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Nate Talbot 2021-22
Nate Talbot led WSU with 17 points.
64
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 0-1,0-0 GLIAC
66
Winner Hillsdale HC 3-0,0-0 G-MAC
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne
0-1,0-0 GLIAC
64
Final
66
Hillsdale HC
3-0,0-0 G-MAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 27 37 64
Hillsdale HC 29 37 66

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Jeff Weiss, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Media Relations

Men's Basketball Edged 66-64 At Hillsdale

Talbot scores 17 points and grabs a game-best seven rebounds.

HILLSDALE, Mich. -- The Wayne State University men's basketball team (0-1 overall) officially began its 2022-23 campaign Friday evening with a 66-64 setback at Hillsdale College (3-0 overall) as part of the GLIAC/GMAC Challenge.

HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half
The host Chargers scored the first six points before freshman Carmelo Harris (Flint, Mich. / Beecher) split a pair from the charity stripe at the 16:08 mark.  A jumper by junior Kaimen Lennox (Kansas City, Mo. / Truman) cut the deficit to three (6-3) before HC scored the next six points for a 12-3 advantage.

Redshirt senior Antonio Marshall (Detroit, Mich. / Martin Luther King) made a jumper, preceding back-to-back jumpers by Harris to make it 12-9.  A triple by Marshall with just under eight minutes remaining in the first half pulled the Warriors to within two at 16-14.  Four minutes later, an offensive rebound and put-back by senior Nate Talbot (Lake Orion, Mich.) made it a one-point contest at 23-22.

On WSU's next possession, Harris connected from long range to knot the game at 25-25.  After an offensive foul on Hillsdale, graduate student Cortez Jackson (Harper Woods, Mich. / St. Clair Shores Lakeview) scored on a lay-up giving WSU its first lead of the game at 27-25.  The Chargers ended the opening half on a 4-0 run to lead 29-27 at intermission.

Second Half
A Talbot lay-up tied the game at 29-20 and Lennox drained a three-pointer the next trip down the court.  Another Talbot bucket concluded the 7-0 run.  Wayne State led 38-32 and over the next nine minutes out-scored the hosts 17-14 for a 55-46 lead with 9:32 remaining.

HC had a 6-0 spurt before a jumper by Marshall pushed the lead to five at 57-52 with just over 5:30 left.  Wayne State went scoreless for the next 2:30, while Hillsdale tallied nine consecutive points for 61-57 lead before Marshall connected from beyond the arc making it a one-point game at 61-60.

Two free throws by Talbot with 2:01 left gave the Warriors the lead at 62-61.  HC's Jack Gohlke made a jumper 17 seconds later before Lennox continued the lead changes with a jumper at the 1:21 mark.

Hillsdale's Kyle Goessler made a lay-up with 14 seconds left, then following a WSU turnover, he made one of two free throw attempts with five seconds left to complete the scoring.

TEAM STATS
Wayne State shot 44 percent (26-of-59) from the floor, but just 24 percent (4-of-17) from three-point range.  Meanwhile, Hillsdale connected on 47 percent (24-of-51) of its shots from the floor, including 6-of-18 (33 percent) from beyond the arc.

WSU was just 8-of-14 (57 percent) from the charity striple, while the Chargers were 12-of-17 (71 percent).  The Warriors had a 32-29 edge in rebounding, plus forced 11 HC miscues to nine Wayne State turnovers.

LEADING THE WARRIORS
Talbot led for WSU players in double figures with a team-best 17 points.  He also contributed a game-high seven rebounds.  Marshall chipped in with 14 points off the bench, while Lennox (13 points) and Harris (10 points) each scored in double figures.

LEADING THE CHARGERS
Peter Kalthoff tallied a game-high 19 points, with Goessler adding 10 points.  Joe Reuter led HC with six defensive rebounds.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will conclude the GLIAC/GMAC Challenge weekend by hosting Malone University at 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Wayne State Fieldhouse.


 
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