Wow. Charlotte has dominated the final seven minutes of this half. Unreal.

#Charlotte uses a 25-10 run to take the lead with 40 seconds left....

— FAU Owl's Nest (@FAU_Owls_Nest) January 24, 2020

Karlis Silins hits a put-back tip-in to pull FAU within 2.

Owls down 68-66 with 14 seconds left after leading for over 38 minutes of the game.

Ridiculous.  We seem to be figuring out ways to lose.

I don’t want to hear we were +5 on the road so it was a good loss.   We were leading and usually by 10+ until inside 30 seconds.

We need to learn to play a complete game.

Bad loss 

FINAL. FAU falls to Charlotte, 70-68.

Owls allow a freshman to lead the Charlotte comeback late.

FINAL. #Charlotte 70 - #FAU 68.

Owls lead for over 38 minutes, but fall to 12-8 (4-3) after the 49ers convert on 6 of their last 7 FG attempts.

Heartbreaking loss for FAU, who allow defending #CUSA Freshman of the Week, Jahmir Young to drain a CH 24 Pts.

Next: @ ODU, Sat 7 PM.

— FAU Owl's Nest (@FAU_Owls_Nest) January 24, 2020

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Final stats from tonight's loss.

Charlotte shot 55% in the second half. That, paired with the 'Niners finally showing off their defensive prowess in the final ten minutes of the second half, spelled doom for FAU.

#FAU's final individual & team stats from the 70-68 loss to #Charlotte.

Taylor - TH 16 Pts, GH 4 3FGs

Ingram - 14 Pts, TH 5 Rebs

Maitre - 13 Pts, TH 5 Rebs, GH 5 Assists

A tale of two halves, the Owls shot 52% FG in the first half, 46% in the second half. pic.twitter.com/FFHy0oLMRC

— FAU Owl's Nest (@FAU_Owls_Nest) January 24, 2020

I actually had us at +3.4 points, but didn't want to rain on the parade so didn't post the prediction…

Regardless, we were supposed to lose, and did.

COMPLETELY agree though, that it is very disheartening and old when you lead for the vast portion of the contest.

And this is becoming a pattern.

Have to start saving some super wrinkles for the latter portions of the game.

Go Owls!

Another 2 point loss. Hate it!!

The one ,two,and three point losses are the difference of a good season and bad. In the end, no one will care about the point difference.

CUSA is like the 18th ranked conference - meaning it is not very good.  FAU is improved, but has shown a pattern of early leads (often double-digits) only to give up huge second half runs to teams that really aren’t very good, either.  When I look at the 12 wins, I am only finding 1 or 2 that are over teams even with winning records (forget marquee or even really good wins).

It is very cool that excitement is returning to the program, but we are still a long way from being a good basketball team in my opinion.  Better - no doubt.