WISE – Catawba used a late first half run to pull ahead and held off the UVA Wise men's basketball team's comeback efforts as the Cavs fell to the Catawba Indians 82-78 Tuesday evening in a South Atlantic Conference Contest.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Result: Catawba 82, UVA Wise 78
Records: UVA Wise (3-3, 1-2 SAC); Catawba (4-2, 2-1 SAC)
Location: Wise, VA | The Quillen Court in the David J. Prior Convocation Center
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Catawba scored 10 unanswered points to open the game, with a dunk by
Patrick Shelley breaking the run with 15:57 left in the half. The Catawba Indians would get the lead back to 14-4 before five points by
Bradley Dean sparked a Cavalier 12-2 run to over a four and a half minute span to tie the game at 16-16. Catawba would retake the lead only to see the Cavs tie it up again several times before they pulled out to a 33-26 lead with 3:39 left. UVA Wise then went cold from the field, only hitting a pair of free throws and one field goal for the rest of the half. Catawba also cooled down a lot, and only held a 38-30 lead at the half.
- The Catawba Indians opened the second half by extending the lead to 42-30 before UVA Wise methodically chipped away, cutting it back to four at the 15:05 mark on a big three-pointer by
Evan Ramsey. A couple minutes later Ramsey would again hit a layup off a missed Cavalier free throw to cut the lead to 50-47. Catawba then took advantage of another cold spell by the Cavs to push the lead back to ten with a little over ten minutes remaining. From that point on the Cavs would cut the lead down to around 5-7 points only to see Catawba hit a basket on their next possession. They cut the lead to 76-80 with seven seconds left on a three-pointer by
Zy'Ever Wingfield, but could not get any closer as Catawba held on for the 82-78 win.
- Nick Walker scored 18 points and Montraivis White eleven to lead Catawba. Walker also led the team with ten rebounds.
GETTING WISE
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Bradley Dean led the Cavs with 21 points and seven assists. Three other UVA Wise players scored in double figures; Ramsey had 15 points to go along with his team-high eight rebounds, Wingfield had 14 points, and Shelley had 13.
- The Cavs shot 46.0% from the field, compared to 44.6 percent by Catawba. Both teams shot in the thirties from three-point range and the Cavs led in free throw percentage 80%-75%.
UP NEXT
The team will take a short break for Thanksgiving before hitting the road to face Lenoir Rhyne Saturday evening in Hickory, North Carolina. The Bears are currently 5-2 overall and 3-1 in the SAC thus far following their 81-67 win over Wingate earlier today.
The game is now scheduled for 7 p.m. after it was moved to accommodate L-R's NCAA Division II Football Championship Second Round game vs. Virginia Union, which the Bears are hosting.
