Friday, November 21
Atlanta, Ga.
7 p.m.
Purdue Fort Wayne
2-1
69
at
78
Georgia Tech
3-0
1
2
F
IPFW
26
43
69
Georgia Tech
32
46
78
Team Stats
IPFW
GT
FG%
.436
.525
3FG%
.389
.385
FT%
.500
.440
RB
26
43
TO
9
12
STL
4
4
Game Leaders
Pts
17
FGM
6
3FGM
0
FTM
5
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
1
FTM
2
Pts
8
FGM
1
3FGM
1
FTM
5
Players Mentioned
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Mastodons Battle in Nine-Point Loss to Georgia Tech
11/21/2014 10:45:00 PM | Men's Basketball
ATLANTA - IPFW closed a six-point halftime deficit to one in the second half; however, an early 7-0 margin was too much to overcome against Georgia Tech on Friday evening, as the Mastodons fell to the Yellow Jackets by a 78-69 score despite the first double-double of the season for senior forward Steve Forbes.
Forbes scored a game-high 17 points to go with 10 rebounds. Mo Evans scored 16 points, with Isaiah McCray scoring nine despite playing just 16 minutes because of foul trouble. Joe Edwards chipped in eight points while Max Landis added seven in the loss.
Georgia Tech came out firing early, jumping ahead to a 7-0 lead through the first two minutes of the game before IPFW countered with six straight points on a pair of lay-ins by McCray and a Forbes basket.
The hosts pushed ahead by as many as 10 by 25-15 with 6:07 to play before the Mastodons closed the gap to four with a minute left before a basket with two seconds left send the Yellow Jackets into the locker room with a 32-26 advantage.
Edwards converted a four-point play 12 seconds into the second half taking the margin to just two, and after Georgia Tech pushed ahead again by six, Evans scored seven consecutive IPFW points to close the gap to one at 50-49.,
Joe Reed drained a three-point basket with just over seven minutes to play to once again close the gap to one; however, the hosts ran off a 12-1 run to lead by 12 with three and a half minutes to play.
From there the Mastodons scrapped and cut the gap to nine at the final horn in the 78-69 Yellow Jacket win.
IPFW was 24-of-55 from the field in the game, including shooting 55.6 percent (15-of-27) in the second half. Georgia Tech was 31-of-59 from the field in the game, while making 5-of-13 from long range. Each team's struggles in the game came at the charity stripe, where the Mastodons' 14-of-28 was the higher percentage of the two teams - as Georgia Tech was 11-of-25 on its free tries.
Georgia Tech was led by Demarco Cox' 15 points and seven rebounds, as Quinton Stephens had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
The Mastodons return to action on Monday, November 24 when the squad hosts the Jacksonville Dolphins in a 7 p.m. tip-off at the Memorial Coliseum.
~ Feel the Rumble ~
Forbes scored a game-high 17 points to go with 10 rebounds. Mo Evans scored 16 points, with Isaiah McCray scoring nine despite playing just 16 minutes because of foul trouble. Joe Edwards chipped in eight points while Max Landis added seven in the loss.
Georgia Tech came out firing early, jumping ahead to a 7-0 lead through the first two minutes of the game before IPFW countered with six straight points on a pair of lay-ins by McCray and a Forbes basket.
The hosts pushed ahead by as many as 10 by 25-15 with 6:07 to play before the Mastodons closed the gap to four with a minute left before a basket with two seconds left send the Yellow Jackets into the locker room with a 32-26 advantage.
Edwards converted a four-point play 12 seconds into the second half taking the margin to just two, and after Georgia Tech pushed ahead again by six, Evans scored seven consecutive IPFW points to close the gap to one at 50-49.,
Joe Reed drained a three-point basket with just over seven minutes to play to once again close the gap to one; however, the hosts ran off a 12-1 run to lead by 12 with three and a half minutes to play.
From there the Mastodons scrapped and cut the gap to nine at the final horn in the 78-69 Yellow Jacket win.
IPFW was 24-of-55 from the field in the game, including shooting 55.6 percent (15-of-27) in the second half. Georgia Tech was 31-of-59 from the field in the game, while making 5-of-13 from long range. Each team's struggles in the game came at the charity stripe, where the Mastodons' 14-of-28 was the higher percentage of the two teams - as Georgia Tech was 11-of-25 on its free tries.
Georgia Tech was led by Demarco Cox' 15 points and seven rebounds, as Quinton Stephens had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
The Mastodons return to action on Monday, November 24 when the squad hosts the Jacksonville Dolphins in a 7 p.m. tip-off at the Memorial Coliseum.
~ Feel the Rumble ~
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