CHARLESTON, S.C. – De'Monte Buckingham scored 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead the UNC Greensboro (UNCG) men's basketball team during a 74-69 setback to The Citadel in a Southern Conference contest at McAlister Field House Thursday night.
Keyshaun Langley (13 points) and
Bas Leyte (12 points, eight rebounds) had strong offensive games for the Spartans, who had their two-game winning streak snapped.
Kobe Langley finished with a career-best seven assists.
Kaleb Hunter contributed 11 points for UNCG.
The Citadel got 24 points and 15 rebounds from Hayden Brown. He scored 19 of his points after intermission. Overall, The Citadel, the SoCon's top scoring offense, scored 56 points in the second half to erase UNCG's 33-18 halftime lead.
Records
UNCG 10-6, 2-2
The Citadel 7-7, 1-2
How It Happened
- The Citadel's Jason Roche gave The Citadel the lead for good, 54-51 with 5:59 remaining.
- UNCG closed to within one point on two occasions and each time the Bulldogs made a 3-pointer on their next offensive trip.
- Keyshaun Langley gave UNCG its final lead of the game, 51-48, with 7:14 left.
- Mohammed Abdulsalam, who had seven rebounds, gave UNCG a 46-36 lead with 11:58 remaining.
- The Citadel started the second half by scoring the first seven points on two 3-pointers and a free throw to slice UNCG's 15-point halftime advantage to 33-25 within the first two minutes.
- UNCG ended the first half on a 10-2 run to open its largest halftime bulge of the season.
- The Citadel reached double figures in points with 5:37 remaining in the first half.
- The Citadel's Stephen Clark caught a nice alley-oop dunk to cut UNCG's lead to 10-7.
- After making a 3-pointer on one end to extend UNCG's lead to 10-2, Dante Treacy took a charge on the defensive end of the floor.
- The Spartan defense held The Citadel without a basket for the first 5:18 of the contest.
- Buckingham came off a Leyte screen to sink a 3-pointer to give UNCG the lead for the rest of the first half, 5-2.
Inside the Numbers
- UNCG took three charges during the contest.
- The Spartans tied a season-high with 15 assists for the third time this season and second time in three games.
- Leyte has scored in double figures in seven of UNCG's last 11 games.
- This was the third straight game that Leyte has scored in double digits.
- Leyte has seven double-figure scoring games this season and eight in his career.
- This was the 12th time this season and the 71st in his career that Buckingham has scored in double figures.
- This was the 14th time in UNCG's last 15 games that Buckingham has finished with at least six rebounds.
- Hunter has reached double figures in scoring in two of UNCG's last three games.
- He has 35 career double digit scoring games.
- Hunter is averaging 10 points over UNCG's last three games.
- This was Keyshaun Langley's first double digit scoring game of the season and the 24th of his career.
- Langley last scored in double figures in the 2021 NCAA Tournament against Florida State.
- UNCG's 10-0 run in the first half was the seventh game this season in which the Spartans had a scoring run of 10 or more consecutive points.
- The Citadel was 1 for 14 from 3-point distance in the first half.
- Brown collected his 20th career double-double for the Bulldogs.
- Tyler Moffe finished with 18 points for The Citadel.
- Jason Roche scored all 12 of his points in the second half for the Bulldogs.
- This was The Citadel's first victory over UNCG since Jan. 5, 2015.
Up Next
- UNCG concludes its road trip by visiting Mercer in a rematch of last year's SoCon tournament championship game.
- Tip-off from Hawkins Arena is 2 p.m.
