Dowtin’s 25 Points Helps #18 URI Edge La Salle 95-93 in OT
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
The Univesity of Rhode Island men's basketball team got 25 points from sophomore Jeff Dowtin and held on to beat La Salle 95-93 in overtime on Tuesday night in Philadelphia.
The win improves the Rams to 22-4 overall and 14-1 in the A-10 and gives them at least a share of the A-10 regular-season championship.
La Salle drops to 11-16 overall and 5-10 in the conference.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTURI Edges La Salle in OT
With the game tied at 87 in the overtime period, URI’s Cyril Langevine converted back-to-back baskets to put the Rams up 91-87 with 2:28 to play.
On free throws, La Salle cut the Rams lead to one, 91-90, and got possession of the ball with 18 seconds to play.
On La Salle’s final possession, B.J. Johnson turned the ball over to Dowtin with 5.8 seconds left.
Overall the Rams forced La Salle into 19 turnovers in the game, while only turning the ball over seven times themselves.
Dowtin was fouled and made both free throws to put the Rams up 93-90 after two free throws.
The Explorers cut the Rams lead to two, 93-92, with just seconds left and again fouled Dowtin on URI’s ensuing inbounds pass.
Dowtin made two free throws to put the Rams up 95-92 with just seconds left before the Explorers would add a free throw to make the score 95-93.
La Salle Forces OT
Leading 70-68 with 4:30 to play, Dowtin knocked down two free throws to with 4:13 left to increase the URI’s lead to 72-68.
Those free throws would spark a 7-2 run to take a 77-70 lead with 3:04 to play in the game before the Explorers would climb back in.
La Salle would score six straight points capped off by a Johnson free throw with 50 seconds left to cut URI’s lead to 77-76.
The teams would trade free throws the rest of the way, with URI leading 81-79 with three seconds left.
La Salle’s Pookie Powell made the first free throw and intentionally missed the second one allowing the Explorers’ Johnson to grab the offensive rebound and put it back in to tie the game at 81.
Next Up
The Rams return to action on Friday, February 23 when they host Dayton at the Ryan Center.
Game time is set for 7 p.m. and can be seen on ESPN2.
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