Let's go back to Sunday. YSU was coming off 2 straight losses after blowing 2nd half leads in both games then find themselves down 1 at home to IUPUI- one of the worst college basketball teams in the country. I think at this point most were questioning how good this team was.
Then Brett Thompson lights it up for 20 points in the 2nd half and YSU get a must win by 10.
On Wednesday, YSU then knocks off PFW, who was leading the league and had just 3 losses, winning by 8 as Thompson scores 24 points.
And tonight, despite trailing by 9 with 9 mins to go, YSU goes on an amazing 20-1 run over the next 6 mins and ends up winning by 10. And Brett Thompson scores 20 for his 3rd straight 20+ game.
To hold WSU to 71 was pretty incredible. They were averaging nearly 86 points a game and 91 in the league scoring over 100 3 times including the last 2. I thought YSU needed to hold them in the low 80s to have a shot at winning.
Outside of that scoring drought the last 5 mins of the first half but still played good defense in that stretch, that's about as good of a game as YSU could play and for once played a complete 40 minute game. That's one thing YSU hadn't done the last 4 games.
Ziggy Reid was tremendous again. I thought the turning point was when Langdon got fouled shooting
a 3 and made all 3 foul shots and then the 3's by Rush and Reid that really put YSU over the top. Dynes had 6 blocks and that was huge on the defensive end.
Odd Rush shot that 3 on their last possession when they could have run out the clock. I don't know if he thought it was coming up on a shot clock violation or what, but the shot clock was off. I saw Coach yelled at him and Rush pointed up like to the shot clock?
Tanner Holden really struggled only scoring 11 and oddly just 3-7 from the FT line. Trey Calvin had 9 points in the first 10 mins of the game and was held to just 7 points the rest of the game. Kept 6'9 AJ Braun in check with 12 points and surprisingly only 3 rebounds.
YSU also got help tonight with Milwaukee coming back to beat CSU and shockingly PFW lost to RMU by 3 in OT. YSU is now in a 3-way tie for first with Oakland & Green Bay. While GB has certainly been the surprise of the league, 3 of their wins have come against the bottom 3 teams