NM State Dominates Board Again, but UMass Survives

Just in time for the Packers-Cowboys kickoff ...

New Mexico State 1970 once against dominated the Boards, a 37-25 edge, as its two NBA players combined for 37 points and held UMass 1996 one NBA player Marcus Camby to 7 points. (Note - we incorrectly listed Charlie Criss as an NBA player, but it was another player but that name.) Sam Lacey would have a great NBA career, averaging a double double each if his first 5 years in the NBA).

However, one possession seemed to turn the entire game. With New Mexico State leading 43-40, they grabbed three straight offensive rebounds with a chance to make it 45-40. However, Camby blocked two shots, and Carmelo Travieso finally stole the ball from Sam Lacey and fed it ahead to Donta Bright for a backet to cut it to 43-42. Traviesco scored on the next trip to finally give UMass the lead 44-43.

However the three big scorers in the game took over with just 1:30 (3 possessions) to play. 

New Mexico State superstar Jimmy Collins, one of the rare players who gets the ball on 3 numbers on the 8-sided die, scored to cut it to 81-80 and finish with 22 points. However Traviesco and Bright responded with 3-pointers to finish with 24 and 28 points to send UMass to our championship game against either Tulsa or Western Kentucky.

Pos	New Mexico St. 1970	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Season Actual	Hts
1-PG	Charlie Criss	11	1	3	2	2	4	1	0	1	12.5 Pts	6'2
2-SG	Jimmy Collins	22	3	6	1	4	5	2	0	1	24.3 Pts-nba	6'6
3-SF	Roy Neal	3	0	1	1	2	3	0	1	3	5.5 Pts	6'6
4-PF	Jeff Smith	12	0	6	0	0	8	0	0	3	12.8 Pts	6'8
5-C	Sam Lacey	15	2	3	3	5	8	0	1	1	17.7 Pts-nba	6'10
1-PG	Chito Reyes	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	4	8.2 Pts	5'8
2-SG	Milt Horne	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	4.4 Pts	6'0
3-SF	Bill Moore	5	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	2.0 Pts	6'3
4-PF	John Burgess	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	4.7 Pts	6'5
5-C	Lonnie Lefevre	5	1	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	1.3 Pts	6'8
	14 Turnovers	83	8	26	7	13	37	4	2	17
Pos	Massachusetts 1996	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Season Actual	Ht
1-PG	Edgar Padilla	11	1	3	2	2	2	2	0	2	8.9 Pts, 3.5 Reb, 6.7 Ast	6'2
2-SG	Carmelo Travieso	24	3	6	3	4	2	2	0	2	12.6 Pts, 3.2 Reb, 2.1 Ast	6'2
3-SF	Donta Bright	28	1	10	5	5	5	0	0	3	14.5 Pts, 5.8 Reb, 1.7 Ast	6'6
4-PF	Dana Dingle	9	1	2	2	4	2	0	0	1	10.1 Pts, 7.4 Reb, 1.5 Ast	6'7
5-C	Marcus Camby	7	0	3	1	2	9	0	4	5	20.5 Pts, 8.2 Reb, 1.8 Ast-NBA	6'11
1-PG	Charlton Clarke	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1.4 Pts, 0.5 Reb, 0.7 Ast	6'3
2-SG	Tyrone Weeks	8	0	4	0	0	1	0	1	1	5.8 Pts, 5.2 Reb, 0.4 Ast	6'7
3-SF	Rigoberto Nunez	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.5 Pts, 1.0 Reb, 0.3 Ast	6'7
4-PF	Inus Norville	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2.4 Pts, 2.1 Reb, 0.0 Ast	6'9
5-C	Ted Cottrell	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.9 Pts, 0.9 Reb, 0.0 Ast	6'9
	10 Turnovers	89	6	29	13	17	25	4	5	18

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