OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. – A season-high 53 rebounds from the LIU Post men's basketball team coupled with a 35-point effort from sophomore Alonzo Ortiz-Traylor was not enough to get the Pioneers over the line against the New York Institute of Technology Wednesday night as the Pioneers fell 106-73 inside Recreation Hall.
 
Ortiz-Traylor had a game-high 35 points and also led the Pioneers in rebounding with 13. He has now recorded a double-double 12 times this season and eclipsed the 30-point mark 10 times. Ortiz-Traylor also added two steals and one block. Freshman Seth Goumba contributed 13 points and seven rebounds while freshman Kendell Ogilvie had eight points and eight rebounds. LIU Post's 53 rebounds was a season-best.

With it being the Pioneers' final game of the season, Ortiz-Traylor with finished with an average of 27.8 points per game which was a new program record for scoring average in a single season. It topped the previous record of 24.5 set by Michael Hammond in the 1986-87 season.
 
LIU Post got off to a strong start as Goumba scored the game's opening basket, a three-pointer, with 19:28 on the clock. The Pioneers then jumped out to a 7-2 lead after layups by Ortiz-Traylor and Ogilvie with 18:47 and 18:22 left to play. Sophomore Jackson Jordan threw drove right and elevated for a thunderous one-handed dunk over a Bear defender with 16:43 left to play to give LIU Post an 11-7 lead.  
 
The Pioneers' final lead came with 11:34 left to play after a free throw by freshman Nah'Jel Sands. The remainder of the half belonged to NYIT as they took a 49-33 lead into halftime.
 
The Pioneers came out of halftime determined to narrow the deficit and cut it to 13, 56-43, after an Ortiz-Traylor three-pointer with 16:32 on the clock, but the Bears size inside was too much for LIU Post as the Bears held out for the 106-73 win.