FOND DU LAC, Wis. - The Rockford University men's basketball team fell 88-64 on the road Tuesday night to the Marian University Sabres in the first round of the NACC Tournament. Marian simply could not miss for much of the evening, shooting 50.8% from the floor for the game, including 68.8% in the first half. The Sabres scored the first ten points of the night and never looked back. Rockford's
Micah Swanson did play perhaps the best game of his career, finishing with a career-high 27 points and 8 rebounds.
- Marian opened the game on a 10-0 run and unfortunately, never trailed the entire day.
- Rockford did momentarily get back within seven at the 16:33 mark, following a Micah Swanson free throw and a Kevin Diemer made layup.
- Unfortunately, the Regents were unable to tamper down the red-hot Sabre shooting.
- Marian built its lead up to as many as 22 points in the half, before Zac Centers hit a triple to make it a 54-35 Sabre advantage heading into the break.
- Rockford was unable to get any closer than 19 over the final twenty minutes and fell by a final score of 88-64.
- Micah Swanson finished with a career-high 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting and grabbed 8 rebounds.
- Kevin Diemer had 14 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist.
- Charles Burnell tallied 7 points, 6 assists and 1 rebound.
