Wright Outdueled in Second Half in 75-69 Loss to Marist

Saturday, November 26

Hanover, N.H.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

0-3

Marist

2-4

Marist

Dartmouth

Wright Outdueled in Second Half in 75-69 Loss to Marist

11/26/2016 4:45:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth junior Miles Wright dropped 16 second-half points on the Marist Red Foxes, but Khallid Hart put 22 of his game-high 27 points on the board after halftime to lift the visitors over the Big Green (0-3) on Saturday afternoon in front of 1,215 fans at Leede Arena, 75-69.

Hart hit all but one shot in the second half (a three-pointer), knocking down 7-of-8 from the floor with three triples and all five free throws to score almost half of the 47 points for Marist (2-4) over the final 20 minutes. He finished the game 9-of-14 overall and 4-of-7 from downtown, plus led the Red Foxes with three assists in 39 minutes of action.

Wright missed his only two shots of the first half, playing just 11 minutes due to foul trouble. But he caught fire after the break, canning 6-of-10 field goals with four three-pointers to account for his 16 points. Sophomore Evan Boudreaux led Dartmouth with 17 points (matching a career best with four trifectas as well) and 10 rebounds — his second double-double of the season — while classmate Guilien Smith chipped in 15 points.

The first half was mostly a defensive struggle as the Big Green hit just a third of their 30 field goals. Marist even held Dartmouth without a point for just over 10 minutes while scoring 15 straight points to open up a 22-10 lead with five and a half minutes left in the stanza.

Senior Mike Fleming broke the dry spell with a three-pointer, then quickly laid one in before junior Taylor Johnson did the same, all within a one-minute span, igniting a 17-6 spurt to end the half and close the gap to one, 28-27. Both sides had their issues at the foul line as they combined to convert just 6-of-17 free throws — 3-of-9 for Marist and 3-of-8 for the Green.

Isaiah Lamb set the tone for the second half with a triple just 11 seconds in, but the lead oscillated between two and four points until Wright drained his first three-pointer to give Dartmouth its first lead in over 15 minutes of play, 38-37.

The lead changed five times over the next three minutes with only a point separating the teams, when Kristinn Palsson, who provided 10 points off the Marist bench, canned a three-pointer from the corner to put the Red Foxes up four, 46-42. Smith answered right back with a triple of his own before Johnson drove to the hoop to put the Big Green back on top.

At this point, Hart took over the Marist offense and ended up scoring 20 of its final 29 points. He matched Johnson's bucket with one of his own, then did the same after Boudreaux canned a trey. After Brian Parker, who equaled Boudreaux's output with 17 points and 10 boards for the Red Foxes, dropped in a layup to break a 51-all tie, Hart scored the next 10 for Marist, helping it boost its lead to six at 63-57.

Dartmouth still had some fight left in it and scored the next seven points to reclaim the lead, 64-63, on a Wright three-pointer sandwiched between Smith baskets. Hart extended his Red Fox run to 12 points with a pair of foul shots, then Wright popped his fourth long ball for a 67-65 lead with just under three minutes to go.

But Marist held the Big Green without another point until the final seconds, going on a 10-0 run. Hart's three-pointer with 18 seconds on the clock doubled the Red Fox lead to 73-67, effectively sealing the win for Marist.

The Red Foxes finished the day shooting 52.9 percent (27-of-51) from the floor with nine three-pointers, plus held a slim 32-30 advantage on the boards.

Dartmouth drilled 11 three-pointers — its most since March 1, 2014 — in 25 attempts (.440) and hit 25-of-56 (.446) for the game. But an uncharacteristic 8-of-16 performance at the charity stripe proved fateful.

Next up for the Big Green is a four-game road trip, starting with Longwood on Monday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in a game that will be streamed on the Big South Network for free. Marist returns to Poughkeepsie to host UMass Lowell on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m.

Notes: Dartmouth's last game with that many three-pointers came in an 87-78 win over Cornell when it hit a dozen trifectas … Boudreaux now has 12 double-doubles in 30 career games for the Big Green … Marist head coach Mike Maker returned to Hanover for the first time since serving as an assistant for Dartmouth for a 11 years (1991-2002).