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Antonio Marshall
Antonio Marshall scored a career-high 22 points at SVSU.
66
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 2-4,0-1 GLIAC
75
Winner Saginaw Valley SV 4-4,1-0 GLIAC
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne
2-4,0-1 GLIAC
66
Final
75
Saginaw Valley SV
4-4,1-0 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 46 20 66
Saginaw Valley SV 28 47 75

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

Men's Basketball Falls 75-66 At Saginaw Valley

Warriors out-scored 47-20 in the second half.

UNIVERSITY CENTER, Mich. – The Wayne State University men's basketball team (2-4 overall, 0-1 GLIAC) played its first conference contest under first-year head coach Bryan Smothers on Saturday at Saginaw Valley State University (4-4 overall, 1-0 GLIAC) with the Cardinals prevailing 75-66.  It was a tale of two halves as WSU won the first half 46-28, but SVSU out-scored the Warriors 47-20 over the final 20 minutes.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half
There were six lead changes in the first 9:05, with the last one occurring as freshman Carmelo Harris (Flint, Mich. / Beecher) drained at triple turning a 17-16 deficit, into a 19-17 advantage.
 
After the Cardinals knotted the contest at 19-19, the Warriors scored seven of the next eight points for a 26-20 lead.  Senior Avery Lewis (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Huron) had a pair of buckets sandwiched around another shot from beyond the arc by Harris.
 
WSU extended its margin to 10 (30-20) with 7:10 left before intermission.  Saginaw Valley would pull within six (34-28) after a four-point possession (two field goals book-ending a Wayne State foul), but the Cardinals would not score the final 4:19 of the half.
 
The Warriors tallied the final 12 points to lead 46-28 at the break.  Three WSU players scored in double figures in the opening 20 minutes led by senior Antonio Marshall's (Detroit, Mich. / Martin Luther King) game-high 17 points.  Both Lewis and Harris notched 10 points in the first half.  Wayne State shot 56 percent (18-of-32) from the floor before halftime.
 
Second Half
Wayne State had an 18-point advantage (49-31) after a triple by Marshall less than a minute after intermission.  Saginaw Valley scored the next five minutes before a jumper by junior Kaimen Lennox (Kansas City, Mo. / Truman HS).  WSU led 56-41 after two free throws by Lewis, but the Cardinals responded with a 17-0 run to grab a 58-56 advantage just past the mid-point of the half.

A lay-up by Ray Williams, Jr. (Detroit, Mich. / Edison Public School Academy) tied the game at 58-58.  It was the Warriors first field goal in nearly eight minutes.

SVSU scored six of the next seven points for a 64-59 advantage.   Even though Wayne State did not make a field goal in the final 4:40, the Warriors still had a chance to tie with 3:26 remaining, but Marshall split a pair from the charity stripe.

Saginaw Valley sealed the win by making seven of its final eight foul shots.

TEAM STATS
Wayne State shot 42 percent (24-of-57) from the floor, compared to SVSU's 50 percent (27-of-54).  WSU made 8-of-23 from beyond the arc for 35 percent, while the Cardinals were 3-of-13 from three-point range for 23 percent.  The Warriors made 10 of 15 foul shots (67 percent) with Saginaw Valley connecting of 18 of 24 free throws (75 percent).  Wayne State had a 35-32 edge in rebounding, but the Warriors had 14 miscues to 11 SVSU turnovers.

LEADING THE WARRIORS
Marshall tallied a career-high 22 points, after scoring 17 points in the first half.  Lewis notched 16 points, with Williams, Jr. grabbing a game-high 11 rebounds.  Lennox handed out a team-best five assists, while Harris tallied 10 points.

LEADING THE CARDINALS
Jiovanni Miles scored 22 points, including 18 in the second half.  Maurice Barnett finished with 18 points after scoring 12 in the first 20 minutes.  Freddie McIntosh contributed 14 points, while Tre Garrett grabbed a team-best nine boards, dished out a team-high five assists and scored 12 points.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will host Michigan-Dearborn on Tuesday (Dec. 6) with a 7 p.m. tip-off at the Wayne State Fieldhouse.



 
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