Men’s Basketball Scoreboard (Nov. 19)
Detroit 71, James Madison 67
DePaul 80, Milwaukee 71
Detroit collected its first road win of the year, while Milwaukee returned to U.S. Cellular Arena on Tuesday.
Detroit 71, James Madison 67
Carlton Brundidge had his best game as a Detroit Titan, scoring 22 points as Detroit held on to hand James Madison a 71-67 defeat at the Convocation Center.
Detroit (2-2) led throughout the second half, but never by more than five points until Juwan Howard Jr.’s 3-pointer with 3:13 left put the Titans up, 67-60.
The Titans led 69-63 with 33 seconds left in regulation before JMU's Charles Cooke drained a three-pointer with 28 ticks left to trim the lead to three 69-66.
Detroit junior forward Juwan Howard, Jr. was then fouled but missed the front end of a one-and-one opportunity from the charity stripe to keep the margin three.
Howard then fouled Cooke during the Dukes possession, but like Howard, he too missed the first of two free throws before netting the second to trim the Titans lead to 69-67 with 15 second left. Brundidge was then fouled on the Titans possession and made both free throws to put Detroit up four 71-67 with 10 seconds to play. Cooke missed a three-point attempt in the closing seconds to seal the Titans’ victory.
Brundidge finished with a game-high 22 points on 6-of-9 shooting, including 4-of-6 from downtown, while Howard pitched in 15 points, seven rebounds and four assists.
Freshman guard Jarod Williams had another strong outing in front of 40-50 hometown fans as he finished with 11 points, two assists and a steal in his first collegiate start, while his backcourt classmate recorded nine points and three assists. Senior Evan Bruinsma led the Titans with a team-high eight rebounds, while his classmate Ugochukwu Njoku grabbed seven boards to go along with five points and two timely blocked shots.
James Madison opened the game with a 6-0 run, before Brundidge connected on his first three pointer of the season to cut the lead in half. But that didn't last long as JMU's Andrey Semenov matched Brundidge with a three of his own to give the Dukes a 9-3 lead. After a Williams layup made the score 9-5, the Dukes added to their lead back-to-back buckets to make the score 13-5 with 15:12 left in the opening half. The Titans then responded with an 8-0 run to tie the game, which included back-to-back layups from Howard and a three-pointer from Grant. The Dukes would answer back with a 5-0 run to go up 18-13, before the Titans closed the half with a 20-14 run, which included a stretch of nine-straight points from Brundidge, scored 15 points in the first half, including three field goals from beyond the arc.
The Titans opened the second half with a 15-8 run, capped off by a three from Williams to go up 48-40 with 13:22 left. After a JMU timeout the Dukes put together a 7-0 run to trim the Titans lead to 48-47 with 11:26 left, before Williams ended the run with another three-pointer from deep in the corner to extend Detroit's lead back to four. Both teams then exchanged baskets for the next five minutes until JMU's Tom Vodanovich had a chance to tie the score at the free throw line, but only split the pair leaving Detroit in front 57-56 with 6:26 left, that would be as close as the score would get as the Titans responded with a 10-4 run to go up 67-60 with just over three minutes remaining.
Detroit finished shooting 43.1 percent (22-of-51) overall, including 39.1 percent (9-of-23) from downtown, while JMU shot 40 percent (18-of-45) overall, including 31.3 percent (5-of-16) from beyond the arc. The Titans out rebound the Dukes 37-31, but turned the ball over 16 times – 11 times in the first half – compared to only 12 JMU turnovers. The Titans also committed a season-high 31 fouls sending the Dukes to the charity stripe 45 times, but lucky for Detroit the Dukes only made 26.
DePaul 80, Milwaukee 71
Cleveland Melvin scored 20 points and DePaul shot nearly 61 percent in the second half to claim an 80-71 win over Milwaukee at U.S. Cellular Arena.
The two teams traded the lead over the first 20 minutes and Milwaukee (4-2) was still within three at the midway point of the second half. But, playing for the fourth time in five days, Milwaukee appeared to run out of gas down the stretch.
Matt Tiby scored 20 points and added 11 rebounds for Milwaukee, which also got 16 points from Kyle Kelm.
Brandon Young contributed 19 points, seven rebounds and six assists for DePaul (3-1).
Every time the Panthers threatened down the stretch, the Blue Demons had an answer, often courtesy of their veteran duo of Melvin and Young.
The Panthers and Blue Demons traded the lead over the first 20 minutes. Milwaukee had a 22-19 lead after a J.J. Panoske three and then tied the game the game at 32-apiece on a three-point play by Tiby near the end of the half.
DePaul started the second half quickly, building a 48-41 lead on a three-pointer by Jamee Crockett. The Panthers closed to within 48-45 on a pair of Tiby free throws and again to within 52-49 on a left-handed hoop by Tiby with 11:34 left.
But, that's when the Blue Demons launched their decisive run. Five-straight points from Melvin highlighted an 11-0 burst that made it 63-49 with 7:20 left and had the Panthers playing catchup the rest of the night.
Milwaukee did pull to within 65-59 on a layin by Malcolm Moore with 4:20 remaining before Austin Arians had a look at a three on the next possession that would have made it a three-point game. Instead, the Blue Demons took the miss the other way to restore an eight-point advantage and the Panthers could get no closer than six after that.
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