BALTIMORE – Dejuan Clayton hit a mid-range jumper with 0.3 seconds left in overtime to give the Coppin State men's basketball team a 68-67 MEAC victory over Maryland Eastern Shore on Monday night at PEC Arena. The victory is the Eagles' eighth of the season, matching their win total from last season.
Inside the Numbers
- Dejuan Clayton finished with a game-high 20 points on 6-of-12 shooting to go with five rebounds and a season-high seven assists. Clayton made a pair of 3-pointers and made all six of his free throws.
- Brendan Medley-Bacon continued his superb play with 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting to go with 17 doubles for his fourth double-double of the season. He also blocked three shots.
- Koby Thomas also finished in double figures with 12 points and seven rebounds while Andrew Robinson hit three 3-pointers for nine points. Giir Ring pulled down a career-high eight rebounds.
- Coppin outshot Maryland Eastern Shore, 39.7% to 38.8% and made 15-of-17 (88.2%) free throws. The Eagles held a whopping, 50-31 advantage on the glass.
- UMES got 17 points from AJ Cheeseman and turned 18 CSU turnovers into 18 points. The Hawks also made ten 3-pointers compared to 7-of-26 for the Eagles.
How it Happened
- Coppin started out hot, taking its largest of the game at 16-8 with 11:44 to play in the first half on a layup by Brendan Medley-Bacon. Medley-Bacon had six of the team's 16 points over the first 8:16 while Koby Thomas had a pair of easy dunks.
- Maryland Eastern Shore came right back with a 10-2 run to tie the score at 18-18 with 7:39 remaining.
- Reggie James put CSU back on top with a three from the corner at the 5:27 mark but the Hawks scored ten-straight points to take a 28-21 lead with 2:33 left in the first.
- Dejuan Clayton stopped the drought with a layup and answered a UMES bucket with a pair of free throws.
- After misses from both teams, Ibn Williams made a pair from the stripe before the Hawks hit a layup just before the half, taking a 32-27 lead.
- A three by James and a pair of freebies from Medley-Bacon to start the second half cut the deficit to 34-32, but UMES went on a 9-2 run to take its largest lead of the game at 43-34 with 16:05 left in regulation.
- Clayton scored the game's next six points to pull Coppin to within 43-40, but UMES held onto the lead before Thomas tied for score at 49-49 with a layup at the 7;07 mark.
- A three by Andrew Robinson gave Coppin a brief 52-51 lead and the half saw three lead changes and two ties, including a game-tying three by UMES' Canaan Bartley with 54 seconds to go in regulation to make it 58-58.
- Coppin had a chance to win it in regulation but a three by Thomas was off the mark.
- A three by Bartley opened the scoring in the extra session but Clayton fed Medley-Bacon inside for an easy dunk to make it a 61-60 Hawks advantage.
- Bryan Urrutia hit another triple for UMES to give the Hawks a 64-60 advantage with 2:26 remaining.
- Robinson answered with a three at the other end of the floor to cut the deficit to 6463 at the 2:12 mark and Medley-Bacon tied it up at 64-64 with 58 ticks left.
- Medley-Bacon blocked a shot at the other end and Thomas hit a layup with 27 seconds remaining, giving CSU a 66-64 lead.
- With ten seconds left, UMES retook the lead on a deep three by Da'Shawn Phillip.
- Coppin cleared out for Clayton in its final possession and the redshirt junior drilled the mid-range jumper with 0.3 seconds to go, giving Coppin the victory.
Up Next: Coppin goes on the road for a pair of conference games, starting with a trip to South Carolina State for a 4 pm tipoff on Saturday, February 15.
