Men's Basketball Scoreboard (Nov. 18)
Wright State 83, Manchester 33
Eastern Michigan 81, Cleveland State 69
Wright State overwhelmed visiting Manchester on Monday night, collecting the lone win among Horizon League teams.
Wright State 83, Manchester 33
Scoring 50 first-half points, Wright State breezed to an 83-33 win over visiting Manchester at the Nutter Center as part of the CBE Hall of Fame Classic.
All 12 Wright State (2-2) players who appeared in the game scored, as every player was on the court for at least 11 minutes. Four Raiders reached double figures, with Jerran Young coming off the bench to pace Wright State with 14, while Miles Dixon, Cole Darling and Matt Vest all posting 10 points.
Wright State never trailed in the game and led 12-2 just 2:40 into the game. The Raiders forced 25 turnovers in the game, coverting the Manchester miscues into 39 points.
Thirteen of those turnovers came in the first 20 minutes of play, helping Wright State shoot 18-of-32 in the opening half. Vest scored all 10 of his points in the first half as Wright State took a 50-17 lead into the locker room.
The second half would see the Raiders lead by as many as 58 points before settling on the 50-point margin.
Eastern Michigan 81, Cleveland State 69
Cleveland State held a halftime lead, but foul trouble caught up with the Vikings in the second half in an 81-69 loss at Eastern Michigan as part of the Keightly Classic.
Bryn Forbes scored 22 points, his third 20-point game of the season, and Trey Lewis added a career-high 19 for Cleveland State (2-2), but the Vikings struggled while playing its third game in six days in its third different time zone after games at San Francisco and Texas Arlington last week.
Forbes hit all six of his free throws and is now a perfect 20-for-20 at the line this year.
Devon Long finished with eight points and seven rebounds.
Karrington Ward paced the Eagles with 28 points.
The first half was back and forth with nine ties and seven lead changes. The Eagles took their biggest lead of the half, 16-10, six minutes in on a Jalen Ross free throw. But the Vikings responded with eight straight points – four baskets by four different players – to regain an 18-16 advantage midway through the half.
Six ties followed as neither team was able to pull ahead by more than three points, that coming when Sebastian Douglas came up with a steal and coast-to-coast layup with eight seconds left in the half, giving CSU a 35-32 lead at the intermission.
The Eagles scored 49 second half points, including a 17-for-26 effort at the free throw line, while CSU could manage just six-for-34 from the field in the final 20 minutes.
The Eagles finished 24-of-39 at the free throw line, while CSU hit 24-of-31 at the charity stripe. The Vikings out-rebounded EMU, 50-33, including 26-5 on the offensive end, leading to 26 second chance points.
But CSU hit just 5-of-27 from 3-point range.
