Chicago State 68, Kansas City 66
KANSAS CITY, Mo. –(CSU Media Relations) Senior Quinton Pippen (Hamburg, Ark./Hamburg) set a career high and won a game at the same time. Pippen's running jumper with 1.7 seconds remaining gave the Cougars a 68-66 victory at Kansas City in a Western Athletic Conference contest on Saturday (Jan. 11).
Pippen finished with a career-high 23 points while adding four assists and three rebounds. He was one of three Cougars in double-digits. Senior Matt Ross (Dixon, Ill./Dixon) recorded his third double-double of the season with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Ross passed the 500 career points plateau in the contest. Junior Clarke Rosenberg (Skokie, Ill./Evanston Township) added 15 points and four rebounds. The trio combined for all seven of Chicago State's 3-pointers.
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New Mexico State 78, Idaho 54
LAS CRUCES, N.M. –(NMSU Media Relations) For the second time this season the New Mexico State men’s basketball team has won seven-consecutive games after handling Idaho, 78-54, on Saturday night inside the Pan American Center.
The Aggies remain perfect in Western Athletic Conference play (3-0) while improving to 14-5 overall. The Vandals fall to 7-11 and 1-3 in the WAC.
With Center Sim Bhullar missing his third-straight game with a foot injury, redshirt junior Tshilidzi Nephawe took control of the paint area. The Aggie big man finished with 11 points and led NM State with 11 rebounds and a career-high six blocked shots. Nephawe marked his fourth double-double of the season to tie him with Bhullar for the team lead.
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Utah Valley 65, Grand Canyon 58
OREM, Utah – Ben Aird’s second consecutive double-double helped Utah Valley University move to 2-0 in the WAC with a 65-58 win over Grand Canyon University on Saturday night at the UCCU Center.
Aird finished with 21 points and a career-high 15 rebounds as the Wolverines (8-7, 2-0) won their third straight game. Holton Hunsaker added 15 points and Mitch Bruneel scored 12.
“We scratched through a game that had a lot of different ebbs and flows,” said UVU head coach Dick Hunsaker. “Grand Canyon has a good collection of players. They’re athletic and have an inside presence and really stretch the court with their 3-point shooting. But we hustled and stuck together and made some timely shots throughout the game.”
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Seattle U 64, Texas-Pan American 46
Edinburg, Texas-(SU Media Relations) In a wire-to-wire effort, Seattle University earned its first Western Athletic Conference win of the 2013-14 season, defeating University of Texas-Pan American, 64-46, Saturday evening in men’s collegiate basketball action at the UTPA Fieldhouse.
Seattle U scored the first 11 points of the game, as Emerson Murray (Vancouver, B.C.) hit a three-pointer and Deshaun Sunderhaus (Conyers, Ga.) made four straight baskets. Alex Majewski finally put UT Pan American on the board with a three-pointer five-and-a-half minutes into the contest, but Jarell Flora (Bremerton, Wash.) answered with his own three-pointer.
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