Head coach Alfred "Butch" Beard and the Bears fall in the consolation round of the BCA Classic.
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SEATTLE, WA – Sophomore Kyle Hines scored 18 points and grabbed seven rebounds as UNC Greensboro defeated Morgan State, 62-49, in a consolation bracket game at the 2005 BCA Classic.
UNCG (1-1) will face Texas-Arlington in the fifth-place game on Tuesday at 2 pm local time (5 pm ET). The Mavericks defeated Northern Arizona in Monday’s first game.
MSU (0-2) was led by sophomore newcomer Andrew Lee. Lee paced the Bears with a career-high 19 points as he connected on 9-of-12 shots and finished with a team-high seven rebounds. The Bears also got 14 points from junior Joseph McLean, his first double-digit scoring effort of the season.
The Spartans held a 27-21 lead at the intermission, behind Hines’ 10 points. The first half was a see-saw affair for the most part. The Spartans opened up a six-point lead with a 9-1 run in which UNCG held the Bears without a field goal for nearly seven minutes. But UNCG went six minutes without a field goal to allow the Bears to catch up and grab a two-point lead at 17-15. But UNCG closed out the half by scoring 12 of the final 16 points, including a mid-court lob off in-bounds from Everson Simmons to David McClenny to finish the half and give the Spartans a six-point halftime lead.
Morgan State scored the first seven points of the second half to take the lead. But after a UNCG timeout, the Spartans scored six straight, capped off by a Dwayne Johnson steal and feed to Kevin Oleksiak for an easy lay-up, to regain a five-point advantage and force the Bears to take a timeout.
That began a 16-0 UNCG run that opened up the first double-digit lead of the game, 43-28. Morgan State went more than eight minutes without a point during that run.
Morgan State made a run after that, but the Spartans were able keep the margin in double digits the rest of the way.
