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| Kevin Larsen (#21) led GW with 17 points & 5 dimes |
From our friends at GW Athletics...
GW Men's Basketball Drops 2OT Heartbreaker to Richmond, 98-90
Colonials overcame 13-point second half deficit to force overtime
For the second consecutive season at the Smith Center, GW and Richmond battled into double-overtime, though this time the home team came up short in a 98-90 loss to the Spiders.
Paul Jorgensen sent the game to overtime with a banked-in buzzer-beating three at the end of regulation after GW fought back from a 13-point second half deficit.
After regulation ended knotted at 74-74, the Colonials and Spiders didn't budge in the first overtime session, but this time it was Richmond who forced the next overtime session with a three-point play to tie the game at 85-85 with less than 20 seconds to go in the first session.
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| Joe McDonald (#22) scored 13 points |
Richmond (11-8, 3-4 A-10) pulled away in the second overtime frame to hand GW its first home loss of the season. The Colonials dipped to 15-5 overall and 4-3 in A-10 play heading into Sunday's NBCSN telecast at noon at George Mason.
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| Patricio Garino (#13) added 17 points & 2 steals |
All five GW starters scored in double figures in the contest, paced by Patricio Garino's and Kevin Larsen's 17 apiece. Larsen also had a game-high tying five assists without committing a turnover.
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| 16 points & a game-high 14 rebounds for Tyler Cavanaugh (#34) |
Tyler Cavanaugh recorded a 16-point, 14-rebound double-double, while Yuta Watanabe (14) and Joe McDonald (13) rounded out the 77 points GW got from its starting five.
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| Yuta Watanabe (#12) added 14 points & 6 rebounds |
GW used 20 offensive rebounds to win the battle of the boards, 41-33, and parlayed its work on the glass into a 24-5 edge in second chance points, but was undone by Richmond's three-point barrage. The Spiders connected on 11-of-19 threes, seven of which came from Marshall Wood (22 points) in his eight attempts.
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| ShawnDre' Jones led all players with 29 points |
ShawnDre' Jones led all scorers with 29 points for Richmond which shot 60 percent from the field in the game.
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| Richmond's Terry Allen (#15) scored 15 points |
The Spiders led by 13 after Wood hit a 3-pointer with 14:36 to play and kept their double digit lead for the next six-plus minutes. Trailing 62-53, Cavanaugh ignited a Colonials rally by knocking down a three to cut the lead to single digits and continued on a personal 7-0 run.
A runner in the lane from Watanabe tied it up, 63-63, with 3:29 to play, and it went back and forth from there with Richmond holding a 74-71 advantage with eight seconds to play. Jorgensen extended it to overtime with a pull-up three-pointer that banked off the glass and rolled around the rim before falling in.
In the first overtime, McDonald hit 4-of-4 free throws with the last pair putting GW ahead 85-82, before Jones connected for a three-point play to tie it up and ultimately, send it to the second overtime.
Notes:
• Cavanaugh recorded his sixth double-double of the season, which matches teammate Kevin Larsen for the third-most in the Atlantic 10. The junior has scored in double figures in all 20 games this season. Larsen narrowly missed a double-double with 17 points and nine boards.
• The loss marked the first for GW in overtime under Mike Lonergan. The Colonials had previously been 4-0.
• In addition to his 14 points, Watanabe matched a career-high with three blocks.
• The game featured 15 ties, which marked a season-high, and 13 lead changes.
• GW's 20 offensive rebounds and 24 second-chance points both marked season highs.
• Despite the loss, GW still holds the best home winning percentage of any A-10 team since the start of the 2013-14 season (.902, 37-4.)
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