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Dylan Campbell goes up for a layup with a basketball
Aiden Shertzer
77
MIT MIT 0-1,0-0 NEWMAC
84
Winner Plymouth St. Plym 2-0,0-0 Little East
MIT MIT
0-1,0-0 NEWMAC
77
Final
84
Plymouth St. Plym
2-0,0-0 Little East
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
MIT MIT 40 37 77
Plymouth St. Plym 42 42 84

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Plymouth State Pulls Away Late to Down Men’s Basketball in Season Opener

PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Eric Wentz scored a team-high 20 points, but the MIT men's basketball dropped its season opener, 84-77, to Plymouth State University in a non-conference contest on Tuesday evening at Foley Gymnasium.  

THE BASICS:

  • Score: Plymouth State 84, MIT 77
  • Records: MIT (0-1 Overall); Plymouth State (2-0 Overall)

HOW IT HAPPENED:

  • A fast-paced opening six minutes of play saw the score tied 12-12 at the game's first break at 13:52. MIT's first offensive possession was a lob to rookie Dylan Campbell for his first career bucket. The Engineers built a 12-7 lead following an Isaac Dobie layup but five straight Panther points from Quinton Partee Jr. tied the game.
  • Partee finished an and-one following the break to give the hosts a 13-12 lead. Zach Watson then canned a three at 13:13 that put Plymouth State ahead, 16-12. The Panthers continued to lead until Eric Wentz dropped in a layup and one at 11:28 to give the lead back to MIT, 20-19.
  • A Romulo Delgado-Gonzalez layup at 10:28 extended the MIT advantage to 22-19, but the Panthers scored ten of the next 12 points to take a 29-24 lead following a three from Ivan Yen at 8:01.
  • MIT closed the gap back to one possession, 29-26, when Delgado-Gonzalez made the second of two free throws at 7:10, but the Panthers would hold the lead for the remainder of the first half.
  • Plymouth State was up by as many nine points, 38-29, but an 11-4 MIT run over the final 2:35 of the half helped the Engineers decrease the deficit to two, 42-40, after Delgado-Gonzalez hit a three just before halftime.
  • Wentz hit a transition three at the start of the second half to give MIT its first lead since 9:29 of the first. Plymouth State took the lead back on its next possession, leading through the opening minutes of the second half until Delgado-Gonzalez made a layup at 13:47 to give MIT its one-point edge back, 50-49.
  • Neither team led by more than three points over the next five-and-a-half minutes of play, with MIT taking a 63-60 lead following an Aiden Li three-pointer at 8:01. However, the advantage was the final lead of the game for MIT, as an 8-0 Plymouth State run put the home team ahead, 68-63, with 5:18 left in regulation.
  • The Panthers went on to outscore the Engineers by ten points over the final 7:30 of regulation to pull away for the 84-77 victory. Plymouth State's largest lead came with 2:48 remaining when Eli Pockette made a pair of free throws.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

  • Both teams shot 50% from the floor with MIT going 28-for-56 and Plymouth State shooting 30-of-60. 
  • The Panthers had a slim advantage on the glass, 33-30.  
  • Graduate transfers Wentz and Noah Hicks both made their MIT debuts.  
  • Li scored 13 points in his collegiate debut, shooting 3-for-5 from beyond the arc.  
  • Campbell pulled down a game-high nine rebounds in his collegiate debut.  
  • The back-and-forth game featured 12 lead changes and seven ties. 

UP NEXT:  

  • MIT will play on Saturday and Sunday at the Jim Beaudry Classic, hosted by the University of New England. The Engineers will take on Middlebury on Saturday at 7:00 PM before matching up with the host Nor'Easters or Maine Maritime on Sunday. Plymouth State will travel to Kean Jersey City for a 1:00 PM game on Saturday. 

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