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Thursday April 25, 2024
NMU Basketball Teams Dropped By Wayne State

This Story was written by Northern Michigan University Communications


MEN'S GAME SUMMARY:

MARQUETTE---Northern Michigan University was outscored 40-23 in the second half in a 67-43 loss against Wayne State.  The loss snaps a three game winning streak for the Wildcats and puts their record at an even 5-5 with a 3-1 mark in Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play.

NMU and Wayne State played to an even 10-10 score to open the game before the Warriors used an 11-2 run to take a comfortable lead at 21-12 with 5:49 left to play in the half.  Northern Michigan was able to cut the deficit to seven by halftime at a score of 27-20.

Freshman guard Jordan Perez led all scorers at the half with 11 points shooting 4-7 (.571) from the field and added a team-high four rebounds and two steals.

Wayne State was able to extend their lead at the beginning of the second half scoring 22 of the first 26 points to put the score at 49-24 with 11:25 remaining in the contest.

NMU was able to close out the game strong scoring 10 of the final 13 points to set the final score at 67-43.
 

Perez' 11 led NMU in the outing as he was the only Wildcat to score in double-digits. Michael Lewis led the Warriors with 17.

"It wasn't a good night defensively, offensively or rebounding," commented Head Coach Bill Sall.  "Wayne State lives on how we defend the rebound and if you're not ready to play physical basketball, not ready to step up to the challenge, you're going to be in trouble.  For us, there were some shots in the first half that we normally have hit here in the past couple games and we never really adjusted. "

"Our inexperience and youth really showed in plenty of areas.  Hopefully we can learn from this, which we're still trying to do.  This is a long season in our conference and every night you need to be ready to battle and we just didn't do that tonight."



Northern Michigan will next be in action Friday, January 2nd when they travel to Tiffin for an 8:30 p.m. tip and Ohio Dominican Sunday, January 4th at 3 p.m.


WOMEN'S GAME SUMMARY:

MARQUETTE---Northern Michigan University senior guard Alyssa Colla put up 20 points and recorded a team-high six rebounds as the NMU women's basketball team dropped a 69-57 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference matchup to No. 8 Wayne State Monday at the Berry Events Center.


The loss drops NMU to 4-3 overall with a 2-2 GLIAC mark. Wayne State improved to 5-1 with a 3-1 league record.

Wayne State's Sharita Brown led all players with 27 points and 19 rebounds, including 21 second-half points.

"We did not do a very good job of securing the basketball on the defensive end when we got the misses from them, they had 16 offensive rebounds and dominated us on the board" said NMU head coach Troy Mattson. "Basketball starts from the inside out, you have to dominate the defensive glass, protect against layups and you have to be able to get layups yourself. We did not finish shots late in the game when we got the ball down to a couple of our post players."

"If you don't make layups and you don't stop them from making layups you aren't going to win a lot of basketball games. We've had a little bit of an issue with that this year and we are going to have to find a way to correct it."

A layup from Colla with 13:29 left in the first gave NMU a 14-9 lead, it's largest of the game.

A pair of free throws by senior guard Lauren Gruber with 1:03 left in the first half gave the Wildcats a 31-29 lead that they carried into the break.

NMU senior center Courtney Lemon went 5-5 from three-point range in the first half to lead all players at the break with 15 points. As a team, NMU shot 11-27 from the floor (40.7%) and were 7-13 (53.8) from three-point range.

The game remained within two possessions until the final 1:04 of action when Brown laid the ball in to give the Warriors a 65-57 advantage. Brown then went 4-4 from the free throw line in the final minute to seal the victory.

Along with Lemon and Colla, Gruber rounded out the double-digit scorers for NMU with 14 including going 7-7 from the free throw line.

Wayne State out rebounded NMU 43-32 and outscored the Wildcats 34-20 in the paint. NMU finished the game shooting 37-percent from the floor (20-34) and was 8-17 (47.1%) from three-point range and 9-10 from the free throw line.

The Warriors shot 39-percent from the floor (23-59), were 1-7 from three point range and connected on 22-31 attempts from the free throw line.

NMU returns to action Thursday, Dec. 18 at 6:30 p.m. when they travel to Lewis for a non conference matchup against the Flyers.

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