Boston University
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Terriers Suffer 72-65 Loss to Manhattan
December 1, 2007 | Men's Basketball
Dec. 1, 2007
BOSTON - Sophomore guards Carlos Strong (Portland, Maine) and Corey Lowe (Newton, Mass.) scored 25 and 23 points respectively, but the Boston University men's basketball team (1-6) suffered a 72-65 loss to Manhattan (4-3) in Case Gymnasium on Saturday.
Strong tallied his second-straight 20-plus point game for BU to garner America East Player of the Game honors. He had 24 points against No. 11/14 Pittsburgh last Tuesday. Lowe shot 9-for-19 and gathered five rebounds with six assists. Manhattan had five players in double figures, led by Rashad Green's 20 points.
The Jaspers took a 9-0 lead six minutes into the contest before Terrier freshman John Holland (Bronx, N.Y.) drove to the basket and laid the ball in for BU's first points at 12:31. Holland scored the Terriers' second basket two minutes later. But the Jaspers went on a 10-0 run fueled by back-to-back threes by Antoine Pearson and Jamel Ferguson to go up 19-5 with 7:44 left in the first half.
The Terriers fought back from that 14-point deficit using the long ball. Lowe scored five straight points on a layup and a 3-pointer before Strong knocked down three treys to trim Manhattan's edge to four points, 28-24 with a minute left before the half. A layup by Lowe at 33 seconds narrowed the gap to 28-26 before Manhattan's Pearson made a layup with seven seconds left to give the Jaspers a 30-26 halftime lead.
BU shot better in the second half (46.9 percent; 15-for-32) than the team did in the first (34.6 percent; 9-for-26), but Manhattan had little difficulty with the Terriers' zone defense and shot 54.2 percent (13-for-24) in the last frame. BU returned to the floor flat at the start of the second and suffered a 3-point shooting slump (3-for-14 in the second period) as Manhattan ran out another double-digit lead, 44-29, with 13:51 remaining on the strength of a 14-3 rally. The Terriers did cut that advantage to six twice in the final minutes but could get no closer.
BU hosts its last home game for a month on Tuesday, Dec. 4 when the Terriers welcome Harvard to The Roof at 7 p.m.
