Langston Powell open floor vs South Alabama 2020
Bobby McDuffie
49
La.-Monroe ULM 7-18,3-13 SBC
50
Winner South Alabama USA 16-11,9-7 SBC
La.-Monroe ULM
7-18,3-13 SBC
49
Final
50
South Alabama USA
16-11,9-7 SBC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
La.-Monroe ULM 24 25 49
South Alabama USA 25 25 50

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

ULM Loses Another Heartbreaker; Falls at South Alabama, 50-49

MOBILE, Ala. – KK Curry scored his only field goal of the game on a putback off a missed free throw with 0.5 seconds left to give South Alabma a 50-49 win over ULM Saturday (Feb. 15) afternoon. The Warhawks, who led for nearly 37 1/2 minutes, went without a field goal over the last 2:54 and hit only 1-of-4 free-throw attempts down the stretch.
 
It marked ULM's eighth game decided by five points or less this season (2-6 record).
 
ULM, which was seeking its second-straight road win, jumped out to a 7-2 lead on Tyree White's 15-foot jumper from the left elbow with 16:31 remaining in the first half. The Warhawks put together a 12-2 run to build its largest lead at 19-7 on Michael Ertel's fall-away jumper in the lane with 10:33 left. Tyreke Locure's 3-pointer from the right wing sparked a 10-0 spurt as South Alabama cut its deficit to 19-17 on Trhae Mitchell's layup with 2:32 to play in the opening half. ULM went scoreless for 8:24, misfiring on nine-straight shots from the field and committing three turnovers. The Jaguars took their first lead at 23-22 as Andre Fox connected on back-to-back 3s. The Warhawks regained the lead at 24-23 on two free throws from D'Andre Bernard with 37 seconds on the clock, but USA took a 25-24 lead into the locker room as Mitchell converted two free throws with 12 seconds left in the first half.
 
ULM made only one of its last 12 field-goal attempts and finished the first half shooting just 29 percent (8-of-28) from the floor. USA, which also struggled to find an offensive rhythm, went 9-of-28 from the field (32 percent) in the first 20 minutes.
 
The Warhawks opened the second half with a 10-0 run and took a 35-25 lead on Chris Efretuei's layup, off a nifty pass from Tyree White, with 16:13 left. USA (16-11, 9-7 Sun Belt) answered with a 14-6 spurt and pulled to within 41-39 John Pettway's fast-break dunk with 9:11 on the clock. ULM (7-18, 3-13) extended its lead to 48-43 on Ertel's 3-pointer from the left wing with 2:54 to play. USA outscored the Warhawks, 7-1, over the final 2 1/2 minutes to steal the win. With 3.3 seconds remaining, Mitchell hit the first of two free-throw attempts and Curry grabbed the offensive rebound to set up his game-winning basket.
 
"There's huge disappointment in our locker room," ULM head coach Keith Richard said. "We're going to look at the last play as the reason we lost, but it wasn't the last play. We really played our hearts out, but we didn't make any plays in the last three minutes to go win the game. We didn't make any shots. We didn't make any free throws. And we didn't get any rebounds. We had two or three opportunities to grab a defensive rebound late. South Alabama missed a late 3 and a layup and we didn't get either one. You have to earn victories.
 
"It was the second game of a road trip for us and the second game of a homestand for South Alabama here late in the season, and sometimes, you see teams get a little fatigued. It was a grind-it-out kind of game, and you see this all across the country at this point in the season. I hate it for our guys, but they just kind of out toughed us there at the end. We didn't make any plays on either end of the floor in the last three minutes to walk out of here with a win. It's a shame, but you got to earn it."
 
Mitchell recorded a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds to pace the Jaguars. Fox came off the bench to score 12 points for USA.
 
ULM got 13 points from Ertel and 10 points from Langston Powell.
 
The Warhawks conclude a three-game Sun Belt road swing at Arkansas State on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m.
 
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