The Boise State men’s basketball team was seconds away from securing the Cayman Islands Classic title, but Joshua Beadle hit a three-pointer with 2.2 seconds left to give Boston College the lead for good.

The Eagles (6-1) defeated the Broncos (5-2) 63-61 in Tuesday’s tournament final in George Town, Cayman Islands.

“It was a heck of a tournament for our guys,” Boise State head coach Leon Rice said during his postgame radio interview. “We will learn a lot. There are many things we need to get better at. One of them is the rotations; We’re still figuring that out.”

For the second straight game, junior forward Javan Buchanan came off the bench to lead Boise State with 24 points. Buchanan, a transfer from Indiana Wesleyan, scored 28 points in an 83-82 semifinal win over South Dakota State.

Boise State has the rest of the week off before returning to action on Tuesday, Dec. 3 against Utah Tech (2-6). Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time at ExtraMile Arena.

Here are highlights from Rice’s postgame interview.

“We didn’t want them to get to the paint, so we swapped everything around. Before that it was 1 for 11 from 3. (Beadle) made a nice bounce back from 3 and beat us. When he let it go, I didn’t think it was going to be okay. And then it just sprayed. And I tried to get a time out, we were screaming. I guess I should have run to the ground, the referees aren’t looking at me. I wanted us to move it forward by two seconds and get a timeout, but it was too chaotic and the referees couldn’t hear us. With two seconds it’s going to be a hard hit anyway.”

“What is he? He is between one and five. He can score inside, he can score outside. He can handle the ball, he can play the point. We will use him more. Of course we have used him a lot in the last two games, but we will adapt. That’s what November is for. Especially when you have eight new guys, the starting lineup and the pieces that were all together at the start are probably going to be very different next month and the month after that. There will be growth through individuals. I will do better, our employees will do better. You have to get to know each other and know how everyone fits together where they are best. And we’re doing some great things… but I know we can continue to improve.”