Akron - 42
Ohio - 38
BSU - 23
NIU - 22
Ohio and Akron tied at 48 with 14:20 left.
Akron - 61
Ohio - 53
8:30 left
Akron - 73
Ohio - 67
2:48 left
Akron jumped back out to a 13-14 point lead, with Ohio cutting it to 6 on a Stephens breakaway lay-up and foul.
Akron - 80
Ohio - 73
Under 1 minute remaining...
Akron - 84
Ohio - 76
Final.
Ohio couldn't overcome a 20-0 run in the first half followed by a 10 point ZIP run in the second.
Whew!!
Ball State 71, Northern Illinois 65, final
Cards blew a 12-point second half lead, but outscored the Huskies 8-2 over the final 1:10 to win. Big three-pointer by Payton Stovall with just about a minute left gave Ball State a four-point lead.
Don't know the final stats yet, but Northern dominated on the boards. It was 31-14 at one point, I believe, and I'd bet at least a dozen of those were on the offensive end.
Final - Ball State 71 Northern Illinois 65
It's shaping up as a tight race in the West between the Broncos, Cardinals and Rockets with sime BIG games looming in the next week.
Robert Owens with 17 points and Dennis Trammell 16 for Ball State.
Northern outrebounded Ball State 42-24. Northern turned it over 24 times to Ball State's 16. It wasn't pretty, but who cares.
So what's going on with the Marshall-West Virginia game?
Supposed to start @ 8, no score yet on any scoreboard I can see. They all list the game as not having started.
ESPN, Sportsline, Yahoo...nada.
They play tomorrow night.