BOCA RATON, Fla. – Barry University men's basketball team won for the eighth straight time at Lynn's Boca Raton Holiday Classic, beating Southern Nazarene, 92-78, Saturday in the de Hoernle Center.

Barry (8-2) improved to 24-8 all-time in Lynn's tournament. 

The Bucs will take a two-week break before meeting No. 16 Rollins at home Jan. 2 at 4 p.m. to resume Sunshine State Conference play.

Barry hit a season-high 16 three-point field goals, falling one shy of the school record the Bucs set last year. Barry was 16 of 31 from downtown for 51.6 percent.

The Buccaneers led by as many as 20 in the first half. Southern Nazarene (3-7) cut the lead in half, and three times sliced the lead under double digits.

The Crimson Storm cut the Bucs lead to 57-50 five minutes into the second half before Yunio Barrueta buried a 3-pointer. Barrueta threw down an alley-oop from Anders Haas to make it a 10-point lead. Arie Williams hit a deep 3 to pad the Bucs lead to 74-56 before LB Willis answered on the other end with a triple of his own.

Willis hit another 3, and followed up his own rebound off a missed free throw with a putback to cut it to 10 with 6:58 to go. Williams converted a three-point play with 5:25 to go to push Barry back ahead, 81-67. Adrian Gonzalez threw down a dunk on a run out to make it 83-69 with 4:39 left. The Crimson Storm never threatened again.

Barrueta finished with 25 points on 9 of 17 shooting, and had seven rebounds, three assists and a block. Haas scored 17 of his 19 points in the first half. He buried five of six triples in the first half. In two years at the Lynn tournament, Haas has canned 16 triples in three games.

Williams finished with 12 points and two steals. Gonzalez had 13 points and two blocks. Tray Leonard scored 12 points and had four rebounds. Elvar Fridriksson had nine assists. Undra Mitchem had four steals.

Barry was outrebounded 44-34. The Buccaneers committed a season-low nine turnovers, while the Crimson Storm had 12. Barry shot 49.2 percent from the floor for the game. Southern Nazarene hit 40.5 percent of its field goals.
 
Barry jumped out to a 37-17 lead in the first half, but the Crimson Storm whittled it down to 37-29 before Fridriksson hit a driving lay-in with 6:30 to go to end a 12-0 Southern Nazarene run. Haas hit his fourth triple of the half, and Barrueta scored down low to extend the lead back to double digits. Barry led 49-39 at the half.

Barrueta scored 13 in the opening half. The Bucs were outrebounded 23-15 in the first half. Barry shot 52.8 percent. Southern Nazarene hit 39.5 percent of its first half field goals.