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RIT Mens Basketball was defeated 58-81 by Skidmore College on February 9th 2019 in the Clark Gymnasium at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Biagio Dell'Aiera
60
Winner Alfred State ASTATEM 4-6
58
RIT RIT 4-4
Winner
Alfred State ASTATEM
4-6
60
Final
58
RIT RIT
4-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Alfred State ASTATEM 29 31 60
RIT RIT 26 32 58

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Steve Jaynes

Men's basketball begins 2020 with a home loss to Alfred State

ROCHESTER, NY -- The RIT (4-4) men's basketball team was defeated 60-58 by Alfred State College (4-6) in non-conference action from Clark Gym Thursday afternoon. Alfred State's Ryan Gentile scored the game-winning bucket with seven seconds remaining in regulation.

RIT shot 37.0 percent from the floor on 20-of-54 shooting. The Tigers made 9-of-24 from beyond the arc, and made 9-of-15 from the foul line. Matt Anderson (Bennington, VT/Mt. Anthony Union) led the Tigers with 14 points. Curtis Nesbit (Woodbridge, NJ/Woodbridge) tallied 11 points, while Chukc Okehie finished with 10 points. Cobey Adekanbi (Bloomfield, CT/Loomis Chafee) grabbed seven rebounds and had six blocks for the Tigers.

Gentile led Alfred State with 17 points. Josh Reding and Markel Jenkins each tallied 10 points for the Pioneers who shot 36.9 percent from the floor. Jahmel Gemery and Brandon Gosley each had seven rebounds for Alfred State, while Reding and Gentile each had three steals.

RIT led by as many as eight points in the first half on an Adekanbi layup with 14:09 to play in the half. The Tigers took a 25-21 lead late in the half when Okehie converted and old fashioned three-point play. Alfred State outscored the Tigers 8-1 in the final 2:27 to lead 29-26 at halftime.

Nesbit drained a three-pointer early in the second half that capped off a 6-0 spurt bu RIT that give the Tigers a 32-39 lead. The Pioneers answered with a 10-4 run, taking 39-36 lead on a Reding three-pointer with 13:51 to play in regulation.

Trailing 53-51 late in regulation, RIT tied the game on an Okehie layup. Anderson converted a pair of free throws later in the half to tie the score at 57-57 apiece.

Gentile gave the Pioneers the lead for good with a bucket off a nice back-door cut to the basket. Reding found Gentile with a pass and he scored to give Alfred State a 59-57 lead. RIT turned the ball over with less than 10 seconds to play, and Gentile made 1-of-2 free throws to make the final score 60-58.

RIT returns to action on Tuesday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m. at cross-town rival the University of Rochester.

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