Five minutes before tip, very slim crowd although both Central and UT are well represented

Early on Central looks to be the quicker team, Chips guards are very fast

Sad I don't get to be courtside like I used to. Was one of my favorite events of the year.

10-6 Central at the 14:30 media TO

Chips are trying to play fast and so far succeeding, have three steals thus far

Rockets 3-6 from the charity strip thus far, trail 10-7 with thirteen minutes remaining in the first

A quick 5-0 run puts UT up 12-10 with 12:18 left

Interesting stat...Toledo has taken seven shots while Central has taken fourteen, Toledo leads 14-13 at the 10:52 mark.

Toledo has five turnovers so far as Centrals guards are coming from behind UTs big men and making clean steals.

21-16 Central at the 7:19 media break...

Central is 5-12 from beyond the arc while UT is just 1-4

Rockets have seven turnovers but lead 13-7 in rebounding...

Chris Brown has ten points while Juice Brown has yet to score

Central leads at the half 33-26 in a game that shouldn't be that close, but there is really no eb and flow to the contest.

Toledo has only made nine shots in the first have and have as many turnovers...just one trey while Central is 5-14 from beyond the arc

If Central loses this game they can look right at this first half where they should be crushing the Rockets. Unless Toledo does something to get out of this shooting funk quickly this game will become a blowout.

Some interesting stats...

Points off of turnovers Central leads 8-1
Fast break points Central leads 9-3
Toledo leads in turnovers 8-4 and in team rebounds 20-13
Rockets have had the lead for just 1:07 while Central has lead for 18:35; game tied for 0:18

Rockets trailed by 17 but have made a little run to trail 53-44 at the 11:16 mark...hit two straight treys.

So far UT has nine turnovers and only two assists

Central was on the verge o a TKO but the Rockets have shown a little life to keep the UT faithful in the house.

In a way, I was kinda hoping EMU won the tourney. That would've made UM the only school in Michigan to miss both a bowl game and March Madness in this academic year.

It has become the Chris Fowler Show as he has 24 points and has proved to be unstoppable. Each bench has only produced a total three points each so the difference in this 58-48 Central lead is Fowler on both ends of the court, he has totally Wilkiams and Brown for Toledo

Chips certainly look to be the better team, lead 65-52 with 4:33 left in the game. The speed of Central has been the difference

No exciting run has happened, Central in cruise control leading 65-55 with 1:19 left

This Toledo team reminds me of the 2013 Bobcats- has a successful record but ultimately feels like they greatly under-achieved given the talent and experience on the team. Really thought the Rockets were going to dominate this year.

Central wins 75-66 and led for 39 of 40 minutes, Rockets never got closer than seven in the second half and trailed by as many 17...dismal performance and effort by UT

Chris Folwer easily the player of the game with 26 points while John Simons added 20

CMU has a complete team that took it to the Rockets for the third time this season.
Congrats to them.

Hurley gets first T less than 4 minutes into the game. It's a conspiracy!

(03-13-2015 08:30 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  Hurley gets first T less than 4 minutes into the game. It's a conspiracy!