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105
MSU Moorhead MSUM 17-4, 12-3 NSIC
113
Winner Southwest Minnesota SMSU 17-3, 12-3 NSIC
MSU Moorhead MSUM
17-4, 12-3 NSIC
105
Final
113
Southwest Minnesota SMSU
17-3, 12-3 NSIC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT 1 F
MSU Moorhead MSUM 46 45 14 105
Southwest Minnesota SMSU 39 52 22 113

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Evan A. Hooper, MSUM Media Relations Assistant

No. 21 MSUM Men’s Basketball Falls in Overtime at Southwest Minnesota State, 113-105

MARSHALL, Minn. – Minnesota State University Moorhead fell to 17-4 overall and 12-3 in the NSIC on Friday evening after falling in overtime to Southwest Minnesota State (17-3, 12-3 NSIC). Senior guard Aaron Lien had a team-high 25 points for MSUM.
 
How it happened…
MSUM opened the game on an 18-9 run, building an 18-9 lead. Southwest Minnesota State responded with an 18-3 run grabbing its largest lead of the game, 27-21. The Dragons clawed back into the game and eventually took a seven point lead into the locker room at halftime, 46-39. Senior guard Jon Doss had a team-high 14 points in the first half.
 
In a second half that saw the score tied nine times, with seven lead changes, it was MSUM who led halfway through the second half 67-65. The Dragons managed to hold on to that two-point lead up until the 1:31 mark with a jumper from the Mustangs knotted the game at 87-87. SMSU held a two-point advantage with under a minute to play, but a lay in from sophomore forward Addison Park tied the game and sent it to overtime.
 
A 10-4 run out of SMSU to start the overtime gave the Mustangs the margin it needed to seal the game over MSUM with a final score of 113-105.
 
MSUM shot 54.7 percent from the field, including 46.4 percent from beyond the arc. MSUM had the edge in assists 24-23.
 
Impact Performances…
Senior guard Aaron Lien scored a team-high 25 points off 10-of-15 from the field. Lien had three rebounds and three assists.
 
Senior guard Jon Doss finished the contest with 20 points, including seven three-pointers. Doss hauled in three rebounds and had three assists and two steals.
 
Junior guard Tanner Kretchman registered a double-double on the evening with 18 points and 10 assists. Kretchman also had four rebounds and two steals.
 
Sophomore forward Addison Park scored 15 points with 11 rebounds for a double-double.
 
Steve d'Eustachio Stat of the Game…
Ayob Ayob scored 31 points and 10 rebounds in the Dragons' win last Saturday versus St. Cloud State, but fell short of a double-double tonight. The last Dragon to register back-to-back double-doubles was when Tarell Clark did it in a 95-84 win at Winona St. Feb. 15, 2014 and then getting 13 and 10 at home the following Friday night in an 85-55 home victory against Minot St.
 
Up Next…
MSUM heads to Sioux Falls to take on the Cougars on Saturday, Jan. 28 at 6 p.m.
 
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