Swept by DePauw in the regular season, Wittenberg earned revenge in the first round of the North Coast Athletic Conference men’s basketball tournament on Tuesday.

Junior post Scott Masin hit two free throws with 11 seconds left to give Wittenberg a 63-62 quarterfinal victory. The Tigers will play Wooster or Oberlin in the semifinals on Friday.

Wittenberg was playing on the road in the NCAC quarterfinals for the first time. It tied for third place with DePauw and Kenyon, but got the fifth seed because it lost the tiebreaker to both teams.

This game was similar to the first Wittenberg-DePauw game in Greencastle on Jan. 23. DePauw tied that game on last-second free throws and won it in overtime on a last-second shot.

This time, Wittenberg led by as many as 12 points in the first half. The second half, though, went back and forth. There were four ties and six lead changes in the final three minutes.

Masin, who led Wittenberg with 25 points, gave his team a 59-58 lead with 1:35 left with two free throws. But DePauw’s Kevin Sullivan, the brother of Wittenberg’s all-time leading 3-point shooter, Chris Sullivan, gave DePauw the lead with a layup with 1:12 to go.

With 43 seconds left, Wittenberg’s Zach Leahy hit two free throws. Then Sullivan scored again with 29 seconds left, and DePauw led 62-61.

That set up the final stretch. Masin hit both his free throws. After a timeout, Sullivan got off a tough shot from the baseline with one second left, but he missed, and Wittenberg prevailed.

Just eight days earlier, Wittenberg had lost 70-62 at home to DePauw, and DePauw followed that victory by handing regular-season champion Wooster its worst loss of the season, 68-52 on Saturday.

Cam Walton scored 11 points for Wittenberg, and Leahy had 10.