UNIVERSITY CENTER, MICH. – The Saginaw Valley State University men's basketball team saw its season end with a heartbreaking buzzer-beating layup giving Wayne State the 75-74 win and the final GLIAC Tournament spot. The Cardinals (13-14, 6-12 GLIAC) battled the Warriors (13-14, 7-11 GLIAC) in a winner-take-all regular-season finale with the victor moving into the last remaining postseason slot.

Tre Garrett completed his career with a double-double after scoring 24 points and pulling down 11 rebounds. SVSU honored its five senior members Jiovanni Miles, Dylan West, Maurice Barnett, and Garrett along with student coaches DeMarris Hall and Mason Kochanski during the pregame warmups.

The Cardinals battled back from a 16-point deficit in the first half to enter the locker room down 38-37 at the break. Toodles Seal got things going with a three-point jumper the WSU answered on the next possession. The junior guard would finish the game with 23 points and four rebounds to his credit.

The teams traded buckets once more and entered the first media timeout with a 5-5 tie.

The Warriors pulled away a bit with a 16-7 lead after a 7-0 run that took the clock down to 12:27. An and-one by WSU after the second media timeout gave the game the first double-digit margin at 20-9 with 11:26 remaining in the opening period.

A few minutes later, Wayne State experienced its largest lead after a 5-0 run put the score at 28-12 with just over nine minutes on the clock.

Garrett responded with a layup that sparked a 6-0 run down to the 7:13 mark and the Cardinals trailed just 30-21.

Freddie McIntosh created a 7-0 run deeper into the half that cut the gap to six points (34-28) with 4:19 still to play in the first.

McIntosh would hit a jumper from distance in the final minute to bring SVSU within one point of the Warriors as the teams entered the locker room.

Seal started the second just as he did the first with a three-point jumper to tie the game at 40 in the opening minute of the final frame.

The score would remain close with neither team leading by more than one possession through the 12-minute media timeout.

McIntosh made a turnaround jumper at the 10:49 mark to increase a one-point SVSU lead to three points (56-53), but WSU responded with a three to knot things up.

Seal hit back-to-back shots for a 60-56 advantage. West would increase the lead to five points two plays later with a second-chance jumper in the paint.

The Cardinal lead would get cut to one point, 67-66, going into the game's final media timeout. The Warriors grabbed the lead with a three on their first possession out of the time out.

Seal grabbed the lead back with a three-point jumper off a turnover to put the score at 70-69 with 1:32 left in regulation.

A foul on the Cardinals allowed two free throw attempts for WSU, which were made and the Warriors held onto a one-point edge with 52 ticks left.

Garrett responded with a layup with 33 seconds on the clock and SVSU called a timeout to set up the final sequence of the game.

The Warriors followed suit and made a jumper in the paint to recapture the lead, 73-72, and immediately take a 30-second timeout.

Kevonne Taylor then made a clutch dunk put-back on a Garrett miss and the Cardinals took over with a 74-73 lead with mere seconds left on the clock.

WSU raced down the court and made a contested layup before the final buzzer and took the win, and the final postseason spot.