Brown University Press Release PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown men’s basketball team (9-8, 1-3), suffered an 84-83 loss to Dartmouth (8-9, 2-2) on Saturday afternoon at the Pizzitola Sports Center. “Credit to Dartmouth for how they played in the second half offensively,” Head Men’s Basketball Coaching Chair Mike Martin ’04 said. “Our second half offense wasn’t good enough and our defense wasn’t good enough the entire game. I thought we did a decent job protecting our paint but we didn’t have any points in the paint. When we’re at our best we share the ball, don’t turn it over, and we win the battle in the paint.” Alexander Lesburt Jr. led all Bears with 21 points on 7-14 shooting from the field and 6-14 shooting from three-point range. Lyndel Erold netted a career-high 20 points on 6-12 shooting from the field and 4-9 shooting from three-point range. Lesburt Jr. shot 5-9 from three-point range in the first half, he paced the Bears with 18 points in the opening 20 minutes as Brown took a 52-40 lead into the second half. Erold also chipped in with 12 first half points as Aaron Cooley scored 10 points for the Bears. As a team, Brown shot 52.6 percent from distance in the opening 20 minutes. The Big Green led by as much as seven with 10:40 remaining in the second half, the Bears battled back as Lesburt Jr. connected on his sixth three-pointer of the game to even the score at 71. Trailing 80-77 with 2:20 remaining in the second half, Kino Lilly Jr. nailed a three-pointer to even the game at 80, the three-pointer was the 300th of Lilly Jr.’s career, he became the first player in program history and the third player in Ivy League history to hit 300 three-pointers. Less than 30 seconds later, Lyndel Erold hit a three-pointer to give Brown an 83-80 lead with 1:53 remaining. After Dartmouth launched a 4-0 run, the Bears had a chance to win the game but Erold’s three hit iron as time expired. Cooley, Lilly Jr., and David Rochester all scored in double figures for Brown, the Bears shot 16-39 from three-point range. Brown will play its first back-to-back of the season as they will travel to Penn on Friday, Jan. 31 before traveling to Princeton on Saturday, Feb. 1. Categories: College Sports, Sports Tags: Brown Bears, Brown University