MONTREAL --
Jenning Leung scored 25 points but it was insufficient as the road-weary and No.4-ranked McGill Redmen suffered from the "traveling" blues losing 93-85 in double overtime at Concordia in RSEQ men's hoops action at the Loyola campus gym, Thursday.
It was only Concordia's fourth victory in their last 12 confrontations with the Redmen, who have now dropped their last two games, both on the road, after opening the regular season with a five-game win streak.
The game featured a plethora of traveling calls, most of which were pinned on the Redmen, leading to a lopsided 27-14 Concordia advantage in turnovers. The Stingers made a stunning 50 trips to the foul line and came away with 36 freebies, compared to McGill, which only went 15-for-24 from the charity stripe.
Concordia led 19-14 after the opening quarter but McGill rallied to outscore their cross-town rivals 26-16 in the second to take a 40-35 lead into halftime. A sloppy third quarter gave Concordia the lead again at 54-47 but McGill rallied for a 22-15 advantage, overcoming a nine-point deficit in the final 82 seconds to force overtime when Leung hit a trey with 3.3 seconds remaining, knotting the score at 69-69.
The first overtime had both teams scoring six points. In the second extra session, the Stingers took advantage of a number of disputed calls that resulted in McGill head coach
David DeAveiro receiving a rare double technical foul and an automatic ejection with 3:38 remaining. Concordia drained all four of their technical free-throws, extending their lead to 85-75 and eventually outscord the frazzled Redmen by a whopping 20-8 margin in the final five-minute overtime period.
"We lost today because we weren't ready to play early on," said DeAveiro. "We're in a funk right now and have to keep working hard to get out of it and that's what we'll do... We're not in snych right now and just trying to find a rhythm and a flow."
McGill was whistled for 39 personal fouls -- four in the first minute of play -- compared to Concordia's 21. Four Redmen fouled out, including team captain
Vincent Dufort, sophomore
Noah Daoust, freshman
Tychon Carter-Newman and sophomore
Abdul Atta. The Stingers only had one player foul out, starter
Schneiders Suffrard. Because of all the players in constant foul trouble, the McGill bench outscored the Concordia subs by a 38-27 margin.
Leung was one of three Redmen in double figures, shooting 9-for-17 from the field, including 2-for-6 from three-point range. He went 5-for-7 from the line. Teammate
Michael Peterkin collected a reverse "double-double" with a game-high 15 rebounds and 13 points. But he also registered a game-high seven turnovers in a career-high 41 minutes of court-time. McGill's third-leading scorer was
Dele Ogundokun, who posted a dozen points with six rebounds in a game-high 44 minutes of playing time.
Redmen junior
Francois Bourque, the league's player of the year last season, was nursing an undisclosed injury and did not play.
Ricardo Monge was one of four Stingers to reach double figures in scoring with 28 points. His supporting cast included
Ken Beaulieu (21),
Garry Merisier (19) and
Michael Fosu (10).
McGill, which had an enormous 53-28 rebounding advantage, shot 38.2 per cent from the floor (29/76) and drained 10 of 34 treys, compared to the Stingers, who shot 36.5 (27/74) and made five of 22 from beyond the arc.
The archrivals have now split their two confrontations this season and will rendezvous again in just two days, at Love Competition Hall on Saturday in a 3 p.m. tip-off.
SOURCE:
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