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Penguins Rally But Fall 75-73 in Overtime to Milwaukee
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IAA Fan:
The Youngstown State men's basketball team fought back from a 10-point second-half deficit to force overtime, but Milwaukee escaped with a 75-73 win on Thursday evening at Beeghly Center.
The Penguins trailed 42-32 at halftime but scored 13 straight points behind a strong defensive stretch to get back in the game. YSU led 62-56 with 5:15 remaining in the second half, but it scored just four points the rest of regulation as Milwaukee rallied to force the extra session.
Missed free throws were costly for both teams, but especially for the Penguins as they lost on Rosselli Court for the first time in 2019-20. Youngstown State missed five free throws in the final 3:08 of regulation, and it went 9-for-22 in the first 40 minutes.
With the loss, Youngstown State dropped to 11-10 overall, 4-4 in Horizon League play and 8-1 at Beeghly Center. Milwaukee evened its overall record at 10-10 and jumped the Penguins in the standings with a 5-3 conference mark.
Donel Cathcart III led Youngstown State with 19 points, and he made three of the Penguins' five 3-pointers in the game. Darius Quisenberry had 17 points and eight assists, and Naz Bohannon matched him with 17 points.
Two Panthers had double-doubles as DeAndre Abram had 19 points and 13 rebounds, and Josh Thomas posted 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Both teams blistered the nets from the field in the first six minutes. Bohannon had eight points at the first media timeout, and Cathcart's second 3-pointer of the game put YSU ahead 16-15 at the 14:50 mark of the opening half. Milwaukee followed with a basket on its next possession to go up 17-16, and the teams were a combined 15-for-17 from the field at that point.
Youngstown State scored just 16 points the rest of the half, but it still led 26-22 with 9:08 left on a Jelani Simmons 3-pointer. Milwaukee outscored the Penguins 20-6 the rest of the half and led 42-32 at halftime.
YSU committed 11 first-half turnovers, which led to a 9-0 edge in points off turnovers for the Panthers.
The first field goal for either team in the second half came just before the 17-minute mark when a Quisenberry basket made the score 42-35. The Panthers built their lead back to double digits at 46-36 with 15:51 left, and that's when Youngstown State made its 13-0 run.
Michael Akuchie started the spurt with a layup, and Bohannon tied the score with a jumper at the 12:09 mark. Akuchie's tip-in a minute later gave the Penguins their first lead of the second half at 48-46, and Bohannon's free throw upped the margin to 49-46 with 10:26 on the clock.
Milwaukee had just four points in the half in the first 9:55 of the half, but it regained the lead at 52-51 on an Abram basket with 8:46 remaining. YSU scored the next six points to go up 57-52, and Cathcart's final triple of the night gave the Penguins a 62-56 advantage with 5:15 left.
A Quisenberry layup off a steal with 3:08 on the clock put YSU ahead 64-60, but that was the Penguins' final field goal of regulation. Quisenberry missed the and-one attempt from the free-throw line, and YSU went on to miss four more free throws in regulation.
Milwaukee scored on an offensive rebound on its next possession to get within two, and Darius Roy tied the score at 64 on a driving layup with 1:50 remaining. YSU's final lead of the night came at 65-64 when Cathcart split two free throws at the 1:27 mark, and Roy scored again with 22.9 seconds left to put Milwaukee up 66-65. Cathcart was then fouled with 10 seconds left and split another pair to tie the score at 66, and Milwaukee's Amir Allen missed the front end of a one-and-one with eight seconds left. Quisenberry attempted an off-balance 3 at the end of regulation that was off the mark.
Milwaukee's Courtney Brown Jr. hit a 3-pointer off the overtime tip, and the Panthers never lost the lead. The Penguins tied the score at 71 when Akuchie went 1-for-2 from the free-throw line with 43 seconds left, but Abram scored on Milwaukee's end of the floor to make the score 73-71. Quisenberry missed a jumper on YSU's next possession, and free throws made the score 75-73 with 3.9 seconds remaining.
The Panthers denied Quisenberry defensively on the inbounds, and Akuchie missed a contested 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Youngstown State will try to split the weekend when it hosts Green Bay on Saturday at 2 p.m.
IAA Fan:
The telling stat here was Bench Points = 2. That is not a typo. We had better shooting % and better turn-overs.
YsuPride:
Free throws lost the game. Milwaukee got a gift. Now we are in a must win scenario. Looking bleak. Same old same old.
mudclods:
YSU makes 16-18 on the road in a loss to Wright St. that kept them in the game and can only muster 12 of 26 on Thursday that cost them the game.
Frustrating game to say the least. YSU started off the game shooting well, but terrible defense then the onslaught of turnovers. Just seemed uninspired during that first half. The end of the first half was a potential 4 point swing that I had a bad feeling might come back to haunt them. Naz caught the ball at halfcourt and threw it in the backcourt. Instead of possibly cutting the lead to 5 or 6 they are down 10 at halftime.
Thought there was some strange rotations in the 1st half. I also was really surprised Coach hardly subbed at all later during the 2nd half & in OT. The guys looked gassed. I was shocked he didn't put Morgan in on the last possession of OT. I could see him asking to go in. He nailed 2 half court shots before he went in the locker room before the game.
Have to wonder what Covington did. Coach said in the press conference it was his decision not living up to the standards. Said he gets paid who to play & who gives him the best chance to win. Convington seems like he'd be the last person that would get in the doghouse. Definitely missed his presence on defense.
Listening to the post game show, Coach sounded about as mad as I've heard him after a loss. And during that first half was about as mad as I've ever seen him on the sidelines. He said they didn't have good practices leading up to the game and it showed. After the YSU/WVU game, Huggins said when you miss free throws you're usually not engaged. That certainly seemed like the issue on Thursday.
I really didn't expect YSU to lose that one. Was more concerned about Green Bay and being able to slow them down. A loss on Saturday now would really hurt. UIC is up next. They've won 3 in a row including beating Wright State and killing Oakland by 30 at Oakland.
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