Senior Corvin Oprea notched a career-high 40 points as the University of Rochester men's basketball season closed out its 2025-26 home slate with an 89-83 victory over Brandeis University on Sunday at the Louis Alexander Palestra.
 
Oprea, along with fellow seniors Tomiwa Adetosoye and Nate Beitel, were honored as a part of Senior Day ceremonies with their families prior to the Sunday matinee. The trio combined for 52 of URochester's points, with Beitel scoring seven and Adetosoye chipping in five points.
 
The victory pushes URochester's record to .500 on the year, moving to 11-11 overall, while the Yellowjackets now sit with a 4-7 mark in University Athletic Association play. Brandeis, suffers a key late-season loss, dropping to 13-9 overall and is 6-5 in the conference.
 
With the 40-point outburst, Oprea becomes just sixth player in program history to reach that milestone and his total is just the ninth time in over 2,500 all-time games in University of Rochester men's basketball history.
 
In the opening half, Oprea got things started sinking three free throws after getting fouled on a shot from distance. Beitel added a jump shot and the 'Jackets were quickly up 5-0 on the scoreboard.
 
After Brandeis got within one at 5-4, John Mayhew his one of his two 3-pointers to extend the lead back out to four and a few minutes later, the Yellowjackets rattled off a 9-3 run, aided by seven Oprea points to reach a nine-point advantage, up 17-8.
 
Later in the half, Oprea netted an old-fashioned 3-point play to pull the Yellowjackets in front by 14 points, and the lead stayed there following two triples from Camden Fleming and Jordan Owusu as the first half clock ticked under five minutes to play.
 
A late spurt by the Judges trimmed the lead down to nine at halftime, with URochester sitting up 41-32.
 
After five minutes of play in the second period, Brandeis was able to trim the lead down to six, trailing 53-47, before Oprea really started to heat up, going on a 9-0 burst by himself to race the advantage back out to 15, reaching a game-high.
 
Oprea scored one of five 3-pointers with 12:12 remaining to make the score 65-50, but the Yellowjackets went cold from the floor for the next five minutes, scoring only from the free throw line, as Brandeis chipped away at the lead with a 13-6 stretch.
 
Jai Deshpande scored seven points in the run for the Judges as the lead was back down to eight points.
 
Brandeis kept clawing back, getting within five points before Justin Odibo swished a high-arching 3-pointer for the 'Jackets, and on the next possession, Owusu stole the ball and ignited the crowd with a spectacular windmill breakaway slam with 2:02 left.
 
Less than a minute later, the URocheter advantage was back down to four points though, as Aedan Using and Elias Rodl sank back-to-back 3-pointers for the Judges, pushing the score to 84-80.
 
Oprea hit a layup for UR to make it a six-point game, but Rodl sank another from behind-the-arc to make the score 86-83 with 30 seconds on the clock.
 
After being fouled, Owusu make one of two free throws to make it a two-possession game, and later corralled an Alex Zakheim 3-pointer miss and was fouled again, sealing the game away making two more at the charity stripe.
 
Owusu was UR's second-leading scorer with 14 points off the bench, adding 5 rebounds and 3 assists. Mayhew scored ten points and had seven rebounds while Theo Murray added six points for the Yellowjacket reserves.
 
Brandeis' Rodl and Zakheim combined for 57 of their teams points, with Rodl ending with 29 and Zakheim scoring 28. The two made 20 baskets combined and four 3-pointers, while also securing six and nine rebounds, respectively. DJ Courtney added 12 points for the Judges, while Using had 3 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks.
 
Up next, the Yellowjackets hit the road for the final three games of the regular season. That stretch starts with two games next weekend at Carnegie Mellon on Friday before traveling to Case Western Reserve on Sunday.