EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Colt Ryan scored 23 points, including a jumper with 33 seconds left in overtime that ended up being the winning score, in Evansville's 54-51 victory over Northern Iowa on Tuesday night.
Ned Cox and Troy Taylor added nine points apiece for the Purple Aces (13-9, 6-4 Missouri Valley), and Taylor pulled down 12 rebounds. Egidijus Mockevicius had six points and 13 rebounds.
Marc Sonnen scored 11 points for the Panthers (11-11, 4-6), who lost their chance to force a second overtime when Anthony James missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer. Northern Iowa led 47-41 after Sonnen's 3-pointer with 1:30 left, but Ryan and Cox hit back-to-back 3s to force overtime.
Evansville has won its last five meetings with Northern Iowa and improved to 5-0 in conference home games this season.
The loss was the second straight heartbreaker for the Panthers, who fell 59-58 at Indiana State on Saturday.
| Scoreboard | ||||
| Final | 1 | 2 | OT | T |
| Northern Iowa (11-11) | 19 | 28 | 4 | 51 |
| Evansville (13-9) « | 23 | 24 | 7 | 54 |
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| Northern Iowa Panthers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Koch, F | 36 | 4-10 | 0-0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| S. Tuttle, F | 29 | 4-11 | 1-1 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| D. Mitchell, G | 38 | 4-12 | 0-1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 9 |
| M. Sonnen, G | 38 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| A. James, G | 35 | 2-7 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| M. Bohannon | 19 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| C. Rank | 16 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| A. Pehl | 9 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| M. Martino | 5 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Totals | 22-58 | 1-2 | 39 | 16 | 18 | 51 | |
| 37.9% | 50% | ||||||
| Evansville Aces | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| L. Jones, F | 20 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| E. Mockevicius, C | 36 | 3-8 | 0-2 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| C. Ryan, G | 43 | 8-17 | 4-5 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 23 |
| N. Cox, G | 36 | 4-9 | 0-1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| T. Taylor, G | 33 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Balentine | 18 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| A. Wing | 14 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| R. Sawvell | 10 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| J. Nelson | 8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Moore | 7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 22-59 | 5-12 | 39 | 15 | 12 | 54 | |
| 37.3% | 41.7% | ||||||
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