The Barry Buccaneers used a monster game from two time SSC Player Of The Year Elvar Fridriksson who scored 29 points- and- Sunday Dech added 14 points to go along with nine rebounds in a 79-72 win over Eckerd that punched the Bucs ticket to Sioux Falls on Tuesday afternoon. It was the Bucs second regional championship in the past three years. Also Barry became the second consecutive seventh seed from the Sunshine State Conference to advance to the Elite Eight in as many years. Rollins did the same a year ago. With the victory Barry improved to 23-8 on the year- while Eckerd saw its season end with a 26-7 mark.
Barry jumped out to a 15 point lead (40-25) with 3:12 to go in the opening half. That lead was cut to nine (46-37) at the half. After the Bucs scored the first bucket of the second stanza the Tritons ran off a 11-0 run to knot the game at 48. The Tritons looked to be in good shape as Barry went without a field goal for 6:47 and Eckerd took a nine point lead with 13:04 to go. Fridriksson would score all 14 points including four 3-pointer's in a span of 2:30 minutes that saw Barry go on a 14-3 run. At the 10:25 mark it was a 62-60 Eckerd lead. The game would go back and forth for several minutes. Eckerd would take a 71-70 lead with 3:10 to go. The game would be again knotted at 72 at the 2:07 mark. With 1:07 to go a three-point play by Sawyer Glick would give Barry the lead for good.
The Bucs will be the eight seed in Sioux Falls and play top seeded Ferris State at the Sanford Pentagon. Tip time on Tuesday 3/20 is set for 330 PM.
South Region Results:
Quarterfinals:
#8 Florida Southern 98 #1 Morehouse 97 (OT)
#4 Eckerd 85 #5 Valdosta State 81
#7 Barry 90 #2 West Florida 73
#3 Claiflin 72 #6 Clark Atlanta 61
Semifinals:
#7 Barry 89 #3 Claiflin 64
#4 Eckerd 90 #8 Florida Southern 77
Final:
#7 Barry 79 #4 Eckerd 72
Tuesday's Elite Eight Games (At Sioux Falls, South Dakota:)
#4 West Texas A@M (31-3) vs #5 Le Moyne (27-6) 1 PM
#1 Ferris State (35-1) vs #8 Barry (23-8) 3:30 PM
#2 Queens (NC) (31-3) vs #7 Cal Baptist (27-5) 7 PM
#3 Northern State (34-3) vs #6 East Stroudsburg 9:30 PM
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