LOS ANGELES — Collin Welp had 11 points and a career-high 19 rebounds but missed his attempt at a game-tying 3-pointer in the final seconds and UC Irvine lost to Loyola Marymount, 51-48, on Thursday night at LMU’s Gersten Pavilion.
Dameane Douglas had 18 points to lead LMU, which had to hold off the Anteaters down the stretch.
Douglas made a pair of free throws to stretch the Lions’ lead to 50-41 with 2:11 to play, but UCI’s Jeron Artest made a 3-pointer and Justin Hohn converted a layup to pull UCI to within 50-48 with 38 seconds left. LMU’s Eli Scott made one of two free-throw attempts with 10 seconds left to make it a 3-point game and set the scene for Welp to try to force overtime.
Scott had 11 points for LMU (4-3). Mattias Markusson had seven points, and Ivan Alipiev had seven rebounds.
Dawson Baker had 12 points on 6-for-13 shooting for UCI (2-4), and Brad Greene had eight points, four rebounds and three blocked shots.
Neither team shot the ball well. UCI made just 35.6 percent (21 for 59) overall, including a 3-for-13 showing (23 percent) from 3-point range, while LMU was at 35.8 percent (19 for 53) overall and just 2 for 18 (11 percent) from beyond the arc.
LMU held a 40-37 advantage in rebounds and outscored UCI 30-22 in the paint and got to the free-throw line more frequently, going 11 for 19 there while UCI was just 3 for 6. UCI’s 48 points was its worst offensive output since a 2011 game against UC Davis.
A jump shot from Baker followed by a layup from Welp gave UCI a 29-22 lead early in the second half, but LMU used a 13-2 run to take a 35-31 lead with 11:15 left. The Lions stretched the margin to seven points with 4:57 left, before a Hohn 3-pointer got UCI within 45-41 with 4:41 left. LMU went ahead by nine on Douglas’ free throws with 2:11 left, before the Anteaters’ late surge.
“This game represented progress for us in the big picture and that is something we could focus on and take away from that,” said UCI coach Russell Turner, who remains frustrated with his team when it comes to giving up extra possessions off missed free throws and transition defense.
“I am angry with my team and our ability to get free-throw rebounds. I am angry with our lack of commitment to do that because I believe if we did that we could have won this game tonight. I am disappointed in our lack of running back on defense and getting back to defend. That is something that I want to drive home with our team and I need commitment from every guy to do that.”
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