Gamecenter: Yale 65, Wagner 72

	1st	2nd	Final
Yale (1-5)	35	30	66
Wagner (2-5)	31	41	72


Spiro Sports Center – Staten Island, NY	Boxscore

Keys to the Game
Key sequence	Yale hadn’t trailed the entire game and was leading 53-47 with under 10 minutes left. Then Mark Porter hit a layup and James Ulrich came up with a steal and took it in for a fastbreak bucket. After a Nick Holmes miss, T.J. Czeski found Porter for a layup on a third-straight possession to tie the game. The Bulldogs had two golden opportunities to re-take the lead, but Sam Kaplan couldn’t score from in close, and Caleb Holmes missed the front end of a one-and-one. When Porter hit two free throws, the Seahawks had their first lead of the game, 55-53, with 7:55 remaining.
Key sign it was over	Trailing by five with under 90 seconds left, Yale got two free throws from Kaplan to make it a one-possession game. Wagner’s Joey Mundweiler missed a three-pointer, but Matt Vitale grabbed the offensive rebound, was fouled, and hit a free throw to raise Yale’s deficit to four. Travis Pinick had a look at a three-pointer, but couldn’t knock it down, and Yale had to foul intentionally with 24 seconds left. Porter missed one of two to leave the Bulldogs some daylight, but Caleb Holmes missed a three-pointer with 16 seconds left and Porter went back to the stripe. This time he was perfect from the line, making it a three-possession game at 72-65 with only 11 seconds on the clock, effectively icing the game.
Key performance	Ulrich had a huge game for Wagner, scoring a game-high 21 points. Ulrich also was the game’s leading rebounder with 10 — including four offensive boards — and added two assists, a block, and three steals. It could have been even a bigger afternoon for the Seahawk forward, but he shot just 4 of 11 from the free throw line.
Key statistic	Wagner dominated the rebounding battle, grabbing 43.2 percent offensively, while holding Yale to just 26.5 percent. The home squad collected 19 offensive rebounds on the afternoon, parlaying those second chances into 27 points. Yale had just four second-chance points.

Notes

– Casey Hughes was the leading Yale point man with 11.

– Yale hit its first six shots of the game, jumping out to a 14-3 lead less than four minutes in. The Bulldogs still held a double digit lead at 29-19 with 6:12 left in the half, but a 12-2 Wagner spurt tied the game just before the two-minute mark.

– The Bulldogs shot 14 of 27 (51.9 percent) in the first half, but cooled off considerably after halftime, going just 7-for-22 (31.8 percent) from the floor in the second half.

– After Yale outscored Wagner 20-12 in the paint in the first half, the Seahawks turned that around in a big way, outscoring the Bulldogs 28-4 in that department in the second stanza. On the afternoon, 17 of the Seahawks’ 26 field goals were classified as layups.

– Yale will continue to look for its first win over a Division I opponent on Monday, December 4, when the Bulldogs head down Interstate 95 to face Sacred Heart (2-5) in a 7:00 pm ET tipoff.

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Gamecenter: Yale 65, Wagner 72

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