Our Owls sport an early 13-12 lead on the road tonight!

8-0 Rice run pushes it to 19-12, before a CLT bucket stops that run.

Down 39-32 at the half.

Down 9 with 7:50 to play - 46-55.

Within 5 with 4:00 to play.

1:02 left and we still in this! 60-64

62-64 with :26 left in game. Bench and FT shooting not so hot, but still could win it.

They made their FT and Selden made a quick layup. now 64-66 with :15 left.

And they made their FT again, so 4 pt lead with :04 left.
Evee missed the layup.

64-69 Final. mason had a massive block earlier. Nice effort, owls shot 25-50 so 50%.
Free throws and too many rebs for CLT did them in,
IOW: Defense.

64-69 final.

Need to shoot better in FT if we are going to get a good road win.

No Alijiki. I hope he’s not hurt again.

Owls don’t quit. But another winnable game , except although Rice is around 225 or so in KenPom rankings, they are 280 in FT shooting for the season and that cost us another game. Seems like even smart guys can learn to shoot them, unless your hands are too big like Shaq.