MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Marko Tomic hit the gamewinning shot to beat the buzzer as Barry University's men's basketball team pulled out a 75-73 win over Eckerd Saturday.

The Buccaneers had an 11-point lead with 4:51 to go after Daniel Mortensen scored in the paint, but Eckerd went on a 15-4 run over a 3:56 span to tie the game. After Keshawn Ingram hit a tying three-pointer with 10 seconds left, the Bucs responded with the gamewinner on the final possession.

The win pushed Barry back ahead of Eckerd in the Sunshine State Conference race.
 

INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Final: Barry 75, Eckerd 73
Records: Barry (13-4, 9-3 SSC), Eckerd (16-4, 9-4 SSC)
All-Time Series: Barry trails, 30-44
 

SUMMARY:

• The Buccaneers opened up a 10-point lead on Evan Walshe's triple with 3:28 to go in the first half. Three times over the remainder of the half, the Tritons cut it to single digits. Elvar Fridriksson, playing in his first game since Jan. 6, converted a three-point play with 48 seconds to go in the half, but Eckerd's Drushaun McLaurn hit a layup at the horn to cut the lead to 41-33 at the break.
• Barry was 8 of 14 from long distance in the first half. Eckerd hit four of eight triples.
• Fridriksson hit a three 1:37 into the second half to push Barry's lead to 14. Trevon Young scored with 15:33 to go to cut the deficit to seven. Sunday Dech knocked down one of his four triples with 8:35 remaining to put the Bucs ahead, 63-52. Myron Hagins sank a free throw to cut it to seven again for the Tritons, who shot 50 percent from beyond the three-point arc in the second half. 
• Kooper Glick sank two free throws, and Mortensen scored on the layup to extend the lead back to 11, but the Tritons cut it two on a triple by Blake Morrow with 1:54 to go before Barry scored again. Mortensen hit a layup on the next possession, and Johannes Dolven scored a big bucket to push the lead to six. But two straight threes by Morrow and Ingram tied the game before Tomic's heroics pulled it out for the Bucs.
• Barry was outscored, 40-34, in the second half.
• Fridriksson had 13 points and six assists. Dech scored 12 points, and Mortensen nine points and nine boards. McLaurn and Morrow each had 17 for the Tritons.

NOTEWORTHY:

• Sawyer Glick scored 19 points on 5 of 8 triples to record his sixth straight game with three or more three-pointers.
• Barry swept the season series from Eckerd for the second straight year.
• The Bucs have rebounded from a loss four times this year.
• Barry led for 37:29.

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING:

"I told our guys in the locker room, we're going to have to win this thing on the road."
        -- Bucs head coach Butch Estes, looking ahead to Barry's five games away from the Health & Sports Center to end the regular season

ON THE HORIZON:

Barry will play at Palm Beach Atlantic 7:30 p.m. Wednesday night.