Hot Shooting Men's Basketball Comes Up Short Against Monmouth, 98-92

Saturday, March 9

Albany, NY

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

16-14

Monmouth

13-20

Monmouth

Quinnipiac

Photo by: Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire

Hot Shooting Men's Basketball Comes Up Short Against Monmouth, 98-92

3/9/2019 9:16:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

Bobcats Fall to Hawks in MAAC Quarterfinals Despite Season-High 18 3-Pointers

By: QU Athletic Communications

ALBANY, N.Y. – Cameron Young (Los Angeles, California) and Jacob Rigoni (Adelaide, Australia) combined for 63 points Saturday night but the No. 3 seed Quinnipiac men's basketball team fell in a shootout to the No. 6 Monmouth Hawks, 98-92, in the MAAC Quarterfinals at the Times Union Center.

As a team, Quinnipiac knocked down a season-high 18 3-pointers in the loss to record the second-most 3-pointers in a MAAC Tournament game and most since Iona hit 19 against Monmouth in the MAAC Tournament on March 8, 2015. Quinnipiac's 18 threes Saturday night are tied for the third-most in a MAAC game in league history.

Young, the MAAC Player of the Year, scored 33 points to give him his fifth 30-point game of the season. He knocked down eight 3-pointers in the game, giving him 101 on the season to break Rick Barry's program record of 99 set during the 1994-95 season.

Rigoni recorded a career-high 30 points with a career-best seven made 3-pointers as he kept pace with Young in the scoring column Saturday night.

Rich Kelly (Shelton, Connecticut) recorded his second career double-double with 10 points and 11 assists in the MAAC Quarterfinals to round out the Bobcats' offensive attack.

The Bobcats and Hawks battled back-and-forth all game long, trading baskets for the early part of the game before Quinnipiac took a six-point lead with 10:53 to go in the second half.

After taking the lead, Monmouth went on a run to take a late lead before the Bobcats attempted to claw back from a 14-point deficit. Quinnipiac scored 13 of the game's final 19 points but came up just short in the comeback bid.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 92, Monmouth 98

LOCATION
Times Union Center | Albany, N.Y.

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (16-14) | Monmouth (13-20)

BOBCATS STATISTICAL LEADERS

Points: Young (33)
Rebounds: Marfo/Young (7)
Assists: Kelly (11)
Steals: Kelly (2)
Blocks: Bundu/Marfo (1)

FIRST HALF SUMMARY

Quinnipiac scored 45 points in the first half of a game for the fourth time this season and ninth time overall
The Bobcats and Hawks were lights out from the floor in the first half as both teams shot over 50 percent, including Quinnipiac's 13 of 24 shooting from the floor and 9 of 17 shooting from behind the arc
Neither team managed to distance itself too much in the first half as they traded baskets or five-point runs
Rigoni came out hot out of the gate as he scored 12 of the Bobcats first 15 points on three 3-pointers and a trio of free throws
Young ended the half with the Bobcats final six points, including an and-1 on a 3-pointer he nailed at the top of the key with 1:30 to go in the half.

SECOND HALF SUMMARY

Rigoni and Young hit back-to-back 3-pointers in the opening minute to erase a five-point halftime deficit to take a one-point lead
Both teams continued to trade baskets early in the second half before Rigoni hit three free throws and Young hit a 3-pointer for six straight Quinnipiac points to take a 67-62 lead
Kelly hit four straight free throws on back-to-back possessions to give the Bobcats a 10-3 run to take a 71-65 lead before the Hawks went on a 15-0 run over a span of 3:44 to take a nine-point lead but Young ended the run with his seventh three of the game
Monmouth's lead reached 14 points before the Bobcats started to chip away with an 8-0 run in a span of 1:18 to pull back within six points at 92-86.
Rigoni and Young each knocked down 3-pointers in the final 20 seconds of the contest but it wasn't enough to overcome a couple late Monmouth baskets

NOTES

Young recorded 30-plus points for the seventh time in his career and fifth time during the 2018-19 season with his 33-point game
Young averaged 44 points per game in his two games at the Times Union Center this season after scoring an NCAA-best 55 points on Feb. 17 against Siena
Young knocked down 10 field goals for just the third time this season and eight 3-pointers made were his second-most in a game this season
He finished the season with a Quinnipiac Division I single-season program record 699 points, also good for the third-most points in a season across all levels
Young knocked down 101 3-pointers in 2018-19, breaking Rick Barry's previous mark of 99 set during the 1994-95 season
Young scored 1,321 points in his career in two-plus seasons and finished 19^th in program history, passing James Feldeine '10 with his last-second 3-pointer while his 165 made 3-pointers in his career is good for eighth in program history and sixth at the Division I level
Rigoni set career-highs with 30 points and seven made 3-pointers after he was 7 for 11 from behind the arc and 9 for 9 from the free throw line.
His previous bests for points was 23 at New Hampshire on Nov. 20 and six 3-pointers against Monmouth on Dec. 28, 2017
Rigoni's 30-point game was Quinnipiac's sixth of the season and is the second different Bobcat with a 30-point game this season
Kelly recorded his second career double-double with his 10 points and 11 assists, his first double-double since Dec. 4, 2017 at Columbia
Kelly's 11 assists tied his career-high which he set against Monmouth on Dec. 28, 2017
The Bobcats knocked down nine three's in the first half after averaging 11 3-pointers per game on the season
Quinnipiac finished with a season-high 18 3-pointers Saturday night to record the second-most in a MAAC Tournament game and tied for the third-most overall in a game between MAAC opponents
Quinnipiac recorded double-digit 3-pointers in 23 games this season and finished the season with eight consecutive such games
Quinnipiac shot a season-best 91.7 percent from the free throw line on 22 of 24 shooting, while the 22 made free throws was tied for the third-most in a game this season
As a team, the Bobcats finished with a program record 338 made 3-pointers on the season