MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Tray Leonard has been playing some of the best basketball of his career these days. Saturday he did something even more special.

Barry's 6-10 senior center recorded the first triple-double in school history as the No. 15/17 Buccaneers beat Tampa, 73-67, at the Health & Sports Center.

"Coach (Butch) Estes and I have been talking. He told me, 'You've got to be great for us to win,'" Leonard said.

Saturday, Leonard was more than great. He was something Barry has never witnessed before. He was record-setting and historic. The Raleigh, N.C., native scored 13 points, grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds and blocked a career-best 12 shots to become the first Buccaneer to record a triple-double. His 12 blocks also set a school record, breaking the old mark of eight set by Keion Palmer in 2011.

"I almost got emotional on the bench," Leonard said. "Josh (Irving) jumped on me and said, 'Did you realize you just had the first triple-double in school history?' That's a feeling I always wondered how it felt. To be able to look back in history and know my name is on top of something big, especially in a great program like Barry, that means a lot. When I have kids, I can bring them back to a game and say, 'Look, I had the first triple-double and set the block record here.'"

Leonard also had two rim-rattling dunks which provided big sparks -- one in the second half. Speaking of the second half, that's when he was dynamite defensively. Leonard swatted away seven shots after the intermission. 

"I wasn't thinking about the triple-double. I was just thinking about the block record," he said. "At halftime they told me, 'You've got five blocks. Just keep being big, keep clogging the middle.' That was pretty much my mindset, to be that last line of defense."

Defensively, the Bucs delivered. Barry (19-5, 11-4 Sunshine State Conference) outrebounded the Spartans, 52-31. Tampa's 67 points marked the third time this season the Bucs have held an SSC opponent under 70 points. Conversely, Saturday's win marked the first time the Buccaneers were victorious while scoring under 80 points.

"That just shows how good we were defensively," said Leonard, who also had two steals. "At halftime, I looked at the scoreboard and we only had (29) points. Coach said, 'That's OK, just keep going defensively.'"

Barry and Tampa (9-16, 4-10) were tied 29-29 at halftime. It was the first time this season the Bucs have been tied at the break.

Yunio Barrueta notched his 11th double-double of the season, scoring 24 points on 8 of 16 shooting, and had 11 rebounds and two steals. Barrueta's alley-oop dunk on a transition feed from Undra Mitchem 3:53 into the second half gave the Bucs a seven-point lead.

Leonard hit a jumper in the paint to extend Barry's lead to nine, but Pat Bacon sank two free throws with 9:00 remaining to pull Tampa within four. Leonard threw down a dunk and hit a free throw at the 6:03 mark to push Barry's lead back to nine. After Bacon split a pair from the free throw line, Marko Tomic scored to give Barry its largest lead of the game, 65-55, with 5:28 remaining. Tampa cut it to six on Bacon's layup with 4:34 on the clock, but Barrueta sank two free throws at the 1:11 mark to bump the Buccaneers lead back to nine. The Spartans scored the game's next four points to cut it to five, but Barry held on.

Anders Haas finished with 11 points and seven rebounds, and Elvar Fridriksson had 10 assists and seven points. It is the 10th game he's had 10 or more assists this year. Bacon finished with 22 points and five assists for the Spartans, who shot 40 percent from the field. Barry hit 40 percent of its shots as well. 

The Bucs outscored the Spartans, 40-20, in the paint. 

Barry moved within a victory of reaching 20 wins in back-to-back seasons for the first time in school history.

"To me, that's one of the biggest things," Leonard said. "My freshman and sophomore years at Fordham combined, we won 17 games. Coming here and winning 20 games, I didn't know if it was possible. Now I see it's very capable. When you have great coaches and great players, that's something we can do at Barry."