The 2009-10 men’s basketball season is turning into an interesting one for Rollins College as the Tars earned their biggest win since upending No. 1 Tampa by one point way back in 1987.

Myk Brown

On Saturday the Tars took down the No. 2 team in Division II when they got past Florida Southern, 91-88, thanks to a three-pointer by Nikola Baran with three second to go in front of a season-high 853 fans at Warden Arena.

The Tars were led by a career-high 30 points on 11-of-18 shooting from sophomore Myk Brown and 26 points (10-of-15) and six rebounds from junior Nick Wolf.

Rollins entered the contest ranked No. 20 after previously cresting at No. 7 in the national poll. A 78-66 loss to top-ranked Central Missouri at the Las Vegas High Desert Classic on Dec. 18 dropped them from the top-10 and ended a seven-game win streak for the Tars. They would go on to split their next four games before scoring the big upset over their Sunshine State Conference foe.

Leading the way this season for Rollins under head coach Tom Klusman has been the tandem of Wolf and Brown, who have the Tars out to a 10-3 mark overall and a 2-1 record in conference play.

Nick Wolf

Wolf, who became the 36^th player in program history to score 1,000 career points, is averaging 18.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game as Brown averages 16.9 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game this season. While they are the sharpshooters of the bunch, Greg Sweeney and Julian Wilkinson are averaging 2.5 assists per game, Ian Scott of Mt. Dora has recorded 27 steals thus far, and Matt Robertson averages 5.8 rebounds per outing.

In the upset win on Saturday, Robertson scored 12 points and grabbed six boards while Sweeney dished out a career-best eight assists.

After already turning away Lynn back in December, then later losing to Barry last week, the conference schedule continues for the Tars with a home game on Wednesday against Nova Southern (8-5, 2-2) at 7:30 p.m.

Rollins then goes on the road to take on Tampa (Jan. 16) and Florida Tech (Jan. 20 in Melbourne) before returning to host Saint Leo (6-10, 1-3) on Saturday, Jan. 23 at 4 p.m. The month closes out with a road game in St. Petersburg against Eckerd (Jan. 27) and a rematch at home against Lynn (8-6, 3-1) on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 4 p.m.

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