MBB Beats Bucknell

The Falcons MBB team picked up a nice win in Ft. Myers over Bucknell.  They move to 4-2 on the year and had a nice bounce back after a down game against William & Mary. 

In particular, Ken Piel said that Coach Simon had cooked up some different shooting drills to get the Falcons dialed in from 3FG...which worked, BG was 11-23 from distance.

BG was up 1 with 10 minutes left in the first.  Over the next 9 minutes, they went on an 18-3 run to lead 16 and then UMass cleaned up a little in the last minute and BG lead by 11 at the half.

The second half was one of those halves....BG held the lead the whole way, but never put final distance between them and the Bison.  Bucknell nver got the score within one possession (with the ball).  They did get it to 3 with :13 left.  They fouled Towns who hit both FTs (he made 6 in closing time total) and then with the lead 3 again a few seconds later dunked it home to close the victory, 71-68.

As you can see, it was pretty close.  BG did shoot better from 3FG, made only 42% from 2FG and defended the shot worse than they did against W&M.  If there are any special drills for turnovers, BG might want to look at them, because they had a poor game for the second time in a row.  Rebounding was poor on both sides and BG was +3 at the line.

Javon Ruffin had his best game as a Falcon, scoring 15 on 5 of 9 3FG shooting.  Towns also had 15, 8-8 from the line and 4 rebounds.  Campbell scored 14, but a rough night, 3-9 from 2FG, 2-3 from 3FG, 2-4 at the line...but 6 steals.

Thomas had 7 rebounds and 4 assists over 5 turnovers.

BG now plays VMI, who are ranked low, but with 7 minutes left were only down 1 to what appears to be an improved Buffalo team.