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Ewing, NJ…The College of New Jersey men's basketball team hosted the Beavers of Buena Vista University on Wednesday night in Packer Hall in a non-conference match-up.   Senior guard Rahn Franklin (Kansas City, MO/North) shot back to back three-point baskets in the final minute of the second overtime period to lift his team to an 84-77 win, snapping a two-game losing streak.  With the win, BVU is now 7-3 overall, while TCNJ drops to 2-5.

BVU opened with a 7-3 run to open the game. TCNJ would lead twice by as many as eight points, before the Beavers would regain the lead (21-20 at 3:03). By the end of the first stanza there were six lead changes and three ties as BVU held a 27-24 lead on a three-point basket by junior guard Andre Wagner (Omaha, NE/Northwest). Wagner led his team in the first half with 10 points, while junior forward Matt Cleveland (McCook Lake, SD/Heelan) added eight points in the first half.

TCNJ's junior guard Jeff Molinelli (Pennington, NJ/Hopewell Valley) had nine points in the first half, while  senior co-captain Mark Aziz (Hackettstown, NJ/West Morris Central) had seven points and three steals for the Lions.

After never owning a lead in the second half, TCNJ would climb back from being down by 13 points (55-42, 6:04) and would tie the game on a three-pointer by Aziz with 8.2 seconds left and send the game to overtime tied at 64-64. The game would go to an additional period of overtime tied at 73-73 all and head to a second period of overtime play

TCNJ would have two players foul out of the extra action, Molinelli and sophomore Jay Frank (Brick, NJ/Brick Memorial). Molinelli would finish with nine points, while Frank netted a season-high 14 points off the bench.

By game's end, BVU's Wagner added 20 points, while Cleveland added a double-double on 17 points with 12 rebounds and a pair of blocks.  Rahn finished with 12 points, while senior center Adam Arndorfer (Corwith, IA/Bishop Garrigan) added 15 points on 6-7 shooting from the floor.

Aziz led all of TCNJ's players with his season-high 22 points, while senior guard Jeff Warner (Jackson, NJ/Jackson) tallied his first career-double-double with 15 points and a career-high 12 rebounds.  Aziz hit the three-point basket on a pass from Warner with 7.8 seconds left in regulation to send the game to the overtime session after tying play at 64-64.

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