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Mountain Hawks put second-half scare into Miami, but Hurricanes pull away
11/9/2018 9:59:00 PM | Men's Basketball
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The Lehigh men's basketball team trimmed an 18-point lead down to six with 12:10 left in the second half, but Miami immediately responded, pulling away down the stretch to beat the Mountain Hawks, 83-62 on Friday evening at Watsco Center. In a homecoming game, senior Lance Tejada scored a team-high 19 points, 16 coming in the second half. Freshman Nic Lynch posted his first-career double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds while senior Kyle Leufroy just missed a double-double with 12 points and nine boards.
"I thought our team showed some poise by being able to come back," said Lehigh head coach Brett Reed. "Obviously we'll talk about some of the situations that built us such a hole, but there was enough we could muster at times to put ourselves in contention with a pretty good team. This was a game I was excited about because I even thought we could compete better than we did. I was disappointed in the beginning of the game that we seemed a little bit star-struck and deer-in-the headlights because we just didn't communicate; we didn't have the same sense of urgency and awareness that we had demonstrated in the last game."
Junior Pat Andree also recorded double figures for the Mountain Hawks with 10. Lehigh struggled to get going in the first half, but shot 45 percent from the field in the second half and 72 percent from the free throw line after marks of just 23 percent and 50 percent in the first.
Leufroy scored Lehigh's first five points, as his three-pointer pulled the Mountain Hawks within 6-5 with 18:09 on the clock. Miami answered with a 10-0 run as an Ebuka Izundu jumper gave the Hurricanes a 16-5 advantage with 16:09 remaining in the first.
Tejada and Andree knocked down treys in the span of 48 seconds to pull Lehigh within 19-11, but the Hurricanes again extended their lead to double figures. A Marques Wilson trey pulled Lehigh within 25-16, but a 9-0 Miami surge gave it an 18-point, 34-16 advantage, with 7:19 on the first-half clock. Trailing 37-19 with 5:14 remaining in the first, the Mountain Hawks' defense bore down, allowing just one point the rest of the stanza. Lehigh scored seven itself, behind a Leufroy three-pointer and four free throws, to pull within 38-26 following 20 minutes of play.
(11/9/2018) Men's Basketball at Miami, 11/9/18
The Hurricanes opened the second half on a 10-3 run as a DJ Vasiljevic three-pointer gave Miami a 48-29 lead with 17:21 on the clock. A few minutes later, trailing 51-35, the Mountain Hawks staged a quick 7-0 run behind an Andree three, Tejada layup and two Tejada free throws, to pull back within single digits at 51-42.
After a Miami jumper, Tejada went on a personal 5-0 run, as his three-pointer pulled Lehigh as close as it had been since early in the first half, trailing by just six (53-47) with 12:24 remaining. That extended Lehigh's overall run to 12-2.
Miami's Chris Lykes answered with a 5-0 run of his own, extending to seven straight Hurricane points after an Anthony Lawrence layup. A Caleb Bennett layup pulled the Mountain Hawks within 61-51 with just over nine minutes remaining, but that's as close as they would come as Miami pulled away down the stretch for the 83-62 win.
"We are a team that needs to build towards consistency, but we just saw some lapses at times in this game that became really, really costly – at the beginning of the game and also during another segment when we just turned the ball over and it created a lot of opportunities for Miami," said Reed. "Give them credit; they're an ACC team, they're going to be good and if you make a mistake, they're going to capitalize upon it. That's part of the reason we like playing these games, because you can learn a lot about yourself and you can't mask weaknesses. You have to fix your weaknesses in order to compete."
For the game, Lehigh shot 34.4 percent from the field (21-of-61), including 38.1 percent from three-point range (8-of-21). Miami finished at 37.7 percent (23-of-61), 43.8 percent form long distance (14-of-32). The Hurricanes held a slim 45-44 edge in rebounds.
Lehigh will return home next week for its first two games in Stabler Arena. The Mountain Hawks will host Marist on Tuesday (7 p.m.) and Princeton on Friday (8:30 p.m.).
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"I thought our team showed some poise by being able to come back," said Lehigh head coach Brett Reed. "Obviously we'll talk about some of the situations that built us such a hole, but there was enough we could muster at times to put ourselves in contention with a pretty good team. This was a game I was excited about because I even thought we could compete better than we did. I was disappointed in the beginning of the game that we seemed a little bit star-struck and deer-in-the headlights because we just didn't communicate; we didn't have the same sense of urgency and awareness that we had demonstrated in the last game."
Junior Pat Andree also recorded double figures for the Mountain Hawks with 10. Lehigh struggled to get going in the first half, but shot 45 percent from the field in the second half and 72 percent from the free throw line after marks of just 23 percent and 50 percent in the first.
Leufroy scored Lehigh's first five points, as his three-pointer pulled the Mountain Hawks within 6-5 with 18:09 on the clock. Miami answered with a 10-0 run as an Ebuka Izundu jumper gave the Hurricanes a 16-5 advantage with 16:09 remaining in the first.
Tejada and Andree knocked down treys in the span of 48 seconds to pull Lehigh within 19-11, but the Hurricanes again extended their lead to double figures. A Marques Wilson trey pulled Lehigh within 25-16, but a 9-0 Miami surge gave it an 18-point, 34-16 advantage, with 7:19 on the first-half clock. Trailing 37-19 with 5:14 remaining in the first, the Mountain Hawks' defense bore down, allowing just one point the rest of the stanza. Lehigh scored seven itself, behind a Leufroy three-pointer and four free throws, to pull within 38-26 following 20 minutes of play.
The Hurricanes opened the second half on a 10-3 run as a DJ Vasiljevic three-pointer gave Miami a 48-29 lead with 17:21 on the clock. A few minutes later, trailing 51-35, the Mountain Hawks staged a quick 7-0 run behind an Andree three, Tejada layup and two Tejada free throws, to pull back within single digits at 51-42.
After a Miami jumper, Tejada went on a personal 5-0 run, as his three-pointer pulled Lehigh as close as it had been since early in the first half, trailing by just six (53-47) with 12:24 remaining. That extended Lehigh's overall run to 12-2.
Miami's Chris Lykes answered with a 5-0 run of his own, extending to seven straight Hurricane points after an Anthony Lawrence layup. A Caleb Bennett layup pulled the Mountain Hawks within 61-51 with just over nine minutes remaining, but that's as close as they would come as Miami pulled away down the stretch for the 83-62 win.
"We are a team that needs to build towards consistency, but we just saw some lapses at times in this game that became really, really costly – at the beginning of the game and also during another segment when we just turned the ball over and it created a lot of opportunities for Miami," said Reed. "Give them credit; they're an ACC team, they're going to be good and if you make a mistake, they're going to capitalize upon it. That's part of the reason we like playing these games, because you can learn a lot about yourself and you can't mask weaknesses. You have to fix your weaknesses in order to compete."
For the game, Lehigh shot 34.4 percent from the field (21-of-61), including 38.1 percent from three-point range (8-of-21). Miami finished at 37.7 percent (23-of-61), 43.8 percent form long distance (14-of-32). The Hurricanes held a slim 45-44 edge in rebounds.
Lehigh will return home next week for its first two games in Stabler Arena. The Mountain Hawks will host Marist on Tuesday (7 p.m.) and Princeton on Friday (8:30 p.m.).
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Team Stats
LEHIGH
MIAMI
FG%
.344
.377
3FG%
.381
.438
FT%
.571
.719
RB
44
45
TO
18
11
STL
5
8
Game Leaders
Pts
19
FGM
7
3FGM
3
FTM
2
Pts
12
FGM
5
3FGM
2
FTM
0
Pts
10
FGM
3
3FGM
2
FTM
2
Players Mentioned
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