CORVALLIS, Ore. – USD men's basketball erased an 8-point deficit with 39 seconds remaining in regulation and set a program record with 18 3-pointers, but went cold in overtime, ultimately falling 92-82 at Oregon State Wednesday night.
In a game inside historic Gill Coliseum that featured 16 lead changes, the Toreros quite literally lived and died by the three. They made a program-best 18 threes on 43 attempts (also a single-game record) – including four in the last 39 seconds of regulation to force OT – but went ice cold in that extra period, going 0-7 from beyond the arc and scoring just four points.
Leading the USD scoring contingent were grad guards
Toneari Lane with 24 points and
Juanse Gorosito with 17, both hitting five triples. Junior forwards
Assane Diop and
Vuk Boskovic both made three threes. Grad
Tim Moore Jr. finished in double figures while redshirt freshman forward
Gavin Ripp notched career bests of five assists and four steals in a well-rounded San Diego defensive effort.
How it Happened
- The Toreros rolled out their 18th different starting lineup of the season, fourth most different combinations used by a team nationally
- USD shot a high volume of threes from the get-go but went into multiple lulls during the first half that saw 10 lead changes
- Oregon State was plus-10 on the glass in the first half – the same margin for the game overall – helping the hosts out front to a 35-32 lead at the half
- A San Diego 0-8 field goal stint was turned around by an 8-0 run and 8-10 stretch from the floor to take its first lead of the second half
- OSU responded with an 8-0 run of its own not long after to get out to a game-high 10-point lead
- USD kept the 3-point barrage coming and it paid off; trailing by eight points with 39 seconds remaining, the Toreros hit four 3-pointers – the first two by Lane, then Boskovic and finally Adrian McIntyre, off the dribble with 0.7 seconds remaining to force overtime – with two Oregon State free throws and a dunk in between the mayhem behind the arc on the other side of the floor
- In the five-minute overtime, the Toreros continued to pour on 3-point attempts, but they simply stopped going in … USD went 0-7 from beyond the arc, shooting 18.2% from the field in OT
- The Beavers ultimately outscored San Diego 14-4 in overtime
Notable
- The WCC's fourth-place Beavers shot 19 more free throws than the Toreros, proving an 18-point difference
- 12 of USD's 16 second-half made field goals were from beyond the 3-point line
- The 18 converted 3-pointers breaks the previous school record of 15 in a single game, done three times, last in the Toreros' 96-92 win over Washington State on Jan. 21
- The 43 attempted threes breaks the previous program record set over a decade ago, by eight … The Toreros attempted 35 vs. CSUN on Dec. 23, 2015
- San Diego shot 38.7% from the field in the first half, 61.5% in the second and 18.2% in OT, good for 44.1% for the game but going for 41.9% in the barrage from three
- The game was eerily similar to the reverse fixutre in America's Finest City on Jan. 31, in which the Toreros led by 10 points with 1:28 remaining in regulation before the Beavers were the ones that made a wild comeback and topped USD in overtime, 78-76
Up Next
The Toreros remain in Oregon for the regular season finale, a matchup at Portland on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 1 p.m., streaming live on ESPN+.
