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THE BASICS
Score: Bowling Green 87, Ohio 82
Location: Stroh Center -- Bowling Green, Ohio
The Short Story: The Ohio men's basketball team (18-9, 9-6 MAC) saw its winning streak end at five games with an 87-82 setback to Mid-American Conference East Division rival Bowling Green (14-14, 5-10 MAC) on Tuesday (Feb. 23) at the Stroh Center in Bowling Green, Ohio.

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

BOWLING GREEN STARTERS: #1 Demajeo Wiggins, #10 David Joseph, #14 Wes Alcegaire, #15 Brandon Busuttil, #24 Matt Fox

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The Bobcats fell despite shooting 53.3 percent (32-of-60) from the field -- including 44.4 percent (12-of-27) from three-point land. The Falcons shot 52.5 percent (32-of-61) from the field -- including 60.7 percent (17-of-28) in the second half to outscore the Bobcats by a 51-45 count over the final 20 minutes of play. Bowling Green went to the free throw line 22 times as opposed to just eight trips to the charity stripe for Ohio. The Falcons outrebounded the Bobcats, 35-25, and outscored Ohio in the paint, 46-30.
• Junior forward Antonio Campbell (Cincinnati, Ohio) piled up a game-high 29 points off of 12-of-17 shooting -- including a 5-of-9 effort from three-point range. He scored 19 of his points in the first half. He also tallied a game-high eight rebounds and two blocks in addition to dishing out an assist in 33 minutes.
• Redshirt sophomore guard Jaaron Simmons (Dayton, Ohio) logged 24 points on 9-of-16 shooting and distributed a game-high nine assists. He also grabbed two rebounds in 40 minutes.
• Redshirt senior forward Treg Setty (Maysville, Ky.) went 7-of-10 from the field to finish with 16 points. He also recorded six rebounds, two assists and a game-high two steals over 39 minutes.
• The Falcons were led by a pair of 20-point efforts by junior guard Wes Alcegaire and senior forward Spencer Parker. Alcegaire totaled five rebounds, an assist and a block in 32 minutes while Parker compiled four rebounds and two assists in 28 minutes off of the bench.
• Freshman guard Antwon Lillard and redshirt freshman forward Rasheed Worrell also finished in double figures off of the bench for Bowling Green. Lillard logged 15 points and seven rebounds in 22 minutes while Worrell added 14 points and seven rebounds in 24 minutes.
• The Bobcats came out of the gate strong, using a jumper and a layup by Campbell, a trey by redshirt junior forward Kenny Kaminski (Medina, Ohio) and a layup by Setty to race out to a 9-0 lead and force Bowling Green to burn a timeout with 17:45 left in the first half.
• Ohio saw its lead swell to 10 points three times over the next seven minutes -- on a three by Campbell at the 15:49 mark, a trey by Simmons at the 14:00 mark and another tripe by Campbell with 10:48 to play in the first half.
• Bowling Green closed the first half out strong, though, outscoring Ohio by a 24-15 count over the final 10-plus minutes. Three treys by Alcegaire, a pair of layups and a free throw by junior guard JD Tisdale and a layup by Lillard helped make it a one-point game at halftime at 37-36.
• The Bobcats outscored the Falcons, 15-9 over the first four-plus minutes of the second half to build their lead back up to seven at 52-45 with 15:45 to go. The stretch was highlighted by threes by freshman guard Jordan Dartis (Newark, Ohio), Setty and Campbell.
• The Falcons did not back down, though, as three dunks and a layup by Worrell helped Bowling Green take its first lead of the day at 57-56 with just under 10 minutes remaining. Campbell picked up his second and third fouls during the stretch, forcing him to go to the bench.
• Bowling Green held a four-point lead with 5:53 left at 66-62 after Parker knocked down a pair of free throws. The Bobcats mounted a rally, though, utilizing a pair of made free throws by both Kaminski and Simmons and a trey by Simmons to go back up by one at 69-68 with just under four minutes left.
• Unfortunately for Ohio, jumpers by Alcegaire and Parker and two made free throws by Worrell put the Falcons back up by five at 74-69 with 1:55 to go. Simmons made it a three-point game again when he made a layup seconds later, but Bowling Green sank nine free throws down the stretch -- including four by Lillard -- to secure the upset win.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• Despite the loss, Ohio remains in the No. 2 spot in the overall MAC standings thanks to Akron suffering a 77-64 loss at Miami, Kent State losing at Buffalo, 87-70, and Ball State falling at Toledo, 77-67, on Tuesday.
• Ohio is now 69-76 (.476) all-time against Bowling Green and has lost four straight and five of the last six meetings to the Falcons. Bowling Green swept the 2016 season series from the Bobcats after posting a 91-75 win on Jan. 12 at the Convocation Center in Athens.
• The 87 points scored by Bowling Green marked the most by an Ohio opponent since an 89-82 loss at Kent State on Jan. 16.
• Campbell surpassed the 20-point mark for the fourth time in the last five games, 10th time this year and 11th time in his career. He has tallied double-digit points in 14 straight games, a team-high 24 games this season and 44 games in his career. He led the team in scoring for a team-high 12th game this season and in rebounding for a team-high 22nd time.
• Simmons recorded at least 20 points in a game for the second game in a row and eighth time this year. He has recorded double figures in scoring 18 times this season. Simmons has led the team in assists a team-high 25 times this year. He has logged at least five assists in all but three games this season. His 208 assists this season give him the fifth-most in a single season in program history. He joins D.J. Cooper as the only Ohio players to ever log at least 200 assists in a single season in school history.

QUOTABLE
Second-year head coach Saul Phillips on the loss
"We had a chance to sneak into a tie for first and didn't defend at near the level to be able to call ourselves a first-place team."

UP NEXT
Ohio plays host to MAC East Division rival Buffalo on Saturday (Feb. 27) in its final home regular season game at the Convocation Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 4 p.m. ET. The Senior Day contest will be televised on Time Warner Cable Sports/Buckeye Cable Sports Network. The game will also be distributed nationally on ESPN3. The Bobcats will honor the career of its lone senior, Setty. Ohio rolled to a 94-75 victory at Buffalo on Feb. 12 at Alumni Arena in Amherst, N.Y., in the first meeting of the season between the two squads.

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