Leatherneck Nation

Western wins 79-71

JJ Kalakon was Western's lead scorer with 25 points.  Ryan Myers had 21 points.

Drew Cisse had 9 rebounds.  Jesiah West had 4 blocks.

Western was 11 of 16 on three-pointers and 12 of 24 on free throws.

 Attendance at Lindenwood = 1,069
 
 

really need to work on the free throw shooting won't get very far in the post season with out better free throw shooting

Turnovers and free throws could be the Achilles heel 

The big danger in not being a good FT shooting team is that players might become a bit gun shy, not wanting to put themselves on the stripe.  Keep pounding the ball into the paint.  No one in the OVC has depth in quality big men.  A foul on their bigs, even when coupled with a missed FT, is golden.
 

I would say the biggest threat would be losing the game due to points that could of been had. If we had shot 70% free throw shooting  last night, which seems like a legitimate average as a team, we would have had approximately 5 extra points which is a huge difference in most competitive basketball games. I watched a minimum of 3 air balls on the free throw line last night which cant be happening perhaps 1 every so often, but 3 in 1 game on an uncontested free shot seems shocking to me. Also, for reference if we had shot just over 60% on our free throws we would have won the Tennessee State game.