Rutgers continued to play strong defense and managed to get enough scoring to defeat Kent State today in a third round game in the South Padre Island Invitational. In their first road game of the year, the Scarlet Knights jumped out to a big first half lead only to see the Kent State Golden Flashes come back strong early in the second half. The Golden Flashes ignored the 12-point margin in RU’s favor at half time to bring it back to a 1-point game at 41-40. The Knights responded to open a 6 point lead with less than three minutes left but Kent State closed again to 53-52 with one minute to go.
Quincy Douby recorded 19 points to lead all scorers, but it was Freshman Anthony Farmer who went to the line with 25.5 seconds to go and made both free throws. Farmer then made the final rebound off a three point attempt to seal the victory.
RU outrebounded the Golden Flashes 43-26. Both JR Innman and Byron Joynes had 10 rebounds.
WS had 28 free throws vs RU's 18 but the Flashes only shot 64.3% from the stripe while the Knights shot 88.9%.
The final score 55-52. It wasn't pretty but it is another in the "W" column. You can read the story here.
RU now moves on to the championship round on Saturday night against either Illinois or Wichita State.
UPDATE: It will be Illinois. They escaped with a 1-point vistory, 55-54, over Witchita State.
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