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Bryan Smothers 2024 vs. Parkside
Marissa Krynak
Coach Smothers and the Warriors will look to bounce back Thursday of next week at Davenport.
76
Winner Wis.-Parkside UWP 8-6,3-1 GLIAC
58
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 7-6,1-3 GLIAC
Winner
Wis.-Parkside UWP
8-6,3-1 GLIAC
76
Final
58
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne
7-6,1-3 GLIAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Wis.-Parkside UWP 32 44 76
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 35 23 58

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Cooper Weidenthaler, Sports Communications Specialist

Men's Basketball Stifled by Parkside, 76-58

The Warriors were held to 26.7 percent shooting (8-of-30) in the second half.

DETROIT -- The Wayne State University men's basketball team (7-6 overall, 1-3 GLIAC) was held 15 points below their season average on Saturday as Parkside (8-6 overall, 3-1 GLIAC) outscored the Warriors 44-23 in the second half before the final tally of 76-58.

HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half
Parkside scored the game's first four points before Wayne State used a 9-0 run to go up by five, 9-4.  During that spurt, Ray Williams, Jr. (Detroit, Mich. / Edison Public School Academy) led the way with five points while Matt Coffey (Detroit, Mich. / Martin Luther King) and Kaimen Lennox (Kansas City, Mo. / Truman (Hutchinson CC)) chipped in two apiece.

The Rangers clawed back to within two at 13-11 before the Warriors would go on to lead by as many as 10 at both 21-11 and 23-13.  The home team scored eight-straight points to capture the first 10-point advantage, which featured scoring from Kareem Aburashed (West Bloomfield, Mich. / Detroit Country Day (Macomb CC)) with four points, Tamario Adley (Detroit, Mich. / Warren De La Salle (Macomb CC)) with two as well as Williams, Jr. and Lennox with one each.

Following the second 10-point margin, the closest the visitors could get was three (35-32) following a three-pointer from Sam DeVault at the 30-second mark.

Second Half
UWP opened the second half by outscoring WSU 22-3 over the course of seven minutes and that run put the Rangers up by 16, 54-38.  From there until the final buzzer, the closest the Warriors could get was 12 (54-42) and Parkside pushed its advantage to as many as 22 (74-52).

TEAM STATS
The Warriors shot 48.3 percent (14-of-29) in the first half to the Rangers' 37 percent (10-of-27).  The script flipped in the final 20 minutes as Wayne State went 8-of-30 from the floor (26.7 percent) to Parkside's 16-of-28 (57.1 percent).  UWP racked up 17 assists to just seven turnovers while WSU dished out eight helpers to 12 giveaways.  The Rangers outscored the Warriors 16-6 off turnovers, 31-22 in bench scoring and 11-5 on the fast break while the hosts were ahead 30-22 in paint points.

LEADING THE WARRIORS
Williams, Jr. (15 points) and Coffey (10 points) topped the scoring column while those two and Carmelo Harris (Flint, Mich. / Beecher) each brought down five rebounds.  Also on offense, Adley and Jordan Briggs (Muskegon, Mich.) tallied a pair of assists apiece.  Defensively, Aburashed notched the team's lone block and Adley secured two steals.

LEADING THE RANGERS
Colin O'Rourke and Sam DeVault tied for the game high in points with 18 while O'Rourke came two rebounds shy of a double-double.  Josiah Palmer, the league's leader in assists per game, dished out seven of them on Saturday, O'Rourke stuffed one shot attempt and Rokas Castillo finished with a trio of steals.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will hit the road to face Davenport on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Grand Rapids, Mich.

 
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