APPALACHIAN STATE 57, AKRON 45
BOWLING GREEN 82, MILWAUKEE 68
KENT STATE 77, GEORGE WASHINGTON 69
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN 79, BUFFALO 78
BELLARMINE 76, CENTRAL MICHIGAN 69
TOLEDO 68, TULANE 67
MIAMI 99, DEFIANCE 47
Estero, Fla. – The Akron Zips shooting woes continued in game two of the Gulf Coast Showcase as Appalachian State handed UA a 57-45 setback on Tuesday afternoon at Hertz Arena.
Sophomore Enrique Freeman posted his third double-double of the season to lead Akron. Freeman recorded 15 points to go along with 10 rebounds, while shooting a team-best 70-percent from the floor (7-of-10). The Zips finished the game shooting just 30.5 percent from the field (18-of-59), including a 21.2 percent effort from deep (7-of-33) and only 2-of-7 from the charity stripe. Junior Bryan Trimble, Jr. (Kansas City, Mo.) added nine points and sophomore Mikal Dawson (Huntington, W.Va.) notched eight points.
Akron opened the game on a 10-5 run and held the lead at the 13:25 mark, but a 4:53 scoring drought allowed the Mountaineers to take a 18-10 advantage. The Zips cut the deficit in half with back-to-back paint points, a dunk by Freeman and a layin by graduate K.J. Walton, but App State responded with a pair of baskets. Akron used a 7-0 run to end the half and trail by only one point, 22-21 at intermission.
App State started the second half with five unanswered points, and the Mountaineers eventually extended the lead to 15 points with 3:43 left to play, 49-34. The Zips were able to cut the deficit to 10 points on Freeman spin move in the paint and an sophomore Ali Ali (Indianapolis, Ind.) triple from the left wing which made the score 49-39 with 2:03 left to play.
Michael Almonacy scored 18 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead the Mountaineers, while Donovan Gregory and Adrian Delph followed with 14 and 11 points, respectively.
Akron won the battle of the boards 38-33 and registered a eight steals and forced nine turnovers, while committing 14 turnovers as a team.
Akron will wrap-up the 2021 Gulf Coast Showcase against Evansville on Wednesday, Nov. 24 at 11 a.m.
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Bowling Green came away with an 82-68 victory over Milwaukee at the Fort Myers Tip-Off on Tuesday. The Falcons took a slim lead to the half, but created a cushion in the second half to advance to the Palms Division Championship at the event on Wednesday against Southern Utah. On the stat sheet, it was Daeqwon Plowden that paced the Falcons with a season-high 26 points. The win moves BGSU to 2-3 on the young season heading into tomorrow's game, set for a 1:30 p.m. start.
HOW IT HAPPENED
>> The Falcons saw their first lead of the game just before the first media timeout, going up 10-9 thanks to five straight points by Kaden Metheny in his first game back in the lineup.
>> Bowling Green would build the lead up to 18-10, but Milwaukee made a run of their own. A 7-0 run for the Panthers put the score at a 23-23 tie. The remained close through the remainder of the first half, seeing a tie as late as 34-34 before a Trey Diggs three in transition gave BGSU back the lead, spinning into a 37-36 halftime lead for the Falcons.
>> The second half started out with both teams trading three-pointers, followed by the Falcons using a 7-0 run to create a 44-39 lead.
The run for Bowling Green would stretch to 19-2 over more than eight minutes of action to create a double-digit lead at 51-41, extending it to 56-41 by the time the run ended.
>> Nearing the last few minutes of the game, Milwaukee made a push of its own, going on a 6-0 run to cut the Bowling Green lead down to single-digits. However, the Falcons were able to regain the double-digit cushion quickly, capturing an 82-68 victory.
NAPLES, Fla. – Kent State (3-1) advanced to the Naples Invitational Final with a 77-69 victory over George Washington (2-5) on Tuesday evening.
The Flashes await the winner of Missouri State and ETSU in the championship game on Wednesday, Nov. 24, at 8 p.m.
"This trip has been an awesome experience so far for our team," said Head Coach Rob Senderoff. "Getting to play for a championship is a great feeling for the team, and it is an important lesson as we move through our year. These two games have really tested us and that will help us down the road."
George Washington came out of the gate hot and opened with an 11-3 run to start the game. The Golden Flashes answered with their own 14-0 run behind three pointers by DJ Johnson and Jalen Sullinger off the bench. Johnson finished with nine points, the most in his KSU career, and five rebounds, and Sullinger finished with a career-high seven points.
The Flashes ended the first half on a 30-15 run and took a 33-26 lead into the locker room. After just seven combined first-half points for Sincere Carry and Malique Jacobs, the star duo poured in 25 points in the second half. Carry recorded 15 second-half points and led the Flashes with 20 points in the game. Jacobs finished the game with 12 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.
Kent State led throughout the entire second half, but the Colonials refused to quit. George Washington used a 10-0 run in the final minutes to push the score back within four. The Flashes shut the door over the final minute, holding GW to no points over the final 45 seconds en route to the semifinal victory.
It was an all-around team effort to get the win with seven different Golden Flashes recording seven or more points, including four in double figures. Giovanni Santiago finished with 12 points and three assists, while Tervell Beck added 10 points.
The Flashes shot the ball extremely well again, shooting 52 percent from the field and 43 percent from beyond the arc. The perimeter defense has held opponents to just 25 percent (11-for-44) from long range through the first two games in Naples.
CANCUN, MEXICO – Senior Ronaldo Segu scored a career-high 25 points, 22 of those in the second half, but Buffalo lost 79-78 to Stephen F. Austin in the first game of the Cancun Challenge.
Senior Jeenathan Williams became the 24th player in school history to score 1,000 points for his career, as he finished with 13 for the game.
The first half was called extremely tight as the teams were whistled for a combined 24 fouls over the first 20 minutes. The Lumberjacks opened the game by scoring the first eight points and led for the entire first half. SFA led by as many as 12 in the opening half, taking a 10-point lead into the break.
In the second half, the Lumberjacks continued to lead by 12 with 14:31 left when the Bulls made a charge. A three-pointer from Keishawn Brewton began a quick 6-0 run as Buffalo cut its deficit in half.
Trailing 65-57 with 6:57 left, Segu scored six straight points, including a four-point play, pulling the Bulls within two. UB finally took its first lead of the night with just under three minutes left on a layup from Maceo Jack. Buffalo continued to lead by one at 75-74, but Stephen F. Austin scored the next five points to regain the lead. A final three from Segu pulled UB back within one, but that would be as close as it would get.
Segu led all scorers with 25 points, going 9-of-14 from the floor. Williams and Jack both added 13 points.
Josh Mballa had seven points and nine boards and senior Tra'von Fagan added seven points and eight rebounds, six of those coming in the first half.
The Bulls turned the ball over 20 times in the game, while the Lumberjacks had just nine turnovers.
UB returns to action for the final game of the Cancun Challenge tomorrow at 6pm. The Bulls will play either Illinois State or Saint Louis.
LAS VEGAS – Central Michigan couldn't get the big bucket down the stretch when it sorely needed it as it fell to the Knights, 76-69, in the Chippewas' second and final game at the Good Sam Empire Classic at T-Mobile Arena.
Harrison Henderson scored a season-high 21 points and Jermaine Jackson Jr. added 17 to lead CMU (1-4), which plays at 10th-ranked Kentucky on Monday
"Obviously disappointed," CMU associate head coach Shane Heirman said. "We're close; we're close. You can see it in moments. It's just about continuing to get incrementally better every day and then put this all together. … Eventually it'll turn the corner for us."
After falling, 107-54, to No. 1-ranked Gonzaga on Monday, the Chippewas went nose-to-nose with a patient and disciplined Bellarmine team (1-5) that, like CMU, is in the midst of a rugged nonconference schedule.
After leading by as many as six points in the first half, CMU trailed 39-32 at halftime. The Chippewas hung tough and drew within one possession several times in the final 20 minutes, the last with 1:01 remaining after two Henderson free throws cut CMU's deficit to 72-69.
After a Bellarmine free throw made it 73-69, the Chippewas missed a 3-point try with 30 seconds remaining. The Knights rebounded and then made two more charity tosses to increase their lead to 75-69 with 20 seconds left.
CMU failed to convert on two field goal tries with under 10 seconds left.
Ralph Bissainthe, who missed CMU's first three games, drew the start and matched his career best with 12 rebounds and also had eight points in 28 minutes.
Jackson hit four of his nine 3-point tries and Henderson was 3-of-4 from long range as the Chippewas made a season-high 11 triples on 29 attempts.
Dylan Penn scored 27 points to lead Bellarmine, which made 50.9 percent of its field goal attempts and outscored the Chippewas, 36-20, in the paint.
NASSAU, Bahamas – Juniors JT Shumate and Setric Millner Jr. registered double-doubles and Toledo held off a hard-charging Tulane squad in a 68-67 semifinal victory over the Green Wave on Tuesday evening at the Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship. The Rockets (4-1) will face Coastal Carolina (2-1) in the championship game tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m.
Shumate paced the Rockets with 19 points to go along with 10 rebounds, while Millner tallied 18 points and a game-high 12 boards. Sophomore Ryan Rollins scored 16 points and joined his backcourt mates, RayJ Dennis and Ra'Heim Moss, with six rebounds apiece.
Toledo dominated the glass, 53-33, thanks to grabbing 20 boards on the offensive end. The Rockets limited the Green Wave (2-3) to just seven offensive rebounds and held a 17-9 advantage in second-chance points.
"We played well offensively in the first half but then we got stagnant," Head Coach Tod Kowalczyk said. "Their zone defense is good and that's how they play. They want the game to be in the 50s, and we want the game to be in the 80s. They are a tough, physical team and the way we rebounded against them was huge."
Rollins' jumper from the free-throw line with 1:23 remaining gave the Rockets a 68-65 lead and proved to be the game-winning basket. Redshirt freshman guard Jalen Cook's layup with 29.3 seconds to play made it a one-point game. Shumate missed the front end of a one-and-one with 20.9 seconds left, but Rollins' defense caused Cook to miss a tough shot just outside the lane at the buzzer.
Cook, a transfer from LSU, was the only Tulane player to score in double digits, finishing with a game-high 25 points.
The Rockets shot just 36.9 percent from the field but limited the Green Wave to a 41.0 FG%, including a 6-of-26 effort (23.1 percent) from behind the three-point arc. Toledo did outshoot Tulane from the charity stripe, knocking down 16-of-22 attempts compared to the Green Wave's 11-of-20 totals.
HOW IT HAPPENED
>> Ra'Heim Moss' driving layup four seconds before intermission provided the Rockets a 42-32 lead at intermission.
>> The Green Wave cut into Toledo's advantage immediately after the break with a 7-1 spurt, but Ryan Rollins' dunk ended that run and sparked a 6-0 burst that gave the Rockets a 49-39 lead.
>> Tulane didn't go away and closed within 51-50, but Shumate responded with a putback for a three-point lead with 10:52 to play.
>> The Rockets bumped their lead back up to 60-54 four minutes later but saw the Green Wave rally again to within 60-59 with 5:42 left.
Setric Millner, Jr. and Rollins, however, answered with baskets on Toledo's next two possessions for a 64-59 lead a minute later.
Tulane came within a point on three occasions during the final four minutes but could never take the lead.
By MIKE SMITH
OXFORD, OH -- The road ahead gets tougher, but the Miami RedHawks (5-0) took care of business and remained undefeated Tuesday with a 99-47 demolishing of Defiance College at Millett Hall.
Of the thirteen RedHawks who saw action, all scored. Six reached double figures, marking the first time that has happened since Nov. 19, 2004 versus Purdue. Dae Dae Grant led the way with 16 points, hitting 6 of 11 shots overall and 4 of 8 triples. Precious Ayeh, Mekhi Lairy and Kamari Williams each contributed 13 points, while Dalonte Brown and Isaiah Coleman-Lands added 10 apiece.
Ayeh, a 6-6 senior, was 5 of 5 while repeatedly scoring inside, and the RedHawks had enough height to go inside even more often had they chose that option. As it was, Miami held a 50-25 rebounding advantage, blocked five shots and outscored the Yellow Jackets 44-12 in the paint. It also owned a 17-0 edge in fast break points.
Overall, Miami shot 56.3 percent. It converted 34.5 percent (10 of 29) from outside the arc. Defiance, meanwhile, connected on 28.6 percent from the field and 7 of 38 (18.4 percent) outside the arc. Marell Jordan led the visitors with 20 points, hitting 7 of 12 from the field and 2 of 3 triples with four free throws. No other Yellow Jacket player had more than seven points.
Miami, which led from start to finish in each of game of its four-game homestand, opened up a double-digit lead (16-6) with 12:50 remaining in the first half. Dunks by Williams and Lairy late in the period helped Miami take a 45-20 lead to intermission.
With the RedHawks shooting 65.4 percent from the field and knocking down 15 of 22 free throws in the second half, the lead eventually reached reached 55 points before settling at a 99-47 final margin.
Miami travels to Western Illinois Saturday and hosts Cincinnati Dec. 1.