John Jay won its first CUNYAC title, pulling off the upset on Friday night as the No. 6-seeded Bloodhounds knocked off top-seeded York (N.Y.) 68-54. John Jay was the only CUNYAC team to have never won a conference title.
The final minutes were marred by a brawl following a John Jay rebound, delaying the game for six minutes and resulting in the ejection of three York players.
&&g-boxr&&Vaughn Mason led the Bloodhounds (13-15) with 14 points, while Hakeem Kased added 13. John Jay shot 6-for-12 from three-point range. Friday night's men's scores and women's scores.
Last season Lehman rallied from an 11-point deficit and finished the game on a 14-2 run to upset Baruch in the CUNYAC women's basketball title game. This year, however, Baruch made sure its lead would hold up in beating Lehman 71-60.
Baruch led 63-50 with 4:21 left in the game before Lehman went on a 10-0 run to cut it to a three-point lead with 1:18 left. But Baruch freshman point guard Monique Salmon nailed two free throws with 1:18 left and followed that with a strong drive over two Lehman players to put the lead back to seven points, 67-60, and Baruch scored the final four points to win. The Bearcats won the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament, the first team to do so this season.
Joe Coppens shot 5-for-8 from three-point range en route to 17 points as No. 6 Brandeis won at No. 4 Washington U. 68-66 in a game that featured 11 ties and seven lead changes. The Judges moved into a first-place tie with Wash U and Chicago in the UAA with two conference games remaining. No. 25 Stevens got 26 points from Virgil Gray and 22 from Waleed Farid but lost to Ithaca 93-82, missing a chance to clinch the top seed in the Empire 8. Ithaca can clinch the top seed and host with a home win Saturday against Nazareth. No. 2 Centre held off Oglethorpe 65-59 to extend its winning streak to 22 games.
The women's UAA standings sit in a three-way tie as well, with Wash U, Chicago and Rochester each at 9-3 after winning Friday night. Chicago beat NYU, which has gone 3-9 after beating up on its non-conference foes to the tune of an 11-0 mark.
No. 8 DePauw got 18 points apiece from Cassie Pruzin and Jenna Fernandez and clinched the top seed in the SCAC Tournament with a 76-61 win at Sewanee. Marisa Vespa went 10-for-10 from the floor and scored a career-high 30 points as No. 17 William Smith beat Union 76-59. Ithaca's women handed Stevens its first-ever Empire 8 loss, 68-57.