Men's Basketball Holds on Against UC Davis

Monday, December 3

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

4-4

UC DAVIS

4-4

UC Davis

Dartmouth

12/3/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

Monday, December 3, 2007

Boxscore

HANOVER, N.H. - Coming off a game in which it was widely outrebounded and outshot, the Dartmouth men's basketball team hit the glass hard and shot a season-high 56.9 percent from the field to hold off UC Davis, 70-67 at Leede Arena Monday night.

Johnathan Ball and DeVon Mosley each scored 13 points and Alex Barnett added 12 points and seven rebounds as the Big Green got back to .500 at 4-4.

Kurt Graeber and Brandon Ware each chipped in eight points for Dartmouth, which outrebounded the visitors, 33-20.

Vince Oliver scored a game-high 19 points to lead UC Davis (4-4), which got 12 points and seven rebounds from Shane Hanson and 10 points from Mark Payne.

"Rebounding, better shooting, shot selection, sharing the ball and having a higher level of intensity and energy level were important tonight," said Dartmouth coach Terry Dunn. "And they did all of the above."

Dartmouth used a 10-0 run to build its largest lead of the night, 47-37, with 13:42 remaining, but had to hit its final six field goal attempts of the game and four free throws in the last 18 seconds to squeeze out the win as UC Davis twice pulled within one point in the final minute.

Mosley's two foul shots with 3.9 seconds remaining gave the Big Green a 3-point lead. The Aggies inbounded and rushed the ball up the left side for a 3-point attempt to tie the game by Payne that bounced off the rim.

Ball, who missed three games with injury before going scoreless in 13 minutes against Stony Brook Saturday, hit 6-of-8 shots from the field to register a season-high 13 points against UC Davis while pulling down six rebounds. Also returning to action was junior forward Jarrett Mathis, playing for the first time since suffering a knee injury early last season. Mathis had two points and two rebounds in 10 minutes.

"It was great to have John Ball back and to finally see a glimmer of the old John Ball," said Dunn. "It's so tough to get back to the form you were before you were injured. We were glad to have Jarrett out there again. It's been a long time."

And it will be a long time until Dartmouth hits the floor again. The Big Green won't play again until Daniel Webster College comes to Leede Arena on Dec. 15 at the conclusion of the exam break.

"It was good to get a win heading into an 11-day break," said Dunn. "Thinking about a loss isn't the way you want to spend the break. I'm
extremely proud of them. We needed this coming off the Stony Brook game."