Game Notes: Men vs. Oakland City 12/29/08
Half-leading scorers: AP ? Senior Drake Reed 13 points Oakland City ? Brandon Hopf 7 points
The Govs outscored the Mighty Oaks 33-12 over the last 14 minutes of the first half.
Reed scored his 1500th career point on a lay-up with 6:25 left in the first half. He finished with a game-high 22 points.
After shooting a combined 33.6 percent from the floor in their previous two contests, the Govs shot 53.6 percent, a season-high, against the Mighty Oaks.
Four Governors had career-high scoring nights against the Mighty Oaks: Freshmen Tyrone Caldwell (10 points), James Harris (seven points), John Fraley (six points) and Clark Stepp (five points).
All 12 Governors scored for the second time this season, the other coming at Southeast Missouri on Dec. 4.
Four Govs scored in double-figures: Reed, Caldwell, senior Kyle Duncan (13 points) and junior Wes Channels (13 points), the first time four Govs hit double digits since a loss at Louisville on Dec. 13.
Reed's 22 points and 10 rebounds gave him his season's fourth double-double. He also passed Lenny Manning for 10th place on the all-time field goal attempts list with 1105.
Austin Peay had a season-high in assists (23, led by Caldwell's five) and steals (14, led by Duncan's five)
The Govs scored a season-high 97 points, the highest total in regulation since Feb. 8, 2007 in a 98-71 victory against Eastern Illinois.
Game-leading scorers: AP ? Reed 22 Oakland City ? Hopf 17 points
The victory snapped the Govs season-high four-game losing streak.
Coach Loos Quotes:
“Wes Channel did a great job on what we call “seaming it up.” When Channels seams it up and gets the right rotation I really like his shot. That is something that he hasn't been doing for us lately. He has worked really hard this week on reading the pass coming to him and getting it seamed. His stroke looked good tonight.”
“It's easy for a game like this to get real rough. Our assist-to-turnover ratio tonight really showed me a lot. When your assist-to-turnover ratio is that good in a game like this I think that it's a good sign that we kept playing together, kept sharing the ball and that's going to be something that will hopefully carry over for us into the conference weekend.”
“I felt good about our depth tonight. I think the guys also feel good that they contributed. That is one thing that is always good for your team's chemistry. There were some guys out there tonight that did some great things. I thought that we got a little rough at the end. Overall, we had a great zone team out there, some real long kids. We saw some things tonight that we might be able to take advantage of later.”
