Poor 2nd half dooms No. 1 seed UMBC men’s basketball in deflating 79-77 loss to No. 6 seed UMass Lowell in America East semifinal

UMBC squandered a pair of 16-point leads and were denied their third appearance in four years in the conference’s tournament championship final by a UMass Lowell team that has won its first three postseason games in the past eight days.