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By Jonas Fortune
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 10:20 p.m. EST, Nov 15, 2009
KENT: What happened?
The final 2.7 seconds were a blur as the Kent State men's basketball team fell 87-86 in overtime to Wisconsin-Green Bay. The ending shocked the Golden Flashes, elated the Phoenix and left KSU's fans scratching their heads.
First, there was a football pass to midcourt and an interception by Kent State senior Tyree Evans, who fumbled before he hit the ground.
By that time, Green Bay coach Tod Kowalczyk was walking up the sideline to shake Kent State coach Geno Ford's hand.
Behind him, though, Green Bay junior Bryquis Perine picked up the rolling ball near the 3-point line and chucked it through the net as time expired. The one-point victory came on the third straight day of competition in the Hispanic College Fund Classic at the M.A.C. Center.
''All I saw was Tyree steal the ball and I just backed up. I thought the game was over,'' Kent State sophomore Justin Greene said. ''Then I saw the ball roll and he [Perine] just picked it up and shot it. He made a great shot.''
The entire Green Bay team piled on top of Perine in celebration as the referees huddled at midcourt to discuss what had happened. By the time the players crawled off him, Perine writhed in pain on the ground with an apparent injury to his ankle.
The referees ruled the shot was good and the Phoenix (2-1) were victorious.
''I told our team in the last timeout we deserve to win this one,'' Kowalczyk said. ''Lo and behold, the basketball gods found a way to answer it for us.''
The officiating gods may have had their part, too. An after-game replay showed that the ball might have rolled out of bounds in front of the Green Bay bench before Perine picked it up for the game-winning 3-pointer.
In the Golden Flashes' eyes, that was a moot point.
''Tonight, we deserved to lose,'' Ford said. ''We did not play hard in the first half. . . .In reality, you have to play to the final buzzer, and they made a great shot and they deserved to win. They outplayed us the whole night. So, in a sad way, it was kind of justice to the ending.''
The game carried all the earmarks of the third game of the season on a third, consecutive night of play. There were ill-advised shots and defensive breakdowns and plenty of players trying to figure out what their roles will be this season.
The struggles could mostly be seen on defense, where the Flashes allowed the Phoenix to shoot 54 percent from the field and 58.8 percent from 3-point range.
But the Golden Flashes hung around, and erased a 15-point gap in the second half. Senior guard Chris Singletary, who finished with 12 points and six rebounds, muscled his way to the rim with sixth-tenths of a second left in regulation to tie the game at 78.
Frank Henry-Ala's free throw with two minutes and 23 seconds left in overtime gave the Flashes (2-1) their first lead since five minutes into the first half.
Junior guard Rodriquez Sherman's aggressive layup with 2.7 seconds left in overtime put the Flashes up 86-84.
It was just enough time for Perine to redirect a loose ball from the Green Bay sideline through the net. He finished the game with 20 points.
''I wouldn't say it is that disappointing,'' Singletary said. ''Maybe if we would came out earlier and played a little harder from the beginning, then maybe that shot would have been disappointing, but we felt like that was the position that we put ourselves in. We just have to learn from it.''
Greene led Kent State with 20 points, six rebounds and four assists. Evans finished with 19 points on 5-of-8 shooting from 3-point range and Sherman had 18 points and six rebounds.
Jonas Fortune can be reached at jfortune@thebeaconjournal.com.
KENT: What happened?
The final 2.7 seconds were a blur as the Kent State men's basketball team fell 87-86 in overtime to Wisconsin-Green Bay. The ending shocked the Golden Flashes, elated the Phoenix and left KSU's fans scratching their heads.
First, there was a football pass to midcourt and an interception by Kent State senior Tyree Evans, who fumbled before he hit the ground.
By that time, Green Bay coach Tod Kowalczyk was walking up the sideline to shake Kent State coach Geno Ford's hand.
Behind him, though, Green Bay junior Bryquis Perine picked up the rolling ball near the 3-point line and chucked it through the net as time expired. The one-point victory came on the third straight day of competition in the Hispanic College Fund Classic at the M.A.C. Center.
''All I saw was Tyree steal the ball and I just backed up. I thought the game was over,'' Kent State sophomore Justin Greene said. ''Then I saw the ball roll and he [Perine] just picked it up and shot it. He made a great shot.''
The entire Green Bay team piled on top of Perine in celebration as the referees huddled at midcourt to discuss what had happened. By the time the players crawled off him, Perine writhed in pain on the ground with an apparent injury to his ankle.
The referees ruled the shot was good and the Phoenix (2-1) were victorious.
''I told our team in the last timeout we deserve to win this one,'' Kowalczyk said. ''Lo and behold, the basketball gods found a way to answer it for us.''
The officiating gods may have had their part, too. An after-game replay showed that the ball might have rolled out of bounds in front of the Green Bay bench before Perine picked it up for the game-winning 3-pointer.
In the Golden Flashes' eyes, that was a moot point.
''Tonight, we deserved to lose,'' Ford said. ''We did not play hard in the first half. . . .In reality, you have to play to the final buzzer, and they made a great shot and they deserved to win. They outplayed us the whole night. So, in a sad way, it was kind of justice to the ending.''
The game carried all the earmarks of the third game of the season on a third, consecutive night of play. There were ill-advised shots and defensive breakdowns and plenty of players trying to figure out what their roles will be this season.
The struggles could mostly be seen on defense, where the Flashes allowed the Phoenix to shoot 54 percent from the field and 58.8 percent from 3-point range.
But the Golden Flashes hung around, and erased a 15-point gap in the second half. Senior guard Chris Singletary, who finished with 12 points and six rebounds, muscled his way to the rim with sixth-tenths of a second left in regulation to tie the game at 78.
Frank Henry-Ala's free throw with two minutes and 23 seconds left in overtime gave the Flashes (2-1) their first lead since five minutes into the first half.
Junior guard Rodriquez Sherman's aggressive layup with 2.7 seconds left in overtime put the Flashes up 86-84.
It was just enough time for Perine to redirect a loose ball from the Green Bay sideline through the net. He finished the game with 20 points.
''I wouldn't say it is that disappointing,'' Singletary said. ''Maybe if we would came out earlier and played a little harder from the beginning, then maybe that shot would have been disappointing, but we felt like that was the position that we put ourselves in. We just have to learn from it.''
Greene led Kent State with 20 points, six rebounds and four assists. Evans finished with 19 points on 5-of-8 shooting from 3-point range and Sherman had 18 points and six rebounds.
Jonas Fortune can be reached at jfortune@thebeaconjournal.com.
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Canton, OH
Posted 07:42 AM, 11/16/2009
. . . .OUCH. . .
