28-24 @ half 4-10 on FT's

[Raiderfan]

It looks like our FREE throws might cost us another game. I hope I'm wrong.

[Raiderfan]

Graves hits his 2nd 3 of the half and Jon Ramey says "It's pretty simple, they (butler) have a couple of 3 point shooters but they continue to be left open"

Frustrating!

[Big D]

52-49 Butler with 4 left in the game.

[Big D]

54-53 Butler with alittle over a minute to go.

[Big D]

55-54 WSU with 50 seconds

[Big D]

57-54 WSU with 9 seconds left. Timeout Butler.

[Big D]

WSU wins 59-54! 4 Raiders finish in double figures.

[Big D]

WSU was 8-10 from the FT line in the second half.

[Raiderfan]

Hey Big D, my new strategy is to whine and complain on the board then have them go out and nail 8-10 FT's and tighten up on defense and get a road win.

I didn't think we would win. We were horrible at the line and according to Ramey we weren't defending the 3 real well mid way thru the 2nd half then, boom, we lock down on defense and hit 80% from the line. I'm thrilled about this win.

I was glad to see Zach have a strong game. It sounded like he was aggressive on the offensive end.

Once again in limited time Jordan has a strong game. 6 boards and 3 pts.

Drew has now put together back to back solid games on the road.

Ramey was raving about how good of a game Everrett had defensively. When he hit those 2 FT's at the end I about fell out of my sit.

Great, great win

[Raiderfan]

D. Burleson, F 32 5-10 4-4 3 0 2 14
Z. Williams, F 32 8-13 1-4 6 3 4 17
Z. Boyd, F 36 3-7 3-4 5 1 1 10
D. Wood, G 38 3-11 2-2 3 1 0 10
E. Spencer, G 33 1-3 2-2 4 5 0 5
L. Shine, G 3 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0
J. Taylor, C 9 0-0 0-0 3 0 1 0
J. Pleiman, F 17 1-2 1-4 6 0 4 3
Totals 200 21-47 13-20 30 10 12 59
.447 .650 Team Reb:

A couple of things jump out at me. First, one of my keys to the game was that we had to shot at least 65% from the line and we ended up shooting exactly 65%. They call that dumb luck.

All 5 starters played 32+ minutes today. Jaron only played 9 minutes, interesting?

PB basically went with a 7 man rotation & that is counting Jaron only playing 9 minutes. Jordan played 17 minutes, I'd like to see him play 20-24 minutes a game because he is so effective when he is in the game.

Good to see balanced scoring again with 4 players in double figures.

[Raiderfan]

How about Spencer leading us with 5 assist? Not a bad stat line: 5 pts, 5 assist, & 4 rbs. He still turns the ball over way to much but hopefully that will go down as the season wears on.

We killed Butler on the boards 37-21. We completely controlled the boards.