BOTTINEAU, N.D. -- A North Dakota junior college basketball team finished a game Wednesday night with only two players, losing 156-154 in overtime.
United Tribes of Bismarck traveled to Bottineau with just five players for a game against Dakota College Bottineau and three of them fouled out, according to the Bottineau Courant.
United Tribes played the entire first overtime 4-on-5, but managed to send it to a second overtime. The game was tied 123-123 at the end of regulation and 138-138 after the first overtime.
United Tribes led the game 149-144 with 2:10 to go in the second overtime when it went down 3-on-5. It led 151-149 with 57 seconds left when it went down to 2-on-5. Dakota College Bottineau rallied in the final minute for the win.
One of the remaining two players for United Tribes had four fouls. If he fouled out, Tribes wouldn't have been able to in-bound the ball. The other remaining player had three fouls.
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The statistics of the game were mind-boggling.
Bottineau launched 142 shots -- 48 of them for 3s -- in a 50-minute game. Tribes had 97 field goal attempts.
J.J. Morris had 51 points for Bottineau, while Augustine Mathias led United Tribes with 48.
