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2nd |
Final |
| Columbia (11-11, 4-3 Ivy) |
26 |
33 |
59 |
| Dartmouth (8-13, 1-6 Ivy) |
24 |
26 |
50 |
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| Keys to the Game |
| Key sequence |
After an Alex Barnett basket tied the score at 45 with 5:45 remaining, Niko Scott gave Columbia the lead for good on a fall-away in the pain. When DeVon Mosley missed a triple at the other end, Mack Montgomery scored an easy layup on a home run pass from Brett Loscalzo for a four-point lead. An ill-conceived Dartmouth shot was followed by a pair of Kevin Bulger free throws to make it 51-45 Columbia lead. Barnett cut the difference to four by taking John Baumann one-one-one with 2:23 left. The lead could have shrunk to two when a near-turnover led to the time clock running down on the Lions, but they caught a huge break when Bulger’s near-desperation fadeaway on the left side went through at the buzzer for a 53-47 lead with 1:43 to go.
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| Key sign it was over |
Columbia had a chance to pad its lead to eight points with just over a minute to play, but a hustling Barnett hurried Bulger into a miss under the hoop and Montgomery’s sure-fire tip-in somehow managed to come back out of the hoop. Fouled at the other end, Mosley made drained 1-of-2 free throws with 1:11 to play to make it 53-48. Columbia then milked the clock down to 38.6 before Bulger’s bank shot on the left side blew the lead out to 55-48 with 38.6 ticks remaining. When Dartmouth’s Michael Giovacchini was unwisely fouled on a 3-point attempt with 19.1 seconds to play, he hit the first two and missed the last to make it 55-50. Columbia then salted the game away by going 4-for-4 from the foul line in the final 15-plus seconds.
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| Key performance |
Baumann had 15 points in the first half and 25 in the game, going 13-for-13 from the foul line, 6-for-9 from the field and grabbing nine boards.
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| Key statistic |
While both teams had 19 field goals and Dartmouth had five triples to the Lions’ one, Columbia was 20-for-22 from the foul line, while Dartmouth was 7-for-10.
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| Notes
– Barnett led Dartmouth with his sixth double-double of the season (14 points, 10 rebounds), but he was 0-for-6 from long range and just 6-for-18 from the floor. Mosley added 13 points and six rebounds.
– Columbia shot a healthy 47.5 percent from the field and an anemic 9.1 percent (1-for-11) from outside the arc — the first this year it made fewer than four three-pointers in a game.
– Loscalzo had four assists, while the rest of his teammates recorded just two total.
– The Big Green outscored the Lions in points off turnovers (19-10) and
second-chance points (14-7).
– Columbia now has won three games in a row and four of five, while Dartmouth fell to 5-2 at home after its fifth consecutive loss.
– The Lions visit Harvard Saturday, February 16 at 7:00 pm ET, while Dartmouth plays host to
Cornell the same night at the same time.
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