Last-Second Shot Foils Triton Comeback Bid at Barry

MIAMI SHORES, Fla. - A late comeback saw the Eckerd men's basketball team erase an 11-point deficit to tie the game with 10 seconds to play, but a tip-in by Barry's Marko Tomic with 0.5 seconds left turned elation to heartbreak for the Tritons as the Bucs squeaked out a 75-73 win on Saturday.

Aside from a pair of short-lived leads early in the first half, Eckerd trailed for the majority of the first 20 minutes and went into halftime facing an eight-point deficit.  The Tritons could only manage to pull back within seven points as Barry's lead fluctuated between seven and 14 points for the first 15 minutes of the second half.  The Bucs still led by 11 with 4:51 to play before EC began to cut into the lead.

A trio of 3-pointers in the final two minutes helped erase the gap, the last one by Keshawn Ingram tying the game at 73-73 with 10 seconds to play.  Barry's Kooper Glick missed an open 3-pointer that would have won the game, but Tomic slipped through and tipped in the miss with 0.5 seconds on the clock.

HOW IT ENDED
Final: Barry 75, Eckerd 73
Records: Eckerd 16-4 (9-4 SSC), Barry 14-4 (9-3 SSC)
All-Time Series: Eckerd leads, 44-13

KEY MOMENTS

• After Eckerd took a 17-15 lead at the 9:37 mark of the first half on an Ingram 3-pointer, Barry's Sawyer Glick matched the basket.  The bucket gave Barry a lead that it would maintain until Ingram's game-tying triple with 10 seconds left.
• The Bucs outscored Eckerd, 15-6, over a five-plus minute span late in the first half to extend their lead to 10 points.  The Bucs eventually took an eight-point lead into halftime and then drained 3-pointers on their first two possessions of the second half for a 14-point lead.
• After a Daniel Mortensen layup pushed the Bucs' lead back to 11 with 4:51 to play, Eckerd scored on six of its next eight possessions as part of a 15-4 run that tied the game.  Blake Morrow stepped into a pair of 3-pointers during the run just before Ingram's shot from the right corner tied the game.  EC also got four important second-chance points early in the run, helping put the team in position for a comeback.

NOTES AND NUMBERS

• Drushaun McLaurn finished one rebound short of his third straight double-double, scoring 17 points and pulling in nine rebounds.
• Today marked the first game this season in which the Tritons lost after out-rebounding their opponents.
• Barry has won five in a row in the series with Eckerd.
• After going 12-of-15 from the free throw line, the Tritons have shot 80 percent or better at the charity stripe in four straight games and in nine of their last 11.

QUOTABLE
"We played better in the second half.  We started sharing the ball and battled back from a late deficit.  We played good defensively, holding them to 15 points below their average, but didn't get it going offensively early enough." - EC head coach Tom Ryan

UP NEXT
The Tritons look to get back in the win column on Wednesday with a visit to Florida Southern for a 7:30 PM tip-off.