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Jacobi Sebock
93
Winner Central Okla. CentOK 19-12,10-9 Mid-America Intercollegiate
81
Pittsburg St. PittSt 18-12,13-6 Mid-America Intercollegiate
Winner
Central Okla. CentOK
19-12,10-9 Mid-America Intercollegiate
93
Final
81
Pittsburg St. PittSt
18-12,13-6 Mid-America Intercollegiate
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Central Okla. CentOK 44 49 93
Pittsburg St. PittSt 40 41 81

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Chris Brannick

Central Oklahoma Beats Pitt State, Advances To Championship Game

Bronchos Make Third Appearance In MIAA Basketball Championship Final Sunday At 1 P.M.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Central Oklahoma is heading to the MIAA Basketball Championship game Sunday at 1 p.m. following a 93-81 victory over Pittsburg State Saturday in the semifinals at Municipal Auditorium.
 
UCO improved to 19-12 overall on the season. The No. 8 seed Bronchos are the second ever 8-seed to reach the championship game and will look to be the first 8-seed to win the title. Central Oklahoma will meet No. 2 seed Fort Hays State Sunday at 1 p.m. inside historic Municipal Auditorium.
 
"I thought we did a great job on defense against them, they are a really good team and hard to defend because they have so many options," UCO head men's basketball coach Bob Hoffman said. "The guys are playing with confidence. We're shooting the ball really well and when they go in you just get more confidence. It's been fun, but we have one more we want more than anything."
 
Central Oklahoma will play for the MIAA championship for the third time since joining the league in 2012. The Bronchos made the finals in 2014 and 2023.
 
Israel Hart led Central Oklahoma with 22 points, JV Seat added 21, and Jacobi Sebock scored 19. The trio combined to make 20 shots and 20 free-throws.
 
Hart went 7-for-15 from the floor and 8-for-10 at the line. Seat was 6-for-11 from the floor, 2 of 3 from behind the arc, and went 7-for-9 at the line. And Sebock was 7-for-12 from the floor and 5 of 7 at the free-throw line.
 
Seat's eight rebounds led the way for the Bronchos. Sebock added six. Hart finished with five assists and three rebounds.
 
Jordan Thompson added 11 points and four rebounds. Parker Hannah scored nine off the bench, Matthew Willenborg scored six off the bench, and Luke Haasl scored five points to go with four boards, two blocks, and two steals.
 
UCO was 30-for-52 overall (57.7 percent) 7-for-14 from behind the 3-point line, and 26-for-34 at the free-throw line. In three games in Kansas City, the Bronchos have made 47.1 percent, 60.0 percent, and 57.7 percent of their shots in Municipal.
 
UCO scored first on Saturday, a Sebock jumper to get it started. Then Pitt State took the lead with a 3-pointer. The Gorillas led for the first 10 minutes, with one tie at 13-13. But when UCO took a 22-21 lead with a Seat layup at the 10:34 mark in the first half, the Bronchos never trailed again.
 
The Bronchos led by seven points on four different occasions in the first half and took a 44-40 lead into halftime. Central led for all 20 minutes of the second half, extending it to as much as 13 points twice. Sebock made it 72-59 with 5:50 remaining, and Seat made it 90-77 with 1:09 left to play.
 
 
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