Alvernia University Athletics

Reading, Pa. (November 10, 2026) - Alvernia University (1-0) took down Wilson College (0-2), 97-76, Tuesday night in a non-conference men's basketball matchup on Alvernia's Jack McCloskey Court. 

The Golden Wolves were led by Max Shosa with 33 points and Rasheem Dearry with 23. Mason Jones added 15 points and nine rebounds and Austin Mbuyi tallied ten. The Golden Wolves tallied a 50.7% shooting percentage from the floor and knocked down ten three pointers as a team, including six from Shosa himself. 

Alvernia held a 19 point, 51-39 lead at the half but a 16-4 scoring stretch to start the second half for the Phoenix pulled Wilson within seven, 55-48. The Golden Wolves responded with a 16-8 scoring run of their own over the next five minutes to push the Alvernia lead back to 15, 71-56. Alvernia saw the game out with a 26-20 scoring stretch over the final ten minutes of the game to secure the 21 point, 97-76 victory over Wilson. 

How it Happened 

• The Golden Wolves and the Phoenix traded buckets over the first three minutes of the game with Alvernia holding a two point, 8-6 lead before the Golden Wolves ripped off a 21-3 scoring run that blew the game wide open and gave Alvernia a 20 point, 29-9 advantage with 11 minutes to go in the first half. 
• Wilson flipped the script on the Golden Wolves and tallied a 12-2 scoring run of their own over the next five minutes after Alvernia ran cold and struggled to make baskets, Wilson pulled within ten, 31-21. 
• Alvernia broke up the scoring run after Mason Jones converted an and one to push the lead back to 13, but after a Wilson layup and a three pointer, they were back within ten, 36-26. 
• Alvernia's Jones found Austin Mbuyi under the basket for an Alvernia layup that pushed the lead back to 12, 38-26 heading into the final media timeout of the first half. Mbuyi's layup sparked a 15-6 scoring run for the Golden Wolves over the final four minutes of the first half and gave the Golden Wolves a 19 point, 51-32 advantage heading into the halftime break. 
• Max Shosa led the Golden Wolves with 21 points in the first half. Mason Jones followed with 11 points and Rasheem Dearry and Austin Mbuyi both added five. 
• The Phoenix came out of the halftime break red hot and after a jumper in the first 15 seconds of the game, Wilson ripped off a 16-4 scoring run to start the half to pull within seven, 55-48, with 16 minutes to play. 
• The Golden Wolves tallied back to back driving layups from Dearry and Mbuyi to push the Alvernia lead back to double-digits, 59-48, before a 18-9 scoring stretch over the next five minutes extended the Alvernia lead to 20, 77-57.
• Wilson responded with the next seven points to cut the Alvernia lead down to 13, 77-64, but that was as close as the Phoenix would get as Alvernia ended the game on a 20-12 scoring run that secured the 97-76 victory over the Phoenix in its home opener. 

Inside the Box Score

• Max Shosa showed out in his Alvernia debut and posted 33 points, five rebounds and added three blocks to lead the Golden Wolves. Shosa shot an impressive 13-16 from the floor and rattled home a team high six three pointers in 32 minutes played. 
• Rasheem Dearry followed Shosa with a 23 point, seven rebound performance and also dished out four assists and grabbed three steals. Dearry scored 18 of his 23 points in the second half including 14 of them in the final 14 minutes of the game. 
• Mason Jones and Austin Mbuyi rounded out the Golden Wolves in double figures. Jones tallied 15 points on a 6-11 shooting night from the floor and grabbed a team high nine rebounds and added five assists. Mbuyi tallied ten points in 21 minutes and recorded two rebounds and assists. 
• Mason Pulliam scored seven points and grabbed seven rebounds and Terrence Cobb added six points, seven boards and dished out a team high six assists. 
• Alvernia outrebounded the Phoenix 43-33, including an 11-4 advantage on the offensive glass. Alvernia turned the ball over eight times to Wilson's 12 and recorded steals on eight of the 12 Wilson turnovers. 
• The Golden Wolves shot 37-73 from the floor at a 50% clip and dished out a team total of 19 assists, which was the fourth most assists as a team all of last season. 

Up Next 

• The Golden Wolves take tomorrow off before heading to Camden, N.J. to take on Rutgers-Camden in a non-conference clash at 6:00 PM.