MELBOURNE, Fla. -- The Barry Buccaneers men's basketball team suffered a heartbreaking 70-67 loss to the Florida Tech Panthers on Wednesday, Feb. 16.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP 
Final: Florida Tech 70, Barry 67
Records: Florida Tech (11-11, 5-9 SSC) Barry (16-6, 11- 6 SSC)
All-Time Series: Tech leads 46-27

SUMMARY:

• 1H - Florida Tech amassed their largest lead of the game when they held a seven-point advantage with 41 seconds to play in the first half. A Toru Dean floater with 11 seconds left shaved the lead to five. | Tech 45, Bucs 40
• 2H - The Bucs came out of the locker rooms with a vengeance, ripping off a 14-4 run over the first six minutes of the half. The Panthers were able to hang around though and a pair of free throws from Runako Ziegler with 3:37 left shaved the Bucs lead to just two points. A strong bucket inside the paint on the next possession from Michael Schaefer made it a 67-63 lead for Barry. The Panthers struck right back with back-to-back threes from Sean Houpt to take a 69-67 lead. Barry wasn't able to score a point in the last 3:17 of regulation, sealing their fate. | Tech 70, Bucs 67

NOTEWORTHY:

• The trio of Schaefer(23), Jake Kakar(16), and Justinas Marcinkevicius(14) had all but 14 of the Bucs' points.
• Although the Bucs won the rebounding battle 43-33, Florida Tech committed just nine turnovers compared to 19 for the Bucs. Ironically, the Bucs scored nine points off those turnovers while the Panthers turned theirs into 19 points. 

ON THE HORIZON:

The Bucs will now host the Embry-Riddle Eagles on Saturday, Feb. 19.