Ferrell, Bryant Lead Hoosiers Over St. John’s
Ranked 13th in the country headed into play, they lost to Wake Forest on in their opener.
The defender actually does a good job of shuffling his feet and getting in position to challenge Zimmerman’s shot. “Things didn’t go our way”.
Danny Manning’s program came up with a big win on Monday night. “We didn’t do enough tonight to prevent them from having the night that they had”.
Why You Need To Care A couple of old rivals, Duke and Wake Forest, renew acquaintances this weekend in Winston-Salem. This was the first time Wake Forest won two games in a November or December tournament since it won the 76 Classic in Anaheim, California in 2008….
Afterward, Crean called out his players, lamented his team’s fleeting energy and blamed himself, too, for not putting IN in a good position. Nwamu fouled Collin Hartman on a 3-pointer from the corner, and Hartman finished a four-point play to rally the Hoosiers (4-2) within 69-65 with 1:49 to go.
Wake Forest: Devin Thomas – 21 points and 9 rebounds. Bryce Alford – 14 points and 7 assists.
The second half started off hot with both teams scoring nine points prior to the under-16 timeout. Junior Rohndell Goodwin led the Silverwords with 18 points. Kansas has a veteran team and they should be a factor all season long. He hit a short jumper, two free throws and a step-back jumper to keep St. John’s at bay.
IN will play the victor of the Chaminade-UNLV game for fifth place today.
· Ferrell rebounds after poor performance on Monday: Yogi Ferrell didn’t play well on Monday, but he bounced back on Tuesday with a strong effort offensively. Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings was an assistant at Kansas from 1988-93 before taking his first head coaching position at IL State.2. Leti Lerma scored 15 for Bradley (1-3). He was named co-MVP along with guard Frank Mason III (10 points, five rebounds, three assists). Jamal Williams had 12 points while Jalin Barnes finished with 10.
While Wake Forest will get another crack at a quality win against Vanderbilt in Tuesday’s Maui semifinals, in will have what should amount to a get-well game in the consolation bracket against woeful St. John’s.
Mitoglou’s presence at the rim spurred Wake Forest to score a jaw-dropping 52 points in the paint.
Federico Mussini led the Red Storm with 14 points. Durand Johnson added 10.
“That is what we expected coming in, we worked hard to get to this point”, Roberson said. They used their balance to shake free of the Norse (1-3) in the second half. Mitchell Wilbekin – 15 points. Senior center Jake Zuilhof and senior guard Mike Martin each had 12 points. Freshman center Thomas Bryant came into the game shooting 80 percent from the field (16 of 20).
Ryan Bowie scored 17 points to lead the UTSA (1-4), which led 41-38 at the half but was outscored 60-43 in the second half.