Men's Basketball Falls To Rider, 66-60
November 18, 2006 | Men's Basketball
Lowe and Morris each had 13 points in the loss for the Terriers. Morris also added five rebounds and six assists. Lowe contributed four rebounds and four assists. Peterkin's 12 points came on 6-for-10 shooting; he also tallied six rebounds. Jason Thompson and Harris Mansell had 22 and 20 points for Rider, respectively. Thompson went 9-for-18 from the floor and Mansell was an efficient 5-for-6.
Rider had a 35-34 advantage coming out of the half and got four quick points to take a 38-34 lead at 18:48. Peterkin and Smith dropped in lay ups for BU at 17:56 and 17:36 to tie the game, but from there both teams jockeyed for position, unable to get more a two-point lead over the next eight minutes. During that stretch the teams were a combined 6-for-16 from the floor and had a total of ten turnovers. Finally, a 3-pointer by Lowe gave BU a four-point lead, 50-46, at 9:08, but Terrance Mouton matched that with a trey of his own. BU's last lead came at 4:53, 54-51, on a lay up by Peterkin. A Mansell three tied the game at 54, and the Broncs took the lead for good with a Kevin Vosilla lay up at 2:27.
BU and Rider raced out to an 11-11 tie in the first five minutes of the game, the fourth of the first half. The Terriers' Scott Brittain (Oakville, Ont.) gave BU a 14-11 lead with a three at 14:44. That three kicked off a 14-5 run for BU that pushed the Terriers' advantage to nine, 25-16, with 8:50 remaining in the first half. But the Broncs chipped away steadily at that lead, getting threes from Lamar Johnson and Mansell and five points from Thompson to tie the game at 32 with 2:54 to go before the break. Mansell hit a three with 1:12 remaining to take a 35-32. BU cut that to one, 35-34 on a Brittain lay up with 37 seconds left but were unable to convert a play in the waning seconds of the first half.
BU's Morris was chosen as the America East Player of the Game for the Terriers.
The Terriers return to action on Tuesday, November 21 when they travel to Northeastern to face the Huskies at 7 p.m. That game kicks off a slate of four straight road contests for BU.
