Maston credits working against veterans like Gathers and Taurean Prince in practice for his recent production.

“It’s pretty much just every day in practice going hard and learning from the older guys,” Maston said. “Of course, Rico’s been in front of me for two years. Ever since last year when he talked to me about just going out and playing my game and doing what I can do. That really helped me this year.”

Besides Maston, Gathers also scored in double figures with 11 points while Johnathan Motley scored 10 off the bench. With Lester Medford dishing out 11 assists, the Bears shot 63.3 percent from the field.

“Lester now has 22 assists and two turnovers in the last two games – he’s been phenomenal,” Drew said. “He’s really doing a great job handling the ball and running the show, and is a big reason why the big guys are catching the ball in position to be successful.”

The Bears came into the game confident they could dominate the boards, and they won the rebounding battle by a 36-19 margin.