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Men’s basketball: FAU suffers crushing one-point loss at Tennessee-Martin behind game winner

The lead changed hands three lead times in the final 10 seconds.

Freshman Jailyn Ingram scored a career-high 21 points in Tuesday night's loss at Tennessee-Martin. Mohammed F Emran | Staff Photographer

After three lead changes on three consecutive possessions in the games final 10 seconds, Florida Atlantic men’s basketball lost a crushing one-point battle on the road at the University of Tennessee at Martin 82-81 on Tuesday night.

FAU (2-4) led for 35 minutes before an and-one opportunity from UTM’s (6-2) Matthew Butler gave the Skyhawks their first lead of the second half with 17 seconds remaining.