CARLISLE, Pa.—Locking up a postseason bid will have to wait until another day for Swarthmore College Men's Basketball. The Garnet's magic number stays at one after falling 76-55 to the Dickinson College Red Devils on the road on Saturday and after both McDaniel College and Johns Hopkins collected wins.

Point guards Matt Brennan, Shane Loeffler and Christian Rhodes provided a sizeable part of Swarthmore's offense, combining for 31 points. Brennan went 4-for-8 to finish with 13 points. Both Loeffler and Rhodes shot 3-for-4 from the field. Loeffler scored 10 points and Rhodes added eight.

Dickinson's Ted Hinnenkamp proved to be hard to stop; he scored a game-high 23 points on a 10-for-14 (71.4 percent) shooting performance. Jon Stenger and Justus Melton each added 11 points on a combined 7-for-8 shooting day. Dickinson shot 49 percent from the floor as a team and cashed in on 20-of-29 free throws.

The Garnet shot a few percentage points below their season average. Entering the game, the Garnet were shooting 45.2 percent overall; they shot 39 percent on Saturday.

The first time these two teams met, Swarthmore took the game 82-68 and shook off a season-high 19 turnovers. However, on Saturday, Swarthmore's 18 turnovers led to 26 Dickinson points.

Swarthmore led for just one possession on Saturday, a rare occurrence this season. The Garnet caught the Red Devils and overtook them with 11:06 to play in the first on a Brennan 3-pointer that made it 14-13. Dickinson's lead reached as high as eight in the first half, but buckets by Swarthmore's Tom Wilmots and Henry Cousineau helped cut the lead to two with 5:33 left in the first. The Garnet trailed by four going into halftime, but Dickinson went on a hot streak to start the second period, out-scoring the Garnet 13-2 in the first 2:39.

Swarthmore went on a run late and 3-pointers by freshmen Cam Wiley and Christian Rhodes brought the Garnet within single digits in the final minute.

Swarthmore will try again on Wednesday to secure its first postseason berth since 1997. The Garnet host Muhlenberg at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

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