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TreShawn Wilford
Mike Mayer - UCCS Sports Information
85
UCCS UCCS 12-16
92
Winner Fort Lewis FLC 24-5
UCCS UCCS
12-16
85
Final
92
Fort Lewis FLC
24-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
UCCS UCCS 49 36 85
Fort Lewis FLC 35 57 92

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Jared Verner - Associate Athletic Director for Sports Information and External Relations

Mountain Lions Fall to #21 Fort Lewis in RMAC Quarterfinals

DURANGO, Colo. – University of Colorado Colorado Springs senior guard TreShawn Wilford scored 13 points with nine rebounds and six assists in his first career game as the Mountain Lions (12-16) led by as many as 17 points late in the first half but fell 92-85 to No. 21 Fort Lewis (24-5) in the RMAC Quarterfinals.

UCCS scored eight straight points midway through the first half as part of a larger 15-3 run to break a 16-16 tie and make it a 31-19 lead with 7:09 left in the half. The Mountain Lions pushed the lead to 17 points after a block from Ryan VanPelt set up a transition three-pointer from Brandon Malone with 3:14 to play in the half. UCCS kept the 17-point lead into the final minute before Fort Leis closed out the half with a three-pointer to cut the Mountain Lion down to 49-35 at halftime. UCCS shot 58 percent from the field in the first half as Ian MacDonald paced the scoring with 12 points.

Fort Lewis used a 12-3 run within the first four minutes of the second half to narrow the UCCS lead to seven points at 54-47. The Skyhawks put together another 8-2 stretch to make it a one-possession game at 58-55 with 13:05 left, and took its first lead in the second half at 65-64 with 9:41 to play. UCCS retook a lead at 81-78 after an 8-2 rally with 3:36 remaining, and led 82-81 with 3:04 to play, but Fort Lewis finished the game on an 11-3 run to secure the comeback win.

Wilford moved into sixth in UCCS career assists records tonight and finished with 225. He moved alone into second in career steals with three tonight for 137 and finished sixth in career rebounding records with 493. 

Blend Avdili led the scoring with 14 points tonight while Dalton Walkter and MacDonald both finished with 12. The Mountain Lions out-rebounded the Skyhawks by nine, 39-to-30, as Avdili added six to Wilford's nine.

UCCS finished the season in the RMAC Tournament for the fourth consecutive season. In addition to Wilford, Tim Haas finished his Mountain Lion career with 93 games played and a 45 percent field goal mark. He was a three-time RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll selection.
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