Florida Atlantic Men’s Basketball upset by Wichita State on “Seinfeld Night” in Del Boca Vista

Boca Raton – The trip from Florida Atlantic to Del Boca Vista did not go as planned Thursday evening while the Owls fell to Wichita State 75-68 on “Seinfeld Night” at Eleanor R. Baldwin Arena.

Seinfeld was a television program on Nothing, and the OWLS (15-11, 8-5) would probably like to forget everything about the Conference of the American Athletic Conference because their sequence of five consecutive victories was broken by the Shockers (16-10, 6 -7). Kaleb Glenn scored 16 points in defeat. Wichita State senior goalkeeper Xavier Bell led all the scorers with 24 while the shockers won their fifth consecutive, three on those on the road.

“I thought that this evening, everyone at Fau gets an A + except us,” said FAU head coach John Jakus. “I have to give Wichita State Credit.”

The OWLS, which are in fifth place in AAC, return to action on Sunday at n ° 22 Memphis (21-5, 11-2), which leads the conference.

Here are three points to remember from the loss:

The slow shot in the first half puts Fa in a deep hole

The OWLS fired 11 out of 32 (34%) from the field and 4 out of 12 (33%) from three points in the first half and Yadda, Yadda, Yadda …

Their porous shot allowed shockers to lead up to 14 points at the end of the first half, entering half-time looking at an eight-point deficit.

Jakus noted that the slow rhythm of the shocker offensive may have unbalanced his team, leading to numerous attempts at forced blows.

“Some are shots that do not fall, and a game is the tempo,” said Jakus. “You sometimes see us almost forcing us to run just because (Wichita State) approached it so slowly. It doesn’t have the impression that there was a rhythm for us. »»

Missing free throws, expensive turnover hurts in the second half

Florida Atlantic managed to get on a tie or take the lead several times in the second period. However, a series of uns forked errors cost the owls at the end.

The OWLs pulled 8 out of 13 (62%) from the free throw line with many of these failures at crucial moments during the section.

With the OWLS followed by five with 2:40 to play, Leland Walker divided a pair of free throws. Forty seconds later, Baba Miller also missed a key throw that would have reduced the deficit for two. The Miss, however, was rebounded by Kaleb Glenn de Fau and he was the victim of a fault. Glenn would miss the first end of the One and one, leading to a three -point pointer by Corey Washington of Wichita State to all, but to everything, but put away the owls for good.

Despite his keys, Glenn admitted that the situation should have been avoided with better overall execution throughout the match.

“We just have to dig and make stops and be hard on the defensive,” said Glenn.

Jakus said that missed free throws were “part”, for the disappearance of FAU, but he also underlined a handful of offensive reversals in the second period as a focal point.

“Simply with the ball, the passes to one hand, being casual, not flowing in space but flowing too close to each other,” noted Jakus.

The Xavier Bell of Wichita’s condition gives FAU adjustments in the loss

Bell entered the match as a top scorer in Wichita State, with an average of 14.5 points per game. The 6 -foot 2 -inch cunning goalkeeper illuminated Fau’s defense Thursday, marking 24 points on a shot of 8 for 19.

Bell, a left -handed player, avoided the defense of OWLS with hard drives towards his dominant side. Despite a match plan focused on the abolition of his left hand, FAU could not stop him.

“Oh, there was certainly,” said Jakus when he was asked if there was a plan so as not to allow Bell to score with his dominant hand. “He got there anyway.

“He was really going to … Force himself as long as it took to get to this left hand,” added Jakus. “It was in the scout, it was discussed for a few days, we simply did not execute it.”

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: The sequence of five consecutive victories of FAU Owls was broken by Wichita State Shockers