Boston College Athletics
Eagles Fall to Scarlet Knights
June 21, 1999 | Men's Basketball
February 13, 1999
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) - Jeff Greer scored all 21 of his points in the second half as Rutgers rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit for a 75-62 victory over Boston College on Saturday night.
Rutgers (17-7, 9-5) won its third straight and seventh in the last eight games despite trailing 32-22 after a first half in which it shot 28 percent. BC (6-16, 3-11) lost its second straight, as it held Rutgers to its lowest scoring first half of the season, but allowed the Knights to have their highest scoring second half with 53 points.
Greer, who was 0-for-3 in the first half, scored 20 points on 7-for-7 shooting in the first 9:48 of the second half. Greer's explosion fueled a 35-12 run that gave Rutgers a 57-44 lead with 7:53 remaining.
The Knights, who shot 69 percent in the second half, took their first lead of the game on Dahntay Jones' tip-in to make it 37-36. A Jonathan Beerbohm basket gave BC its last lead at 38-37, but Greer drove the baseline for a slam dunk with 14:31 left and Rutgers pulled away from there.
Greer added a game-high nine rebounds for the Knights, who remain in a solid position for their first NCAA bid since 1991. Rashod Kent added 16 points, Joel Salvi had 10 and Geoff Billet added nine points and nine assists. The Eagles got 21 points from Kenny Walls and 18 from Michael Cotton.
BC was without guard Kenny Harley, its top 3-point shooter. Harley missed the game after being ejected from the Eagles' 66-50 loss at Connecticut on Wednesday.
With the score 13-13, BC used a 14-2 run to open a 27-15 lead with 5:40 left in the half. Walls hit three straight 3-pointers during the run as BC took advantage of frigid Rutgers shooting.
In between Salvi's layup that tied it at 13-13 and Jones' runner in the lane that made it 28-20, the Knights shot 1-for-14 and committed four turnovers during a span of 8:36. The Knights were 1-for-10 from 3-point range in the half.
