| Sean Haseley and DePauw
knocked off Wabash on Wednesday, then dropped Wooster on
Saturday. DePauw athletics file photo |
DePauw knocked off a Top 25 team for the second game in a row and Washington College handed No. 7 Franklin and Marshall a rare home loss in Saturday's men's action.
Michael Wilkison scored 18 points, Sean Haseley added 15, Alex Payne came off the bench to score 14 and Barry Flynn added 10 as DePauw improved to 10-5 with a 75-66 home win against No. 16 Wooster. The loss knocks Wooster (12-3, 3-3) out of the top four in the North Coast Athletic Conference, into a tie for fifth.
Washington College shot the lights out from three-point range on the road in handing Franklin and Marshall its first loss of the season. The Shoremen were 9-for-13 from beyond the arc, spread among four players with Kevin Breslin scoring a team-high 18 points. Zack Boyd hit a 15-foot jumper with .3 seconds left on the clock to lead Elmhurst to a 56-55 win against No. 6 Augustana, while No. 25 Illinois Wesleyan defeated Carthage 69-61 behind 18 points from Nick Anderson.
Top-ranked Middlebury survived the upset attempt from Wesleyan, as the Cardinals nearly knocked off a ranked NESCAC team for the second time in less than 24 hours. But Wesleyan couldn't hold on and fell 65-62. Mitchell Kates had 20 points to lead No. 3 MIT past Babson 72-63. Dustin McConnell's three-pointer with 41 seconds left helped rally 10th-ranked Whitworth to a 65-61 win over visiting Linfield. Idris Lasisi led the Pirates with 23 points.
Both ranked Little East teams found the road tough on Saturday. Ryan Martin scored a game-high 28 points as Keene State defeated No. 20 Rhode Island College 92-91, while No. 23 Western Connecticut got 25 from Daquan Brooks but fell 82-72 at Plymouth State. The Panthers improved to 5-8. And No. 24 WPI lost as well, at home, falling 65-51 to Wheaton (Mass.). No. 21 Buffalo State lost its second consecutive game without Justin Mitchell, as Geneseo State defeated the Bengals 97-86 in overtime.
No. 9 UW-Whitewater improved to 15-1, beating UW-Superior 80-58 behind 24 points and eight rebounds from Chris Davis.
The last time Marietta and John Carroll met was in the 2011 OAC title game, where the Pioneers rallied from a 21-point halftime deficit to end the Blue Streaks' chance at the NCAA tournament. John Carroll got its revenge Saturday, rallying from as many as 18 points down to defeat Marietta, 90-80. Wheaton (Ill.) edged North Central (Ill.) 66-64 in double overtime.
Carroll played just eight players against the relentless System of Grinnell but it was enough for the Pioneers to hand the other Pioneers their first loss of the season, 109-106. Andrew Nottling and Alec Molter scored 27 points apiece as Carroll shot 63 percent from the floor in the win.
Junior guard Matt Grossbard hit a three-pointer as time expired to lift Roger Williams to a 59-56 win over Wentworth in Commonwealth Coast Conference action. Richard Stockton took advantage of the absence of Kaihrique Irick as NJCU fell 55-48 without its top scorer. Amil John and Tyshawn Russell combined for 46 points as Brooklyn beat Hunter 77-64 to improve to 10-3. T.J. Tibbs hit a jumper with 20 seconds left to lift Staten Island past Baruch 70-69.
Macalester shot 76 percent in the opening half and led by 11 points at the intermission, but Gustavus Adolphus knocked down 70 percent of its second-half shots to beat the Scots on the road 86-70. Jared Suderley scored 33 points to lift Hartwick past Utica 87-81.