The Beloit College men's basketball team fell to Carthage 84-67 in Beloit Tuesday night.

The Red Men outshot the Buccaneers from the floor, 29-60 (48%) to 24-67 (36%), from three-point range, 8-21 to 5-19, and from the free throw line, 18-20 compared to 14-18.

Carthage jumped out to a 15-6 lead just over six minutes into the contest. Beloit responded with a nine-point spurt to knot the game 15-15 at the 10:07 mark.

A 13-4 run by the Red Men pushed the lead to nine, 28-19, with 4:30 left in the half. The Bucs would cut the margin to five, 34-29 on a Mason Jones layup with 41 seconds left but Carthage dropped in the final basket of the half to head into intermission with a 36-29 advantage.

Beloit took its first lead of the game on a Tristan Shoup three-pointer that made it 44-43 with 15:37 on the clock. The teams traded points until, with the score 50-49 in favor of Beloit, Carthage put together 12-1 run over a nearly four-minute span to push the gap to 61-51.

The Red Men's lead hit double digits again at the six-minute mark and never dropped below 10 the rest of the way.

Shoup led the Bucs with 28 points including 20 in the second half alone. He added 12 rebounds for the double-double. Dan Babb went 7-8 from the charity stripe totaling 11 points in the game. Matthew Miller notched a game-high four assists.

Beloit's final game of 2018 will be Wednesday, December 19 against Coe College in Flood Arena before the Bucs return to Midwest Conference play on the other side of the new year.