LIU Brooklyn wins its season opener with a block leading to buzzer-beater
LIU Brooklyn, a team with no seniors, won its season opener Monday night with the sort of late-game execution we’re used to seeing much closer to the postseason than Thanksgiving. Not that we’re complaining.
THIS… is how you win a game! #BlackbirdNation #LIUMBB #NECMBB #SCTop10 pic.twitter.com/g06uQ60bm2
— LIU Basketball (@LIUBasketball) November 17, 2015
The game with Loyola (MD) was tied 68-68 with 5 seconds to play. Loyola inbounded the ball and LIU Brooklyn junior forward Jerome Frink swatted away a game-winning attempt from Jarred Jones. The ball went to LIU Brooklyn sophomore Martin Hermannsson who had the presence of mind not to heave it at the basket from 3/4-court distance.
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Hermannsson found junior Joel Hernandez streaking up the court and fed him the ball in time for a stop-and-pop 3-pointer, which Hernandez watched bank in at the buzzer for a 71-68 road victory and the Blackbirds’ first happy dance of the season.
The block from Frink was a huge play for the big man playing in his first game with his new program after two years at Florida International.
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