ANDERSON, Ind. —
If Wednesday’s 71-70 loss to Rose-Hulman wasn’t bad enough for the Anderson University men’s basketball team, the sight of senior Brock Morrison walking around with his right elbow bandaged in ice wasn’t helping matters.
On the game’s final possession, AU guard Phil Hogan drove down the middle of the lane looking for the game-winning shot with 13 seconds left. He got pinned under the backboard and flipped up a prayer of a shot. The ball hit the court, and a scramble ensued. Morrision went into the crowd, and the ball ended up in the hands of Ravens center Jake Browne while Morrison ended up on the deck near the AU bench.
“I didn’t see it clearly, it appeared that he got shoved down,” AU coach Tom Slyder said. “All I know is he hurt his elbow and we don’t know the extent of that.”
Browne put up a shot that bounced off the rim and got his own rebound. On his second attempt, he appeared to get clobbered by Rose-Hulman defenders, but there was no call. Time expired and the Engineers escaped O.C. Lewis Gymnasium with a one-point victory. The win kept Rose-Hulman tied with Transylvania at 6-1 atop the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference standings.
“It was a great college basketball game. It was a very physical game; exactly what we expected. It came down to they made one more play than we did,” Slyder said. “We certainly had our chances (at the end). We got two tips and a shot at the buzzer and it didn’t go in. The encouraging thing is we think that’s a team that we can beat when we play them again.”
Discouraging for the Ravens was the 10-point lead they held in the first half that vanished like the recent unseasonably warm temperatures.
Anderson built a 32-22 lead with 5:26 remaining in the opening half. Rose-Hulman then engineered a 10-0 run behind Julian Strickland’s seven points to take a 33-32 lead. Andrew Bowman hit 1-of-2 at the foul line to tie the game at the 1:19 mark for Anderson’s final point of the first half. Strickland’s runner at the buzzer gave the visitors a 35-33 lead at the break.
How cold was Anderson’s shooting? The Ravens’ last field goal of the first half came at the 6:19 mark on a layup by Bowman.
Anderson fought back in the second half to tie the game at 56-56 on a 3-pointer by Morrison at the 8:20 mark. Rose-Hulman’s Austin Weatherford answered as the shot-clock expired with a 30-foot 3-pointer of his own to give the Engineers back the lead.
Weatherford nailed another long 3-pointer with the shot clock winding down three minutes later.
“He hit two unbelievable daggers that he never hits.” Slyder said. “Give him credit, they went in but I’ll take my chances with him throwing it in with half a second on the shot clock from 30 feet.”
For the Ravens, Hogan led three in double figures with 23 points. Morrison was next with 17 points, and Bowman scored 15 points. Browne chipped in with nine points and pulled in a game-high 11 rebounds.
Anderson University (8-6, 4-3 HCAC) will host Bluffton on Saturday at 4 p.m.
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Anderson University's Brock Morrison shoots during Wednesday's game against Rose-Hulman at O.C. Lewis Gymnasium. Don Knight
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