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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bowling Green State University
HAWAI'I
Nov. 21 - Bowling Green 53, Hawaii 49 - Pepsi One/Nextel Challenge
December 27, 1999 | Men's Basketball
Nov. 21, 1999
The Falcons turned up the defense in the second half, especially in the last four minutes of the game, to win the Pepsi One/Nextel Challenge hosted by the University of Hawaii. It was the first regular season tournament title won by a BG team since the 1978-79 squad captured the Blade-Glass City Classic hosted by Toledo.
Hawaii scored 10 straight points early in the first half to take a 16-11 lead at the 10:20 mark. Hawaii would lead the rest of the half, but BG would cut into the deficit trailing only 25-23 at the break.
In the second half, there were four lead changes in the early part before Hawaii took the lead 34-33 at the 14:59 mark.
The Rainbows led 49-46 on a Marquette Alexander basket at the 4:17 mark, but that would be Hawaii's last points of the game. One Anthony Stacey free throw at 3:48 pulled the Falcons within two, and a pair of Dave Esterkamp free tosses 24 seconds later tied the game.
Dubrey Black hit one free throw at the 2:18 mark to put the Falcons ahead by a 50-49 count and an Esterkamp lay up at the 2:02 mark, off a feed from Stacey, put BG ahead by three points. A Keith McLeod free throw with three seconds left iced the game for the Falcons and were the last points of the game.
McLeod led the Falcons with 11 points as six of the eight players who saw action the game scored six or more points.
McLeod and Stacey earned spots on the all-tournament team.
OFFICIAL BASKETBALL BOX SCORE -- G A M E T O T A L S Bowling Green vs Hawaii 11/21/99 at Sheriff Center, Honolulu, Hawaii -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VISITORS: Bowling Green (2-0) TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS No. N A M E FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 21 Dave Esterkamp f 3 9 0 3 2 2 3 3 6 4 8 3 4 0 1 39 34 Anthony Stacey f 2 7 0 1 4 6 1 2 3 2 8 4 3 0 4 28 52 Brent Klassen c 3 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 6 0 1 0 0 16 10 Trent Jackson g 2 6 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 1 4 1 0 0 0 21 20 Keith McLeod g 3 7 2 4 3 4 0 0 0 3 11 1 4 0 2 37 11 Graham Bunn 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 14 Len Matela 4 9 0 0 1 1 2 7 9 3 9 1 1 0 0 29 50 Dubrey Black 3 8 0 2 1 2 0 3 3 1 7 0 2 0 0 24 TEAM ........................................ 2 4 6 TOTALS 20 49 2 10 11 16 12 20 32 16 53 10 15 0 7 200 TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 10-31 .323 2nd Half: 10-18 .556 Game: .408 DEADBALL 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 1- 7 .143 2nd Half: 1- 3 .333 Game: .200 REBOUNDS F Throw % 1st Half: 2- 3 .667 2nd Half: 9-13 .692 Game: .688 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOME TEAM: Hawaii (1-1) TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS No. N A M E FG FGA FG FGA FT FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 22 Nerijus Puida f 3 5 0 2 0 1 1 2 3 4 6 4 4 0 1 35 24 Troy Ostler f 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 3 3 3 3 1 0 1 0 23 44 Marquette Alexander c 9 15 0 0 0 0 2 7 9 0 18 1 1 0 0 31 01 Predrag Savovic g 1 7 1 4 2 2 1 0 1 4 5 1 4 0 1 17 11 Johnny White g 3 6 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 5 6 2 3 0 0 39 03 Mike McIntyre 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 04 Bernard McIntosh 2 6 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 2 4 1 2 2 1 26 30 Geremy Robinson 0 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 33 Lane O'Connor 3 7 1 5 0 1 0 1 1 4 7 1 1 1 0 23 TEAM ........................................ 1 2 3 TOTALS 22 50 2 13 3 7 9 20 29 22 49 11 16 4 3 200 TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 12-28 .429 2nd Half: 10-22 .455 Game: .440 DEADBALL 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 0- 5 .000 2nd Half: 2- 8 .250 Game: .154 REBOUNDS F Throw % 1st Half: 1- 4 .250 2nd Half: 2- 3 .667 Game: .429 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFICIALS: Gasper Guercio, Vince Schlueter, Tom Yoshida TECHNICAL FOULS: Bowling Green - none Hawaii - none ATTENDANCE: 6,516 SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st 2nd OT1 OT2 OT3 OT4 TOTAL Bowling Green 23 30 53 Hawaii 25 24 49 Championship game Pepsi One/Nextel Challenge
