THE BASICS:
 
- Score: Salem St. - 97, MIT - 67
 
- Records: MIT (1-6), Salem St. (3-3)
 
- Location: Salem, Mass. (Twohig Gymnasium)
 
- The Lead: The MIT men's basketball team suffered a 97-67 non-conference road defeat to Salem State on Tuesday night.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:

- The Engineers opened the game with three-straight threes as first-year Isaac Dobie (Kitty Hawk, N.C.) gave MIT an early 9-4 lead. Salem St. used a 6-1 run to tie the game at 10 at the 15:32 mark in the first, but the Engineers responded with an 8-0 run capped by a layup from first-year Will Bland (Virginia Beach, Va.) to go up 18-10.
 
- A layup from Thomas Fanara at 9:28 gave the Vikings a 21-20 lead that they built to an 11-point lead on a jumper from Nicholas Martinez with 1:26 left in the half and they would end the first 20 minutes of action with a 41-33 lead.
 
- Senior Luke Wagner (Austin, Texas) hit a three to cut the Vikings lead to eight at 18:38 in the second, but Salem St. did not let MIT get any closer as they used an 8-0 run to take a 66-44 lead and went on to win by a 97-67 score.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

- Bland led MIT with 21 points, and sophomore Tim Minicozzi (Belmont, Mass.) added nine. Dobie finished with nine points, and first-year Merlin Gogolin (New York, N.Y.) added eight. Ten different Engineers scored in the game.
 
- Junior Spencer Lin (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Gogolin led MIT with seven rebounds each.
 
- Martinez led all scorers with 21 points followed by Jaden Castillo with 19. Michael Makiej finished with a double-double as he scored 15 points and grabbed 15 rebounds.
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT is back on the court on Saturday, December 2nd when the Engineers welcome Fitchburg St. University to Rockwell Cage for a 1 p.m. contest.
 
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