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Conference Game

March 7th, 2008

Parsons hero in buzzer beater walk-off win

Hanover, NH - With :06 left to play, down 79-82, the Bulldogs looked to none other than Josh Homan to keep them alive. Homan, who was 8-15 from deep already, somehow generated himself a wide open look at the top of the key and swished it through to tie the game. With no timeouts remaining, Alton Pandov threw the inbound pass to Theron Weaver who bolted up court with time quickly running out. Weaver was met with heavy resistance beyond the arc, preventing his drive. Out of what seemed to be pure desperation or a calculated risk, Weaver slung the ball towards Rashod Parsons who was in double coverage about seven feet out. With time literally expiring as the ball left his finger tips, Parsons did the only thing he could possibly do, jump his highest and say a little prayer.

In a blink of the eye, the Dartmouth Big Green & Rashod Parsons had done it, buzzer beater to defeat the Yale Bulldogs, 84-82, and keep their hopes alive in the Ivy League. Students, staff, faculty, parents, and fans, spilled out onto the court like Leede Arena had never seen before. "I can sit here and tell you I knew what I was doing", proclaimed Weaver, surrounded by hundreds of attending Big Green faithful. "But man, I just saw Rashod and, too be honest, I don't even think he realized the ball was coming his way, his body just went on autopilot!" Parsons, who has been the defensive leader for the Big Green, finally got an opportunity on the other side of the ball & made the most of it. "I told coach, I'm a shooter!", jokingly laughed Parsons. "But for real, there's no way I could have done that without the boys. Major, Theron, Cody, and Alton, those guys are the real deal for buckets, they just weren't expecting me". Expecting or not, hitting a game winner in double coverage is about as clutch as it gets.

"The buzzer beater aside, we looked like a team who is ready for this season to keep going", said Coach Laird Machado. Cody, Alton, and Nate, looked really good under the rim & even though our deep shots weren't hitting very well, we secured the game through other outlets." Those other outlets, Machado speaks of, have to do with the Big Green's ability to out rebound and assist their opposition, a feat they have been able to accomplish more times than not this season. With four scorers over 10 points a piece, Dartmouth has been able to keep teams guessing, despite also maintaining one of the nation's top scorers in Fraser.

The Big Green get without question their biggest win to the date. With the victory, Dartmouth moves to 8-5, still tied with 8-5 Columbia, but only one game back from Yale, at 9-4. The Bulldogs will take on the 5-8 Harvard Crimson in their final game & Dartmouth gets the 6-7 Brown Bears. A Yale loss and Dartmouth win gets the Big Green the big prize.

Yale Bulldogs at Dartmouth Big Green
Mar 7, 2008	1ST	2ND	SCORE
Yale (14-10)	40	42	82
Dartmouth (16-9)	37	47	84

Yale Bulldogs
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
H. Woolley	22	7-17	4-12	0-0	2	9	0	0	0	18
J. Reyes	21	6-10	4-7	1-1	3	4	0	0	0	17
J. Homan	19	13-22	9-16	0-0	4	0	0	1	1	35
I. Garner	21	0-3	0-0	0-0	7	4	1	1	1	8
L. Bozovic	12	2-3	0-0	0-0	6	0	0	1	0	4
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
A. Wilder	12	1-4	0-1	0-0	4	0	0	0	0	2
C. Wisniewski	12	0-2	0-0	0-0	2	2	1	0	0	0
Q. Wagner	2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
R. Mencio	9	2-4	0-2	0-0	0	5	0	0	0	4
L. Frederick	-- DID NOT PLAY --
J. Atangana	1	1-2	0-1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
A. Gomes	9	0-4	0-0	0-0	3	2	1	0	1	0
TEAM TOTALS		32-71	17-39	1-1	31	26	3	3	4	82

Dartmouth Big Green
STARTERS	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
T. Weaver	23	1-1	0-0	0-0	5	16	2	0	0	2
M. Fraser	21	4-16	2-14	0-0	3	5	1	0	1	10
R. Parsons	23	3-5	0-1	0-0	5	2	0	0	0	6
C. Sowers	21	6-11	0-0	2-5	7	2	0	0	0	14
A. Pandov	19	10-13	0-0	3-5	5	1	1	1	1	23
BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PTS
F. Dearman	11	2-5	0-3	1-2	3	1	0	0	2	5
N. Goodman	11	7-7	0-0	5-5	5	0	0	0	0	19
A. O'Hara	5	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0
J. Mihailovic	5	2-2	1-1	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	5
J. Souchu	-- DID NOT PLAY --
K. Neverett	-- DID NOT PLAY --
B. Baynes	1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	1	0	0	0	0
TEAM TOTALS		35-61	3-19	11-17	33	29	4	1	4	84