{"id":495655,"date":"2026-02-22T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495655\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:01:09","slug":"mens-basketball-drops-tight-contest-at-stetson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/495655\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Drops Tight Contest At Stetson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0North Florida Men&#8217;s Basketball fell at Stetson, 76-71, at Edmunds Center on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Senior guard <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/kamrin-oriol\/14370\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14370\" target=\"_blank\">Kamrin Oriol<\/a> posted 17 points on 7-14 from the field, in addition to four assists and a rebound in 32 minutes. Oriol has led the team in scoring in 19 games this season.\u00a0<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> In addition to Oriol, graduate student guard\/forward <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/dalton-gayman\/14394\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14394\" target=\"_blank\">Dalton Gayman<\/a> added 14 points and six rebounds on 5-11 from the field in 28 minutes. Redshirt sophomore guard\/forward <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/mason-lee\/14354\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14354\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Lee<\/a> neared a double-double with 12 points and nine rebounds in 31 minutes. Graduate student forward <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/nestor-dyachok\/14353\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14353\" target=\"_blank\">Nestor Dyachok<\/a> and sophomore guard <a href=\"https:\/\/unfospreys.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/kent-jackson\/14392\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14392\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Jackson<\/a> each added 10 points to round out five Ospreys in double figures.\u00a0<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Oriol connected on an early three that forced a Stetson timeout and propelled North Florida to a 14-5 lead at the 15:40-minute mark of the first half. Dyachok finished inside on an assist from Gayman to extend the lead to double figures at 20-10.\u00a0<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> North Florida led 40-29 at the half. The Ospreys converted on 51.6 percent from the field and 45.5 percent from three in the first half. North Florida led for 16:50 minutes in the first half.\u00a0<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> North Florida ended the first half on an 8-0 run over the final 6:03 minutes. After Oriol knocked down a three out of the halftime break, the stretch became a part of an 11-0 run to open the largest lead of the game for North Florida at 43-29 at the 19:40-minute of the second half.\u00a0<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Stetson tied the game at 48-48 at the 15:02-minute mark of the second half. After Stetson opened a 64-57 lead, Gayman drilled a three to put the margin back within two-possessions at the 5:30-minute mark of the second half. Lee connected on a triple to make it a one-score game at 66-63.\u00a0<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Oriol converted on a driving finish to cut the deficit to 68-67 with 1:50 minutes left on the clock before Jackson knocked down a pair of free throws make it to 70-69 with 48.2 seconds left. Stetson would convert on its possessions down the stretch to reach the eventual final. The second half featured five ties.\u00a0<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> North Florida closes out the regular season at UNF Arena when it hosts Florida Gulf Coast on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. and River City Rumble rival Jacksonville on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. ET. Both games will be aired on ESPN+.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0North Florida Men&#8217;s Basketball fell at Stetson, 76-71, at Edmunds Center on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Senior guard Kamrin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-495655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}