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Lees McRae Bobcats Fall in the Opening Round of the NCAA Tournament to Queens

HARROGATE, Tenn. – The Lees-McRae College men’s basketball team’s magical season came to an end Saturday afternoon in Harrogate, Tennessee as the Bobcats fell by a final score of 90-69 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament to the seventh-ranked team in the nation Queens University of Charlotte. The loss wraps up LMC’s 2017-18 record at 23-9.

Coming into Saturday’s game ranked in the top 10 nationally in three-point field goal percentage, the Bobcats struggled to get the long ball working in the opening half. LMC connected on just one of 13 trays in the first, and shot 28.