Akron Falls 90-73 at Ohio

Tuesday, February 23

Athens, OH

2 PM

University of Akron

14-5,12-4MAC

Ohio

12-6,8-4MAC

Akron

Ohio

February 23 | Men's Basketball

Box Score

Akron Falls 90-73 at Ohio
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ATHENS, Ohio – In their first game back from a 14-day quarantine, the Ohio Bobcats defeated the visiting Akron Zips, 90-73, ending the Zips four-game winning streak on Tuesday afternoon at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio.

Senior Loren Cristian Jackson (Chicago, Ill.) led Akron in scoring with 22 points, a team-best seven rebounds and four assists, while sophomore Mikal Dawson (Huntington, W.Va.) followed with 11 points and four rebounds.

Ohio (12-6, 8-4 MAC) started the scoring and led the entire game as the Bobcats established a 5-4 lead at the first media break, 15:49. Ohio followed with a 3-point field goal from top of the key for an 8-4 advantage, and junior Michael Wynn (Albany, N.Y.) answered for Akron (14-5, 12-4 MAC) with a jumper in paint, but back-to-back threes from Ben Vander Plas and Jalen White pushed the Bobcat advantage to 14-6 with 13:12 left in first half.

Jackson buried trifecta form top of the key, but the Bobcats used seven unanswered points to take a 23-9 lead. The Zips responded with a 9-0 run of their own as Jackson completed an old fashioned 3-point play and junior Bryan Trimble, Jr. (Kansas City, Mo.) and Dawson delivered back-to-back triples. After a pair of Jackson free throws, Trimble and Dawson hit from deep again, but the Bobcats continued to answer, taking 41-32 lead into halftime.

At the midpoint, Ohio was shooting 70-percent from deep, connecting with 7-of-10 first-half 3-pointers. The Bobcats long range attack accounted for half of the field goals made in the opening half, finishing 14-of-29 (.483). The Zips shot 31.4 percent from the floor (11-of-35) and 27.3 percent from long range (6-of-22).

After the break, Ohio opened with a 6-0 run as Vander Plas scored all six points. Jackson stopped the run with a reverse layup, 47-34, and finished in the lane two more times before Ohio touched the scoreboard again, 52-38.

Two teams traded buckets as Ohio held on to a double-digit advantage and increased the lead to as many as 22 points before time expired.

Ohio had five players tally double figures in scoring led by a pair of 17-point performances ny Vander Plas and Ben Roderick.

The Zips held a 41-40 edge on the glass,

The Akron Zips will be back on national television and returns to James A. Rhodes Arena on Friday, Feb. 26 as the Bowling Green Falcons travel to Akron. The CBS Sports Network game is scheduled to tip-off at 7 p.m. Fans can follow the action on 640 WHLO AM or GoZips.com.