Game Notes: Men vs. Tennessee Martin 2/5/09
Half-leading scorers: AP ? senior Drake Reed 18 points UT-Martin ? sophomore Marquis Weddle 10 points
The loss snapped the Govs seven-game win streak over the Skyhawks. They also moved to 0-2 this season in overtime contests.
Reed had 10 of the Govs first 16 points. His 18 first-half points were more than he scored the entire game at Martin, where he had 17.
The Govs are shooting 27.3 percent (21-of-77) on three-pointers the last three games after shooting 7-of-27 (25.9 percent) against UT Martin.
The loss is the Govs third in a row, the longest streak since the 2001-02 season.
Reed finished with 35 points and a career-high 18 rebounds for his season's fifth double-double and the 15th of his career. He also led the Govs in scoring for the fourth consecutive game.
Junior Wes Channels shooting woes continued as he shot 4-of-15 (26.7 percent) from the field. In his last three games, Channels is shooting 12-of-41 (29.3 percent) from the field.
Reed moved past Howard Wright (1700 points) and Otis Howard (1718 points) into fourth place on the all-time Austin Peay career scoring list with 1719 points. He moved past Fernandez Lockett for eighth on the career rebounding list (714) and tied Tommy Brown for 10th all-time with 51 career blocks after swatting a career-high five shots against UT Martin.
Tennessee Martin grabbed 21 offensive rebounds, the most the Govs have allowed this season.
On the night of Fly Williams jersey retirement, Reed passed Fly for sixth on the all-time made field goals list with 640.
Game-leading scorers: AP ? Reed 35 points UT Martin ? Lester Hudson 30 points
Coach Loos Quotes:
“I liked the defensive effort for tonight, but offensively we are kind of in a mess to be honest. We were just trying to do too much too soon. We had some possessions late in the game were we would just turn it over, take bad shots, and hurry our shots. We had everything going our way and we were just in too big of a rush. Then we get into overtime and get some critical possessions and try to force shots off of one or two passes. We don't make people guard us, we are too easy to guard. They want to have that killer instinct out there but we just haven't figured that out yet. We have to play together and we didn't.”
“Drake Reed had a terrific game from a scoring stand point. Yet down the stretch we had a lot of turnovers and Drake was involved in that. We have to play together. We have to get him a bunch of touches, but we also have to take care of the basketball too. Drake had a terrific output tonight in terms of points scored.”
“We have to get well. We have lost three in a row now, maybe we can get on some type of run doing that. We have a team that really played well at TSU. We are going to have to forget about this, but yet learn from it. We have to figure out that we have to play together as a team. I saw some really great play tonight out of two of our freshman Anthony Campbell and Tyrone Caldwell. They rose to the occasion along with some of our seniors and they will get additional playing time for that.”
