A record-setting season for the Bowling Green men’s basketball season came to an end Saturday afternoon.
The Falcons fell to Canisus 82-59 in the second round of the Collegeinsider.com Tournament, finishing the season with a 21-12 record.
Their 21 wins are the most since the 2002 team won 26.
But despite the records and wins the team has brought the program, this year senior forward Richaun Holmes said that right now it is hard to see.
“Right now in the moment it is kind of hard to look back,” Holmes said. “I’m sure a little bit from now we will be able to reflect back and look at some of the good things we have done.”
The Falcons have done some good things, but right now the talk will be about what Jans called a “borderline uninspiring” effort.
“Certainly it wasn’t one of our better efforts,” Jans said.
Effort wasn’t the only thing that lacked from the Falcons. There was also a lack of shots falling for the Falcons, who shot 33 percent from the field [19-56] and 20 percent from behind the three-point arc.
“We didn’t make shots,” Holmes said. “We had some good looks, had some bunnies at the rim.”
For the Falcons, who never lead in the game, they trailed 13-3 four minutes into the game. Sadly for the Falcons, it got worse before it got better.
They went into halftime trailing 38-25, but the Falcons came out of the half with more energy.
They went on a brief run of their own cutting the Canisius lead to seven, but that is the closest they got.
It took Canisius one minute to push their lead back up to double digits. From there it was the Griffs’ game to lose as they pushed their lead to as much as 26.
“We didn’t play the way I wanted us to play, we didn’t play the way we have played the majority of the season,” Jans said. “I’m disappointed. We didn’t do a very good job of having them ready to play.”
This loss ends the first season in the Chris Jans’ era, as well as the careers of seniors Jehvon Clarke, Demarkeo Lyshe, Anthony Henderson and Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year, Richaun Holmes.
