Barry Delivers in Final Seconds for 64-63 Victory

Tuesday, November 28

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

2-2

Loyola (Md.)

1-5

Loyola

Dartmouth

Sophomore Brendan Barry

Barry Delivers in Final Seconds for 64-63 Victory

11/28/2017 8:54:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score Box Score (HTML)Box Score (PDF)ILN Highlights ILN Archived Broadcast

By: Rick Bender

HANOVER, N.H. — Sophomore Brendan Barry drove for the winning layup high off the glass with 1.7 seconds to play to allow Dartmouth (2-2) to nip Loyola (1-5) on Tuesday night at Leede Arena, 64-63. Barry finished the game with 14 points to lead the Big Green, while senior Miles Wright added 13 and freshman Chris Knight 11 off the bench.

Trailing 63-62 with 50 seconds to play after a pair of free throws by Loyola's Cam Gregory (giving him 22 points on the night), Dartmouth tried to feed the ball down low to Knight, but could not get him the ball. So Barry launched a long three that caught only iron and went out of bounds to the Greyhounds with 21.3 seconds showing.

After a timeout, the Big Green quickly fouled Loyola's leading scorer, Chuck Champion, who already had a career-high 26 points on 12-of-15 shooting after missing Loyola's first five games. But the sophomore hit the back iron on the front end of the one-and-one, and Knight gobbled up the rebound. The ball found its way into Barry's hands, who drove to his right, floated the ball high off the glass for the 64-63 lead. Gregory's desperation heave beyond halfcourt was on line, but only grazed the front of the rim as Dartmouth defeated the Greyhounds for the first time in three tries.

The Big Green trailed by as many as 13 in the first half, but a late 11-3 run allowed the hosts to enter the locker room at the intermission down by just seven, 33-26. And when Wright provided five of seven straight Dartmouth points coming out of the locker room, the game was suddenly tied at 33.

But the Green did not reclaim the lead for the first time since they held a 7-6 advantage until Knight — who did not play in the first half — hit a turnaround jumper to put Dartmouth up, 45-44, with 12:51 to go. From there, the lead would change 10 more times down the stretch with neither side building a bulge of more than three points.

When Barry drove for a layup with two minutes left for a 62-59 lead, Champion was able to respond for the Greyhounds with an 18-footer above the free throw line, keeping them within a point. Dartmouth misfired on a long 3-point attempt, and Gregory got to the foul line after grabbing his eighth offensive rebound of the game, canning both foul shots to set up Barry's game-winner.

In the first half, Champion and Gregory provided nearly all of offense for Loyola, tallying 29 of the team's 33 points. It was a Gregory putback with 2:40 left in the stanza that provided the Greyhounds with their largest lead of the night at 28-15.

Barry started the comeback with his first of two treys, and after a Champion three-point play, Wright bookended a bucket in the paint by freshman Aaryn Rai with two of his long balls. But Gregory beat the buzzer on a putback to keep Loyola up seven at the break.

Dartmouth finished the game shooting 44.1 percent (26-of-59) overall and 26.9 percent (7-of-26) from distance. The nation's most accurate free throw shooting team entering the game at over 85 percent, missed its first three foul shots and finished just 5-of-9 (.556). Barry was 6-of-13 overall from the floor to go with four assists in 34 minutes. Wright was 5-of-13 with his three triples while Knight — ninth in the country in field goal percentage entering the game — hit all five of his shots. The latter two also had five rebounds, as did senior Taylor Johnson who also had five assists.

The Greyhounds dominated the glass with 40 rebounds — 11 by Gregory for a double-double — to Dartmouth's 26, but turned the ball over 18 times. While Champion and Gregory combined to shoot 22-of-33 (.667) on the night, the rest of the Loyola squad managed just seven field goals in 26 attempts (.269), leaving the team just shy of 50 percent overall at 29-of-59. James Fives hit the only Greyhound 3-pointer in 14 tries.

Dartmouth next embarks on a five-game road trip, starting with a Saturday tilt at 4 p.m. against Canisius (3-4) in a game that will be streamed live on ESPN3. Loyola plays its third of four straight games on the road when it takes on Mount St. Mary's on the same day at the same time.

Notes: Knight is now shooting 75.9 percent (22-of-29) in the four games this season and is 18-for-21 (.857) over the last three contests … junior guard Guilien Smith, the team's leading returning scorer from 2016-17, was out with a hand (non-shooting) injury and will be unavailable indefinitely … Dartmouth finished its three-game homestand with a 2-1 mark … this was the second one-point game already this year for the Big Green, having lost at Quinnipiac in the opener, 78-77.