{"id":445678,"date":"2026-11-03T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445678\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:00:40","slug":"minot-state-falls-74-73-to-tampa-in-hawaii-tip-off-finale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445678\/","title":{"rendered":"Minot State falls 74-73 to Tampa in Hawaii Tip-Off finale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793671240_478_blackhills_logo.png\" alt=\"Black Hills State University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Black Hills State University<\/p>\n<p>11\/13\/2026 | TBA<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Nov. 13 (Fri) \/ TBA&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793671240_478_blackhills_logo.png\" alt=\"Black Hills State University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Black Hills State University&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/msubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/opponent-history\/black-hills-state-university\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    HONOLULU, Hawaii &#8211;The Minot State men&#8217;s basketball team got a 25-point showing from the bench, but fell 74-73 to the Tampa Spartans at McCabe Gym on Sunday night in the title game of the Hawaii Tip-Off Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The Beavers (2-1) had four players score in double figures, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/msubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/lovasoa-andriatsarafara\/11001\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11001\" target=\"_blank\">Lovasoa Andriatsarafara<\/a>, who had 16 points, seven rebounds, and six blocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/msubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/sean-de-kovachich\/11003\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11003\" target=\"_blank\">Sean De Kovachich<\/a> added 11 points and <a href=\"https:\/\/msubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/eden-hobbs\/11010\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11010\" target=\"_blank\">Eden Hobbs<\/a> helped out with 11 points off of the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Minot State out-rebounded Tampa 47-37 in Sunday&#8217;s game, paced by <a href=\"https:\/\/msubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jayse-boatwright\/11002\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11002\" target=\"_blank\">Jayse Boatwright&#8217;s<\/a> nine boards. The Beavers also collected 13 offensive rebounds and scored 11 second-chance points.<\/p>\n<p>Minot State did a great job disrupting Tampa shots in the contest, coming away with eight blocks. Andriatsarafara&#8217;s six rejections led the way individually for the Beavers. The six blocked shots were a new NCAA-era single-game team record and rank tied for 4th all-time.\u00a0Andriatsarafara broke the NCAA-era record of 5 blocked shots in a game held by six different players. Kelvin Fraser holds the all-time single-game record of 12 blocked shots, which he\u00a0set on February 19, 2011, against South Dakota Mines in Minot State&#8217;s final season of NAIA play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minot State next plays at No. 6-ranked Black Hills State in the Dakota Challenge on Friday, November 13.<\/p>\n<p>How It Happened<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDown 15-10 early, Minot State went on an 8-0 run culminating in a 3-pointer from <a href=\"https:\/\/msubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/sean-de-kovachich\/11003\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11003\" target=\"_blank\">Sean De Kovachich<\/a> to lead 18-15. A <a href=\"https:\/\/msubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jayse-boatwright\/11002\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11002\" target=\"_blank\">Jayse Boatwright<\/a> basket pushed the Beaver lead to 33-25 before Minot State settled for a 33-27 halftime advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The Beavers pushed the advantage to 39-29 on a Boatwright fastbreak layup early in the second half, then held off Tampa, which tied the game three times down the stretch until the final 23 seconds. With 23 seconds left, James LaFrance&#8217;s 3 gave the Spartans their first lead since midway through the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Minot State missed a shot for the win at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>Minot State took care of business in the paint, recording 22 of its 40 points in the lane.<\/p>\n<p>Game Notes<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb The Beavers held the Spartans to only 35.3 percent shooting from the field.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb The Minot State bench made an impact by scoring 25 points to its scoring output.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Minot State lost despite a 47-37 rebounding advantage.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb The Beavers were active in affecting shots on the defensive end, tallying eight blocks as a team.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Minot State cleaned up on the offensive glass, collecting 13 offensive boards in the game.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/msubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/lovasoa-andriatsarafara\/11001\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11001\" target=\"_blank\">Lovasoa Andriatsarafara<\/a> led the Beavers with 16 points.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00bb Minot State got a game-high nine rebounds from <a href=\"https:\/\/msubeavers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jayse-boatwright\/11002\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11002\" target=\"_blank\">Jayse Boatwright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article was created using technology provided by <a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" id=\"OWA811b5f3f-8e51-8808-20a8-85a8c640d371\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\">Data Skrive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Black Hills State University 11\/13\/2026 | TBA &#13; Nov. 13 (Fri) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-445678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}