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Senior Sendoff: Cleveland State Men’s Basketball Defeats Northern Kentucky on Senior Day
Cleveland, OH-The Cleveland State Males’s Basketball crew defeated Northern Kentucky 64-63 Sunday afternoon, incomes a victory on Senior Day within the remaining regular-season house recreation on the Wolstein Heart.
With Sunday’s victory the Vikings have secured a quarterfinal house recreation within the Barbasol Horizon League Championship on Thursday, March 2. The sport might be a part of a doubleheader with the ladies’s basketball crew, with instances introduced at a later date. Tickets are on sale now, and may be bought by CLICKING HERE or by calling the CSU Ticket Workplace at (216) 687-4848.
Previous to the sport, Cleveland State acknowledged Yahel Hill, Deshon Parker and Deante Johnson for his or her careers sporting the Inexperienced and White.
All three had huge video games. Johnson completed with 16 factors and 10 rebounds for his third double-double of the season. Johnson completed 7-12 from the sphere and made each of his free throw makes an attempt for the sport. Hill had 9 factors together with ending 3-6 from past the three-point arc. Parker completed with six factors, together with draining two important free throws with below ten seconds left to seal the win for the Vikings. He additionally had 5 assists and 5 rebounds.
Tristan Enaruna had 14 factors, ending in double figures for the 16th consecutive recreation. Enaruna was 6-12 from the ground and had eight rebounds, an help and two steals.
Jayson Woodrich additionally completed in double figures, scoring 11 factors which included a number of important three-pointers down the stretch to maintain the Vikings in entrance as the sport wound down.
Neither crew had a lead larger than six factors all through all the recreation. There have been 11 lead modifications and eight ties. Regardless of that, the Vikings held the lead for over 28 minutes of general recreation time.
The primary half was back-and-forth all the method. Each groups held slim leads, with the Vikings leaping out to a 5 level benefit about midway by way of the half. Drew Lowder had a quick break lay-in off a steal to make it 17-12 Vikings on the 10:46 mark.
NKU responded with a mini run to tie the rating up at 19 with seven and a half minutes to play. Cleveland State responded with a run to re-take a five-point lead, however NKU as soon as once more responded with a run of their very own. A Marques Warrick three-pointer with 13 seconds to play gave NKU a two-point lead going into the locker room.
The Vikings surged popping out of the halftime locker room, taking their largest lead at 43-37 with 14:26 left to play.
From there the sport stayed inside one possession for just about the remainder of the best way. NKU tied the rating thrice down the stretch however might by no means take the lead. Parker lastly iced the sport by making two of two on the free throw line with three seconds to go. NKU hit a three-pointer with below a second to go for the ultimate rating.
The Vikings will journey to Wisconsin for the ultimate two common season video games of the season. CSU will tackle Inexperienced Bay subsequent Friday, February 24th at 9 p.m.
The Barbasol Horizon League Match will start subsequent week. Present season ticket holders can lock of their seats for subsequent season and can obtain complimentary admission to each semifinal video games with a $50 deposit. New season ticket holders may obtain complimentary admission by placing a deposit down in direction of seats subsequent season.