LANCASTER, Pa.-Down by as many as 20 points, 57-37, midway through the second half in its second-round NCAA Tournament against Franklin & Marshall College last Saturday, the men's basketball team was attempting to cap an improbable comeback to propel the team to its second consecutive appearance in the Sweet 16. The Judges eventually cut the lead to 65-63 with 27 seconds left. Forward Rich Magee '10 fought for a rebound off a missed free-throw attempt by Diplomats rookie Georgio Milligan. With Magee battling to maintain possession, Brandeis used its final timeout with 24.8 seconds left, setting up one final chance for the team to either send the game into overtime or win the game outright in regulation.

"We all just looked at each other coming out of that huddle, and we knew all we had to do was stop them to win the game," Franklin & Marshall junior guard Clay Scovill told reporters after the game.

Guard Andre Roberson '10 took the inbound pass for Brandeis and slowly dribbled the ball up-court, pausing near the top of the three-point line before making his move inside.

"We were just trying to set that high screen that became successful late in the game for us," head coach Brian Meehan told reporters. "[We wanted to] give [Roberson] the opportunity to turn the corner and get to the rim."

"We felt that [Franklin & Marshall would] probably drop way off of him because he was turning the corner quite a bit and give him the jump shot, or if he turned the corner and they came off trying to stop the penetration, he might be able to hit someone for three on the perimeter," Meehan continued.

Franklin & Marshall head coach Glenn Robinson, who has more wins than any coach in Division III men's basketball history, told reporters that he noticed the Judges' tendency to set screens throughout the course of the game. However, he suggested that his team had done a good job guarding the Judges' screens near the top of the key.

"[Our] people playing the screens hedged and helped, and so when it looked like a man was open, there was always someone stepping out," he told reporters after the game. "As soon as [the Brandeis player] stepped back, [our] man guarding him was there."

With time ticking away, Roberson, now positioned off to the side of the free-throw line closer to the Brandeis bench, put up a jump shot with under five seconds to play but missed the attempt as the ball bounced off the back of the rim.

"I thought I had a good look at it," Roberson told reporters. "I think I could have got my feet set a little bit more, but I knew I didn't have much time."

Forward Steve DeLuca (GRAD) got the rebound off Roberson's miss and, with less than two seconds left, put up a fadeaway shot that grazed the front of the rim as time expired.

DeLuca said he thought his shot attempt was off when he released it.

"I thought it was going [wide] right and it went right."

In their last 19 possessions of the game, Franklin and Marshall turned the ball over seven times, hit just one of five shots and converted only six of 13 free throw attempts. But Brandeis' misses at the end of the game allowed Franklin & Marshall to get the win.