DARTMOUTH, Mass. – The Castleton University men's basketball team wrapped up the 2022-23 campaign on Saturday afternoon, falling 82-40 to UMass Dartmouth in road action.
 
The Corsairs ran out to a 45-16 halftime lead and never looked back, shooting 48.4 percent from the field and 41.9 percent from three in the game. Castleton hit 30.4 percent as a team and made just one three in the loss. Castleton was solid at the free-throw line, knocking down 11-of-13.
 
Tray Wright led the Spartans with 13 points on the day, adding four rebounds as well. Carter Mackey chipped in 10 points and five rebounds with Justin Schwarzbeck adding seven Spartan points. John Walsh, Evan Pockette, Brandon Cahill and Mu Moore all found their way onto the score sheet as well for Castleton.
 
Dhalyn Sanders-Dyer had 27 points for the Corsairs while Jackson Zancan added 15. John Marcille led all players with eight rebounds and Jayquan Leonard had nine assists.
 
Mackey got the Spartans on the board first for a 2-0 lead and made it 5-4 two minutes later with another layup to kill a 5-0 Corsair run. A three by Sanders-Dyer put the Corsairs up 8-4, but two more points from Mackey and a layup by Wright knotted the score at 8-8 just over three minutes in. UMass Dartmouth then went on an 8-0 run before Pockette and Walsh netted layups to halve the deficit to four points, 16-12. Another seven-point run by the Corsairs made it 23-12, but the dagger was a 20-0 run over the final eight minutes of the first half by the Corsairs, sending the home side to the locker room leading 45-16.
 
The two sides went back-and-forth early in the second half, but a 15-2 run by UMass Dartmouth pushed the lead to 69-26, the largest lead of the game for the Corsairs. Neither side established a run the remainder of the game, with UMass Dartmouth finishing off the night on top 82-40.
 
Castleton is slated to graduate just two seniors, Walsh and Wright, with 11 players eligible to return for the 2023-24 season next year.