TROY, NY – The RIT (3-8, 0-4 Liberty League) men's basketball team lost 80-67 in Liberty League action from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (7-4, 2-2 Liberty League) Saturday afternoon.

RIT shot 47.3 percent from the floor on 26-of-55 shooting. The Tigers went 12-of-24 from beyond the arc, and made 3-of-5 from the foul line.  Curtis Nesbit (Woodbridge, NJ/Woodbridge) led the Tigers with a career-high 14 points on 5-of-9 shooting. Chuck Okehie (Owings Mills, MD/McDonogh) tallied 11 points and four rebounds for the Tigers.

Tom Horvat was one of three Engineers to score in double figures, finishing with a game-high 30 points. Marcus Giese tallied 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds, while Patrick Mahoney chipped in 11 points for the Engineers, who shot 46.6 percent from the floor.

In a tightly contested first half, RIT took a six-point lead on an Okehie bucket with 10:39 remaining in the half, capping off a 10-2 run by the Tigers. Okehie scored seven points in the run for RIT who shot 4-of-6 from the floor in the spurt.

Rensselaer outscored RIT 16-11 over the final 8:45 of the first half to take a 38-35 lead into the break. Okehie scored with 1:18 to play in the half that cut the Engineer's lead to three points. Both teams were hot from the floor in the first half. RIT shot 51.9 percent from the floor, while RPI shot 52.0 percent.

The Engineers outscored RIT 42-32 in the second half, slowly increasing its lead as the half progressed to win by 13.

RIT returns to action on Tuesday, January 8 when the Tigers host Ithaca College at 7 p.m. on the floor of Clark Gymnasium.