 40 in a game for the first time this season and still collected eight offensive boards despite the highly efficient shooting effort.

THE PLAY BY PLAY
To begin the game, it was Radford's offense that stole the show. The team hit just about every shot they put up to quickly jump ahead 18-6. In that run, it was the starting trio of Tristan Gross, Erichsen and Ferreira who had the easy looks. Shenandoah was able to moderately keep pace with a flurry of threes and step back makes, but Radford always had an answer to never leave the game in doubt.

The lead continued to balloon to 33-16 as Cameron Jackson, Warren Keel Jr. and Kee joined in on the scoring. A 7-2 run by the Hornets almost saw Radford's lead fall back to single digits, but a step back from Zion Walker ended that run and Radford rode it into halftime for a decisive 57-33 edge.

If there was one thing Radford would've liked to clean up after the first half despite the big lead, it would likely be on the defensive end after Shenandoah shot 42% over the first 20 minutes. The team responded well and stifled the Hornets offensive efforts to build their lead even further. Gross' three-pointer right at the start of the half kicked off a 15-4 run to go up 72-37.

Shenandoah had just one make from the floor through the first eight minutes of the second half. Ferreira kept rolling as fellow returners Walker and Erichsen played well to keep Radford pacing further and further ahead. The Highlanders would go relatively cold around the midway point of the half, but some new faces helped add an energetic finish to the game.

In the closing minutes, Kolier Pruett, Caden Cantrell and Diogo Alves all made an appearance and helped end the game with a bang. Pruett got his first bucket as a Highlander with a three-pointer and quickly followed it up with an emphatic alley-oop from Kye Davis to seal the game 102-63 in Radford's favor.

UP NEXT
Radford sticks to the home court for an exciting nonconference battle next week. The team hosts Furman on Wednesday, November 18th at 7:00 p.m. with a replica jersey giveaway and Red Panda in town to perform during halftime.

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