Senior Night Spoiled in 70-58 Loss to Brown

Saturday, March 7

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

5-912-17, Ivy

Brown

15-12, 8-6Ivy

Brown

Dartmouth

Chris Knight finished the season with a flourish.

Photo by: Doug Austin

3/7/2020 8:45:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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Chris Knight had his fifth 20-point game of the season

By: Rick Bender

HANOVER, N.H. — Zach Hunsaker and Brandon Anderson combined for 51 points to help Brown (15-12, 8-6 Ivy) spoil Senior Night at Dartmouth (12-17, 5-9 Ivy) by defeating the Big Green, 70-58. Junior Chris Knight led Dartmouth with 20 points on 10-of-11 from the floor, but the Green could not overcome 17 turnovers. The Bears had their season end, however, with Penn's 85-65 victory over Columbia, eliminating them from the Ivy League Tournament next weekend.

The game was nip-and-tuck throughout the first 16 minutes as neither side led by more than four points with five ties and four lead changes. A 7-0 Dartmouth run turned a 12-9 deficit into a 16-9 lead, but Brown countered with its own seven-point run to go up by a 21-18 score.

Up to that point, the two teams had combined for two 3-pointers, both by the Big Green, but senior Ian Sistare tied the game with a shot from downtown. Anderson finally broke the ice from long distance for the Bears, putting them back ahead, only to have Sistare rain down another trifecta. Knight followed with an easy layup off a feed from sophomore Taurus Samuels (one of his four helpers on the night) to give Dartmouth the 26-24 advantage, its last of the night as it turned out. Anderson answered with a 15-footer to knot the score before Brown drained three consecutive 3-pointers in less than a minute for a sudden 35-26 lead.

Senior James Foye interrupted the 11-point run with a driving layup, but Hunsaker made it four straight triples for a 10-point bulge. Sophomore Trevon Ary-Turner hit a pair of jump shots for the Green before the half ended to close the gap to six, 38-32.

When Ary-Turner, who finished with nine points on 4-of-7 from the floor, just beat the shot clock with a long jumper in front of the Dartmouth bench, the Big Green closed within two, 43-41, with 12:50 to play. But the next five-and-a-half minutes belonged to the Bears, holding Dartmouth to just two points while producing 11 of their own for a double-digit edge at 54-43.

A Foye 3-pointer followed by a Knight bucket with 5:30 to play whittled the deficit back down to six, 54-48, but Hunsaker answered with back-to-back treys. Dartmouth would never get closer than eight the rest of the way as Brown converted 10-of-11 at the foul line for the final 90 seconds.

The Big Green defense held the Bears to just 36.8 percent (21-of-57) on field goals and 34.6 percent (9-of-26) from the perimeter, but Brown turned the 17 Dartmouth turnovers into 17 points and sank 19-of-22 fouls shots (.864). Hunsaker finished the night 6-of-15 from the floor and 4-of-9 from distance, but a perfect 11-of-11 at the foul line for his season-high 27 points while Anderson was 7-of-17 overall but 5-of-10 from long range and 5-of-5 at the line for his 24 points.

Dartmouth shot just under 50 percent from the floor (23-of-48, .479) but just 25 percent (5-of-20) from 3-point range. In addition to scoring 20 points, Knight grabbed a team-high seven rebounds and matched Samuels with four assists. Sistare joined him in double figures with 11 points thanks to his trio of triples.

Dartmouth ends the season with its most victories in five years, both overall and in the Ivy League.

Notes: The four Dartmouth seniors honored before the game were Sistare, Foye, Ian Carter and Brendan Barry, the last of whom missed the season due to an injury … Sistare finished his career with 648 points, two more than Foye … the 3-pointer that Foye hit late in the second half kept him above 40 percent behind the arc for his career (124-for-308, .403).