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84
Quincy QU 2-3
90
Winner Central Missouri UCM 5-0
Quincy QU
2-3
84
Final
90
Central Missouri UCM
5-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT 1 F
Quincy QU 42 33 9 84
Central Missouri UCM 34 41 15 90

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Brendan Bittner

Hawks Take Defending National Champs To Overtime

QUINCY, Ill. – For the second straight season, the Quincy University men's basketball team took the defending national champion to overtime, but it was the opponent who came away with the win.
 
Playing in the Division II undercard for the CBE Hall of Fame Classic at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, the Hawks fell to Central Missouri, 90-84, in a game Quincy led for most of regulation.
 
Last season, Quincy and then-defending national champion Drury played an overtime game at Pepsi Arena that the Panthers won, 92-87.
 
On Tuesday, the Hawks (2-3) led by eight, 18-10, early in the first half after senior forward Scott Hahn (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa) hit a mid-range jumper. The game remained tight throughout the first half with the Mules (5-0) taking their first lead of the game with 8:30 left on a jumper by T.J. White.
 
The teams traded the lead a few times before the Hawks used a 6-0 run to take a 42-34 lead into halftime.
 
The Hawks were excellent on the offensive end in the first half, shooting 59.3 percent (16-for-27) from the field while hitting four 3-pointers.
 
In the second half, the Mules tied the game at 50-50 with 14:37 left, but the Hawks resurged with an 11-4 run capped by a dunk by junior wing Godson Eneogwe (Chicago, Ill./Illinois Central) off a feed from redshirt-sophomore forward Scottie Bruxvoort (Mitchellville, Iowa/Prairie City Monroe).
 
Quincy built its lead up to as many as eight points, but Central Missouri slowly chipped away as Rakeem Dickerson proved to be difficult to deal with on the defensive end. The UCM guard finished with 41 points, including 26 in the second half and overtime. Dickerson's banked 3-pointer with a minute to play tied the game at 75-75 and neither team was able to get on the board for the remainder of regulation.
 
Junior guard Thomas Jackson (Louisville, Ky./Cincinnati State) converted a transition layup after a steal by sophomore guard Herm Senor II (Springfield, Ill./Southeast) to open the scoring in the overtime period.
 
The Mules scored the next four points before Jackson scored a two-point basket with 1:51 left to tie the game again at 79-79.

Dickerson followed that with a 3-pointer to spur a 6-0 run that put the game away for the Mules, who remained unbeaten on the season.
 
Eneogwe's 21 points led the Hawks as he shot 7-for-11 from the field and hit 3-of-6 from 3-point range. Redshirt-sophomore forward Evan McGaughey (Carthage, Ill./Illini West) finished with 13 points (6-for-12) with seven rebounds, four assists and two blocks. Jackson had 13 points and five boards.
 
The Hawks shot 47.7 percent (31-for-65) from the field, while the Mules shot 46.9 percent (30-for-64). Central Missouri won the battle on the glass, 42-33.
 
Quincy will return to Pepsi Arena on Saturday (Nov. 29) when it plays host to Hannibal-LaGrange for a 2 p.m. tip-off.
 
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