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90
Winner High Point HP 5-1,0-0 Big South
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UIC UIC 3-2,0-0 MVC
Winner
High Point HP
5-1,0-0 Big South
90
Final
80
UIC UIC
3-2,0-0 MVC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
High Point HP 41 49 90
UIC UIC 39 41 80

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Men's Basketball Drops Boardwalk Battle Opener to High Point, 90-80

Flames to face Southern Indiana in third-place game at 4 p.m. (CT) Saturday.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Freshman guard Andy Johnson scored a season-high 17 points and junior guard/forward Mekhi Lowery added 15 points (7-9 FG), 10 rebounds and seven assists, but No. 6 (Mid-Major) High Point did just enough to edge past UIC, 90-80 in the opening round of the Geico Boardwalk Battle on Thursday at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Fla. Johnson and Lowery led five Flames in double figures, as junior guard Ahmad Henderson II scored 16 points, freshman guard Rashund Washington Jr. added 13 points and six rebounds and redshirt freshman forward Jayce Nathaniel chipped in 11 points for UIC (3-2).

The Flames wound up outshooting High Point (5-1) from the field, connecting at a 49.2 percent clip, and won the battle on the glass by a 37-28 margin, but the Panthers, who are the two-time defending Big South champions and reached the NCAA Tournament last year, had the advantage at the foul line, going 30-of-37, while UIC was 17-of-24.

The full box score and play-by-play recap from Thursday's game against High Point can be found here.
 

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BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
  • Johnson has scored in double figures in all five games this season and has tied or surpassed his previous season/career high in each successive game.
  • Lowery posted his fourth career double-double and first in a UIC uniform (he had three during his two seasons at Towson). Lowery also scored a career-high 15 points (his previous best was 14 points on two occasions, the last on Nov. 30, 2024, against UC Irvine) and matched his career high with seven assists (he also had seven against St. Francis on Nov. 11).
  • Washington tied his season scoring high (13 points vs. Detroit Mercy on Nov. 3) and finished one rebound shy of his season best (seven at Chicago State on Nov. 15).
  • Graduate student forward Abdul Momoh had a season-high four blocks, two off his career high set on Feb. 15, 2025, against Saint Francis (Pa.) while he was playing for Central Connecticut State.
  • High Point was ranked No. 6 in this week's College Insider Mid-Major Top 25 poll, and was the first of two new opponents on the UIC schedule (the other will come Dec. 3 when the Flames face Arkansas Pine Bluff in their annual Education Day Game at 11 a.m. CT at Credit Union 1 Arena).

UP NEXT: SOUTHERN INDIANA (BOARDWALK BATTLE)
UIC will take on Southern Indiana in the third-place game of the Geico Boardwalk Battle at 4 p.m. CT/5 p.m. ET on Saturday from the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Fla. The game will be streamed live on BallerTV, with live stats available at UICFlames.com.


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