Post by grapurchater on Nov 18, 2007 14:26:33 GMT -5
Doesn't sound like defense looked very good...
Tireless Bulldogs run over Radford
Despite a busy schedule, Gardner-Webb has enough energy to down the Highlanders.
Ray Cox
RADFORD -- There must be no wearing Gardner-Webb's basketball team out.
The third road game in as many days in two states was no bother whatsoever as the Running Bulldogs turned back Radford 93-83 Saturday night at the Dedmon Center.
The sequence for Gardner-Webb was UConn Thursday night, Oklahoma on Friday, and the Highlanders on Saturday.
After losing tough games to the Huskies and Sooners on back-to-back nights in the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic in New York, the Running Bulldogs were up at 4 a.m. Saturday to catch a connecting flight to Detroit, then to Roanoke.
A couple of hours before pregame, Gardner-Webb's entire team was in the Dedmon Center parking lot catching a catnap on a charter bus.
"Our players showed a lot of guts tonight," said Bulldogs coach Rick Scruggs, whose team stunned mighty Kentucky 84-68 last week.
"Playing those games at Rupp Arena and at Madison Square Garden helped us."
Grayson Flittner (28 points), Thomas Sanders (22), and Aaron Linn (21) played 39, 38, and 32 minutes, respectively, Saturday.
"We thought they might start getting tired, but they never did," said Radford's Joey Lynch-Flohr, who scored 16 points to go with 10 rebounds.
Point guard Amir Johnson kept Radford (1-3) in the game, scoring 14 of his 20 points in the second half and adding five assists. Martell McDuffy chipped in 18 points and four rebounds.
"I was just trying to help us come back, so I was looking for my shot more than usual," Johnson said.
If the Running Bulldogs were exhausted by their travels, it was not apparent judging by their first-half performance.
The well-disciplined guests found all the open shots they needed while taking a 44-33 halftime lead.
The Highlanders, back on their heels most of the time during the first 20 minutes, never could get set defensively before one Bulldog or another was squeezing off a shot.
Degree of difficulty didn't seem to be a factor, either. Gardner-Webb shot better from 3-point range (53.8 percent) than it did overall (53.3). The Bulldogs' seven triples was five more than Radford's total from distance prior to the break.
Radford wasn't doing much quality shooting, missing 18 of its first 25 shots.
In fact, the only reason the Highlanders weren't getting annihilated was because they made 17 of 20 foul shots. Radford was in the double bonus the last 4:52 of the half.
Radford trailed by as many as 15 points, but cut the deficit to one point with less than six minutes left.
The Bulldogs held on by sinking 26 of their 31 free throws down the stretch.
"They're a tough team that played well," Radford coach Brad Greenberg said.
Tireless Bulldogs run over Radford
Despite a busy schedule, Gardner-Webb has enough energy to down the Highlanders.
Ray Cox
RADFORD -- There must be no wearing Gardner-Webb's basketball team out.
The third road game in as many days in two states was no bother whatsoever as the Running Bulldogs turned back Radford 93-83 Saturday night at the Dedmon Center.
The sequence for Gardner-Webb was UConn Thursday night, Oklahoma on Friday, and the Highlanders on Saturday.
After losing tough games to the Huskies and Sooners on back-to-back nights in the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic in New York, the Running Bulldogs were up at 4 a.m. Saturday to catch a connecting flight to Detroit, then to Roanoke.
A couple of hours before pregame, Gardner-Webb's entire team was in the Dedmon Center parking lot catching a catnap on a charter bus.
"Our players showed a lot of guts tonight," said Bulldogs coach Rick Scruggs, whose team stunned mighty Kentucky 84-68 last week.
"Playing those games at Rupp Arena and at Madison Square Garden helped us."
Grayson Flittner (28 points), Thomas Sanders (22), and Aaron Linn (21) played 39, 38, and 32 minutes, respectively, Saturday.
"We thought they might start getting tired, but they never did," said Radford's Joey Lynch-Flohr, who scored 16 points to go with 10 rebounds.
Point guard Amir Johnson kept Radford (1-3) in the game, scoring 14 of his 20 points in the second half and adding five assists. Martell McDuffy chipped in 18 points and four rebounds.
"I was just trying to help us come back, so I was looking for my shot more than usual," Johnson said.
If the Running Bulldogs were exhausted by their travels, it was not apparent judging by their first-half performance.
The well-disciplined guests found all the open shots they needed while taking a 44-33 halftime lead.
The Highlanders, back on their heels most of the time during the first 20 minutes, never could get set defensively before one Bulldog or another was squeezing off a shot.
Degree of difficulty didn't seem to be a factor, either. Gardner-Webb shot better from 3-point range (53.8 percent) than it did overall (53.3). The Bulldogs' seven triples was five more than Radford's total from distance prior to the break.
Radford wasn't doing much quality shooting, missing 18 of its first 25 shots.
In fact, the only reason the Highlanders weren't getting annihilated was because they made 17 of 20 foul shots. Radford was in the double bonus the last 4:52 of the half.
Radford trailed by as many as 15 points, but cut the deficit to one point with less than six minutes left.
The Bulldogs held on by sinking 26 of their 31 free throws down the stretch.
"They're a tough team that played well," Radford coach Brad Greenberg said.