NEWBURGH, N.Y. | Sophomore Omar Jamaleddine's buzzer-beating trifecta capped a five-point rally over the final 11 seconds of regulation Tuesday night at the Kaplan Center to force overtime, before the Sarah Lawrence College men's basketball team ultimately fell to host Mount Saint Mary College in Skyline Conference play, 82-72.

The Gryphons (11-13, 7-8 Skyline), however, have qualified for next week's Skyline Conference Championship after Tuesday's results across the conference shook themselves out. Official seeds and pairings will be released by the conference office at the conclusion of Saturday play, with the eight-team tourney's quarterfinals round taking place next Tuesday, Feb. 25, at campus sites.

Jamaleddine, fresh off being named to this week's Skyline Conference weekly honor roll, scored a team-best 28 points while adding game-highs of 21 rebounds and three blocked shots. Fellow sophomore Liam Barry added 22 points in the backcourt on 8-for-16 shooting, while junior post presence Enike Anyia contributed 11 points on the low blocks.

The teams fought through four tied scores in the opening half of play, with SLC using a 9-0 run late to knot the score at 29-all with 1:12 remaining when senior BJ Sanders flushed home a dunk off a Jamaleddine feed. Mount Saint Mary (8-16, 6-9 Skyline) stunted the run 18 seconds later on an Ethan Fox trey and carried a three-point lead into the break.

Six straight Sarah Lawrence points early on in the second frame gave the visitors a 43-42 lead when Jamaleddine dialed in from long distance off a pass from first-year Chris Torres four-plus minutes in. The teams swapped the lead twice more before the host Knights used an 8-2 spurt to go up 53-46 halfway through the stanza on a fastbreak lay-in by reserve Jameson Morton (20 points). MSMC's lead never got to more than eight points, before the Gryphons extended the game late with a second-chance layup by Anyia with 11 seconds to go, before Jamaleddine's heroics after a missed bonus free throw forced OT.

Morton scored 10 of his side's 12 points in the extra five-minute session, including five of the first seven to start the period, to send the hosts to the triumph.

Mount Saint Mary senior Kendall Francis led all scorers with 31 points while adding seven steals in the backcourt.

Head coach Chris Ehmer's Gryphons wrap up regular-season conference play Saturday afternoon (Feb. 22) at the Campbell Sports Center, when they celebrate "Senior Day" in a 2 p.m. tip-off against local foe Manhattanville College.