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74
Penn St-Wilkes Barre PSUWB 0-1
79
Winner Marywood MU 2-0,0-0 Atlantic East
Penn St-Wilkes Barre PSUWB
0-1
74
Final
79
Marywood MU
2-0,0-0 Atlantic East
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT 1 F
Penn St-Wilkes Barre PSUWB 32 38 4 74
Marywood MU 34 36 9 79

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Pacers Roar Back in Final Minutes to Take Electric City Classic in Overtime

Marywood trailed by 10 minutes with 2:50 remaining

Scranton, Pa. — Marywood University came back from a double-digit deficit with less than three minutes remaining to take the Electric City Classic on Saturday. The men's basketball program erased a 10-point deficit to defeat Penn State Wilkes-Barre 79-74 in overtime. 

Trevor Seitz sent the game into overtime with a 3-pointer in the corner on a Cole Johnson assist with two seconds remaining in regulation. The long-ranged basket capped a 13-3 run over the last 2:50 of the second half. 

Seitz turned it on to score 25 points with 11 rebounds and five assists. On defense, Seitz recorded a plus/minus ratio of 14 points. 

Mason Mendygral did the heavy lifting in the first half, finishing with 18 points with a 4 of 6 performance from beyond the arc. Brandon Reed reached double figures with 11 points. 

In overtime, Marywood (2-0) trailed early on but Reed hit a jump shot in the paint to even the score at 72-72 with 3:43 remaining. Mendygral knocked in a 3-pointer in transition from Reed at the 2:51 mark. 

After the Lions' Tyson Tanner Jr. split a pair of trips to the line to cut the Pacers' lead to one, Seitz had a steal and delivered a pass to Mendygral for a pivotal layup to take a 77-74 lead with 52 seconds on the board. One of several out-of-bounds turnovers committed by Penn State Wilkes-Barre, Seitz made a floater to seal the victory with 14 seconds remaining to take the 79-74 lead. 

Once the Lions took the 67-57 lead in the second half, Reed and Corey Perkins made four consecutive free throws to push it to a two-possession lead. Seitz stole the ball and went coast-to-coast for a layup. With 1:47 left, Perkins stole the ball and Reed capped a layup to trim the Lions' lead to two (67-65) in a matter of 68 seconds. 

Penn State Wilkes-Barre extended its lead back to five with 1:02 standing on the clock. Again, Reed made a pair of free throws and another out-of-bounds turnover set the scene for Seitz's game-extending 3-pointer. 

Marywood outscored Penn State Wilkes-Barre 26-14 in points off turnovers. Wilkes-Barre had a 15-6 advantage in second-chance points. The Lions outrebounded the Pacers 44-35, and they had a 43.8-to-40.3 percentage advantage in field goal percentage. 

Marywood's free-throw proficiency proved to be a difference. The Pacers shot 15 of 16 (93.8 percent) from the line. Penn State Wilkes-Barre had just a 53.8 percent mark. 

The Lions were led by Jalen Willis' 18 points. Anthony Picott and Allen Ozojie scored 14. 

Marywood will welcome Montclair State University on Wednesday night at 6 p.m.
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