LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Themus Fulks had 24 points and 12 assists, Riley Kugel scored 18 points, and UCF rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat Florida Atlantic 85-80 on Tuesday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
UCF (11-1) has won 10 games in a row.
Jamichael Stillwell scored 15 points and Jordan Burks 14 for the Knights. John Bol, a 7-foot-2 Mississippi transfer, had 11 points and a career-high 11 rebounds for the sophomore's first career double-double.
Xander Pintelon led FAU (8-4) with 20 points on 7-of-11 shooting, 4 of 8 from behind the arc, and Kanaan Carlyle had 15 points and 11 rebounds. Isaiah Elohim and Devin Williams scored 13 points apiece.
Fulks converted a three-point play that gave the Knights an eight-point lead — the largest of the game — with 6:28 to play. Elohim scored in the paint to cut FAU's deficit to 77-76 with 1:42 remaining, but Fulks answered with a basket before Kugel made two free throws and then threw down a dunk to push the lead to seven with 20 seconds left.
The Owls used a 17-5 first-half run to take a double-digit lead before Carlyle and Amar Amkou hit 3-pointers 30 seconds apart to give Florida Atlantic its biggest lead of the game at 30-16 with 6:17 to go until halftime.
UCF made just six of its first 19 field-goal attempts but shot 57% (26 of 46) the rest of the way.
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