86
UU-M UU-M 1-15, 0-11 MEC
94
Winner NOTRE DAME COLLEGE NDC-M 12-5, 6-5 MEC
UU-M UU-M
1-15, 0-11 MEC
86
Final
94
NOTRE DAME COLLEGE NDC-M
12-5, 6-5 MEC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
UU-M UU-M 37 49 86
NOTRE DAME COLLEGE NDC-M 44 50 94

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Derrick Blyberg, Sports Information Director

Newton Nets Career-High 27 Points in Road Loss

UU returns to the Grimes Center on Saturday afternoon

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio - Senior point guard Mike Newton scored a career-high 27 points in Urbana's 94-86 loss to Notre Dame College inside Murphy Gym on Thursday night. The Blue Knights fell to 1-15 on the season and will go for its first league win Saturday afternoon in the Grimes Center.

Newton finished 10 of 14 from the field and knocked down 4 of 5 shots from beyond the arc. The 6-foot senior also contributed a team-high five assists and three steals, to go along with four boards.

Sophomore shooting guard Carlas Jackson reached double figures for the 13th time this season with 18 points. Jackson also hit four treys for the Blue Knights and tallied three boards. Freshman forward Austin Adams finished with 13 points for the second straight game and now has double digits in the previous four outings. Senior foward Dimitri Abner scored 10 points for the first time this season.

As a team, UU was solid from the floor by hitting 50.8 percent of its shot attempts, including 11 from three-point range on 52.4 percent from deep.

More impressively, the Blue Knights finally showed a bit of defensive prowess by limiting NDC to the lowest field-goal percentage allowed by UU this season at 45.7 percent. UU clamped down on the MEC's second-highest scorer Tyree Gaiter (24.4 ppg), who made just three field goals and 10 of his 16 points coming from the free-throw line.

But with the focus centered around Gaiter, the Blue Knights were torched by Kyauta Taylor's game-high 35 points. Taylor hit 13 of 25 shots and 7 of 15 from three-point range.

The Blue Knights tied the score twice, but never led against the Falcons. It was the third straight outing where Urbana failed to establish a lead. The last time UU held an advantage came in the last home game versus Concord on January 12.

NDC went up 16 with just under 14 minutes left in the game, but UU trimmed the deficit to six following a pair of Newton free throws to make the score 73-67 at the 8:02 mark.

The teams went back and forth the rest of the way, as the Falcons outscored the Blue Knights by just a point, 50-49, in the second half. NDC also led 44-37 at the halftime break.

A Colin Curran layup with 20 seconds left made it a four-point game, 90-86, but Gaiter iced the game by hitting four consecutive free throws.

Urbana has now lost eight games this season by 10 points or less.

The Blue Knights will try to figure things out Saturday against Wheeling Jesuit, who knocked off No. 1 West Liberty Thursday night 106-83.

Tipoff is slated for 4 p.m. inside the Grimes Center.
 
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