A Sea Of Red

We close out the tourney Saturday with a chance to even our record on the season.

If we can get this one in the win column I will be pretty happy with our pre-conference results. A little disappointing that we couldn't finish the job after the great comeback against UNCW, but you really don't expect this young team to win on the road against Big East and Big 12 teams.

We have a common opponent in Notre Dame, who blew Chicago State out 102-62.

Truth is stranger than fiction. Chicago State has a 6'10" reserve center from Poland who's last name is.......... Kielbasa!

I'd rather listen to this than watch the beating that UVa is taking in Blacksburg.

We lead 11-8 at the first media timeout.

13-10 Flames at the 11 minute mark. lots of turnovers by both teams.

JC hits a jumper in the lane to put us up 17-13.

They hit a jumper to cut it to 17-15 with about 7 minutes in the half.
jesse makes it 19-15 on a drive.

21-17 on a putback by Burrus. They cut it to 21-19.

Burrus makes it 23-19 with a rare 15 footer.

Minaya hits a jumper to make the lead 25-19.

Burrus with his 3rd block of the half and Minaya hits from 3! 28-19.

Jesse scores on the break. 30-19 with under 2 in the half.

They cut it to 9 with 2 FT on a Burrus foul. Evan responds with a short jumper.

We call timeout with :30 to set up the last shot leading 32-21.

JB slams on a dime from Evan!!

Halftime score:

LU 34
Chicago ST. 21

We shot 58% from the floor, blocked 4 shots and outrebounded them 19-12. The main negative was 10 turnovers to their 6.

Evan leading us with 4 assists and 0 turnovers. I like the fact that he is not forcing up shots today.

Let's see if we can close things out better in the 2nd half today than we did yesterday.

Burrus shoots 2 after being fouled trying to slam. He makes 1-2.

They score a bucket and a FT to cut it to 35-24. Evan from 3!!!

They make 1-2 to cut it to 38-25.

They score inside to cut it to 11. Jesse is fouled. Non-shooting. JB misses a dunk on the inbounds play.

A layup cuts our lead to 38-29. Sommy turns it over.

They make 2 FT and the lead has shrunk to 7.

Jeremy misses from 3. He is 0-3 today.