Leatherneck Nation

We played that game in Denver back on our heels and the Pioneers schooled us in the art of playing team basketball.  Will be interesting to see how we respond today.  We are 4 games up in the standings over these guys but we share something in common with them and that is not doing too well on the road (we 1-4 they 1-5).  We are still in 3rd place by a half-game over both Kansas City and NDSU so not a lot of room for error when it comes to staying in the upper half of standings.  My freshly-trained Neural Net has us winning comfortably, probably a bit too comfortably:

{
  Game: 'Matchup',
  team1: { id: 'Western Ill.', score: 81.023 },
  team2: { id: 'Omaha', score: 62.613 },
  Note: 'Team 1 assumed to be visitor team'
}

Call it bad luck or bad defense or whatever, but we seem to bring out the best in our opponents when it comes to their shooting percentage.

Boy oh boy.  Played a pretty good last 10 minutes to sneak out of Omaha with the W. 
But our offense is just too stagnant at times with everyone standing around watching Massner dribble the rock.

Western wins 75-72.

Trenton Massner led the Western scoring with 28 points.  He also had 9 rebounds.

Vuk Stevanik had 18 points.  Alec Rosner had 11.  KJ Lee had 10.

Western had 0 Bench Points.  Omaha had 26.

Attendance at Omaha = 1,898

Next game will be at Western Hall on Thursday (Feb 9) vs UMKC.  Game time is 6:00 PM.

 

wiu712 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:29 pm Western wins 75-72.

Trenton Massner led the Western scoring with 28 points.  He also had 9 rebounds.

Vuk Stevanik had 18 points.  Alec Rosner had 11.  KJ Lee had 10.

Western had 0 Bench Points.  Omaha had 26.

Attendance at Omaha = 1,898

Next game will be at Western Hall on Thursday (Feb 9) vs UMKC.  Game time is 6:00 PM.

 

 

Not even many bench minutes.  QB was apparently injured giving KJ lots of PT.  Productive bench depth has been a problem this year.

The last 4 seconds of the game:


 
 
 

Current Summit League Standings:
Oral Roberts  12-0
South Dakota State  9-4
Western  8-5
Saint Thomas  7-6
UMKC  6-6
North Dakota State  6-6
South Dakota  6-7
Denver  4-9
Omaha  3-10
North Dakota  2-10