National Basketball Association
Maryland 66, Florida Atlantic 62
When: 2:00 PM ET, Saturday, December 14, 2013
Where: Comcast Center, College Park, Maryland
Officials:
# Gary Maxwell, # Tim Comer, # Ron Tyburski
Attendance:
9265
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Maryland 66, Florida Atlantic 62: Jake Layman scored a game-high 22 points, including four 3-pointers, as the Terrapins held off a late rally from the visiting Owls.
Layman made 8-of-14 from the field – including a clutch 3-pointer with 37 seconds left to put Maryland ahead 65-59 – and had two blocked shots. Dez Wells, Charles Mitchell and Shaquille Cleare each contributed 10 points for the Terrapins (7-4), who have rebounded from two straight losses with a pair of wins.
Pablo Bertone recorded 21 points – 16 in the second half – to lead Florida Atlantic (3-8), which had the ball and a chance to tie in the final minute. Marquan Botley added 18 points – including four of his team’s nine 3-pointers – and Kelvin Penn had 11 rebounds for the Owls.
The Terrapins scored the first seven points of the game and led 22-9 after a Roddy Peters basket midway through the first half. Florida Atlantic responded by scoring 22 of the final 33 and made five 3-pointers in the opening 20 minutes to pull within 33-31 at intermission.
Maryland scored seven of the first nine in the second half – five by Wells – and later recorded seven straight to push its lead to 51-39. Two 3-pointers by Bertone and a Justin Raffington dunk during an 8-0 run cut the deficit to 55-51 with just over five minutes left, but Owls could not get closer than three.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The Terrapins blocked eight shots and only turned the ball over nine times. … G Jackson Trapp, Florida Atlantic’s second-leading scorer, was 1-of-14 from the field and finished with only two points. … Maryland won the only other meeting 72-59 in December 2009.
Top Game Performances
| Florida Atlantic |
|
Maryland |
|
Pablo Bertone 21 |
Scoring |
Jake Layman 22 |
|
Pablo Bertone 4 |
Assists |
Nick Faust 5 |
|
Kelvin Penn 11 |
Rebounds |
Evan Smotrycz 7 |
|
Pablo Bertone 4 |
Free Throws Made |
Dezmine Wells 3 |
|
Pablo Bertone 2 |
Steals |
Jake Layman 2 |
|
Kelvin Penn 1 |
Blocks |
Shaquille Cleare 2 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| Florida Atlantic
|
62 |
39.3 |
9-22 |
9-11 |
10 |
31 |
2 |
6 |
13 |
| Maryland
|
66 |
39.7 |
7-20 |
9-12 |
18 |
38 |
8 |
6 |
9 |
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