Indiana, Pa. – Junior guard Zay Jennings (Allentown, Pa./Allentown Central Catholic/Caldwell) scored nine straight points to open the third overtime period to lead the Le Moyne College men's basketball team to a 102-99 victory over the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown on Friday evening on the first day of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Thanksgiving Classic at the Kovalchick Complex.

The Dolphins went to triple overtime for the first time since an 88-79 win at Bloomsburg during the 1984-85 season and are now 3-0 in triple-overtime contests. The Dolphins surpassed 100 points for the first time since a 107-37 victory over Green Mountain on December 29, 2005.

Jennings finished the contest with 23 points, including 13 after regulation, while adding four rebounds. Junior forward Kobi Nwandu (York, Pa./Northeastern York/East Stroudsburg) tallied a team-high 26 points, including 14 in the first half, and seven rebounds. Redshirt junior guard Malik Garner (Midland, Mich./H.H. Dow/Sunrise Christian Academy/Saginaw Valley State) turned in 17 points, including eight in the second half, and eight steals. Junior forward Tom Brown (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) recorded a double-double of 12 points and 12 rebounds.

Josh Wise led all scorers in the game with 27 points, while adding seven rebounds and five assists before fouling out with eight seconds left. Fred Mulbah and Jared Jakubick each had 15 points, while Mulbah grabbed seven rebounds. Caiden Landis tallied a double-double of 14 points and 10 rebounds prior to fouling out. Joe Batt and John Paul Kromka registered 11 and 10 points, respectively, as Pitt-Johnstown had six players finish in double-digits.

The Dolphins opened the game by hitting three-pointers on their first three possessions and connected on five in the opening 4:15 en route to jumping out to a 21-5 lead after 5:21. Nwandu nailed two three-pointers and had eight points in the span, while graduate student guard Tyree Chambers (Bayreuth, Germany/Graf-Münster Gymnasium/Providence) had five points.

After the teams split the next 18 points, which resulted in the Dolphins leading 30-14 with 9:37 left in the half, the Mountain Cats scored 24 of the last 35 points of the half to pull within three at halftime, 41-38. Wise led Pitt-Johnstown in the run with eight points, while Landis had six and Batt and Jakubick each had five. Nwandu had six of Le Moyne's 11 points in the span.

The Mountain Cats scored five of the first six points in the second half to take their first lead of the game. Wise made a jumper and Mulbah followed with a three-pointer.

Le Moyne answered with four straight points to take the lead back before the teams alternated points with ties coming at 46 and 48.

After senior guard C.J. Asuncion-Byrd (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich/St. Thomas More/Gannon) put the Dolphins up 51-48 with a three-pointer with 14:55 left, the Mountain Cats tallied seven straight points to take a four-point advantage. Mulbah had the first five points and then Jakubick made a lay-up.

Following two free throws by Mulbah to put Pitt-Johnstown up 59-54 with 9:38 left, the Dolphins got two points each from Brown, Nwandu and Garner to take the lead back with 6:49 to go.

After six lead changes over 1:42, Garner and junior guard Ryan Roland (Syracuse, N.Y./Westhill/Mercyhurst) made shots to give the Dolphins a two-possession lead with 4:09 to play. Pitt-Johnstown cut its deficit to two on a pair of occasions before Roland drained a three-pointer with 2:36 remaining for a 75-70 advantage.

Wise followed with two free throws and then Kromka converted a lay-up to make it a one-point game with 12 seconds left. Garner made two free throws with nine seconds left, but Jakubick buried a three-pointer with three seconds left to tie the game at 77. The Dolphins were unsuccessful on a three-pointer at the buzzer, sending the game to the first overtime.

After Garner scored the first two points of the first overtime period, the Mountain Cats scored six straight to take an 83-79 lead with 1:13 to go. Mulbah scored the first point and capped the run with a conventional three-point play.

Jennings answered with two free throws and Nwandu followed with a conventional three-point play with 34 seconds left to give the Dolphins the lead back.

After Mulbah knotted the score at 84 with 29 seconds left by making the second of two free throw attempts, the Dolphins held the ball for the final shot, but a lay-up rolled off the rim, sending the game to the second overtime.

The teams traded points in the second overtime with ties coming at 86, 88, 90 and 92, the last of which came on a lay-up by Kromka with 46 seconds left. The Dolphins missed a lay-up with 28 seconds left, while Pitt-Johnstown was unable to convert a jumper with four seconds to go, leading to the third overtime period.

After Jennings and Batt each scored two points in the opening minute of the third overtime, Jennings converted a lay-up and then drained a three-pointer with 3:05 left to give the Dolphins a five-point lead, 99-94. Batt and Jennings then made two free throws each before Marcin Wiszomirski made a lay-up for Pitt-Johnstown's final basket of the game.

Each team made a free throw in the final 10 seconds to deliver the final score.

Le Moyne (4-1) wraps up play at the IUP Thanksgiving Classic against the third-ranked Crimson Hawks at 7:30 p.m.