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Michigan State shoots its way to 13-point road win over Illinois
The No.6 Spartans beat Illinois, 87-74, on Monday night at State Farm Center thanks to its most impressive shooting performances of the year.For the game, Michigan State (18-3, 6-2) shot 68.2percent from the field, its best mark of the season That shooting helped cover up plenty of sloppiness with the ball from the Spartans.Michigan State turned the ball over a season-high 25 times and often looked frazzled when facing the constant ball pressure from Illinois (10-11, 0-8).But in the end, shooting won out, as Michigan State was able to win its second straight game and stay two games behind Ohio State and Purdue as it nears the midway point of its conference slate.While Illinois' pressure produced its share of turnovers, it also allowed Michigan State to utilize its back-door alley-oop.The Spartans converted 10 dunks for the game.A hot start from Miles Bridges also helped the Spartans to lead the game nearly throughout.Bridges made his first seven shots, en route to a 31-point performance.Bridges shot 11-for-13 for the game and a perfect 7-for-7 from the line.Freshman forward Jaren Jackson Jr.added a career-high 21 points, missing only one of his six shots and hitting 11 of his 12 field goal attempts.Michigan State entered the game having played only two true road games on the year, the fewest in Division 1 basketball.One of those was a 16-point loss at Ohio State.Last year, the Spartans went 2-7 on the road with largely the same core.With that background, Monday's performance counted as a breakthrough - one that bodes well with six road games left in the team's final 10 games of the regular season.Michigan State went into halftime up by seven points, 39-32, despite turning the ball over 15 times in the opening 20 minutes.The Spartans' point guard struggled the most, with Cassius Winston turning the ball over four times in 11 minutes in the first half.He finished the game with eight turnovers to go along with his eight assists.That turnover-heavy start helped Illinois lead the Spartans as late as the 8:18 mark of the first half.But starting with a Bridges dunk, the Spartans went on a 10-2 run late in the half as it started to pull away.It added a seven-point run early in the second half to go up by 12 points less than three minutes into the frame.A 15-point second half from Jackson helped Michigan State stay up by double digits for nearly the entire second half.Illinois came as close as eight points down with 1:03 left, but Bridges and Jackson combined to hit 10 free throws in the final 56 seconds to seal the win.Michigan State now returns home to face Wisconsin on Friday.* Jackson went to the locker room with 2:36 left in the first half after hitting his head on the court while diving for a loose ball.He returned to start the second half.* Jackson recorded six blocks for the game, bringing his season total to 71.He's now one block shy of tying the school record of 72 set by Ken Johnson in 1984-85.
John Petty Lights It Up, Alabama Breaks Auburn's Win Streak
The Alabama Crimson Tide took down the Auburn Tigers 76-71 Wednesday night in Coleman Coliseum.John Petty led the way for the Crimson Tide with 27 points.The Alabama faithful became weary when it was announced that Collin Sexton would not be playing due to an abdominal injury.The first half was slow as the Tigers took the 33-30 lead in to half after Auburn’s Chuma Okeke dropped a floater at the buzzer.Alabama turned it up in the second half and outscored the Tigers 46-38.The atmosphere in Coleman was electric.The students and fans packed out the arena in Crimson, and you could tell the Auburn fans were in the building as well.John Petty lead the way for the Tide with 27 points, going 8/13 on three pointers.The Tigers had more of a balanced attack on offense.Bryce Brown was Auburn’s leading scorer with 12 points, along with three other players in double digit scoring.Donta Hall provided a major spark for the Crimson Tide players tonight.According to Chandler Rome, Avery Johnson said “The team fed off of Donta wanting to play tonight.What a classy move.He’s a kid with strong character and he’s tough.That’s a sign of toughness.”Alabama had a very complete team game.Dazon Ingram came away with 16 points, 3 rebounds, and 2 assists.Herb Jones and Braxton Key both provided a presence on the glass grabbing 7 and 9 rebounds respectively.According to Alex Byington, Auburn’s Bruce Pearl said “Listen, without Collin (Sexton) and (Donta) Hall playing limited minutes, they’re a really good team.… That’s the most talented team we played (this season).”This win will be monstrous for Alabama looking forward.The Tide move to 12-6 on the year and 4-2 in the SEC.Auburn falls to 16-2 and 4-1 in the SEC.
Trae Young’s turnover-plagued night costs No. 4 Oklahoma at Kansas State – CollegeBasketballTalk
When Stephen Curry was a freshman at Davidson, in one of the first games of his college career, he turned the ball over eight times in the first half of a game at Eastern Michigan.Head coach Bob McKillop toyed with the idea of benching his star freshman, instead opting to turn him loose again in the second half.Curry scored 13 second half points – to go along with five turnovers – and then went out and dropped 32 in his next game.Those 15 points and 13 turnovers were his first career double-double, and I’m not sure that he’s slowed down since.I say all that to say this: It is a minor miracle that the first time that Trae Young looked mortal came on January 16th.No.4 Oklahoma went into Manhattan on Tuesday night and got worked over by Kansas State.The Sooners ended up losing 87-69.They trailed by 14 points within the first 10 minutes of the game.Young finished with 20 points and six assists – numbers that would be phenomenal for literally any other point guard on the road in conference play – but he shot just 8-for-21 from the floor, finished 2-for-10 from three and turned the ball over 12 times.In a vacuum, this performance really wouldn’t be anything to worry about.Young is Oklahoma’s offense.When he has a bad game, the team is going to struggle.That’s the risk of relying this much on one player.It is that simple, and the idea that we should expect a freshman point guard to make it the entirety of conference play in a league as difficult as the Big 12 is ludicrous.He’s going to throw up a dud every now and again, and that’s what happened on Tuesday.“I played terrible,” Young said.“I blame a lot of this loss on me.” Where this becomes a concern for the Sooners is that the turnover problem that Young dealt with on Tuesday is not exactly an isolated incident.Young is leading the nation averaging 5.2turnovers per game, and while that number is inflated by opportunity – Young plays in the nation’s third-fastest offense with the highest-usage rate we’ve ever seen in the KenPom era – his turnover rate of 19.2is somewhat concerning.For comparison’s sake, Jalen Brunson’s turnover rate is 10.5.Joel Berry II’s is 11.7.Devonte’ Graham’s is 17.0.The biggest worry is that the number keeps rising.Young has set a career-high in turnovers in each of the last two games, three of the last four games and four times total since the start of Big 12 play.There are a lot of good coaches, good teams and great point guards in the Big 12.Teams may have started to solve the riddle, which means that Lon Kruger and Young are going to have to start making some adjustments.And that will come.Kruger is one of the best pure basketball coaches in the business.Which is why the most disappointing part about this loss is that it puts Oklahoma in a tough spot in regards to an outright Big 12 regular season title.With how strong the top of the conference is, losing games against anyone outside of the top four is a major disadvantage, and Oklahoma is now the only team amongst that grou
West Virginia player appears to throw punch at court-storming Texas Tech fan
In addition to suffering its first Big 12 loss at eighth-ranked Texas Tech on Saturday afternoon, second-ranked West Virginia endured one final insult on the way off the court.Some of the Mountaineers couldn’t escape the floor in time to avoid being caught up in the tidal wave of Red Raiders fans who flooded the court after their team’s 72-71 victory.Videos of the court storming appear to show sophomore forward Wesley Harris throwing a punch at a fan who bumped into him as he tried to make his way to the West Virginia bench.Other Mountaineers players also engaged in some more minor pushing and shoving immediately afterward.Here’s one video of the incident: It’s unclear what if any punishment Harris or his teammates will face as a result of their behavior.Neither Big 12 or West Virginia administrators immediately returned messages from Yahoo Sports seeking comment on Sunday morning.Saturday’s controversy will surely reignite the annual debate over whether court storming has a place in college basketball.It’s a discussion worth having considering some of the dangerous incidents that have occurred in recent years.In Jan.2013, NC State forward C.J.Leslie had to lift Will Privette to safety after the senior was thrown from his wheelchair during the court storming that followed the Wolfpack’s upset of Duke.In Feb.2014, a melee erupted at Utah Valley when New Mexico State players exchanged punches with on-rushing fans just after the final buzzer.In Feb.2015, a knucklehead Kansas State rushed at Kansas forward Jamari Traylor and body checked him on his way off the floor and another Wildcats supporter taunted several Jayhawks players until a Kansas assistant intervened.The most severe court storming injury of all came in Feb.2004 when an avalanche of Tucson High students spilled onto the court after 6-foot-6 senior Joe Kay clinched a rivalry victory with a two-handed breakaway dunk.The torn carotid artery and stroke Kay suffered that day left him paralyzed on one side and robbed him of many of the gifts that enabled him to become the valedictorian of his class, win awards for his saxophone skills and earn a volleyball scholarship to Stanford.“My injuries are something I’ll have to deal with the rest of my life,” Kay told Yahoo Sports in 2014.“If court-storming didn’t exist, or if none of the people at my high school had ever really seen it on TV, it probably never would have happened.People claim it’s a tradition but we shouldn’t have tradition if it’s unsafe.It doesn’t make sense.” While there’s no excuse for Harris losing his cool and striking a fan after he was bumped, Texas Tech is hardly blameless here.It wasn’t that difficult to predict a success-starved fan base would rush the floor after beating the No.2 team in the country.Texas Tech needed to have a greater courtside security presence to ensure the West Virginia players time to exit the floor safely.The only good news to emerge from Saturday’s incident is that it appears nobody was seriously hu
Ypsilanti's Corey Allen hits buzzer-beater to lift Detroit Mercy past Cleveland State
Detroit Mercy sophomore Corey Allen scored a team-high 25 points on Wednesday, but it was his final two that gave the Titans the victory over Cleveland State.Trailing 84-83 with 3.9seconds remaining, Allen received an inbounds pass and went end-to-end for an uncontested layup as time expired.The win snaps an 11-game losing streak and improves Detroit to 5-13 and 1-4 in the Horizon League.Allen, a 2016 Ypsilanti High School graduate, scored 22 of his points in the second half on 8-of-9 shooting.The 6-foot-3 guard, who was named the Horizon League Freshman of the Year last season after leading all conference first-year players with 14.3points per game, is second on the team in scoring this season at 15.8points per game.See how Corey Allen, other college basketball players from Ann Arbor area fared in 2016-17 He was the 2016 Ann Arbor News Player of the Year after averaging 23.5points per game his senior season.Allen finished with more than 1,500 points during his high school career.
TCU loses two in a row, drops emotional, double-overtime thriller at Texas – TCU 360
Print Article The Horned Frogs overcame a deficit as big as 13 as it stumbled out of the gate in Austin Wednesday night with point guard Jaylen Fisher in early foul trouble and hot shooting from the Longhorns but late miscues doomed the Frogs in double-overtime, as they lost by a point against Texas, 99-98.“I was impressed with our guys how we battled back,” TCU head coach Jamie Dixon said.“Obviously had adversity early, got down and got the leads in both overtimes to be in a position to finish it off, but we didn’t so that’s why we got the loss.This league is going to be exciting with games like this.”Fisher picked up two fouls in the first 2:11 of the game, forcing him to miss the rest of the first half.The Horned Frog offense struggled without him, committing nine first-half turnovers after averaging just 9.8turnovers over its last five games.The sophomore had the same issue crop up in TCU’s last game against Kansas, playing only 14 minutes against the Jayhawks, and he scored 16 points in those 14 minutes, providing a spark when on the court.“He played well in the second half, and that’s something we have to address and get better at,” Dixon said.“We’ve been working on it, and he played the second half with one foul.We can’t be in that position with anybody on our team especially a guard.”After halftime, Fisher mostly turned his night around, finishing with 13 points and six assists in 27 minutes of action.TCU guard Alex Robinson chipped in 14 points, hitting all of three of his three-pointers off the bench in place of Fisher.Defensively, TCU had a rough go of it trying to keep up with the Texas frontcourt of forwards Jericho Sims, Dylan Osetkowski and Mohamed Bamba.The Longhorns out-scored TCU down low by 12, 42-30, in the paint.Texas out-rebounded TCU 33-30, blocking seven shots.“They made shots early and got to the foul line way too much, but we talked about it and have to get better at it,” Dixon said.“They played well and had some guys that stepped up.”The second half appeared to be more of the same with Texas, jumping back ahead by as many as 13, 51-38, with 16:26 left to play following a Bamba lay-up.Despite their defensive deficiencies, the Horned Frogs began to climb back into the game with about ten minutes left to play, using a 9-1 run that cut the Longhorn lead to just two, 63-61, with 7:44 left to play.The stretch was powered by TCU’s leading scorer Kenrich Williams who scored six of TCU’s points during the stretch.The senior finished with a game-high 26 points.TCU’s defense also did its part, forcing Texas to miss six consecutive shots.The Horned Frogs then took its first lead of the night following a three-pointer from Williams on the left wing, 66-65, with 6:20 to play.He did it again about three minutes later to return the lead to TCU, 73-72 with 3:14 left to play.With 1:04 left in the game, TCU found itself trailing by four, 77-73, but forward Vladimir Brodziansky willed the Horned Frogs into overtime with a perfect trip to t
Texas earns big home win in double overtime over No. 16 TCU – CollegeBasketballTalk
Phil Booth led the way with 21 points and four assists while Jalen Brunson chipped in with 17 points and five assists and Mikal Bridges added 15 points as No.1 Villanova pasted No.10 Xavier, 89-65.Xavier joined the Big East prior to the 2013-14 season, and in the five trips that the Musketeers have made to Philadelphia, the closest they have managed to keep a game has been 13.They lost by 23 points the first time they played as league foes.They lost by 13 the following year, by 31 points the season in which the Wildcats won the national title and by 25 last season.Wednesday night was more of the same.Villanova was up 18-6 just six minutes into the game and never looked back.The Wildcats took a 12-point lead into the break and lead by 20 less than five minutes into the second half.The only thing the Musketeers had going all night long was Kerem Kanter, who finished with a team-high 16 points.Here are three things that we can takeaway from this game: The last two games that the Wildcats played prior to Wednesday night were somewhat worrying.The issue was on the defensive end of the floor.The Wildcats gave up 101 points in their only loss of the season at Butler, a game that could somewhat be explained away by the Bulldogs making a ridiculous 15-for-22 from beyond the arc.But just a week later, Villanova gave up 90 points at Marquette, and that doesn’t even include the 85 points that Villanova gave up to DePaul in their Big East opener.Prior to their blowout win over the Musketeers, Villanova was dead last in defensive efficiency in Big East play, according to KenPom.Those doubts … well, they are no longer doubts, at least not in the moment.Xavier shot just 42 percent from the floor.They were 3-for-16 from three and turned the ball over 14 times.If you’re into the analytic angle, Xavier scored less than 1.0points-per-possession, the first time Villanova held an opponent below that mark since Dec.22nd.And it’s probably worth noting here that, entering Wednesday, Xavier was ranked 13th in KenPom’s adjusted offensive efficiency metric.“We’ve been struggling defensively,” head coach Jay Wright said, “and our guys really stepped up.” The issue, according to Wright, has been complacency.It started on that Dec.22nd game against Hofstra, and it continued into the start of Big East play.The problem? Villanova didn’t get in the practices they needed to in order to solve the problem.After the Hofstra game it was Christmas.Then they had to travel to Chicago to play DePaul.Next, they made a trip to Indianapolis on Dec.30th.“We saw it coming, we just didn’t have the time to practice,” Wright said.It wasn’t until after the Butler game that they were able to take a week to really iron out some of the kinks, and the Wildcats still struggled with an admittedly awesome Marquette offense.“We just kind of lost it,” Wright said.“We can’t just say, ‘OK, we’re going to play defense now’ when we haven’t been doing it or three weeks.You have to get back to your habits.” “Th
Texas pulls off emotional 99-98 double OT win over No. 16 TCU
On the same day the program announced that starting point guard Andrew Jones has leukemia, the Texas Longhorns pulled off the most significant win of their 2017-18 season to date.Texas got 22 bench points from junior guard Eric Davis Jr.and out-dueled No.16 TCU 99-98 in double overtime Wednesday night in Austin.Junior forward Dylan Osetkowski chipped in 20 points and six boards.It looked for a brief moment as though the emotional night might be met with a bitter end.On the final possession of the game, TCU point guard Jaylen Fisher drove unimpeded to the basket for what appeared to be an uncontested game-winning layup, but his attempt wound up falling harmlessly off the front rim.The miss was immediately followed by an outpouring of emotion from the Texas players, who all wore “AJ1” patches and touched Jones’ jersey during the starting lineup announcements.It also drove head coach Shaka Smart to tears while the Texas fight song was being played.Texas had lost 13 consecutive games against ranked opponents before their triumph over the Horned Frogs.UT improved to 11-5 overall and 2-2 in the Big 12, while TCU dropped to 13-3 overall and 1-3 in the league.
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