UALR never got anything going offensively again on Saturday in a 73-59
loss to Florida Atlantic at FAU Arena in Boca Raton, Fla.
UALR (15-14, 9-9) has now lost four consecutive games. Arkansas State
wrapped up the West Division championship by beating Troy on Saturday. UALR
dropped into a fifth-place tie with Western Kentucky, which won at
Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday. UALR does hold the tiebreaker over Western
Kentucky after sweeping the season series.
As well as UALR was playing back then, they’ve played just that poorly
of late. The Trojans shot 3 percent from the field including 23 percent from
three-point range. They also got outrebounded 40-37.
The plus was that UALR corrected its turnover issues, committing just
six. The bad news was that UALR could do nothing with Florida Atlantic’s Greg
Gantt and Stefan Moody.
FAU’s trends show that Gantt takes 1/3 of the shots, Moody 1/3 of the
shots and the rest of the team combines to take the other 1/3. FAU used that
recipe on Saturday with Gantt scoring 26 on 8 of 16 shooting, Moody scoring 25
on 9 of 18 shooting and everyone else combining to make 8 of 18. That was
plenty against UALR.
UALR got as close as 34-30 on a layup by Ben Dillard with 15:45 left.
But FAU quickly stretched it back to 10 and rolled to a relatively easy
victory.
Leroy Isler led UALR with 14 points and 7 rebounds.
