Bowling Green State University Athletics
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Men's Basketball Drops Game To Rival Toledo
February 07, 2000 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 7, 2000
Toledo, Ohio -
The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team dropped to 8-4 in Mid-American Conference play after a 79-68 loss at Toledo Monday night. The Falcons are now 16-6 overall.
Bowling Green, which has won 13 straight at home, has now lost their last three on the road in league play.
Bowling Green controlled the early action behind the play of leading scorer Keith McLeod as the Falcons led for most of the first 13 minutes - by as many as five points (15-10) at one point.
McLeod had nine of BG's first 15 points to help the Falcons get off to the fast start. He ended the half with 11 points.
A 10-4 run by Toledo put the Rockets ahead for good at 28-25 at the 4:48 mark. UT hit two of their 10 three-pointers on the evening in the run.
Toledo scored five more unanswered points to increase their lead to 33-25 at the 2:54 mark before Bowling Green scored seven of the next nine points to trail 35-32 with 1:06 left in the half. The two teams traded points over the last minute and Toledo took a 37-34 lead to the locker room.
Dave Esterkamp had 10 points in the first half for the Falcons as BG shot 57.1% from the floor, but were outrebounded by a 21-7 count.
The Rockets scored the first eight points of the second half to build a 45-34 lead as Robierre Cullars hit a pair of three-pointers in the run.
The Falcons would get no closer than eight points the rest of the way. Toledo's biggest lead was 16 points on three occasions, the latest at 66-50 with 8:23 left.
An 11-4 BG run helped them close to within eight points at 70-62 with 2:06 left, but Toledo scored the next seven points to secure their first win over Bowling Green in their last four tries.
McLeod led the Falcons with 17 points while Anthony Stacey led three other players in double figures with 16 markers.
The Falcons were outrebounded by the Rockets, 41-21, with 17 of Toledo's caroms at the offensive end. BG shot only 34.6% from the field in the second half.
