Milwaukee

[Class of '83]

Meija has Milwaukee over Wright State 85-78.

[Wolf]

UWM 61
WSU 54 Final

Box Score:
sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200601210654

[raider fan]

It might have gotten real interesting if we made some of our free throws towards the end.

The game was 53-48 when Jordan missed both of his FT's with just under 3 minutes left in the game.

I hope Dashaun pulls out of his mini slump.

Please, please, please play Everrett Spencer more. He is to talented to not be playing more minutes. I would have prefered Spencer over Wilson in the second half.

[wsu97]

It's been a rough week for Wright State. We played much better tonight than against Green Bay. Even though we went 0-2 in Wisconsin, we are still in second place in the conference.

[Big D]

Another tough loss for WSU. We played good enough defense to win, but we just couldn't do enough offensively. Man this year could have been a hell of a lot more fun to watch if Boyd didn't leave. Speaking of Boyd, where is he? I still haven't seen where is is enrolled at another school.


Random thoughts:
--DaShaun needs to get out of his funk and stop whining to the refs every time a call doesn't go his way.
--I love to watch Jordan work under the basket. Him and Tigert beat the hell out of one another tonight. Once he learns to make his free throws, he will be at Tigert's level of play.
--The HL refs suck. We didn't lose the game because of them and I am not trying to imply that we did. but they just suck. My favorite call of the whole game was the blocking foul that took 20 seconds to call. How can a ref blow his whistle to stop play and then not know if he should call a block or charge. What a dumb ass.
--I liked UWM's announcers. The announcers for YSU and UWGB were total homers and drove me nuts to listen to. I enjoyed listening to these guys.
--If we play with the same intensity that we played with tonight the rest of the year, we are going to do pretty good in the HL.

[Big D]

January 21, 2006 (News Release/Men's Basketball)

Men Fall at UW-Milwaukee
The second-half struggles continued Saturday night for the Wright State men’s basketball team as, after holding a one-point lead at the half, the Raiders managed just 19 points the final 20 minutes in dropping a 61-54 decision against Horizon League-leading UW-Milwaukee at U.S. Cellular Arena.

UW-Milwaukee jumped out to a 17-7 lead and was later up 24-14 in the first half, but Wright State closed the period with a 21-10 run, eight coming from DaShaun Wood, to go up 35-34 at the break.

The Panthers only led 49-48 with 4:35 to play, but then blew the game open as they outscored Wright State 12-3 over the next four minutes, holding WSU without a field goal during that stretch.

The Raiders finished the night at 44 percent from the field while the Panthers were at 43 percent, but UWM hit for 33 percent and made 13 of 18 foul shots in the second half compared to 26 percent and 6 of 12 from the line for WSU. UW-Milwaukee also had a 33-26 rebounding advantage, including a 13-7 edge in offensive boards, resulting in a 10-5 advantage in second-chance points. The Panthers also led 30-16 in points in the paint.

Wood led the way for WSU with 17 points, including a 10-of-13 performance at the foul line, while Burleson had 15 and Pleiman 11.

Boo Davis paced all scorers with 21 for UW-Milwaukee (14-4, 7-1 Horizon).

Wright State, now 8-8 overall and 4-2 in the Horizon League, hosts UIC Wednesday night at 7:00.

www.wsuraiders.com/cgi-bin/athletics/news.cgi?action=features&id=2574

[Raider Country]

raiderd said:

--If we play with the same intensity that we played with tonight the rest of the year, we are going to do pretty good in the HL.

Wright State finishes the year with 6 home games and 4 road games in the league. We should be able to hold onto second place if we take care of business.

[raider fan]

I agree Big D, I enjoyed the UWM announcers as well. The one guy is so casual it is like watching a game with your buddies.

Can you imagine if we had both Boyd and Kock? We would have one heck of and outside inside game.

I fear that Spencer will be the next to leave with his limited playing time especailly after averaging 30 minutes per game last year. Scottie Wilson had a subpar game tonight but yet he was in there at the critical time. Interesting.

Our offense is in a funk so my starting five would be:

Wood
Scott
Spencer
Drew
Jordan Anthony

First off the bench:

Jaron
Walt
Graham
Wilson

[Big D]

I wish Spencer would do what he needs to do to get out of Coach B's doghouse, because we could use another player capable of creating offense. Spencer did play some tonight and did a decent job of contributing. Maybe this will earn him some more PT against UIC.

OT question: why don't you post as a registered poster anymore Raiderfan?

[Big D]

Raiders miss shot to lead Horizon
Wisconsin-Milwaukee posts 61-54 win to deny Wright State
By Marc Katz

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MILWAUKEE | They won at U.S. Cellular Arena when it was called Wisconsin Center Arena.

They won there when it was called the MECCA Arena.

But Saturday night, despite another close game, Wright State was again denied at U.S. Cellular as the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers beat them 61-54 to remain in first place in the Horizon League.

Had Wright State won, the Raiders would have been in first place. Instead, they are 8-8 on the season and 4-2 in the league to UWM's 14-4 and 7-1.

It wasn't unusual. Since UWM moved into the building permanently during the 2003 Horizon League tournament, hardly anyone has beaten the Panthers at U.S. Cellular, where they stand 32-4 and 3-0 vs. WSU since 2003.

Wright State was headed down the same old patch early, falling behind 22-11. Then came the turnaround, with WSU out-scoring the Panthers 24-12 from that point to take a 35-34 halftime lead with DaShaun Wood dropping in a jumper from the lane as the buzzer sounded.

Wright State's last hurrah came on an off-balance 3-point shot as the shot-clock buzzer sounded and a Jordan Pleiman layup on which he was fouled with 4:35 to play. He missed the foul shot, but WSU trailed just 49-48. And that was it.

"We've got to finish games," WSU's Drew Burleson said. "If we want to be a good team, and everybody wants to be a good team, we have to do that."

Contact Marc Katz at [phone].
www.daytondailynews.com/sports/content/sports/wsu/daily/0122wsubb.html

[Big D]

WSU NOTES

Raiders fall short again in close game
By Marc Katz

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MILWAUKEE | It's the finish the Wright State Raiders aren't getting just right.

For the second time in three days, the Raiders had a chance to win a game with good play at the end.

Instead, it was 'The End.'

At Wisconsin-Green Bay on Thursday, the Raiders led most of the game, then fell apart in the final six minutes during a 57-44 Horizon League defeat.

Saturday, it was more of the same at Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a 61-54 loss.

While the Raiders didn't lead quite as late in the game — their last lead was 37-36 with 16:15 to play — they were within a point after making two momentum-swinging baskets by Drew Burleson (a 3) and Jordan Pleiman (a driving layup) with 4:35 to play. Pleiman was fouled, but missed his free throw.

That left Milwaukee just a slim 49-48 lead.

Wright State didn't make another basket until DaShaun Wood's 3-pointer with time running out. "I should have made that free throw," Pleiman said. "We would have been in great shape."

It certainly wasn't Pleiman's fault, and coach Paul Biancardi could hardly find anyone to blame. "I thought we played our tails off," Biancardi said. "No matter who we were playing, we were playing well. But that's a veteran team."

• Spencer back on court: Even though he started every game last season as a freshman, and was playing a lot at the beginning of this season, Everett Spencer recently dropped out of the WSU rotation.

In 16 games, he hasn't even played in four, and prior to Saturday night, appeared in only two of WSU's five league games. Total, he played less than half a minute.

Against Milwaukee, Spencer played seven minutes the first half, and played well.

Entering the game during a timeout with 11:26 to play in the first half, he caused one missed Milwaukee shot, blocked another and scored on an alley-oop pass for a dunk in about three minutes of play. He later re-entered the game, scoring on his only other shot. In all, Spencer played 12 minutes.

• Just the facts: Milwaukee starts five seniors, and one of them, Boo Davis, scared the Raiders with 19 points in the first half. He finished with 21.

Wood led the Raiders with 17, followed by Burleson's 15 and Pleiman's 11. It was the eighth straight game WSU has lost in Milwaukee, and the ninth straight game the Raiders have lost to the Panthers anywhere.

• Dueling games: The Milwaukee-WSU game was one of two games played downtown, with the same starting time. Next door, at the newer and bigger Bradley Center, the NBA Milwaukee Bucks hosted Charlotte.

• Fans in town: Marquette drew more than 18,000 for its game with Notre Dame at the Bradley Center next to U.S. Cellular Arena, on Friday night.

Contact Marc Katz at 225-2157.

www.daytondailynews.com/sports/content/sports/wsu/daily/0122wsunotes.html

[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

www.jsonline.com/sports/coll/jan06/386821.asp

Opponents can't hit moving target
Resilent Panthers halt latest threat
By BOBBI ROQUEMORE
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Posted: Jan. 21, 2006

UW-Milwaukee
Related Coverage
Box score: UWM 61, Wright State 54
Game report: Saturday at a glance
Horizon: UW-Green Bay has setback

It's a scenario the Panthers are somewhat used to by now, seeing that they're going for a third consecutive regular-season championship in the Horizon League.

So when Wright State, the latest challenger, rolled into U.S. Cellular Arena on Saturday, the Panthers needed to prove once again that they were not going to wilt under the relentless heat.

UWM held off Wright State, 61-54, in a battle for first place in the league.

Senior guard Boo Davis, who led all scorers with 21 points, said games like these continue to test the Panthers and keep the team on its toes.

"I like the fact that teams try to come in and beat us because that way we can get better night in and night out," Davis said. "We just try to work harder every day."

Panthers coach Rob Jeter may be in his first season at the helm, but the territory is way too familiar.

From being a standout player on a Division III national champion at UW-Platteville to being an assistant coach on a Big Ten Conference champion at Wisconsin and now a coaching a defending Horizon League champion at UWM, Jeter is well-versed on how to handle himself and his team.

"From my playing days from my coaching days, I've always been the guy that people have been hunting down, and been part of a team that has been the hunted down," Jeter said. "We're just trying to change it around. We're trying to hunt the other team too, get after them. We expect, no matter if we're the No. 1 team or the ninth team in the league, we expect effort."

After ending the first half down a point, the Panthers (14-4, 7-1 Horizon League) appeared to be heading farther south to kick off the second half.

UWM managed just two shots in the first 6 minutes of the half and turned the ball over five times.

Finally, the Panthers got a basket from senior forward Adrian Tigert to end their drought and go back up on Wright State (8-8, 4-2), 38-37.

Even though the Panthers owned a thin margin for much of the second half, the attitude of the team was of one in control of its fate.

"I would say the last 15 to 10 minutes of the second half I think we settled in and didn't give in, didn't bail them out with any of those fouls or long shots for three in the second half and the fact that we took one three-pointer in the second half," Jeter said. "I liked the way we attacked because that's what we needed to do."

Wright State pressed on, however, drawing within a point and leaving the 6,637 fans at the Arena quite nervous.

Yet UWM managed to get another timely basket by Tigert, who had 13 points, this one putting UWM ahead, 49-46, with 5:45 to play.

Yet UWM never let Wright State own another lead, and the Panthers rode away victorious again.

"We're pretty much used to it," senior forward Joah Tucker said.

The first half mirrored the second in that it featured UWM running out, only to see Wright State roar back. UWM and Wright State played back and forth until the Panthers went on a 9-0 run that put them up, 17-7. But the Raiders used precision on offense and patience on defense to tighten the game right back up.

After missing seven of their first 10 shots, the Raiders converted their next six attempts. A jumper by junior forward Drew Burleson brought Wright State within three points of UWM at 28-25 with 3:40 left in the first half.

"For the first time this season we actually played a four-man who runs off staggered screens, not just pops out off of help but runs off of screens," Jeter said of Burleson, who finished with 15 points, making 3 of 5 three-pointers. "It was a challenge for us."

Both teams had back-to-back turnovers to start the second half.

A steal and score by senior Chris Hill put the Panthers back ahead, 36-35, but Burleson answered with a field goal to give Wright State another one-point edge.

The lead changed hands six times in the first 26 minutes.

[cincyraider]

Never really had the urge to post lat year but think I will now. FWIW A few thaughts about yesterdays game:

Not to take away from the effort but the low score last night was more an outcome of Raiders using the clock running slowdown on offense rather than great D. A tribute to the players discipline as they could easily have started taking quick shots once they fell behind by a couple scores. We gave up too many offensive rebounds on D. Looked to me this might have been because we were helping defensively to stop penetration that when the shot went up we could not get back in time to box out. Seemed like milwaukee was camping out under the boards. Maybe at the Nutter they will get the 3 second call?

I think the difference last night was Milwaukee made adjustments in 2nd half guarding Jordan. They doubled or dropped a guard back to front him or something. We couldnt get the ball in to Jordan with him in a good position to score running our half court offense. I can remember them stealing a few passes to him in the post to start the second half and converting on offense for a little run and we were never able to fully catch back up. Milwaukee did do a nice job keeping Jordan off the boards.

I agree the Horizon refs still suck. They are so inconsistent in their calls that they ruin the flow of most games. Sad. It sure adds to the perception of the horizon league being a second tier mid-major conference.

I think we will see Everett gone after the season ends. Looks to me that PB has made up his mind about the ammount of pt he is going to get this season. I wish coach would invest more pt in Craft and find some way to develop him now rather than later. Big men are a premium in this league and we sure could use his height THIS year. I would hate to see him transfer somewhere after this season for lack of pt.

I am still not sold on the idea that this team will be in the top two, three in conference at the end of the season. Hard to tell which Raider team is for real- the one that rolled over and turned into a doormat for every MAC opponent or the one that beat Detroit, Loyola and Youngstown. We do some things well. Still I get the feeling this team has some major flaws. Wasn't it about this time last year that other teams seemed to improve and pass us by? Hope thats not the case this time.

BTW great site! Glad I dont have to give my first born and bank account number just to post. Well back to lurking.

[raider fan]

Big D, not to cause a stir but I don't post under my registered name because I was getting close to 500 post and I don't want the designation of "God". It is a personal thing with me and instead of raising a fuss I just decided to not used my register name anymore.

I happen to be a pretty serious Christian ( Catholic to be exact) and it offends me to and extend.

So.......I'll still be posting just not under a registered name.

By the way, I appreciate all the information and insight you provide on this site.

[Little D]

DaShaun needs to quit driving 1-on-4 and trying to get the foul call. Refs are not gonna give you the call when you are heaving up prayers. If the defense closes on DaShaun, then he needs to dish to one of his teammates. The Raiders in general do a poor job of penetrating and dishing.