Rochester, New York – The Oberlin College men's basketball team won the Harold J. Brodie Tournament with a, 75-52, victory over Rochester Institute of Technology at Clark Gym.
Oberlin won the championship game in style as they led for 26:32 of the game to improve to 4-1, while the Tigers fell to 2-2.
Sophomore forward
Andre Campbell was named the tournament MVP and was accompanied by
Christian Fioretti on the all-tournament team.
Oberlin had four players in double figures with Campbell leading the way as he shot 7-11 from the field for 18 points and grabbed a team-high seven rebounds.
Eli Silverman-Lloyd contributed 13 and Fioretti would tack on 11 points as he went 6-6 from the charity stripe. First-year
Charles Tiedemann was the fourth player in double figures as he scored a career-high 10 points off the bench in just 12 minutes of play.
In a back and fourth first half in which the game was tied on six difference occasions, the Yeomen would take the lead for good when Campbell finished off a traditional 3-point play with 1:27 left in the first half. The sophomore would knocked down another jumper with just four ticks on the clock before the intermission to give Oberlin a 29-24 lead at halftime.
Oberlin took its momentum from the tail end of the first half into the second period as it outscored the Tigers 46-28 in the final 20 minutes of play. RIT could not keep up with the Yeomen offense, which shot 16-27 (59.3%) from the field in the second half, and would take its largest lead of the season, 75-52, when
Patrick Smith made two shots from the charity stipe with nine seconds remaining.
On the stat sheet, the Yeomen shot 27-52 (51.9%) from the field, 8-15 (53.3%) from beyond the arc, only missed three free throws on the night shooting 13-16 (81.3%) and tallied eight steals on the defensive side of the floor. The Tigers struggled offensively, shooting 17-58 (29.3%) and 3-19 (15.8%) from the 3-point land.
Oberlin continues conference play on Wednesday night when faces Wittenberg University for an 8 p.m. start.
