Men’s Basketball Scoreboard (Nov. 19)
UIC 86, Iona 81
Cleveland State 71, Alabama-Huntsville 69
North Dakota State 83, Youngstown State 80 (ot)
Arkansas-Little Rock 59, Milwaukee 43
UIC and Cleveland State both rallied for wins on Monday night, with the Flames knocking off a tough Iona squad. Youngstown State forced overtime in the Legends Classic before falling, while Milwaukee dropped a road game at Arkansas-Little Rock.
UIC 86, Iona 81
UIC overcame a 12-point deficit in the second half to rally past Iona, 86-81, in the fourth-place game of the Paradise Jam.
UIC (3-1) put four players into double figures, led by Hayden Humes’ career-high 22 points. For the tournament, Humes averaged 17.3 points and 5.0 rebounds per game.
Gary Talton added 17 points and Daniel Barnes had 16 for the Flames, who trailed 70-58 with 6:57 to play but broke off a 12-0 run to tie it -- led by nine points from Talton.
There were a combined 13 ties and lead changes in the game, including 10 in the first half as Iona took a 38-33 lead into the half.
Iona extended its lead to eight points twice in the opening 2:07 of the second half, but UIC stayed close after a pair of field goals from Humes, including a three that sliced the Gaels’ lead to 50-46 with 16:07 remaining. In the opening 4:58 of the second half, Barnes and Humes combined for 15 points on six field goals, and keeping the Flames within four, 52-48, at the first media timeout.
Iona’s lead remained no larger than two possessions over the ensuing five-plus minutes, before the Gaels put together a 9-0 run to claim a 70-58 lead with 6:57 remaining. UIC responded with a commanding 12-0 spurt, spearheaded by back-to-back three-pointers by Humes and Talton to pull the Flames within six, 70-64, with 6:09 left.
After a timeout by Iona, UIC forced two defensive stops, and Talton converted a conventional three-point play in transition to slice the Gaels’ lead to just three, 70-67. The Flames forced a turnover on the other end, and Talton completed the comeback with a transition three.
UIC claimed its first lead, 74-73, of the second half with 2:25 remaining, after sophomore Marc Brown converted a pair of free throws. Iona’s Sean Armand missed a three-pointer on the ensuing possession, and Humes took advantage, drilling a triple from the top of the key to push the UIC’s lead to two possessions, 77-73 with 1:43 remaining.
Trading free throws as Iona continually drove for layups in the final minute, the Flames were up two after a layup by Momo Jones with 16 seconds remaining, but Iona coach Tim Cluess was hit with a technical foul and the Flames hit three free throws over the final six seconds to seal it.
Josh Crittle added 13 points for UIC, helping control the interior against a smaller Iona squad. Crittle was one of three Flames to attempt five or more free throws, going 7-for-9 from the charity stripe. For the game, UIC held a 25.5-percent advantage in free-throw rate, going 22-of-29 from the line and 26-for-55 from the field.
The Gaels grabbed the early advantage, tallying leads of 4-0, 11-6 and 18-15 in the first nine minutes. The Flames went on a commanding 11-0 run over a two-minute span mid-way through the stanza, claiming a 27-21 lead with 8:00 showing on the clock. Joey Miller, Crittle, Barnes and sophomore guard Jay Parker all had field goals in the spurt.
Iona answered with an 8-1 spree, taking a 29-28 with 3:56 left in the opening half. Miller answered with a three to put UIC back in front (31-29) on the ensuing possession, but the Gaels ended the frame on a 9-2 run, taking a 38-33 lead into the locker room at halftime. Armand, who scored 20 points in the game, converted a tip-in as time expired to push Iona’s lead to two possessions.
Playing the game at the fast pace Iona is known for, Talton added seven assists against just one turnover in 37 minutes, while Barnes matched Humes by corralling eight rebounds.
Cleveland State 71, Alabama-Huntsville 69
Putting four players into double figures was just enough for Cleveland State, as the Vikings held off a hot-shooting Alabama-Huntsville squad, 71-69, in the NIT Season Tip-Off Consolation round on Monday night in the Sewall Center at Robert Morris University.
Cleveland State (4-1) was led by Charlie Lee, who paced the Vikings with 15 points and four assists, while Anton Grady scored 14 with five rebounds and three assists. Tim Kamczyc and Sebastian Douglas scored 11 points apiece, while Marlin Mason added nine.
The Vikings shot .511 (24-47) for the game, including .542 (13-24) in the second half when they rallied from a nine point deficit with nine minutes to play.
CSU's win offset an outstanding shooting night for the Chargers, who hit 12-of-28 (.429) from three-point.
A Zane Campbell three-pointer with 7:52 to play put UAH up 62-54, coming on the heels of a Forbes three-pointer that had cut CSU's deficit to five.
Lee answered Campbell on the other end with a three-pointer of his own and a Kamczyc trifecta with 6:26 left in the game brought the Vikings within two at 62-60.
However, Campbell answered right back with his fourth three-pointer of the game and UAH's 12th of the night to push the lead back to five points, 65-60, with just over six minutes left. But a Grady layup started a 10-2 run over the next three minutes, allowing the Vikings to take a 70-67 lead when Douglas split two free throws with just under two minutes to play.
Douglas scored five of his 11 points over the final 4:25 of the game, including the layup that tied the game at 67-67.
Conner Blasi hit a pair of free throws with 1:23 left to pull the Chargers within 70-69, and after Mason missed two free throws on the other end, UAH had a chance to take the lead, but a three-point attempt by Wayne Dedrick with the shot clock winding down was off the mark.
Grady was fouled chasing down the rebound and split the two free throws and the Chargers missed two chances at the end to tie the game.
Bryn Forbes came up with eight big points off the bench, including a pair of three-pointers.
CSU used a three-pointer by Forbes and two in a row by Lee to take a 24-18 lead with 6:25 left in the half and the lead grew to 30-23 with just over four minutes to play. However, the Chargers closed the half on an 11-2 run, capped by a Dedrick three-pointer just before the half to give his squad a 34-32 lead at the intermission.
The Chargers used six three-pointers in the second half to build a nine point lead midway through the second half before the Vikings clawed back.
CSU hit 9-of-18 (.500) from three-point.
North Dakota State 83, Youngstown State 80 (ot)
Kendrick Perry forced overtime with 3.4 seconds to play, eventually scoring a career-high 34 points, but Youngstown State succumbed to North Dakota State, 83-80, at the A.J. Palumbo Center on the Duquesne University campus.
Youngstown State (3-1) dropped its first game of the season, shooting just 38 percent in a game that featured 13 ties and nine lead changes. NDSU shot 40 percent from the floor and were led by Mike Felt's 24 points off the bench.
Perry's 34 points was the second 30-point performance of his career and the most points scored by a YSU player since Quin Humphry's 35 against Wright State on Feb. 22, 2007.
Perry scored 10 straight points in the last 29.4 seconds of regulation to help force the overtime, including a drive for a layup with 10 seconds left to cut the deficit to three, 64-61.
After NDSU missed two free throws, Perry drained second triple of the game to tie the game with 3.4 seconds to go. NDSU's desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer was off.
The Penguins used that momentum and scored the first four points of overtime on a Perry jumper and a dunk by Damian Eargle to take a 68-64 lead with 4:23 remaining.
Two three-pointers by NDSU's TrayVonn Wright and Mike Felt gave the Bison a 70-68 edge with 2:39 to go.
The Penguins knotted the game for the final time, 72-72, on a jumper by Perry at the 1:42 mark.
Felt made two free-throws and drained another 3-pointer as the shot clock expired to put NDSU up five, 77-72 with 47 seconds left.
Perry hit another jumper with 29 seconds to bring the Guins within three, 77-74, but the Bison six straight free throws down the stretch to seal the victory.
Youngstown State trailed by nine early in the second half, but the Guins scored nine straight to tie the game at 36-36 with 16:20 left.
The Penguins went scoreless for nearly seven minutes and NDSU pushed its lead back to 41-36 with 12 minutes to go.
Kamren Belin posted his first career double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds, spurring an 18-13 YSU run with nine points over the run nine minutes to tie the game at 54-54 for the 10th time at the 3:20 mark.
The Bison scored two more baskets to take a 58-54 edge with 1:41 before Perry went on his tear.
The first half saw multiple exchanges of runs between the Penguins and the Bison.
NDSU scored eight of the game's first 10 points before the Guins took a 16-10 lead on Allen's jumper with 12:10 left. Perry made three free-throws and a 3-pointer to ignite the spurt and Allen scored all four of his first-half points during that span.
The Bison regained the lead, 19-18, with a 9-2 run before the Penguins scored six straight to take a 24-19 lead at the 6:21 mark. Eargle capped the run with a jumper and two free throws.
The Penguins, though, allowed the Bison to close out the half on a 15-3 scoring binge to enter halftime with a seven-point lead, 34-27.
YSU shot just 34.6 percent in the first half and did not make a field goal over the final six minutes of the half.
Arkansas-Little Rock 59, Milwaukee 43
Milwaukee ran out of gas down the stretch, surrendering a 15-2 run en route to a 59-43 loss at Arkansas-Little Rock in its second game of the World Vision Classic.
Milwaukee (2-2) shot just 34.7 percent on the night, committing 18 turnovers and going 4-for-10 at the free-throw line. The Panthers were beaten inside the three-point arc, where Arkansas-Little Rock was 21-for-41.
Entering the game with a 41.5-percent mark from three-point range, the Panthers struggled throughout the evening, going 5-for-21.
Trailing 25-23 at the half, Milwaukee tied the game twice in the second half, the last coming on an Aaron Jordan bucket with 13:34 to go. However, UALR scored the next seven points to put the Panthers down, 39-32.
Milwaukee would close within a single possession after Demetrius Harris knocked down a jumper to make it a 42-39 contest, but UWM went 4:24 without a field goal as the Trojans held the lead.
Still, the Panthers had time for a run, as Aaron’s layup made it a 44-41 game with 5:02 to play, but it would be the last field goal for Milwaukee in the game. Three missed three-pointers and two turnovers fed UALR, who pulled away in the closing minutes.
Harris, returning to his home state, led Milwaukee with 15 points; Aaron joined him in double figures with 13.
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