Racers Drop 69-68 Loss At Home To UT Martin

Thursday, February 28

CFSB Center

7 p.m.

Murray State

20-8, 10-5OVC

UT Martin

9-19, 5-10OVC

Team	1	2	F
UT Martin	36	33	69
Murray State	27	41	68

Photo by: Tab Brockman

2/28/2013 5:38:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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The Murray State Racers dropped a 69-68 loss at the CFSB Center Thursday over the UT Martin Skyhawks in Ohio Valley Conference play in Murray, Ky.

The Racers fell to 20-8 and 10-5 in the OVC and had their six-game home win streak snapped. UTM improved to 9-19 and 5-10.

Isaiah Canaan led MSU with 31 points on 10-of-10 shooting from the free throw line as he had his eighth career 30-point game and his fourth this season. Ed Daniel had his 14^th double-double of the season with 19 points and 12 rebounds.

MSU had a poor shooting night and led for the last time when the score was 6-4. MSU fell behind 33-19 with 4:30 to go in the half and managed to cut the lead to 36-27 at half.

MSU made several runs at the lead in the second half, but never got there although they did tie it 40-40 at the 14:43 mark on a Canaan three-pointer.

With 1:11 remaining MSU trailed the Skyhawks 67-62 and made a run to pull the game out when Canaan sank a three from the corner with 58 seconds left to cut the UTM lead to two. After forcing a shot clock violation, Daniel was fouled with 8.6 seconds left and hit one of two free throws to make it a 67-66 game. With 4.5 left, Canaan was fouled and made a pair of free throws and again MSU trailed by a point at 69-68. When UTM's B.J. McLaughlin missed two from the line, the Racers had one more shot, but Canaan's long three-point try was no good as the buzzer sounded.

For the game, the Racers shot 39 percent from the field on 20-of-52 shots, while UTM was 21-of-50 for 42 percent. MSU shot 25 percent from three-point range on 5-of-20 shots, while UTM hit 7-of-14 for 50 percent. MSU hit 23-of-29 free throws for 79 percent. UTM was 83 percent going 20-of-24.

The Racers have the regular season finale at home Saturday when they host the Southeast Missouri Redhawks at the CFSB Center. MSU will celebrate Senior Day in a 7:30 p.m. tip. It's a double-header day at the CFSB Center as the MSU women's team also honors its seniors in the first game of the day that tips at 4:45 p.m.