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THE BASICS
Score: Bowling Green 91, Ohio 75
Location: Convocation Center â€" Athens, Ohio
The Short Story: The Ohio men's basketball team (10-5, 1-2 MAC) took a six-point lead into halftime, but Bowling Green (11-5, 2-1 MAC) rebounded in the second half to defeat the Bobcats, 91-75, on Tuesday (Jan. 12) in a Mid-American Conference East Division matchup at the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio.

OHIO STARTERS: #0 Treg Setty, #2 Jaaron Simmons, #13 Kenny Kaminski, #33 Antonio Campbell, #35 Jordan Dartis

BOWLING GREEN STARTERS: #3 Spencer Parker, #4 Zack Denny, #10 David Joseph, #14 Wes Alcegaire, #32 Rasheed Worrell

HOW IT HAPPENED
• After Ohio held a 38-33 lead at the break, the Falcons outscored the Bobcats by a 58-37 count in the second half, shooting 55.6 percent (20-of-36) in the final 20 minutes while hitting 66.7 percent (6-of-9) of their three-point attempts. The Bobcats shot 49.1 percent (27-of-55) from the field for the game and shot 47.4 percent (9-of-19) from beyond the arc. Bowling Green outrebounded Ohio by a 42-32 margin.
• Redshirt junior forward Kenny Kaminski (Medina, Ohio) scored a team-high 15 points on 5-of-12 shooting -- including 3-of-8 from behind the arc. He also grabbed three rebounds, dished out two assists and notched a steal in 30 minutes.
• Redshirt sophomore guard Jaaron Simmons (Dayton, Ohio) scored 13 points on 5-of-13 shooting and tallied a game-high four assists in 37 minutes.
• Junior forward Antonio Campbell (Cincinnati, Ohio) scored 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting, hauled in three rebounds and blocked two shots in 16 minutes.
• Freshman guard Jordan Dartis (Newark, Ohio) tallied 11 points on 4-of-7 shooting  -- including 3-of-5 shooting behind the arc -- to go along with a rebound in 23 minutes.
• Redshirt sophomore forward Khari Harley (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) scored eight points to match his career high and hauled in a career-high six rebounds to lead the team. He also recorded one assist and one block in 26 minutes.
• Junior forward Wadly Mompremier (Miami, Fla.) blocked a game-high three shots while scoring six points and hauling in four rebounds in 19 minutes.
• Senior forward Spencer Parker led the Falcons with a game-high 22 points on 8-of-15 shooting while grabbing eight rebounds and handing out an assist in 35 minutes.
• Junior guard Ismail Ali scored 19 points on 4-of-7 shooting from the field and 9-of-11 shooting at the charity stripe for Bowling Green. He also totaled three assists, a rebound and a block in 26 minutes off of the bench.
• Redshirt freshman forward Rasheed Worrell scored 13 points for the Falcons and tallied five rebounds in 20 minutes.
• Junior guard Zack Denny and freshman guard Antwan Lillard tallied 12 points apiece for Bowling Green. Denny also logged a game-high 10 rebounds and four steals over 28 minutes while Lillard hauled in five boards, dished out two assists and blocked a shot in 28 minutes off of the bench. 
• The Bobcats started off the game on fire, sinking their first six shots to take an 18-7 lead at the 16:24 mark of the first half. Kaminski paced Ohio during the stretch, knocking down each of his three three-point attempts to accrue nine early points.
• A three-pointer from Mompremier pushed Ohio's lead to 29-15 with 10:07 remaining in the first half, giving the Bobcats their biggest lead of the game.
• A 10-2 Bowling Green run to close the half cut the Bobcat advantage to 38-33 after 20 minutes.
• Kaminski led the Bobcats with nine points in the first half while Harley added eight points to pair with a half-high five rebounds.
• The Falcons opened a 51-46 lead with 14:40 left in the second half courtesy of a 14-2 run that included eight points from Parker and five from Worrell.
• Bowling Green put the game out of reach with just under four minutes left when Ali sank a trey and was fouled on a play that resulted in three technical fouls being issued to Ohio and one to the Falcons. Ali went to the line and sank four of five free throw attempts that were awarded from the technicals. Bowling Green then got the ball back and scored on an and-one layup by Denny in what ultimately turned out to be a 10-point possession for the Falcons.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• Ohio suffered its first home loss of the 2015-16 season.
• Kaminski finished in double figures for the eighth time this year and second time in three games. He led the team in scoring for the second time this season.
Campbell reached double figures in points for the eighth time in the last nine games, 12th time this season and 33rd time in his career. 
• Simmons posted double-digit points for the fourth game in a row and 12th time this season. Simmons led the team in assists for the 15th time this year. 
• Dartis reached double figures in scoring for the seventh time this season.
• Harley led the team in rebounding for the first time this year.

QUOTABLE
Second-year head coach Saul Phillips on the loss
"We got off to such a strong start. The ball was moving, we were scoring off the pass. A couple stats jump off the stat sheet for me: 27 field goals, but we had only eight of them assisted, and that's usually Jaaron's average alone. That's not nearly enough. On the offensive glass, we got pummeled. We got crushed. That hasn't happened very often to us. I thought they made more hustle plays in the second half against us at a time when we should have been fresh. Heck, we didn't many guys play a whole lot of minutes in the first half."

Freshman guard Jordan Dartis on conference play
"It's a war. Every game you go into, it's a battle. Everyone wants to win the MAC as much as any other team in the MAC, so I'm just getting used to that. We've just got to be tougher, play harder."

UP NEXT
The Bobcats travel to northeast Ohio to battle MAC East Division rival Kent State on Saturday (Jan. 16) in a 7 p.m. ET matchup at the M.A.C. Center. The Golden Flashes (11-5, 2-1 MAC) earned a 76-68 win at home against Miami on Tuesday.

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