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Carmelo Harris
(C) Douglas Johnson
Carmelo Harris scored a game-high 21 points at GVSU.
70
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 7-8,1-5 GLIAC
74
Winner Grand Valley St. GVSU 7-8,4-1 GLIAC
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne
7-8,1-5 GLIAC
70
Final
74
Grand Valley St. GVSU
7-8,4-1 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 41 29 70
Grand Valley St. GVSU 36 38 74

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

Men's Basketball Edged 74-70 By Grand Valley State

Harris and Lee combine for 35 points.

ALLENDALE, Mich. -- The Wayne State University men's basketball squad (7-8 overall, 1-5 GLIAC) fell 74-70 at Grand Valley State University (7-8 overall, 4-1 GLIAC) Saturday evening at the GVSU Fieldhouse Arena.

HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half
Neither team scored for the first 75 seconds until Laker William Dunn connected from beyond the arc.  Trailing 4-0, sophomore guard Carmelo Harris (Flint, Mich. / Beecher) made two foul shots and a triple in a 40-second span.  Junior Colin Golson, Jr. (Detroit, Mich. / Ferndale [Siena/Eastern Michigan]) converted a lay-up to conclude the 7-0 run.

GVSU tallied five straight points until two free throws by Harris knotted the game at 9-9.  Another 5-0 spurt by Grand Valley State gave the hosts its largest lead of the half at 14-9.  Freshman Hutch Ward (Kalamazoo, Mich. /Central) drained a triple and WSU regained the lead on a three pointer by senior Kaimen Lennox (Kansas City, Mo. / Truman H.S.).

A foul shot by freshman Jordan Briggs (Muskegon, Mich.) and a dunk by sophomore Matt Coffey (Detroit, Mich. / Martin Luther King gave Wayne State an 18-14 advantage.  After three points by the Lakers, Coffey connected on a jumper, Harris hit a trey, and freshman Rob Lee, Jr. (Flint, Mich. / Beecher) scored five straight points and a lay-up and a triple which extended the visitors lead to 11 (28-17), its largest of the half.

A jumper by Harris ended a 6-0 spurt by the Lakers.  GVSU pulled within 34-31, before the Warriors responded with six consecutive points for a 40-31 lead.  The nine-point margin was whittled down to five at intermission as Grand Valley State scored five of the final six points of the opening half.

Harris led all scorers with 12 points at halftime.

Second Half
Grand Valley State scored the first five points after intermission to tie the game at 41-41 as Wayne State went scoreless for the first 2:40 until a lay-up by Harris.  His bucket ended a field goal drought of over seven minutes by the Warriors (4:50 left in the first half until 2:40 into the second half).

The contest was tied three more times (43-43, 45-45, and 48-48) with the last occurrence coming with 14:00 remaining.

A triple by sophomore Kareem Aburashed (West Bloomfield, Mich. / Detroit Country Day [Macomb C.C.]) stopped a 7-0 run by GVSU and pulled WSU within four at 55-51.  Aburashed's long-range shot ended a scoreless period of nearly 3:30.  All told, the Lakers had a 15-6 run over nearly a nine-minute stretch after the 48-48 deadlock.

Wayne State responded with a 9-2 run as Harris hit a jumper, Aburashed drained another triple, Harris made two foul shots and Lee, Jr. grabbed an offensive rebound and scored to cut the WSU deficit to two (65-63) with 1:56 remaining.

After each team missed a triple try on its ensuing possession, GVSU's Trevor Smith connected from three-point range to extend the hosts lead to five.  With 46 seconds to play, Briggs split a pair from the charity stripe, before Laker Ethan Alderink made two foul shots.  WSU kept battling and Harris was fouled on a three-point attempt and made all three free throws to pull the Warriors within three (70-67) with seven seconds left.  GVSU's Mason Docks made two foul shots a second later, but Lee, Jr. answered with a triple.  However, Docks made two more foul shots to finish the scoring.

TEAM STATS
Wayne State shot 37 percent (22-of-60) from the floor, compared to GVSU's 41 percent (26-of-63).  WSU was 8-of-22 (36 percent) from beyond the arc, while the Lakers made 11-of-28 three-point attempts (39 percent).  The Warriors were 18-of-25 (72 percent) from the charity stripe, with Grand Valley State finishing 11-of-16 (69 percent) from the foul line.  WSU had 11 turnovers to just five miscues by GVSU.  The Warriors held a 48-33 edge on the glass, and out-scored the hosts 28-7 on second-chance points.

LEADING THE WARRIORS
Harris scored a game-high 21 points, while Lee, Jr. contributed a career-high 14 points.  Golson, Jr. nearly had a double-double with nine rebounds and seven points.

LEADING THE LAKERS
Alderink scored a team-best 16 points to lead three Lakers in double figures.  Docks chipped in with 11 points and a game-high five assists, while Trevor Smith added 14 points.  Dunn grabbed a game-best 10 rebounds (all defensive) along with nine points.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will have just one game this coming week, hosting travel partner Saginaw Valley State at 3 p.m. on Saturday, January 20th at the Wayne State Fieldhouse.

 
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