The best season in the history of the Case Western Reserve University men's basketball program came to a close on Saturday night at Horsburgh Gymnasium, as the eighth-ranked Spartans fell to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 78-75 in the second round of the NCAA Division III Championships.
The Spartans finished the campaign with a 22-4 overall mark, setting a team record for wins in a season and winning the first University Athletic Association Championship in program history. CWRU earned its second-straight NCAA Tournament berth and won a game in tournament play for the second-straight season.
CWRU turned in a gritty effort, overcoming a double-figure deficit in the first half to take a lead in the second half and cutting a second one to a one-possession game by the closing seconds of the contest.