Barely Beaten By Bradford

One-point losses are the hardest of all... We played a tough game against Bradford last night. They had some good athletes and made it difficult for us to run our offense and fast breaks. We didn't play our best during the first half. They kept finding ways to drive and dish in the lane for easy buckets, and we couldn't stop it. We found ourselves down by nine at halftime. Early in the second half they hit some deep threes and built their lead to seventeen at one point. Then for about twelve minutes we turned up the pressure, and they couldn't handle it. We went on a 25-4 run and were up by six with about four minutes to go. The momentum then swung back in their favor and the game was tied at 85 with a minute and a half left. We traded layups and the score was 89-89 with six seconds to go. One of Bradford's players drove the lane, put up a bad layup, but got fouled with 0.6 left. He didn't look confident at the free throw line at all, the crowd got loud, but it wasn't enough as he sunk the free throw. He intentionally missed the next one but missed the rim, so we got the ball out at 3/4 court for the final shot. I threw a deep pass toward the lane, Dade jumped about 15 feet and grabbed it, but a Bradford player undercut him and he hit the floor hard. No call. We lost 90-89. Can't blame it on the officials, though. We missed too many layups and free throws to win that game. We didn't play our best for 40 minutes. It's tough losing, but we had a good run in the playoffs. I guess there's another tournament coming up where we play all the other universities in Glasgow, so that should be fun!