GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Ursinus College men's basketball team closed the 2015-16 regular season with a 91-69 Centennial Conference loss at Gettysburg Monday night. Senior guard Malik Draper scored a game-high 19 points and added five rebounds and three steals to lead the Bears in his final collegiate contest.
Ursinus (11-14, 7-11) shot 48.1 percent from the field for the evening, but was undone by 19 turnovers and nine 3-pointers by Gettysburg (17-8, 12-6), which will host McDaniel in Wednesday's Centennial Conference first-round game.
Draper recorded 12 of his 19 points in the second half, crossing the 1,200-point mark in his 100th career appearance. He was 6 of 11 from the floor and knocked down a trio of triples. Draper hit double figures in each of his last six games, averaging 17.3 points on 51.9-percent shooting during that span.
Freshman Eric Williams added 14 points and made four of his six 3-point attempts to finish with 64 treys, good for third in the CC and the most by an Ursinus player since Matt Hilton hit 75 during the 2009-10 season.
Sophomore forward Joseph LoStracco and freshman forward Matt Williams finished with ten points apiece for the Bears, and senior guard Mark Wonderling registered team highs of seven rebounds and three assists in his final game at Ursinus. Sophomore guard Brian Rafferty collected eight points and six boards.
Kevin Gladstone paced the Bullets with 16 points, while Alex Kaslander and Pete Christ chipped in 14 each. Tanner Kirkpatrick tallied ten points and three assists for Gettysburg, which shot 51.9 percent overall (32 of 62) and 9 of 21 (42.9 percent) from beyond the arc.
Ursinus led just once, on a 3-pointer by Draper a minute into the first half. The Bears were within 18-13 about eight minutes in before a pair of 3-pointers by Christ ignited a 15-2 run that put the game out of reach. A 10-4 spurt to begin the second half stretched the lead to 54-31, and Gettysburg led by as much as 31 in cruising to a sweep of the season series.
The free-throw line proved to be a difference-maker, as the Bullets were 18 of 25 (72.0 percent) from the stripe compared to a 9-for-22 effort (40.9 percent) for the Bears. Gettysburg held a 27-8 advantage in points off turnovers.
Rafferty finished the season with 111 assists, 23 more than anyone else in the conference.