Baltimore – The host UMBC men's basketball team fell to the New Hampshire Wildcats, 64-58, in an America East Conference contest on Saturday afternoon at Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena.
 
UMBC (6-14, 1-4 AE) junior guard Marcus Banks Jr. scored a team-high 20 points and added six rebounds and five assists in a losing cause. Sophomore guard Dion Brown, who eclipsed 500 career points in the opening half, recorded his third double-double of the season with 15 points and 13 rebounds (career-high).  Graduate student forward Max Lorca-Lloyd contributed eight points and eight rebounds.
 
The Retrievers led by as many as 10 points in the opening half with 12:08 left and settled for a 29-22 halftime advantage.  UMBC held the Wildcats to just 23.3 percent shooting as the visitors made just 7-of-30 attempts in the stanza.
 
New Hampshire (11-7, 3-2) opened the second half with a 10-3 burst to knot the score at 32-32 with 17 minutes left in the contest.
 
The hosts answered with an 11-4 run to reclaim a 43-36 advantage at the 9:45 mark. Banks scored five points during the stretch and capped the run with a trey off an assist from freshman guard Ace Valentine.
 
UMBC still held a seven-point edge with 7:17 left after Banks knocked down another trifecta, however, New Hampshire went on a 9-1 spurt to grab their first lead since the early moments of the contest. Forward Clarence Daniels, the leading scorer in the conference, finished a jumper in the paint to cap the run with 5:12 left.
 
The Retrievers took their final advantage, 53-52, after Brown grabbed an offensive board and finished a layup with 4:55 to play. Freshman guard Ashton Reese had an opportunity to extend the lead but misfired on the front end of a one-and-one with 3:13 left.
 
Miller gave the visitors the lead for good, 54-53, completing a jumper in the lane with 2:52 remaining. Daniels then followed with a driving layup after Banks was unable to connect from long-range on the previous trip down the floor.
 
Brown brought UMBC within 56-55 after drilling a jumper at the 1:50 mark, but the Wildcats scored the next eight points to extend their lead to 64-55, six of those points occurring after three straight Retrievers' turnovers.
 
Reese made a triple with twenty-eight seconds left to cut the deficit down to 64-58 but neither team would score again.
 
Daniels finished with a game-high 22 points on 9-of-17 shooting and added 11 rebounds. Guard Ahmad Robinson had 18 points while forward Jaxson Baker contributed a double-double of 10 points and 11 rebounds.
 
UMBC will host NJIT next Saturday evening.