CSUN’s got the ball with 5.4 seconds. Score is tied at 61. What’s the outcome?

His slip forced him to give up the ball to Mark HIll, who shot an airball. CSUN’s got one last defensive stand to survive to come out of here with a win and an NCAA Tournament bid. CSUN’s up 61-59 with 22.1 seconds to go. Pacific ball. Will the Tigers go for the win?

Pacific will not go down. They just cut a six-point lead in half with a 3-pointer. There’s a minute to be played. CSUN ball.

That’s what the CSUN crowd is chanting at Rodrigue Mels, who just made three consecutive free throws to push the CSUN lead to 57-53 with 2:38 to go. Intense.

Willie Galick of CSUN has fouled out of the game. Bryan LeDuc is at the line for Pacific looking to cut into the Matadors’ 54-49 lead. He made both. CSUN leads 54-51 with 4:01 to go.

The Tigers came back all the way from 18 down and tied the score at 42-42. CSUN responded with a 7-0 run. The Matadors are up 49-42 with 7:46 to go. Tremaine Townsend threw a possession away just now. Tigers’ ball. The CSUN fans are getting a tad nervous.

Rodrigue Mels is doing what he can to keep the Matadors ahead but Michael Kirby of Pacific just smells blood whenever he sees Northridge in front of him. After two Mels breakaway gave the Matadors a five-point lead, Kirby came back with a three-pointer. CSUN’s ahead 42-40. Pacific’s at the line shoting two free throws.

This is the closest Pacific has been in a while. There’s 15:08 to play and CSUN leads 35-34. Vincent Cordell’s first points of the game are three and have put CSUN up 38-34 now.

The villain of all villains, Michael Kirby hit two three-pointers for Pacific (one of them as he was fouled) and drew the Tigers within five before Mark Hill hit a three of his own for CSUN. CSUN threw the ball away on its second to last possession of the game and Pacific got two free throws out of it, making one. CSUN is up 33-27 at halftime. Hill leads all scorers with 10 points. Chad Troyer and Kirby have seven… Read more