POMONA, Calif. - The Cal Poly Pomona men's basketball team's emphatic 96-64 triumph over Humboldt State Thursday night inside Kellogg Arena marked milestone career win No. 400 for 20th-year head coach Greg Kamansky.
 
The Broncos never trailed after scoring the game's first basket, with only two tie scores at 2-2 and 11-11. They cruised to their season-best fourth-straight win to lift Kamansky's remarkable career record to 400-161 (.713). Incidentally, CPP's average margin of victory over the previous three contests during this stretch was 32.0 points, and BJ Standley found a cutting Mason Dickerson for a thunderous dunk with 29 seconds to go Thursday to hit that number exactly on the final box score.
 
In achieving a first home success for 2019-20, Cal Poly Pomona improved to 6-2 overall and 2-1 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Humboldt State dropped to 5-3 overall and 1-2 in league play, as the two teams began the night with identical marks. The Jacks had just gone 4-1 during a five-game home stand.
 
Senior William Christmas paced CPP again, pouring in 24 points to lead all players, on 9-of-13 shooting. BJ Standley, a junior newcomer, put together his second-straight stellar floor game coming off the bench, duplicating his 12-point effort from last Saturday while falling one assist shy of his career best with a game-high seven.
 
Cal Poly Pomona connected on a sizzling 58.7 percent (37-63) from the field, with season bests of 10 made three-pointers and 47.6 percent three-point shooting.
 
The Broncos put a season-high five in double-figure scoring, with Dickerson (12) and fellow juniors Phoenix Shackelford (11) and Tavian Henderson (10) joining in. Those totals were season bests for Dickerson and Henderson.
 
CPP broke an early 2-2 tie with a wing three-pointer by Nikhil Peters, two foul shots by Shackelford, and a Christmas tip-in off a missed Shackelford jumper in advance of the first media timeout. Standley came in during that break in the action, and immediately drove the lane for a basket while drawing the foul. He missed the free throw. HSU promptly wiped out that 9-0 run, and drew even again at 11-11, on three-pointers by Leland Green, Jackson Strong, and Green again. Christmas drained a triple of his own from the top of the key, for a 14-11 edge at the second timeout.
 
Cal Poly Pomona ultimately grew that run out to 11-0 as Henderson had a pair of baskets, with one each from senior Riley Schaefer and Shackelford. Three of them were assisted by Standley, who also collected a steal to set up the sequence capper.
 
The Jacks hung around, but Standley's step-back triple from the top at the 3:15 mark extended the Broncos to their largest lead to that point, of 12, at 33-21. They would get two more Standley free throws, a smooth Peters three-pointer, a Christmas make, and a Standley wing triple to take a 43-25 bulge into the locker room. Standley was the star with a team-best 12 points and those game-high three assists.
 
The Broncos began the second half with a Schaefer layup, assisted by fellow senior Justin Young, to go up by 20 for the first time at 45-25, and were never threatened after the interval. When Dickerson drilled a three-pointer at 12:31, it was up to 29 at 66-37. An alley-oop dunk from Standley to Henderson finally made for a 30-point cushion at 92-62 with less than two minutes remaining.
 
Christmas and Young shared the game high of six rebounds, while Schaefer grabbed five. Christmas added four assists, a blocked shot and a steal.
 
Strong scored 21 points for Humboldt State, making six of his seven shots from behind the arc. Green finished with 18 of his own.
 
Cal Poly Pomona travels north to take on rival Chico State this Saturday, Dec. 7. Tip-off at Acker Gym is slated for 7:30 p.m. The Wildcats knocked off previously-undefeated and fourth-ranked UC San Diego, 81-73, in La Jolla on Thursday night.
 
Bronco Bits: Cal Poly Pomona started with the same lineup for the eighth game in a row to open the season, of fourth-year seniors William Christmas, Nikhil Peters, Riley Schaefer and Justin Young, and junior Phoenix Shackelford ... Christmas has started 55 games in a row and appeared in the last 78 ... Young has played in each of the past 83 contests ... Having achieved career win No. 400 tonight, Greg Kamansky also inched closer to yet another milestone of 300 CCAA wins, now at 294 ... BJ Standley has led all players in assists for three-consecutive games, all off the bench, with six, eight and seven, respectively ... Christmas has eclipsed the 20-point mark four times this season and 14 for his career ... Mason Dickerson has improved on his season high in points in three-straight games (8, 11, 12), drilling two three-pointers in each ... CPP had won the final two of the three meetings between these teams a year ago, including a first-round home date in the CCAA Tournament on March 5 (85-67), having dropped the regular-season matchup in Pomona on New Year's Eve (70-65) ... The 12 points that CPP gave up in the first half of Saturday's 75-45 victory over Texas A&M International, was its lowest total in a half since allowing 12 in the first period of a 91-57 home victory over Pacific Union College on Dec. 19, 2015.