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MOREHEAD, Ky. – All five starters scored in double figures, and the Morehead State men’s basketball team only turned the ball over four times in a 92-49 exhibition win against the visiting Centre College Colonels Thursday at Johnson Arena.
Senior
Kenneth Faried collected his trademark double-double with team highs of 16 points and 15 rebounds in 29 minutes of action. Junior guard
Terrance Hill netted 15 points, while guard
Ty Proffitt shot 5-for-8 and scored 13.
Demonte Harper hit 8-of-9 free throws he attempted for 12 points, and
Sam Goodman rounded out the starters’ 67 total points with 11 in 24 minutes.
The Eagles also got eight points each off the bench from newcomers
Kevin Gray and
Reggie Williams as each hit two three-pointers. Fellow newcomer
Romaric Lasme pulled in seven rebounds.
“First off, I have a great deal of respect for coach (Greg) Mason at Centre. He has done a phenomenal job. I knew his team would come out and compete and that’s exactly what they did,” said MSU coach
Donnie Tyndall.
“They are not as athletic as some of the teams we’ll play this season, so we definitely have some things to work on. With six freshmen, we have to continue to grow and develop every single day. I was proud of the fact that we only turned the ball over four times, so with a four-guard lineup I thought we did a great job of protecting the basketball tonight.”
The Eagles had only one turnover in the first 20 minutes and shot 53 percent (18-of-34) as they built a 48-28 lead. The Colonels kept it close for the first four minutes, leading 11-10 at the 16:04 mark of the first period, but an 8-0 run jump-started MSU as it pulled ahead 18-11. Centre trailed just 18-15 with 12:36 remaining, but the Eagles then went on a 22-5 spurt to build the advantage out to 20 points (40-20).
MSU shot 52 percent in the final half (16-of-31) and never saw Centre trim the lead to less than 20 points. MSU built a 42-point lead three times before the final margin reflected MSU's largest lead of the night.
No player for the Colonels reached double figures in the scoring column. Greg Ross, Jeff Mullaney, and Josh Crawford all paced the team with eight each. Centre shot only 26 percent in the second half after hitting 44 percent in the opening half and finished with a 34 percent efficiency from the floor.
The Eagles will host Mountain State in another exhibition contest on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.
