BOSTON – Trailing by as many as 16 late in the Patriot League semifinals, the Boston University men's basketball team roared back to tie the game in the final seconds of regulation but eventually fell to Lehigh, 91-88, in double overtime on Sunday afternoon at Case Gym.

THE RUNDOWN

Final Score: Lehigh 91, Boston University 88 (2OT)
Records: Lehigh (20-11), BU (18-14)
Location: Case Gym "The Roof" - Boston, Mass.
BU Team Stats: 30-79 FG (.380), 11-29 3FG (.379), 17-21 FT (.810)
Lehigh Team Stats: 29-70 FG (.414), 9-27 3FG (.333), 24-30 FT (.800)
BU Leaders: Fanning (22p, 11r, 5a, 3s), Alston (20p, 8r, 3a), Scanlon (11p, 4r), E. Johnson (11p, 5r, 3a)
Lehigh Leaders: Kempton (31p, 13r, 6b, 2s), Price (23p, 4 3FGs, 4r, 3s), Alston (18p, 5r), Leufroy (12p, 5r, 3a, 3s)

TURNING POINT

• After senior Eric Fanning tied the game for the seventh and final time (82-82) with 1:45 left in 2OT, two-time Patriot League Player of the Year Tim Kempton hit his third 3-pointer of the game from the corner to give the Mountain Hawks the lead for good.
• The Terriers missed their 3-point attempt and eventually found themselves down 89-82 at 13.8 seconds following four-straight Lehigh free throws.
• BU managed to outscore Lehigh 6-2 in the following 12 seconds with 3-pointers from junior Eric Johnson and Fanning.
• Following Fanning's trey, the Mountain Hawks stepped out of bounds with 1.2 seconds remaining, but the Terriers were unable to net the equalizer on a contested 3-point attempt as time expired.

THE SECOND OVERTIME

• Kempton opened 2OT with three free throws on four attempts and added a jumper to give Lehigh an 80-77 lead.
• Following two free throws from Fanning, Johnson swiped the ball away from Austin Price and drew a flagrant foul at the same time.
• Johnson hit both free throws to give BU its final lead (81-80) at 3:03, but the Terriers were unable to extend it on the extra possession.

THE FIRST OVERTIME

• Junior Cedric Hankerson gave BU a brief 68-65 lead to open OT, but TIm Kempton hit four straight free throws to give Lehigh back the lead.
• Freshman Max Mahoney went 1-of-2 at the line for a 75-73 lead with 24 seconds left ... Kempton though tied the game with six seconds remaining on a layup and blocked sophomore Kyle Foreman's layup attempt to force a second OT.

REGULATION

• Fanning gave BU a brief 3-2 lead with a 3-pointer, but Brandon Alston responded with back-to-back buckets to give the Mountain Hawks a four-point lead that would expand to 23-12 at 7:54 in the first half.
• Freshman Tyler Scanlon drained a 3-pointer to pull the Terriers within four (26-22) at 4:46, but Austin Price scored seven points in an 11-4 spurt to help the Mountain Hawks enter the locker room leading, 37-26.
• BU shot just 8-of-30 (.267) in the first 20 minutes of action, while Lehigh went 14-of-33 (.424).
• The Terriers came out firing in the second half scoring the first seven points, but the Mountain Hawks called a timeout and scored seven straight of their own to grab a 44-33 lead with 15:30 left ... Price's 3-pointer gave Lehigh its largest lead of the game, 53-37, at 10:41.
• Trailing 59-51 with 3:22 left, Fanning drained a pair of free throws and Hankerson followed with a 3-pointer and free throw to cut the deficit to three points.
• Lehigh was held scoreless for the final 2:07 of regulation, as BU managed to send the game to OT with a Hankerson 3-pointer (1:44), Fanning free throw (1:06) and layup by senior Justin Alston with 12 seconds left.
• Kempton missed what would have been the game winner on a fadeaway jumper. 

GAME NOTES

• Fanning recorded his fourth double-double of the season and seventh overall with a team-high 22 points and 11 rebounds while adding a team-high five assists and three steals ... His 3-pointer with two seconds left in 2OT helped push him past Neil Burns ('76) for No. 14 all-time at BU with 1,271 points (1,412 total with 141 at Wagner in 2012-13).
• Despite fouling out with 1:44 remaining in the first overtime, Alston posted 20 points and added eight rebounds ... All five of his 20+ point career performances occurred this season.
• With the help of three 3-pointers and a free throw, Hankerson scored all 10 of his points during a stretch of 3:06 of playing time to help the Terriers erase a 59-53 deficit and take a 68-65 lead 13 seconds into overtime.
• BU went to a second OT for the first time since beating UMBC, 80-77, on Jan. 22, 2009 at Case Gym ... The contest also marked BU's second-ever conference tournament game to require multiple extra sessions with the Terriers last falling at Vermont, 85-84, in 3OT during the quarterfinals of the 1981 ECAC North Championship.
• Needing just 10 points today, Kempton tallied 31 with 13 rebounds and a career-high six blocks to become the second-ever player in PL history and first at Lehigh to reach 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds.
• BU came up just short in trying to beat a top-3 seed three times in a season for the first time since the Terriers defeated Northeastern three times in 1988-89.