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TOLEDO, Ohio –  The Ohio men's basketball team (6-5, 2-3 MAC) was unable to overcome foul trouble and a hot-shooting Toledo (10-3, 5-0 MAC) squad, falling 95-78, Friday night inside Savage Arena.

"Give them a lot of credit," second year head coach Jeff Boals said. "That's a really good team. They have a lot of skill players and they play well together. Obviously, they were on tonight. A lot of it was them and a lot of it was us. It had an Akron feel to it where they dictated both ends of the floor. They slowed us down. And when teams do that, you have to be in attack mode. I'm not sure how many layups we missed, but it was a lot of layups. We go the ball where we wanted it to be, but we missed it. We fought and battled and we cut it to like seven or eight in the second half, but couldn't get over the hump. Give them a lot of credit for that. 

Leading Ohio as was freshman guard Mark Sears (Muscle Shoals, Ala.) with 20 points, going 6-of-8 from the field, 2-of-3 from three and was 6-of-6 from the line. He also grabbed three rebounds and dished out eight assists. Redshirt junior forward Ben Vander Plas (Ripon, Wis.) finished with 14 points and six rebounds, while senior forward Dwight Wilson III (Tallahassee, Fla.) finished with 13 points, 

Overall, Ohio shot 43.5 percent from the field, 33.3 percent from three and 83.3 percent from the line, while Toledo shot 61.8 percent from the field, 44.4 percent from three and 83.3 percent from the line. The Rockets out-rebounded Ohio 30-28 and dished out 22 assists to Ohio's 15. 

For Toledo, six Rockets scored in double figures with Marreon Jackson leading the way with 18 points, six rebounds and six assists. 

Ohio won the tip and got the first points of the game with a three from Roderick. After Toledo took the lead, a three from sophomore guard Lunden McDay (Akron, Ohio) tied the game at 6-6 with 17:30 to go. However, Toeldo went on an 11-0 run to take a 17-6 lead before a Sears three stopped the run. A three from McDay and a layup from Wilson III cut the Toledo lead to 17-14 with 11:01 to go, however a Toledo 8-0 run put the rockets up 25-14 with just over seven minutes to go in the half. 

After a short back and forth, Toledo took a 43-24 lead before free throws and layup from Sears and Wilson III brought the score to 48-32 going into halftime. 

At the half, Ohio shot 36.7 percent from the field, 28.6 percent from three and were 6-of-6 from the line, while Toledo shot 60 percent from the field, 60 percent from three and were 9-of-11 from the line. Toledo out-rebounded the Bobcats 15-14, while they dished out nine assists to Ohio's four.

Sears led the Bobcats at the half with 12 points, while McDay added seven and Wilson III scored six with three boards. 

Toledo opened with the first points of the half, however, a layup from McDay and free throws and a jumper from Sears helped the Bobcats start to claw away at the Rockets' lead, bringing the score to 56-46 with 15:43 left in the game. A layup from sophomore guard Miles Brown (Rochester, N.Y.) cut the Toledo lead to nine with 13:46 left. However, that was as close as the Bobcats would get, as their defense was unable to stop the hot shooing Toledo squad, falling 95-78.

Up next, the Bobcats get an extra day of rest and are back in action on Tuesday, Jan. 12 when Ohio hosts Miami. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. and can be seen on CBS Sports Network. 

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