DARTMOUTH, Mass. – Junior Michael Zhang scored a game-high 20 points, but the MIT men's basketball team dropped an 84-72 decision to UMass Dartmouth in non-conference play on Saturday afternoon at the Tripp Athletic Center.
All five starters finished in double figures for UMass Dartmouth in the victory, paced by Camden Dunbury's 17-point, 11-rebound double-double. The hosts took control late to seize the victory following a back-and-forth contest.
THE BASICS:
- Score: UMass Dartmouth 84, MIT 72
- Records: UMass Dartmouth 7-4 overall, MIT 4-7 overall
HOW IT HAPPENED:
- MIT got out to an early lead, taking a 12-6 advantage after Isaac Dobie hit a pair of free throws at 15:52 of the first.
- The Corsairs erased the advantage over the next three minutes of play, tying the score at 12-12 when Darius Peterson dropped in a layup at 12:38. A steal and score by Camden Dichiara two possessions later moved UMass Dartmouth ahead, 14-12, at the 11:41 mark of the first.
- The hosts carried the lead until the 6:48 mark when Parker Spann found Zhang in the paint for a layup to put MIT up 19-18. MIT's advantage would grow to as many as seven points, when Rome Delgado-Gonzalez made the score 27-20 with 3:00 left before the half, but UMass Dartmouth closed out the half on a 14-2 run to move ahead 34-29 inside the final minute of play.
- An MIT layup from Spann with 17 seconds to play in the first sent the teams to the break with the Corsairs leading, 34-31.
- UMass Dartmouth outscored MIT, 50-41, in the second half to secure the victory. After outscoring MIT 14-4 over the final 2:45 of the first half, UMass Dartmouth used a 7-2 run early in the second half to stretch its advantage to eight points.
- The Corsairs carried the lead until the 12:22 mark when a tip-in put-back by Dobie gave MIT a 50-49 advantage.
- MIT stretched its lead to five on an and-one layup and free throw from Delgado-Gonzalez at 9:49, taking a 57-52 lead just past the midway point of the second half. The Engineers continued to lead until the 6:41 mark when UMass Dartmouth wrestled the lead back, 62-61, following a layup from Nic Boyd.
- The lead went back and forth over the next few possessions before the Corsairs took control of the game over the final 5:27 of regulation.
- UMass Dartmouth outscored MIT 17-6 over the final five and a half minutes of play as the hosts took their largest lead of the day, 84-72, when Dunbury closed out the game with a dunk.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- Spann scored 12 points and pulled down four rebounds in his first appearance of the season for MIT.
- Dobie and Delgado-Gonzalez joined Spann and Zhang in double figures, with Dobie scoring 14 points and Delgado-Gonzalez adding 13.
- Boyd had 16 points for UMass Dartmouth, while McNair added 14 and DiChiara had 13. Danny Reyes also added 12 points.
- MIT finished the game shooting 43.1% from the field while the Corsairs were 42.4% shooting.
- UMass Dartmouth had the advantage on the glass, 40-31.
- The game included five tie scores and 10 lead changes.
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