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RIT RIT 3-4
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Winner No. 2 Geneseo GENESEO 6-1
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No. 2 Geneseo GENESEO
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RIT RIT 37 43 80
No. 2 Geneseo GENESEO 51 40 91

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Steve Jaynes - Sports Information Director

Men's basketball falls to Geneseo in 50th annual Wendy's College Classic third place game

ROCHESTER, NY – The No. 8 RIT men's basketball team (3-4) fell to No. 2 seed SUNY Geneseo (5-1), 91-80 in the third place game of the 50th Wendy's College Classic at The Palestra on the campus of The University of Rochester Saturday afternoon. The fourth place finish is the highest finish since finishing as the runner-up in 2005.

RIT shot 48.6 percent from the floor on 34-of-70 shooting. The Tigers went 7-of-19 from behind the arc, and were 5-of-9 from the foul line. Mitch Herman (Webster, NY/Webster Schroeder) led RIT with 19 points on 7-of-11 shooting, including five three pointers. Kamron Davis (Syracuse, NY/Nottingham) added 17 points and 12 rebounds, while AJ Horde (Oak Park, MI/University of Detroit Jesuit) added 16 points, four rebounds, three assists and three steals.

Justin Ringen led Geneseo with 21 points, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals. Jonathan Cohen added 18 points, while Charlie Zaepfel added 16 points for the Knights who shot 53.4 percent from the floor on 31-of-58 shooting.

Geneseo built its lead early in the first half on the strength of a 15-1 run to open the game. Ringen's 3-pointer with 15:37 to play gave the Knigh's the big early cushion. RIT's first bucket came with 15:09 to play on a layup by Horde.

RIT trailed 51-37 at the half thanks to a 4-0 spurt by the Tigers to end the half. Alex Wightman (Basking Ridge, NJ/Ridge) scored all four points on a pair of free throws and a bucket at the buzzer. RIT shot 42.9 percent from the floor in the opening half on 15-of-35 shooting. Horde led RIT with eight points, while Davis added seven points and seven rebounds.

Trailing by 19 points in the second half, RIT rallied, cutting the Geneseo lead to 11 points on a bucket by Davis with 7:05 to play. That capped off an 11-4 run by the Tigers to cut down the Knights lead.

A layup by Davis with 5:59 to play cut the lead to 76-65, but the Tigers would get no close as Geneseo was able to weather the RIT run.

RIT held a 41-30 rebounding edge, including 13 offensive rebounds. The Tigers tallied 16 second-chance points, while scoring 36 points in the paint.

RIT returns to action on Saturday, Dec. 12 when the Tigers face SUNYIT at 2 p.m. in Utica, N.Y. It is the final game of the fall semester for the Tigers.