No. 19 Trine Rallies Past Anderson

Trine University (8-0) rallied past the Anderson University men's basketball team (7-3) by a score of 79-76 on Monday in O.C. Lewis Gymnasium.

The Thunder entered Monday's contest ranked No. 19 in the latest D3hoops.com poll.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Trine opened with an 8-2 lead, which was capped by a bucket-and-1 from Logan McKenzie.
• Anderson sparked an 11-2 run to take a 13-10 lead 12 minutes, 12 seconds left in the first half. Bryson Huckeby contributed eight of the points during the run.
• While the Ravens continued to hold the lead, the Thunder held close behind. Anderson went up by four when Tate Ivanyo hit a 3-pointer with 4:29 left in the first half.
• Anderson built up a 36-27 lead at halftime.
• The Ravens sparked a 9-2 run to start the half to take a 45-29 lead with 18:35 to go. Anderson reclaimed a 16-point lead two more times.
• In a 4:03 stretch, the Thunder roared to a 20-3 run to take a 54-53 lead with 13:34 remaining. Cortez Garland scored eight of Trine's points during the run.
• Grant Pahl hit a jump shot to put Trine up 59-57. On the following possession, Brent Cox drained two free throws give Trine a four-point lead.
• Ivanyo hit a 3-pointer to trim the lead to one, but Trine scored on consecutive possessions to go ahead by five.
• Trailing by six with 4:30 to go, Ivanyo hit a jumper and Huckeby drained a 3-pointer on the following possession to cut Trine's lead to 69-68 with 2:36 to go.
• After Cortez Garland made a pair of free throws, Ivanyo was fouled on a 3-pointer and made all three freebies to even the score at 71-71 with 1:52 to go.
• After Trine missed a shot, Elijah Mattingly made a basket to put Anderson ahead 73-71. Aidan Smylie knocked down a 3-pointer to take a 74-73 lead with 57 seconds remaining.
• On the following possession, Anderson missed a basket. Getting the ball back with the lead and an eight-second separation between the game clock and shot clock, Trine ran the clock down and Fred Garland hit a shot to give Trine a 76-73 lead.
• The Thunder fouled Cam Smith and Smith made both free throws, cutting the lead to one. Cortez Garland was fouled and he made both of his free throws with nine seconds to go.
• With five seconds to go, Smith was fouled again. He hit his first free throw and missed his second. Cox got the rebound and was fouled. He missed his free throw, but Smylie got the rebound and was fouled. After Smylie made his first free throw, he missed his second free throw, but got his own rebound.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• In the second half, Trine turned the ball over only twice while Anderson committed 13 turnovers.
• The Ravens turned the ball over 25 times while the Thunder committed 13 turnovers. Trine outscored Anderson 27-15 off turnovers.
• Trine converted 18-of-23 (78.3 percent) shots from the free-throw line while Anderson hit 12-of-20 (60 percent) attempts from the charity stripe.
• The Ravens outrebounded the Thunder 48-33 and held a 15-4 advantage in second-chance points.
• Trine outscored Anderson 18-13 on fast-break points.
• The Thunder hit 28-of-65 (43.1 percent) shots from the field while Anderson drained 27-of-63 (42.9 percent) attempts from the floor.
• Anderson knocked down 10-of-28 (35.7 percent) shots from 3-point range while Trine made 5-of-12 (41.7 percent) attempts from the perimeter.
• Elijah Mattingly – 21 Rebounds, 10 Points, 1 Block
• Tate Ivanyo – 22 Points, 10 Rebounds, 2 Steals
• Bryson Huckeby – 20 Points, 7 Rebounds, 1 Block, 6-10 (60%) 3FG, 7-12 (58.3%) FG
• Cam Smith – 14 Points, 5 Assists
• Bryce Williams – 4 Points, 3 Assists
• Kenney Troutman – 3 Assists, 2 Steals
• Gavin Dowling – 2 Blocks, 2 Steals
• Jordan Gadis – 3 Points
• Alex Hunt – 2 Points
• Robert Davidson – 1 Point

COACH CARTER COLLINS'S COMMENTS

[Monday] was a tale of two halves... I thought in the first half, we were able to play our game, and imposed our will on Trine. In the second half, Trine imposed their will on us. They started winning nearly all of the key "games within the game", and ultimately, they made a few more plays than we did throughout the 40 minutes. We can't win games with the turnover deficit that we had in the second half, and it's also extremely difficult to win games if you don't convert the chances that you earned at the free throw line. We'll head to break with a bitter taste in our mouths, but an opportunity to turn things around with an extremely important stretch of games when we return to campus.

UP NEXT

The Ravens, which are 2-1 in Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) play, returns to action on Saturday, Dec. 30 as they take on Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (3-6, 1-2) in HCAC action at 3 p.m. in Terre Haute.