kevin foster back in. tate goes out. cornelius scornls back in as well. -- andre cornelius is back in as well. more caa hoops saturday. the only game here tonight. everybody else played last night. george mason trying to hang on to sole possession of first place. you talk about the close games here. 9-14 games for northeastern have been decided by six or less. they were actually 4-5 in those ballgames. they know the value of playing every possession here. they played a lot of grails great teams as you said out west in those tournaments. travel. >> mark: one of the things i saw on that particular possession on the defensive end for mason, they did a very good job closing out on the shooters making those guys put the ball on the floor. >> mike: how about coach larranaga with his team down five points late in the -- by 12 points late in the first half. i think the goal is cut it into single digits and not worry about firing up too many threes and keep trying to match what northeastern has done so far. >> mark: if you can cu

kevin foster is going to come in for george mason. pearson will take a break. also, luke hancock is in for george mason as well. i know coach larranaga likes him. you talked about that with me earlier, mark, about the steal that they got from this young freshman recruiting him to george mason. >> mark: he was not on thecircuit in terms of what i mean by the circuit, traveling arched the country show indication your talent for coaches. this is a skill for jim larranaga. he's very happy with luke hancock. >> mike: there's a three from long. no good. rebound by bigby for northeastern. hancock checked in for tate for the patriots who lead by two early on. janning got it knocked away. that's hancock. he has been named the rookie of the week twice already. 6 aout of roanoke, virginia, and he's averaging almost 10 points a game. >> mark: he does a lot of things for this ball club. jim larranaga has him in the game in crunchtimement when the game on the lierngs he might have his hands on the ball because he can do a lost things with the basketball. >> mike: bigby works

kevin foster checking in for morrison. foster, the red-shirted freshman. red-shirted last year. morrison who they count on is really their second best shooter from the field. he's a sophomore averaging over seven points and over 5 1/2 rebounds per game. now they'll be without his services for quite sometime. >> mark: yeah, he protects the paint. he's a very gifted intloark. he hasn't been giving them anything on the defensive end. really, no one for mason has been doing anything defensively tonight. >> mike: they need that. there's the biggest guy down there at 6'9". there's a turn around shot that time by pearson. ereally the only one doing anything. you heard coach larranaga say that at the break, mark. he needs other guys to step up and they haven't got that yet. >> mark: they need other people to pickup the slack and help pearson out on the offensive end. >> mike: rebound tate after the missed three. if that went down, it would be tough to win this ballgame if everybody is hitting threes. bad enough with janning and allen. >> mark: if he hit, that we probably would have had