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Old 02-16-2009, 12:59 AM   #137
Radii
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Join Date: Jul 2001
January 30, 2010

South Carolina State (9-10, 7-0 MEAC) at NC A&T (8-10, 4-3 MEAC)

Scouting

This is obviously a huge game. At home vs the team leading the conference early on. SC State has either been very lucky, or very clutch. They have 4 conference wins by 1 or 2 points.

PG Roland Patton – SO – 56 OVR – terrible quickness, terrible defense, terrible ball handling for a PG. Good sign for Alston. 5.4 ppg/2.7 apg

SG Carrio Bennett- JR – 66 OVR – A leading candidate for player of the year. Great 3 point shooter who likes to take a lot of them. He's 40.5% from 3 and has taken 153 of them already this season. Averaging over 17 points per game.

SF Jason Flagler - SR – 60 OVR – 5.7 ppg/6.1 rpg. Good speed at SF,decend defender, but not a great scorer. Great leaping ability and decent on the drive.

PF Max Bain – FR – 72 OVR- 6'6”, which hopefully will negate him some. Very good low post defender, very good rebounder. 5.4 ppg/7.0 rpg

C Perry Michaud – FR – 55 OVR - 7'2” so he has some good size. Average in the post, good inside shot, but a poor rebounder. 4.7 ppg/2.2 rpg.

We'll start in a zone but we have to be careful of Bennett in this one. Our team unity is up to 53, theirs is 42.

Half
Time
NC A&T
SCST
Notes
1
15:00
21
12
No defense in this game! SC State has made 3 3-pointers, Bennett is 2-2. But Hayes is way better than Michaud who has poor defensive skills, and Bain has great skills but just cannot control a good PF like Coleman who has 5 inches on him.
1
13:00
25
17
Another SC State time out. I'm a bit worried about how our backups will do, starters are staying out a bit longer.
1
10:35
32
25
Backups coming in now. Bennett is 4-4 from 3 and they have 2 other made 3 pointers. Not really sure the zone is the answer here heh.
1
9:30
37
25
Another SC State time out. Shepherd was able to draw Michaud's 2nd foul so he's out for awhile which has opened things up in the paint for Cruz.
1
4:45
44
37
We allow 6 straight to let SC State back into it, before calling a timeout and getting our starters back out there.


HALF
61
42
We had a 51-42 lead, drew foul #2 on Bain, and they sat bennett. We rolled the rest of the half.


Bennett is 6-7 from 3 for them. He has 18 points. They are 9-21 from 3 which would normally be deadly. They just have no answers for our inside game.


Coleman has 17 points/10 boards. Hayes has 16 points. Alston has 13.
2
15:30
70
51
Coleman continues to score seemingly at will. They had cut it down to 16 thanks to some bad turnovers on our part, but we've got it back up nearer to 20 again.
2
12:15
78
58
Backups are in.
2
7:45
83
65
They'd had it down to 15 but can't seem to get it any lower than that. They just burned a timeout. Backups arestill in.
2
7:00
85
65
All starters but Coleman back out. Coleman is still a bittired.
2
4:30
88
73
Coleman is back in.


Great win over a previously undefeated team in MEAC play.

NC A&T 100
South Carolina State 82

THOMAS COLEMAN, BITCHES.

They made 15 threes but it just didn't matter. We ran them off the court, 66 points in the paint, 15 free throws. Bennett had a monster game for them with 32 points on 8-16 three pointers, but our guy was better. See below.

Alston: 15 points/8 assists
Ewing: 11 points/7 assists
Shiloh: 2 points
Coleman: 35 points/15 boards
Hayes: 18 points/10 boards

Cruz has 9 points/9 boards off the bench. Coleman's performance was just over the top good. 15-22 from the field, 5-8 from the line.
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