SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – The No. 4 RIT (13-13) men's basketball team fell to top-seeded Skidmore College (18-7), 72-51 in the 2015 Liberty League Men's Basketball Tournament Semifinals Wednesday evening at the Williamson Sports Center. The Thoroughbreds will host No. 3 Clarkson in the championship game on Saturday.

RIT shot 39.6 percent from the floor on 21-of-53 shooting. The Tigers made 4-of-19 from behind the arc, and went 5-of-10 from the foul line. Miguel Lopez (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico/St. Francis) led the Tigers with 11 points. JP Reagan (Cortland, NY/Cortland) finished with five points and nine rebounds, while AJ Horde (Oak Park, MI/University of Detroit Jesuit) tallied eight points.

Aldin Medunjanin led Skidmore with 21 points, six assists and five rebounds. Connor Merrill and Royce Paris each scored 15 points, while Erik Sanders tallied 10 points for the Thoroughbreds, who shot 44.4 percent from the floor.

RIT led early, taking a 6-4 lead on a layup from Kamron Davis (Syracuse, NY/Nottingham) nearly two minutes into the game. The Tigers would keep it close, cutting a five-point Skidmore lead to three on a layup by Casey Bobelis (Bradenton, FL/Braden River) with 12:46 to play in the opening half. The Thoroughbreds outscored RIT, 27-10 over the final 12 minutes, taking 40-20 lead into the break.

RIT shot 33.3 percent from the floor in the opening half on 10-of-23 shooting. Bobelis and Davis led RIT with six first-half points apiece.

Skidmore extended the lead to 28 points early in the second half on a bucket from Merrill at the 17:22 mark. The Tigers went on a 15-2 run over a 6:14 span, cutting the Thoroughbreds lead to 15 points on a pair of free throws from Matt Gundrum (East Meadow, NY/East Meadow) with 11:08 to play. Horde scored six of RIT's 15 points in the run on a pair of 3-pointers.

That would be as close as RIT would get, as Skidmore bulged its led back to 23 points, holding on and advancing to the Liberty League Championship.

Skidmore held a slight 33-32 rebounding edge. RIT tallied 22 points in the paint, and 18 points off the bench. RIT, who made its first appearance in the Liberty League Tournament since joining the conference, is now 5-7 all time versus Skidmore.