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Tamario Adley
Marissa Krynak
Tamario Adley had a team-high 17 points, along with a game-best seven assists.
58
Saginaw Valley SV 9-6,2-4 GLIAC
79
Winner Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 8-8,2-5 GLIAC
Saginaw Valley SV
9-6,2-4 GLIAC
58
Final
79
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne
8-8,2-5 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Saginaw Valley SV 28 30 58
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 31 48 79

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

Men's Basketball Notches 21-Point Home Court Win Over Saginaw Valley

Five Warriors score in double figures.

DETROIT -- The Wayne State University men's basketball squad (8-8 overall, 2-5 GLIAC) recorded a 79-58 home court victory over the visiting Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals (9-6 overall, 2-4 GLIAC) Saturday afternoon at the WSU Fieldhouse.

HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half
After SVSU scored six of the first eight points, the Warriors answered back by scoring 10 of the next 12 points for an early 12-8 advantage about 5:30 into the contest.  Senior guard Ray Williams, Jr. (Detroit, Mich. / Edison Public School Academy) started the spurt with a jumper and finished the run with a triple.  WSU's margin ranged between two and four points for the next four minutes, until a steal and fast-break dunk by freshman guard Rob Lee, Jr. (Flint, Mich. / Beecher).  Another jumper by Williams, Jr. extended the lead to eight (20-12) with 9:37 left.

Following four consecutive points by the Cardinals, Wayne State responded with seven straight points for a 27-16 lead with just over four minutes remaining before intermission.  Sophomore center Matt Coffey (Detroit, Mich. / Martin Luther King) started and ended the run with buckets, while sophomore guard Carmelo Harris (Flint, Mich. / Beecher) drained a triple in between.

WSU led 31-20 with 1:55 left in the opening stanza, but Saginaw Valley State tallied the final eight points before intermission to pull within three (31-28) at the break.

Coffey led the Warriors with nine points at halftime, while SVSU's Freddie McIntosh had a game-best 12 points in the opening 20 minutes.

Second Half
Williams, Jr. started the second half with a triple, and following a lay-up by McIntosh, sophomore guard Tamario Adley (Detroit, Mich. / Warren De La Salle) connected from beyond the arc.

Over the next five minutes, the Warriors turned a 37-31 lead into a 53-37 advantage by out-scoring the Cardinals 16-6.  Harris contributed six points, while both Adley and junior Colin Golson, Jr. (Detroit, Mich. / Ferndale) chipped in with four points apiece.

A minute later, sophomore center Kareem Aburashed (West Bloomfield, Mich. / Detroit Country Day) made a three-pointer off a feed from freshman Jordan Briggs (Muskegon, Mich.) to extend the margin to 17 (56-39) with just over 11 minutes remaining.

Wayne State's lead would never be less than 14 the rest of the game.  After Saginaw Valley State cut its deficit to 14 (58-44) for the final time, WSU tallied the next nine points for a 67-44 advantage with 7:19 remaining.

Over the final seven minutes, SVSU out-scored the Warriors 14-12 but Wayne  State finished with the 21-point victory to end a five-game losing streak against the Cardinals.

TEAM STATS
Wayne State shot 47 percent (32-of-68) from the field, compared to SVSU's 37 percent (24-of-65).  WSU connected on nine of its 26 triple tries (35 percent), with the Cardinals making just four of their 21 three-point attempts (19 percent).  Both teams made six foul shots (Warriors: 6-of-7, 86 percent; Saginaw Valley State:  6-of-8, 75 percent).  Rebounding was also dead even at 38-38. Wayne State had just six turnovers, to 10 miscues by SVSU.  The biggest difference in specialty stats was bench scoring as WSU had a 17-0 edge as the Cardinals bench went 0-for-7 from the floor.

LEADING THE WARRIORS
Adley led five WSU players in double figures with 17 points.  He also dished out a game-best seven assists.  Coffey contributed 13 points, while both Harris and Williams, Jr. tallied 12 points apiece.  Aburashed grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.  Both Golson, Jr. and Williams, Jr. finished at +21.

LEADING THE CARDINALS
Despite shooting just 2-of-10 from the floor in the second half, McIntosh finished with a team-high 17 points.  Dylan West notched a double-double with 10 points and a game-high 10 rebounds, along with a team-best four assists.

UP NEXT
Wayne State continues its home stand this coming week with a pair of contests inside the Wayne State Fieldhouse.  Ferris State (15-3 overall, 5-2 GLIAC) visits for a 7:30 p.m. contest on Thursday (Jan. 25), while Lake Superior State (12-5 overall, 4-3 GLIAC) travels to Motown for a 3 p.m. tip-off on Saturday (Jan. 27).

 
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