Men's Basketball falls on the road at Miami

Wednesday, December 8

Coral Gables, FL

6:00 PM

Lipscomb University

5-5,0-0ASUN

Miami

7-3,1-0ACC

Team	1	2	F
Lipscomb	26	33	59
Miami (FL)	35	41	76

Men's Basketball falls on the road at Miami

12/8/2021 10:43:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Lipscomb men's basketball led late in the first half Wednesday night at Miami, but would eventually fall 76-59 to the Hurricanes at the Watsco Center.

An undermanned Bisons squad (5-5) turned the ball over 15 times and struggled from the floor, but the turning point in the game was a 5:31 scoreless drought that saw a three-point lead for the purple and gold turn into an 11-point deficit after a 14-0 run from the Hurricanes.

Kaleb Coleman led the Bisons with 12 points on 5-of-9 shooting, including 2-of-5 from deep. KJ Johnson added nine points and a team high five assists, while freshman Quincy Clark recorded a career high nine points and a pair of steals.

FIRST HALF

Greg Jones scored the first points of the night for the Bisons with a triple after Miami opened 5-0.
Coleman checked into the game at the 12:25 mark the buried a 3-pointer just 18 seconds later to tie the game at 11.
Coleman continued to get buckets, scoring 10 consecutive points over the next 2:30 of game play to give Lipscomb its first lead of the night at 18-17.
The action seesawed over the next few possessions before scores from Johnson, Parker Hazen and Will Pruitt extended the Bisons lead to 24-21 with six minutes on the clock.
Miami retook the lead and gave itself some cushion with 16-4 run to close the half.
The Bisons missed six consecutive shots and turned the ball over three times in the span before a layup from Johnson sent them into the half down 35-26.
Lipscomb shot 34.5 percent (10-29) overall and just 25 percent from deep (3-12).
Coleman led the team with 10 points, while Johnson chipped in nine. No other player had multiple field goal makes.
Jacob Ognacevic, the team's leading scorer, went 0-for-4 from the floor and did not get into the scoring column.

SECOND HALF

Ognacevic and Hazen combined to score the first 10 points of the half, trimming the deficit to as many as eight on three occasions.
Miami's Kameron Mcgusty caught fire early in the half, scoring 13 points in a 16-points span with three triples. His run helped pushed Miami's lead to as many as 19 with just under seven minutes on the clock.
Clark responded for the Bisons with a couple buckets before a trey from Tanner Shulman got it back to within 14 at 5:35.
The Hurricanes upped their advantage to as many as 19 and Lipscomb was never able to make much of a dent before the final buzzer sounded.
Clark scored all nine of his points in the second half, while Ognacevic added eight.
Hazen chipped in four points and five rebounds in 13 minutes after half.
Lipscomb shot 39.4 percent (13-33) as a team in the half and went just 4-of-16 from long range.

GAME NOTES

The Bisons shot 37 percent overall (23-62) and connected on just 7-of-28 three-point attempts.
Lipscomb held its own on the boards, pulling down 34 rebounds that included a game-high nine on the offensive end.
The Bisons outscored Miami 28-7 from the bench and dished 13 assists.
Hazen led the team in rebounding with seven, while Ognacevic added six.
Johnson led the team with five assists, while Clark was credited with three.

UP NEXT
Lipscomb returns home to host Tennessee State on Sunday at 4 p.m.