Spring Break
Men's Basketball loses last home game after six-second defeat from UMASS
Chris Smith
Issue date: 3/10/09 Section: Sports
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With just six seconds to go UMASS senior Chris Lowe took the ball the length of the court and hit a game-clinching lay-up over the hand of Kahiem Seawright.
"He stepped up and made some big time plays," head coach Jim Baron said. "He got by us. We wanted to extend the floor with our zone. They made a good screen. He came down and made a good play."
Rhody shot 41.4 percent from the floor in just their second home loss on the year. Senior Jimmy Baron talked about their continued struggles on senior day.
"We knew coming in four out of the last five, now five out of the last six, senior nights have been losses," Baron said. "We tried to use it as a distraction not to get caught up in all the ceremony of stuff. We didn't do that. It's tough."
Baron scored a game high 22 points on 9-of-18 shooting from the floor and 4-of-11 from beyond the arc. Baron became the all-time Atlantic 10 Conference three point record holder with his four trey bringing his career total to 345. Seawright grabbed a season high and game high 16 rebounds to go along with his six points on just 2-of-10 shooting.
"We were flat," Baron said. "It was emotionally draining early on and I knew it."
As a team the Rams shot 41.4 percent for the game and 21.1 percent from beyond the arc. They were 0-for-12 from the perimeter in the first half.
"There have been times where I have missed my first 10 or 12 shots in a game," Jimmy Baron, who missed his first six shots from the floor, said. "I don't think that was the problem for us today. The problem was we couldn't guard."
The Minutemen led the majority of the first half stretching a lead to as large as eight leading 24-16 at the 9:42 mark in the half. Rhody battled back to take a 30-28 lead on two Lamonte Ulmer free throws with 4:55 remaining. UMASS retook the lead and held a 41-37 advantage heading into halftime.
