Box Score NYU 78, Utica 57 - Men's Basketball Final
Men's Basketball - Utica vs. NYU Gallery
Clinton, NY (11/24/2012) – The Utica College men's basketball team trailed by just two points, 45-43, six minutes into the second half, but New York University used a 26-7 run over the course of the next 11:19 to eventually run away with a 78-57 victory over the Pioneers at Hamilton's Thanksgiving Tournament Saturday night.
NYU (3-0), which is the second team receiving votes just outside of the top 25 in the D3hoops.com National Poll, scored 23 points off of turnovers in the second half and it also outscored UC 44-17 in the paint to advance to Sunday's Championship contest against the winner of the Hamilton/Union game. The championship game will be played at 3 p.m. tomorrow, while the Pioneers will play in the consolation game at 1 p.m.
UC was led by junior forward
Chris Jeffers (Albany, NY/Bishop Maginn)' 13 points, seven rebounds and two steals, while
Marion Lewis (Bronx, NY/Lehman) came off the bench and scored 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting from the floor. Sophomore point guard
Aaron Nevins (Buffalo, NY/Canisius) netted 11 points.
NYU was able to hold UC's top two scorers, shooter Connor Maisch and big man
Jeff Ward (Ossining, NY/Ossining High School) to a combined eight points on 3-of-11 shooting from the floor. Maisch did go 2-for-2 from 3-point land and he also added seven rebounds. Senior shooter
Matt Baldwin (Gloversville, NY/Gloversville), who led UC in scoring one year ago, was held to just six points.
The Violets outscored the Pioneers 43-26 in the final 20 minutes of action and they shot nearly 50% from the floor on the afternoon. 13 different players scored at least one point and they were led by double-digit efforts from Carl Yaffe (14) and Devin Karch (13). Yaffe chipped in with nine defensive rebounds and also added three assists.
Kyle Stockmal poured in nine points and Evan Kupferberg scored eight off the bench for the Violets. NYU received a huge second half lift from its bench play, which outscored Utica 30-12 in the final 20 minutes of action.
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