Garden City, N.Y. - On Saturday, the Adelphi University men's basketball team prevailed 81-71 over NE10 foe The College of Saint Rose at the Center for Recreation and Sport in Garden City.

A hot streak that commenced before the start of the new calendar year, the team's seven-game winning streak ties the program's longest in two years.

Adelphi is also a perfect 8-0 at home for the first time since the 2005-06 season, pre-dating Dave Duke's tenure as head coach. The eight consecutive wins for the 'Cats on their home floor is the longest for the program in nearly fifteen years -- when the team started out 7-0 at home two years after the CRS opened.

Sophomore guard Elijah Lewis continued his spectacular play of late, with a team-high 19 points. Since Nov. 11, Lewis has raised his season average over five points to 15.3 points per game and presently ranks among the Top 10 shooters in the NE10 with a .547 field-goal percentage.

The Panthers jumped out to three significant leads in the first half. It was an 8-0 run over the final 1:44 -- culminating with Mason Jackson's buzzer-beating reverse lay-up in transition -- that sent Adelphi into the locker room with a 44-34 advantage.

Saint Rose (5-10, 2-7 NE10) never went away all afternoon. The Golden Knights closed the gap to 46-41 minutes into the second half, before Adelphi's 7-0 response kept the hosts in front for good. An Andrew Delaney jumper in the paint at the 15:35 mark put the 'Cats back ahead by double digits.

Delaney was the team's second-leading scorer on the day with 12 points. He made 5-of-11 field goals and grabbed six rebounds. Matthew Price and Jackson each contributed 10 points, and Jackson fell one rebound shy of a double-double with nine boards.

The Panthers are back home again on Tuesday (Jan. 16), when they face Assumption University to cap off a three-game homestand at the Center for Recreation and Sport. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m.