CSUN LOSES IN OT MONTANA 73, CSUN 70.Byline: Chris Branam Staff Writer MISSOULA, Mont. - They kept playing and playing, back and forth, back and forth, and toward the end of it looked like they might settle this thing on one of the concrete courts outside the arena. The Cal State Northridge men's basketball team certainly wanted more time, and then coach Bobby Braswell Bobby Braswell, an American basketball coach, is currently the head coach for Cal State Northridge. Braswell was named the fourth head coach in Northridge history on April 30, 1996, succeeding the retired Pete Cassidy. could have waved a magic wand a wand used by a magician in performing feats of magic. See also: Magic and put in his three top scorers to make another run at Montana. It didn't happen. ``We end the game, and we've got our three best players on the bench, fouled out,'' Braswell said after the Grizzlies The name Grizzlies may refer to:
tr.v. dis·heart·ened, dis·heart·en·ing, dis·heart·ens To shake or destroy the courage or resolution of; dispirit. See Synonyms at discourage. . Our guys played extremely hard. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what to tell them. ``(The players) did what they needed to do - fight back and get this game to overtime,'' he said. ``And then we get to overtime and we don't get to the free-throw line free-throw line n. See foul line. . (the Grizzlies) get to the free-throw line... they were six for eight (from the line) in overtime. We didn't get thereat there·at adv. 1. At that place; there. 2. At that event; on account of that. all.'' Then Braswell let out a breath. ``I guess we didn't play hard enough to get fouled. That's just the way it goes,'' he said, sarcasm dripping with every word and frustration with the officiating evident. With five Big Sky Conference games left, Northridge is in trouble. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge (14-8, 6-5) dropped its second consecutive game and a spot in the Big Sky standings, down to fourth after Northern Arizona's win over Montana State Thursday night. CSUN plays at Montana State in Bozeman tonight; the team traveled by bus after Thursday night's game. ``It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for everybody to step up two or three notches,'' said senior forward Andre Larry, who had a team-high 19 points before fouling out with 59.8 seconds left. ``I'm going to do what I can do to win basketball games. It's getting down to crunch time.'' Because he fouled out, Larry (13.3 points per game) didn't even have a chance to help the Matadors pull it out. He wasn't alone. Jeff Parris (11.6 ppg) was the first to foul out, with 2:16 left in the second half. He was followed by Brian Heinle (16.0), who left just 51 seconds into overtime. Montana, which won its third in a row and improved to 9-3 in the Big Sky and 14-9 overall, faced a CSUN lineup in the last four minutes that Braswell would start only in an intrasquad game: Markus Carr, Carl Holmes,Denny Ogden, Hewitt Rolle and Dan Read. Among those five, Carr, Holmes and Rolle are starters. Read is a backup center who plays less than five minutes a game. Ogden is a walk-on shooting guard who had a season-high nine points Thursday. ``We've got key guys that are fouling out when they shouldn't be fouling out,'' said Holmes, who had 13 points and made it to the finish. ``We've got guys that need to keep their composure in the game. I'm not going to come out, and Markus is not going to come out, and score 25 points every night.'' Holmes is right. He and Carr, a playmaker play·mak·er n. A player in a sport with goals, such as a guard in basketball, who initiates offensive plays. play who is eighth in the nation in assists per game, are not the go-to guys on offense. Those are Heinle,Parris and Larry. Heinle had his second consecutive game in single-digit scoring (eight) and Parris only had nine. The Matadors shot 36.2 percent and managed only 25 points in the first half. Montana went 10 minutes without a field goal in the second half but the Grizzlies never trailed by more than one in regulation. ``We didn't do too much, even though we won,'' said Montana's Matt Williams, a conference MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. candidate who had 24 points and 17 rebounds. ``We really lost our composure and tensed up with their pressure.'' CSUN vs. MONTANA STATE Time: 7:35 p.m., at Worthington Arena in Bozeman, Mont. TV/Radio: No TV; KCSN-FM (88.5), www.GoMatadors.com CSUN update: The Matadors are playing back-to-back nights for the first time this season. This is also their last conference road game of the year; they begin a four-game homestand next week. CSUN beat Montana State 73-63 on Jan. 20 and Northridge leads the all-time series 7-6. CSUN, which lost last year 87-82 in Bozeman, is 2-3 all-time at Montana State. Montana State update: The Bobcats hosted Northern Arizona on Thursday night at Worthington Arena, where they were 10-2 this season. They lead the nation in free-throw shooting (79 percent) and if it maintains its pace, MSU MSU Michigan State University MSU Mississippi State University MSU Montana State University MSU Minnesota State University MSU Morehead State University (Kentycky) MSU Montclair State University will break the Big Sky record: 78 percent, set by Idaho State in 1980-81. MSU has only seven wins against Division I opponents this season, second-worst in the Big Sky. - Chris Branam CAPTION(S): box Box: CSUN vs. MONTANA STATE (see text) |
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