Luke Skaljac scored a career-high 19 factors as No. 23 Miami (Ohio) remained unbeaten with a 73-71 victory over host Buffalo on Tuesday night time in a Mid-American Convention contest.
Buffalo closed to 73-71 on a Noah Batchelor 3-pointer with 12 seconds to play and had an opportunity to win the sport, however Ryan Sabol’s 3-pointer with 4 seconds left hit the entrance rim and bounced out.
Skaljac additionally had 5 steals, 4 rebounds and three assists. Miami (23-0, 11-0 MAC) acquired an 11-point efficiency from Brant Byers and 10 factors, 5 rebounds and eight assists from Peter Suder.
Arizona (22-0) is the one different unbeaten Division I group within the nation.
Buffalo’s Angelo Brizzi made 9 of 14 field-goal makes an attempt and scored a game-high 22 factors. Daniel Freitag added 18 factors, seven assists and 4 rebounds for the Bulls (14-9, 4-7).
Suder’s layup capped a 10-0 spurt that handed Miami a 48-37 lead with 17:56 to play. The RedHawks had their largest lead, 52-40, after Skaljac’s jumper with 16:01 left, however Buffalo scored the following 9 factors to tug inside three. It was 62-62 after Brizzi’s 3-pointer with 6:39 remaining.
The groups tied twice extra earlier than the RedHawks opened a 72-66 benefit on Skaljac’s layup with 3:02 left and 18-foot jumper with 1:35 remaining.
Brizzi responded with a dunk with 1:20 to go earlier than Justin Kirby made one in all two free throws with 32 seconds left for Miami’s 73-68 lead.
The Bulls had a big edge within the sport on the free-throw line, the place they made 14 of 18 makes an attempt. The RedHawks did not try a free throw till 9:25 remained within the sport. Miami was 3 of 6 on the foul line.
Neither group led by greater than seven factors within the first half. Buffalo had a 33-32 lead following a Batchelor 3-pointer with 4:07 left within the half earlier than Miami gained a 38-35 by halftime.
The RedHawks shot 56.7% (17 of 30) from the sphere within the first half, whereas the Bulls shot 38.7% (12 of 31).
Miami earned a 105-102 extra time victory within the first assembly between the groups this season on Jan. 17 in Oxford, Ohio.
–Area Degree Media
