Wade Baldwin IV and Damian Jones both scored 17 points, and No. 19 Vanderbilt easily handled Wake Forest 86-64 on Tuesday night in the semifinals of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational. The Red Storm will play its third game of the Championship Round on Wednesday.
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Afterward, Crean called out his players, lamented his team’s fleeting energy and blamed himself, too, for not putting IN in a good position. “We work hard and we just want it all to pay off”. “Going through the preseason, having that under our belt, would really help our confidence going into conference play”.
More important, were the 25 rebounds corralled by the front-court combination of those two with freshman big man John Collins. The eight teams in the event will play three games in as many days. Tom Crean’s unit is unsafe from beyond the three point line with guards Yogi Ferrell and James Blackmon Jr. leading the way.
“We didn’t play great”. “We were upset with the loss (Monday), but we looked at this as another opportunity for us to go out and show everybody what we’re made of, and I felt like we did that (Tuesday)”. They’ve dropped five straight and are in danger of going 3-9 in each Dave Clawson’s first two seasons.
The game couldn’t have started much worse for Wake Forest (3-2). Three: he’s the guy on that Miami roster that, if I was an opposing coach, I would build a game-plan around stopping. I was just pleased with the way that we approached the game and the way we played.
The Red Storm got as close as 76-70 with 1:53 to play on two free throws by Yankuba Sima. Jones, who was held to only five points on Monday, found plenty of room to operate early on. Player Who Matters While Hinton is just a part-timer, the Deacons need to find a way to get him more involved in the offense. But that number would also be the highest three-point attempt rate of the Self era, and for the moment, it appears to be a winning formula.
Crawford had the ball at the top of the key for about eight seconds before he put his head down and using a screen by Thomas drove to the basket to give Wake Forest (3-1) the lead. “Sometimes other things creep in”.
St. John’s: This game started a little bit better than the opening round.
It’s a showdown of competitors in every sense, and a potential launching point for a history-making season at Vanderbilt.
In fact, from an efficiency standpoint, that was the best offensive performance of the season for St. John’s.
Stallings responded to questions concerning St. John’s.
Wearing fresh “iced out” white alternate uniforms and carrying the expectations of a national frontrunner, this IN performance looked remarkably like so numerous flat efforts the Hoosiers turned IN last season. They finished with 11.
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Braylon Rayson scored 13, on 5-of-20 shooting, and Austin Stewart added 10 points for Central MI, which was without injured guard Chris Fowler.
