ARLINGTON – Tyrell Gumbs-Frater hit an off-balance jumper from just inside the 3-point line with one second remaining Saturday afternoon, and 10th-seeded Coastal Carolina ended 7th-seeded UT Arlington's season with a 63-62 decision in the Sun Belt Tournament First Round from the College Park Center.
 
David Azore put the Mavericks in front just seconds earlier, 62-61, as he hit a jumper from the extended elbow with 14 ticks remaining. He was fouled on the play, but the 77-percent shooter unfortunately missed the free throw. With one timeout remaining, Coastal pushed the ball into the frontcourt but didn't use that timeout immediately. Instead, UTA was able to force a tie-up on the floor, but the possession arrow was in favor of Coastal.
 
Getting a second chance by the luck of an arrow, the Chanticleers called that timeout, and then UTA countered with two timeouts of its own to draw up a defense for the CCU inbound. Under its own basket, Coastal looped a pass to Gumbs-Frater at the top of the key. He took a couple dribbles to the left, pump-faked and pulled up over the out-stretched arm of Radshad Davis, hitting nothing but net to send UTA to a heart-breaking end of its 2019-20 season.
 
While Gumbs-Frater hit the game-winner, it was DeVante Jones with a dominant 31-point, 14-rebound double-double to set the tone for the Chants, who defeated the Mavs for the third time this season.
 
Sam Griffin led UTA with 14 points, while Azore finished 11 and Nicolas Elame tallied 10. Griffin and Elame are both true freshmen, and 44 of UTA's 62 points came from players expected to return next year.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Coming into the game, rebounding was likely going to be a determining factor in the outcome of the game, and it ended up playing an integral role as Coastal finished with a 46-31 advantage on the glass – with the -15 margin representing the second-worst of the year for the Mavs (-18 at Houston).
 
That rebounding differential resulted in Coastal finishing with a 15-7 edge in second-chance points. The longer Chants also out-scored the Mavs in the paint, 30-14.
 
Davis and Jabari Narcis both scored seven points and had five rebounds for UTA, while TiAndre Jackson-Young added six points and Brian Warren had five. Azore led the Mavs with four assists, while Elame totaled three as UTA closed with 13 assists and just six turnovers.
 
The two teams shot nearly identical from the floor with Coastal finishing at 36.8 percent (21-57) and UTA closing at 36.7 percent (22-60). UTA went 30.3 percent (10-33) from 3-point range, while Coastal went just 7.7 percent (1-13). However, a crucial differential came from the charity stripe as UTA finished at only 57.1 percent (8-14) and Coastal went an incredible 20-21 (95.2 percent), led by an ultra-impressive 14-14 from Jones.
 
THEY SAID IT – HEAD COACH CHRIS OGDEN
"It's certainly a tough way to lose a game and a disappointing way to end a season. I'm proud of our guys – we were playing the right way and playing good basketball at the right time of year. But Coastal just made one more shot, and credit goes to them. I'm excited about our future and the offseason. I'm also disappointed for our seniors, and I want to thank them for all that they've done for us."
 
1ST-HALF RUNDOWN
Jackson-Young hit an opening 3-pointer, and after that UTA's next 15 points came from true freshmen as Elame and Griffin teamed up to eventually help push the Mavs' lead to 23-18 following Griffin's fourth 3-pointer in as many attempts in the first 11 minutes of the contest.
 
However, Coastal responded with its second 7-0 run of the 1st half to re-claim a lead at 25-23 at the 5-minute mark.
 
At that point, UTA had not received a single point from its two leading scorers on the year. But that changed immediately as Azore clipped off seven points in two-straight possessions – four coming on a 3-pointer and free throw as he was fouled on that shot, and three more on a triple 20 seconds later. That was part of an 8-0 surge by the Mavs, who went back in front, 31-25, in less than a minute.
 
Coastal pulled back within two, 31-29, but a 3-pointer from Warren – his first points of the day – with under a minute remaining pushed the Mavs further in front, and that's the advantage they took into the halftime break, 34-29.
 
The teams were nearly identical in field-goal percentage as the Chants shot 41.7 percent (10-24) and the Mavs 40 percent (12-30), but the biggest difference came in the 3-point ball as UTA connected on 8-18 (44.4 percent) while the conference's best perimeter defense limited CCU to just 1-8 (12.5 percent).
 
2ND-HALF RUNDOWN
UTA slowly grew its lead out of the locker room, and on a pair of Elame free throws off an offensive board with 13:30 left built its first double-figure lead of the day, 47-37.
 
However, once again the Chanticleers answered with a 7-0 run to cut the margin to 50-47 before Narcis hit a 3 to push the UTA advantage back to 53-47. That six-point edge was short-lived as Coastal responded and eventually took its first lead since 5-minute mark of the 1st half on pair of Jones free throws at the 5-minute mark of the 2nd half, 55-54.
 
The two teams traded buckets until the closing minute – and closing seconds – when Azore and Gumbs-Frater exchanged one final blow.
 
THIS AND THAT

• This was the first Sun Belt Tournament game UTA has ever played outside of New Orleans.
• This was the second all-time Sun Belt Tournament meeting between UTA and Coastal Carolina, with the first being a 74-51 Mavs' win in the 2017 quarterfinals when they were seeded 1st and the Chanticleers were seeded 8th.
• Elame also secured five rebounds as he played a career-high 32 minutes.
• UTA went just 2-15 (13.3 percent) from 3-point range in the 2nd half.
• Tommy Burton scored 11 points for CCU to finish as the Chants only other double-figure scorer. He added six rebounds for Coastal, which held a 13-8 edge on the offensive glass.
• UTA finishes the year with a 14-18 record, while Coastal moves to 16-16 and will travel to 6th-seeded Appalachian State for a 2nd-round matchup on Monday.

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