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Tamario Adley - 2024 vs. Grand Valley State
Josh Malone
Tamario Adley recorded a double-double with a career-high 26 points.
74
Winner Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 4-5,1-1 GLIAC
66
Northwood NW 4-7,1-3 G-MAC
Winner
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne
4-5,1-1 GLIAC
74
Final
66
Northwood NW
4-7,1-3 G-MAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Wayne St. (MI) Wayne 23 51 74
Northwood NW 35 31 66

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

Strong Second Half Propels Men's Basketball To 74-66 Road Win At Northwood

Tamario Adley scored a career-high 26 points and added 10 rebounds.

MIDLAND, Mich. -- The Wayne State University men's basketball squad (4-5 overall) rallied from a 14-point second half deficit to earn a 74-66 road victory at Northwood University (4-7 overall) Thursday evening at Riepma Arena.

HOW IT HAPPENED
First Half
NU's Elijah Watson scored the first four points of the game as WSU went over three minutes without a made field goal until Tamario Adley (Detroit, Mich. / Warren De La Salle [Macomb CC]) connected from three-point range to knot the score at 4-4.  Trailing 6-4, Wayne State made its next four free throws - two each by Ray Williams, Jr. (Detroit, Mich. / Edison Public School Academy) and Carlos Paul III (Southfield, Mich. / Cornerstone Lincoln-King [Missouri State - West Plains]) for an 8-6 advantage.

Northwood scored the next six points before a Carmelo Harris (Flint, Mich. / Beecher) lay-up pulled the Warriors within two (12-10).  The teams traded buckets over the next five minutes with the Timberwolves margin between two and five points during that stretch.  An offensive rebound and put-back by NU's Nick Ellis with 3:15 left before intermission extended the hosts advantage to seven (24-17).

Rob Lee, Jr. (Flint, Mich. / Beecher), in his first game in December, scored WSU's final six points of the opening 20 minutes, but the hosts led 33-23 at halftime.

Second Half
A Watson lay-up to start the second half scoring pushed the Northwood lead to 14 (37-23), which would be its largest of the game.

Wayne State responded with six consecutive points, including four by Harris after a lay-up by Kelvin Tamakloe (Accra, Ghana / Spring Creek Academy [Blinn College]), to pull within eight (37-29).  Two foul shots by NU' Will Young II breifly halted the Warrior rally, but a jumper from Lee, Jr., four straight points by Adley, and a jumper by Williams, Jr. was followed by two foul shots by Lee, Jr. to knot the game at 39-39 with 12:47 remaining.  Harris converted an old-fashioned three-point play to conclude the 12-0 spurt by the Warriors which gave the guests a 42-41 advantage.

The contest was tied at 44-44 and 46-46 before an Adley steal and dunk put Wayne State in front for good.  Another Adley bucket and a triple from Lee, Jr. pushed the margin to seven (53-46) with just over nine minutes left.  The WSU lead was trimmed to four (53-49) on a three-pointer by NU's De'Airrus Ware, but the Warriors scored eight of the next 10 points to take a 10-point advantage (61-51) with 6:39 remaining.

An offensive rebound and put back by Adley with 4:15 left restored the 10 point margin (63-53).  The Timberwolves were within seven (65-58) with 3:07 remaining following a triple by Brayden Szamrej.  Adley connected from beyond the arc making it 68-58.  After a 5-0 run by Northwood, WSU sealed the victory by going 6-of-6 from the charity stripe over the final 35 seconds.

TEAM STATS
Wayne State shot 39 percent (23-of-59) from the field, while limiting NU to 32 percent (22-of-69).  WSU was just 3-of-21 (14 percent) from beyond the arc, with the Timberwolves connecting on 30 percent (9-of-30) of their triple tries.  The Warriors were an outstanding 25-of-28 (89 percent) from the charity stripe, while Northwood made its final 13 foul shots to finish 13-of-17 (77 percent).  NU won the rebounding battle 49-37, but Wayne State out-scored the hosts 36-24 in the paint, 17-7 off both turnovers and fast break, and 25-21 in bench scoring.

LEADING THE WARRIORS
Tamario Adley notched a double-double with a career-high and game-best 26 points (8-of-14 FG, 2-4 3-PT, 8-8 FT), along with 10 rebounds and four steals.  Carmelo Harris chipped in with 14 points, while Rob Lee, Jr. totaled 13 points in his return to the lineup.

LEADING THE TIMBERWOLVES
Will Young II led three NU players in double figures with 18 points.  Elijah Watson tallied 15 points, with Brayden Szamrej added 12 points off the bench.  JT Morgan grabbed a team-best 11 rebounds.

UP NEXT
Wayne State will conclude the 2024 portion of its schedule with its final non-conference game of the season on Saturday, when the Warriors host Redeemer University for a 1 p.m. tip-off at the WSU Fieldhouse.

 
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