Box Score

Lincoln (MO) Linc 11-18,7-12 Mid-America Intercollegiate

Central Okla. CentOK 11-18,8-11 Mid-America Intercollegiate

Lincoln (MO) Linc

11-18,7-12 Mid-America Intercollegiate

Final

Mar. 04, 2020

Central Okla. CentOK

11-18,8-11 Mid-America Intercollegiate

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	F
Lincoln (MO) Linc	31	47	78
Central Okla. CentOK	27	42	69

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | 3/4/2020 10:29:00 PM | Chris Brannick

Central Oklahoma Ousted In MIAA First Round

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The University of Central Oklahoma men's basketball team dropped a 78-69 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association postseason tournament first-round game Wednesday night and had its season end at Municipal Auditorium.

Central Oklahoma finished the 2019-20 season with an 11-18 record.

"We didn't play very well tonight and that was it," UCO head coach Bob Hoffman said. "I don't think we played our best and that's why we lost. It's always tough to see a season end, but our guys did fight with all they had to get to this point and for that I'm proud of them. I wish we could have extended our season a little bit further, but we didn't do enough for that tonight."

Central Oklahoma held a two-point lead in the early stages of the postseason game Wednesday night, and saw the scoreboard tied on three occasions in the early minutes, but Lincoln led for 36:19 in total by the end of the night, holding too firm to a lead the Bronchos couldn't pry away.

Dashon Bell led UCO with 15 points, Colt Savage scored 14, and Carson Calavan chipped in 11 points. Dashawn McDowell, who scored six points, had a team-high seven rebounds.

UCO shot 36.8 percent from the floor, hitting 21 of 57 shots. The Bronchos shot 40 percent from behind the arc, hitting 8 of 20 from outside. And Central made 19 of 25 free-throws on the night, a 76 percent mark.

Lincoln took an early 4-0 lead in the game Wednesday night, but the Bronchos responded with a 6-0 run. McDowell earned a hard fought basket in the paint, Calavan added a fastbreak layup to tie the game, and Justin Nimmer gave UCO a 6-4 lead with 14:23 to play in the opening half.

Lincoln tied moments later, 6-6, then went ahead by two after forcing a stop. D.J. Basey then had a signature alley-oop to tie the game, 8-8, with 12:53 left, but Lincoln answered that with a 3-pointer to go ahead and earned a lead it never relinquished.

Central got within a basket three times throughout the remainder of the half. Bell made one of two free-throws to cut it to 11-9, Cooper Clark hit a 3-pointer to make cut it to 26-25, and Bell again made a jump shot to cut it to 29-27. UCO trailed 31-27 heading into the locker room at halftime.

Lincoln pushed the lead to as much as 15 in the second half. The Bronchos never got closer than six in the second half.

Clark added seven points off the bench for the Bronchos. Nimmer and Seth Hurd both scored five. Basey finished with four, and Camryn Givens, who earned All-MIAA Honorable Mention and led UCO in scoring this season, scored two points and didn't make a field goal as the sophomore was limited to just 13 minutes of action due to foul trouble.

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