Falcons Break 40-year Cherry

The Bowling Green Falcons MBB team broke a 40-year drought in post-season play last night with a hard fought 67-64 win over the St. Francis Red Flash in PA.  While that might have been unexpectedly close, it is important to know that BG played without Richaun Holmes and Delvin Dickerson, both of whom did not play due to injury.

On the road, under those conditions?  No bad wins.

As you can see below, it was a close game from start to finish.  With 2:12 left, the game was tied and 100% in the balance.  Pep Joseph nailed 2 free throws to put BG up 2 and then from there the game locked into a non-scoring phase.  In fact, no one scored again until there were :17 and that was a Josh Gomez layup that put BG up 4.  Except for a last-second buzzer beater, SF did not score for the last 2:30 of the game.

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Shooting for the game was almost exactly even, with SF shooting much better 2FG (53% to 41%) but BG shooting better 3FG (40% to 27%).  That netted out to +1 for the Red Flash on field goals.  There were hardly any turnovers, but SFPA had 3 fewer than BG, but then BG had an enormous game on the offensive boards and got to the line one more time than SFPA, but finished with a +4 due to a 90% conversion rate.

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Anthony Henderson continues to play at a high level for BG.  He scored 20 points on 7 of 10 shooting and 4 of 5 from 3FG, both of which are just ridiculous levels of efficiency.  Jehvon Clarke struggled a little more, with 12 points on 4 of 12 shooting, but with 8 rebounds and 4 offensive rebounds.

And Josh Gomez?  He had 10 points on 5 of 8 shooting and 7 rebounds...in 28 minutes.

Spencer Parker also had 8 rebounds.  BG went very deep onto the bench, with Lyshe and Tisdale both getting minutes.  In fact, Lyshe started.  Austin had 5 assists in 19 minutes.

With the win, BG has now made the second round of the CIT.  Rumor is that game will be at home on Saturday at 1 pm.  We will see who we play after the games are played tonight.