Miami Falls In OT To Florida Atlantic, 74-73
Dec 3, 2002
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) – Earnest Crumbley scored 25 points and hit aschool-record eight 3-pointers, as Florida Atlantic beat Miami for the firsttime Tuesday, 74-73 in overtime.
Miami’s James Jones, who led the Hurricanes with 19 points, missed the finalshot in overtime to give FAU its first win in 16 tries against Miami.
The Owls (4-3) scored the first six points of overtime, and held Miami to1-of-5 shooting from the field in the extra period.
Jeff Cowans scored 12 points and Nick Neumann added 10 for the Owls.
Darius Rice and Robert Hite each had 12 for Miami (3-1). Rice played only 25minutes because of foul trouble.
The loss snapped Miami’s 27-game winning streak against teams from the stateof Florida, dating back to 1992, as well as its 20-game regular-season winningstreak against non-conference opponents.
Hite could have tied the game for Miami with 47 seconds left in overtime butmissed the first of two free throws. The Hurricanes got their last chance byforcing a Crumbley turnover with eight seconds left, but Jones missed at thebuzzer.
Crumbley scored the Owls’ final nine points of regulation, including agame-tying 3-pointer with 44 seconds left. He was 8-of-15 from 3-point range inthe game, while Miami missed all but two of its 17 tries from behind the arc.
