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UNCW second half surge sinks Toledo

11/28/2016

 
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NASHVILLE, TN – UNC-Wilmington broke open a tight game midway through the second half Sunday afternoon en route to a 102-77 victory over Toledo in the Rockets’ third game this weekend at the Challenge in Music City. UT had split a pair of overtime contests the previous two days in the tournament, defeating Evansville in double-overtime on Friday before falling to Middle Tennessee on Saturday.
 
Senior guard Jonathan Williams topped . . . 

. . . the Rockets (3-4) with 16 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Joining Williams in double figures was senior forward Steve Taylor, Jr. (13 pts.), sophomore forward Taylor Adway (career-high 13 pts.) and redshirt freshman center Luke Knapke (10 pts.).
Sophomore forward Devontae Cacock paced the Seahawks (5-1) with 18 points and seven boards. UNC-Wilmington was ranked No. 4 in this week’s collegeinsider.com’s Mid-Major Top 25 poll.
 
Both teams converted over half of their shots from the field, with UT posting a 52.6 shooting mark and UNCW at 56.7 percent. The Rockets held a slight 32-31 advantage on the glass but were hampered by 18 turnovers in the contest.
 
Neither team could grab control of the game in a first half that featured nine lead changes and five occasions when the score was tied.  The Rockets took an early 9-5 lead after a Williams’ trey capped off a 7-0 spurt. UNCW answered right back with a 10-2 burst to take a four-point lead of its own less than seven minutes into the game.
 
Toledo managed to regain a four-point cushion, 30-26, on a Williams’ layup just five minutes before halftime and held its last lead of the contest, 37-36, following Taylor’s trey 1:43 prior to intermission.
 
UNCW senior guard Denzel Ingram’s jumper at the halftime buzzer sent UT to the locker room trailing by a 42-39 margin.
 
Toledo was within 53-47 with 13:10 to play when the Seahawks rattled off their game-deciding run to assume a 66-49 cushion with 10:01 remaining.
 
UT is now idle until Saturday, Dec. 3 when it hosts Horizon League foe Green Bay (3-3) in Savage Arena. Tip-off time is set for 7:00 p.m.

(Courtesy of UT Athletics)


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