BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo State outscored Cortland 11-2 over the final two and a half minutes and the Bengals defeated the Red Dragons, 76-66. Jamar Gray (Rochester/Bishop Kearney) scored 18 points for Buffalo State, which improved to 12-9 overall and 9-4 in the SUNYAC. Cortland drops to 8-5 in the league and 11-11 overall.

James Tyndal (Bronx/Msgr. Scanlon) added 17 points and four assists and A.J. White (Rochester/Bishop Kearney) had 15 points and seven steals in the winning cause. Antonio Speed (Buffalo/East) contributed 11 points and a game-high 12 rebounds.

Senior Carson Niehoff (West Islip) led Cortland with 16 points and also finished with seven rebounds. Senior Juan Miolan (Troy) scored 15 points, junior Paul Oliver (Phoenix) recorded 14 points and eight rebounds and junior Mike Lewis (Brewerton/Central Square) finished with seven points and a team-high 11 rebounds.

Cortland used a 10-0 run, including five points from Miolan, over a 4:23 span to take a 34-24 lead with 3:48 left in the first half. Trailing 36-26, the Bengals scored the final seven points of the period and trailed by just three at halftime.

Buffalo State opened the second half on a 10-2 run and led 43-38 with 15:23 remaining. Cortland came back and took its final lead at 54-52 on a Niehoff trey with 10:08 left, but Gray's jumper tied the game less than a minute later and the Bengals never trailed again.

The game remained close, however, for the next seven minutes. Down 63-58 with 5:37 left, Cortland used an Oliver layup and a Niehoff three-pointer to cut the deficit to just one point with 2:37 left. Gray sank two foul shots with 2:14 left and Speed hit a layup with 1:10 remaining to push the lead back to five. Cortland's final points came when Oliver made a layup with 39 seconds left, but White followed with two foul shots at the 35-second mark as the hosts pulled away.

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