STRUGGLING CSUN FALLS SHORT AGAIN; MATADORS ARE SPEECHLESS AFTER ANOTHER HOME LOSS : E. WASHINGTON 85, CSUN 79.Byline: Brian Dohn Daily News Staff Writer Scratch the idea of winning the Big Sky Conference. Forget the postseason all together. Put the rise of Cal State Northridge on hold. For a while. A long while. In fact, the only thing keeping the Matadors from last place in the conference is a team with a 29-game losing streak. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge is entrenched en·trench also in·trench v. en·trenched, en·trench·ing, en·trench·es v.tr. 1. To provide with a trench, especially for the purpose of fortifying or defending. 2. in the depths of the conference, a point hammered home by Eastern Washington
The impact sent CSUN 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. and his assistant to their offices for some late-night flim work. Players weren't available to the media afterward. ``I told everyone to go home and we'll give them (today) off because we have to try to figure our way out, and find our way out,'' Braswell said. ``I think they're struggling because we expected to be doing a little better. We're playing cautious right now and we have to get that cautiousness away from us.'' In a 72-hour span the Matadors (9-7, 1-3 Big Sky) were beaten on their home court by Eastern Washington and Portland State, teams that had combined for one road win prior to this weekend. Derrick Higgins scored a career-high 26 points and Rico Harris added a career-high 22 points and 10 rebounds, but inconsistency cost the Matadors on offense. The rest of the Matadors scored just 31 points and limped through a 10 of 32 shooting night. Sophomore forward Brian Heinle continued his skid with two points, 10 below his average. It didn't help that CSUN shot a miserable 17 of 34 from the free throw line. ``To shoot 17 of 34 and lose by six, that hurts,'' Braswell said. ``They took 34 free throws and made 24. That's six points. It's the ballgame.'' CSUN's lofty aspirations of its first Big Sky title and an NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
Unlike the overtime losses to Northern Arizona Northern Arizona is dominated by the Colorado Plateau, the southern border of which in Arizona is called the Mogollon Rim. In the West lies the Grand Canyon, which was cut by the flow of the Colorado River while the land slowly rose around it. and Portland State, there was no energetic comeback against Eastern Washington. No furious flurry that offset 30 minutes of indecision Indecision Buridan’s ass unable to decide between two haystacks, he would starve to death. [Fr. Philos.: Brewer Dictionary, 154] Cooke, Ebenezer his irresolution usually leads to catatonia. [Am. Lit. . Instead of the 10 minutes of suffocating suf·fo·cate v. suf·fo·cat·ed, suf·fo·cat·ing, suf·fo·cates v.tr. 1. To kill or destroy by preventing access of air or oxygen. 2. To impair the respiration of; asphyxiate. 3. defense that allowed CSUN to fight back in those games, all the Matadors could muster against Eastern Washington (5-8, 2-1) were whimpers quickly quieted by easy baskets. ``Great win for us, a great road win for us,'' said Eastern Washington coach Steve Aggers, a former Pepperdine assistant. ``I think we did a good job defending the 3-pointers (CSUN was 6 of 25). I thought our defense was really huge and I thought we answered what they did very well.'' During a two-minute spurt spurt Vox populi A surge or abrupt ↑ in the size or speed of a thing. See Fat spurt, Growth spurt. midway through the second half the Eagles countered each CSUN score with a layup or dunk as the Matadors failed to get back on defense. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. native Deon Williams, a Verbum Dei High graduate, had a lot to do with that. He led the Eagles with 25 points and was instrumental in Eastern Washington maintaining a comfortable lead. ``It's hard to define as a coach,'' Braswell said. ``I think there's some doubting. They wanted to get it going and couldn't get it going. The tough loss the other night against Portland State and the (overtime) loss at (Northern Arizona) has taken away some confidence.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Eastern Washington's Chris White is fouled by CSUN's Andre Larry during the Matadors' 85-79 loss. Myung J. Chun/Daily News |
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