Thursday, February 22
Jacksonville, Fla.
7 p.m.
University of North Florida
13-18, 7-7ASUN
81
at
86
Jacksonville
14-17, 8-6ASUN
1
2
F
UNF
41
40
81
Jacksonville
34
52
86
Team Stats
UNF
JU
FG%
.439
.567
3FG%
.344
.391
FT%
.800
.563
RB
32
37
TO
9
8
STL
3
4
Game Leaders
Pts
19
FGM
7
3FGM
1
FTM
4
Pts
17
FGM
6
3FGM
2
FTM
3
Pts
17
FGM
6
3FGM
5
FTM
0
Pts
8
FGM
2
3FGM
0
FTM
4
Players Mentioned
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Photo by: Todd Drexler
Men's Basketball Drops River City Rumble Rematch to Dolphins
2/22/2018 10:32:00 PM | Men's Basketball
OPENING TIP
Score:Â North Florida 81, Jacksonville 86
Records: North Florida (13-18, 7-7 ASUN) | JU (14-17, 8-6Â ASUN)
Location:Â Historic Swisher Gym (Jacksonville, Fla.)
The Short Story:Â The North Florida men's basketball team saw rival Jacksonville use a second half rally to claim an 86-81 victory in the River City Rumble rematch on Thursday night in Swisher Gym. Garrett Sams scored 19 points to lead a trio of Ospreys in double digits.
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NOTABLE NUMBERS
- Garrett Sams nearly matched his season high finishing with 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting from the floor
- Ivan Gandia-Rosa and Noah Horchler each chipped in 17 point efforts for the Ospreys | Gandia-Rosa made 5 of the team's 10 treys on the night
- Horchler narrowly missed his 13th double-double of the season after hauling in a team-high 9 rebounds
- Jacksonville had 84 of its 86 points scored by five players that all finished in double digits led by 26 from Jace Hogan
- The Dolphins' Devin Harris notched a triple-double (14 pts/12 rebs/16 asts) in his senior night contest
HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half Notes
- In front of a raucous crowd of 1,360, Jacksonville got off to the fast start, leading 7-2 just two minutes into play
- A few minutes later, North Florida battled back behind an 8-2 spurt that put them in front 21-15 | Sams hit a trey and a layup in the run that was capped by a three from Ryan Burkhardt
- The score seesawed back-and-forth over the next several minutes with neither squad leading by more than a point
- The Ospreys would close the period on an 11-2 run that featured a stretch of nine consecutive points to hold a 41-34 halftime advantage | Four different players scored for UNF during the closing surge
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Second Half Notes
- Gandia-Rosa drilled a three on UNF's opening possession of the second half to give the Ospreys their largest lead of the night, 10 points (44-34)
- UNF would maintain a multi-basket advantage thru the first five minutes of the period but an 11-2 run from the Dolphins drew a timeout for the visitors with the score knotted at 55-55 with 11:56 on the clock
- The teams would trade baskets for several minutes as the score stayed until reaching the final tied score of the night, 66-66, with 7:14 remaining
- The Dolphins scored the next seven points and fended off a couple of late charges by the Ospreys to secure the series season sweep
- JU shot 63% from the field in the second half
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
- Horchler became UNF's all-time single season rebound leader upping his total to 270 (previous record was Chris Sneed with 264)
- Trend continued in the series with one of the teams sweeping the regular season meetings for the 8th consecutive year
- Loss snapped a four-game win streak for UNF in road games vs JU
- Game featured 12 ties and 10 lead changes
- #BirdsofTrey connected on 11 three-pointers marking the 19th game this season with double figure 3PM
- With the win, Dolphins earned the No. 3 seed and a home game in the first round of the upcoming ASUNÂ Championship Tournament
LAST WORD
"I feel like this was a microcosm of the first meeting of the season with them. I'm not sure where I failed these guys or did a bad job helping them understand not just the atmosphere but what and how they were going to do things. I thought we got comfortable and complacent and they kept coming. I thought their toughness really showed through. I thought when we tied it late, they responded with a bunch of toughness plays and a couple of offensive rebounds. When a senior on their team gets a triple-double with 16 assists and 12 rebounds, that's impressive. That's how you win games that our for things like third place. This was almost like a tournament game or it was a tournament game because a win gives you home court advantage. To their credit, those guys stepped up. I thought we quit getting stops like we had been getting and their offensive rebounds hurt us at that point. They just kept coming at us and we didn't have an answer." -- Head coach Matthew Driscoll
NEXT UP
North Florida opens ASUN Championship Tournament action Monday in quarterfinal action on the road against NJITÂ at 7:30 p.m. The Ospreys will be the No.5 seed in the tournament while NJITÂ is the No. 4 seed
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