CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Bowdoin College rallied from a ten-point halftime deficit to defeat the MIT men's basketball team, 75-68, in a non-conference matinee on Saturday at Rockwell Cage.
Ray Cuevas powered the second half run for the Polar Bears, finishing the game with 19 points, four rebounds, three assists, a block and two steals before fouling out in the second half. Rome Delgado-Gonzalez was the high-scorer for MIT with 17 points on 5-of-11 shooting.
THE BASICS:
- Score: Bowdoin 75, MIT 68
- Records: Bowdoin 5-1, MIT 4-4
HOW IT HAPPENED:
- The Engineers limited Bowdoin to just 24 points in the first half as the visitors shot 9-of-29 (31.03%) from the field and 1-of-7 from beyond the arc.
- MIT had the lead for the majority of the opening 20 minutes, eventually building a double-digit advantage when a layup from Delgado-Gonzalez gave the Engineers a 26-15 lead with 4:13 left before the break.
- MIT took its largest lead of the game late in the first, leading by 12 when a layup from Jackson Weiland made the score 32-20 at 1:42 and again with 25 seconds left in the half following a layup from Michael Zhang that put MIT up 34-22.
- A pair of Bowdoin free throws from Bendek Maly made the score 34-24 at the end of the first half.
- The visitors quickly erased the ten-point lead at the start of the second half, using a 7-0 run to cut the lead to one possession, 34-31, at 17:48.
- Wyatt Mowery connected on an and-one three pointer at 17:33 that stretched MIT's lead back to seven points. However, the advantage was the largest lead the Engineers would enjoy for the remainder of the game.
- Cuevas scored nine of the next 11 Bowdoin points, as the Polar Bears used an 11-4 run to eventually tie the game, at 42-42, when Cuevas hit a jumper at 13:22.
- MIT wrestled the lead back over the next two possessions, but Cuevas hit threes on back-to-back Bowdoin possessions at 10:36 and 10:00 to give the visitors the lead at the ten-minute mark, 50-49.
- The Polar Bears did not trail from the remainder of the game, holding off MIT rallies that tied the game at 60-60 with 4:13 to play and at 66-66 with 3:31 left in regulation.
- With the score tied at 66, Bowdoin went on to put the game out of reach with a 9-0 run capped with an emphatic transition dunk from Mason Dawkins.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- Delgado-Gonzalez was one of three Engineers in double figures, as Isaac Dobie added 16 points and Michael Zhang dropped in ten off the MIT bench.
- Mowery, making his first start of the season, added a solid eight points, nine rebounds, and two blocks.
- MIT shot 42.9% from the floor (27-of-63) and 30% from three-point range (6-of-20) in the game.
- It was truly a tale of two halves for Bowdoin, as the visitors shot 31.03% in the opening half but 61.76% in the second half, including knocking down 5-of-8 attempts from three.
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