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Men’s basketball shows improvement in loss to Rider


December 13th, 2009 - 08:54 by Corey Johns

It’s been nine straight games to open the season without a win for the men’s basketball team this season. Obviously when a team is 0-9 things are not going right. For UMBC they have been a nightmare on the defensive end of the floor but in the last two games, they have played well together [...]

Seven-foot center Robbie Jackson did not take the trip north to take on UMBC’s toughest opponent yet, Penn State. With Justin Fry and Jamar Wertz still on the bench with their knee injuries, the injury to Jackson left UMBC with just nine available players for the game. Ten minutes into the game that number went [...]

In the final 12 seconds both Chris De La Rosa and Matt Spadafora had chances to tie the game, but neither of their shots fell as the Retrievers fell 53-51, and to an 0-5 start. While Robbie Jackson led the team in both points and rebounds for a second straight game with 13 and seven [...]

After coming out and scoring the first seven points of the game the Retrievers looked to be on their way to their first win of the season but they were completely stalled in the final seven minutes of the first half causing them to go into the locker room down by 11 points. In that [...]




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