Knights Basketball Beats Albany In Close Game
Basketball — By Danny Peterson on November 28, 2009 at 9:08 pmRedshirt freshman forward Dave Diakite scored a career high 21 points as the UCF men’s basketball team held on for a 76-72 win over Albany.
Diakite provided some sensational highlights throughout the game as he gave the fans three stellar dunks including one beauty off an inbound play. He also made the play of the game to get the win.
With 4 seconds left and the Knights leading 74-72, Diakite picked off an inbounds pass by the Great Danes (3-4) and made both free throws to seal the victory for the Knights.
Isaac Sosa added 13 points, shooting 3-for-4 on 3-pointers, and Taylor Young scored 10 for UCF. Young’s layup and free throw gave the Knights their 74-72 lead with just over 1 minute to play.
The team looked to be quite lackadaisical on the floor tonight which Coach Kirk Speraw said was a reflection of the way the team performed in practices this past week.
“We were too lazy on the defensive side of the ball,” said Coach Speraw. “We’ll look correct that this week.”
A.J. Rompza once again provided a much needed spark as he jumped out of bounds near our own basket to throw a behind the head pass to Sosa for a fast break lay up.
The Knights improved to 5-1 on the year with the victory and will take on Newberry this Tuesday.
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Yes a lot of teams we’ve played this year have gotten off to bad starts but Auburn is still a quality win. Their only two other losses have come to a 5-0 NC State team by 2 and a 5-0 Missouri State team who beat Tulsa (who will be one of our toughest opponents in CUSA)
Not to be a spoilsport, but I just looked at the records of the teams that we’ve played and it’s pretty bad. Teams like Howard haven’t even won a game and Auburn has a losing record.
I just hope we can beat USF.
3,528 we’re in attendance. It wasn’t that bad of a crowd. Yea there weren’t a lot of students there but fans did fill up the sides of the court pretty well and there were fans in the upper deck too.
So how many people were at the game?
go ucf!!!