The game was rather commonplace on his face.
With a tick of more than five minutes to play and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in advance by 16 years, Aaron Franklin was on the line trying to convert a three-point game. His frank throw has gone through without danger, the type of helping hand which, with the already uncontrollable game, always landed in the hands of the defense.
Except when Jamichael Stillwell plays.
The attacker of the panthers was sworn between a pair of defenders, climbed above them to catch the ball and was the victim of a fault as he went down with the ball, his 13th and last rebound of a Afternoon defined by this for the hosts.
“The referees told us that they were going to call mistakes on the rebounds of the free throws,” said head coach of the panthers, Bart Lundy. “I guess there is a mandate as a champion I entered inside and shot the fault.
It was like that all day for Stillwell and the panthers.
Box score: Uwm 92, Northern Kentucky 70
After a slow start, Milwaukee canceled, fought, jostled and exceeded northern Kentucky to leave with a dominant second half and a 92-70 victory on Sunday at UWM Panther Arena.
With the victory, which was the second largest against an opponent of the division-I under Lundy, the Panthers obtained a third consecutive season with a winning conference record for the first time since they did it in four seasons consecutive from 2009 to 29. Two other victories would give them three consecutive campaigns of 20 consecutive victories for the first time since 2003-2006.
The best rebound performance of the year
Directed by Stillwell, who set a school record for rebounds in a season, the Panthers made the Nordics to submit with their stampede.
On their 31 failed shots in the afternoon, the Panthers seized 21 rebounds, good for the highest offensive rebound percentage in one match (67.7%) throughout the male basketball in the division- I this season.
“It makes you very easy to win when you have guys who get 21 bullets,” said Lundy. “This is the difference in the match. It is a 22 -point victory with 21 offensive rebounds.”
The result was 29 second-chance points for the Panthers, who have ahead of NorsE, 50-35, in the second period.
Milwaukee has already had one of the best previous offensive rebound matches in the country this season. On December 11, he collected 58% of his failures in a silhouette by Green Bay on the road.
Stillwell himself had only one rebound less on a Miss of Panthers (nine) that the Nordics met.
Stillwell had 15 points to accompany his 13 boards, marking only his second double-double in the last eight games after having recorded eight in nine games.
“I would say that when he is at his peak with his energy, we are as good as a mid-majeur basketball team as in the countryside,” said Lundy. “He had some stretching, at the end of January and early February, where I think he used a little. And you now see this energy. We are really difficult to beat.
“There are three things for this team. One is where is J-Mike? It is still good but if it really happened, we were lucky not to spoil it.”
Erik Pratt also had 15 points to share the team’s head for Milwaukee, while Danilo Jovanovich added a 12 -point career summit and Kentrell Pullian completed the two -digit scorers with 11.
Panthers break out after another slow start
After his team erased a first half-time deficit of 14 points on Friday, Lundy reiterated the need to avoid this type of start, which tormented the panthers several times in the game of horizon.
His words were not entirely held.
The Norses stormed an advance of 11 points just over 10 minutes after the start of the competition, the defense seeming once again optional in the opening moments of the game for Milwaukee. Dan Gherezgher, a graduate of Brookfield East, gave the Panthers some adjustments with his effective creation and pushed the advance to 26-15 with a lay-up.
But a 7-0 race which followed capped by a game of three points from Jovanovich pulled the tide for the panthers, which did not give in the rest of the path. The hosts ended the half-time on a race of 13-2 in the last four minutes, 21 seconds to enter the locker room with an advance of 42-35.
The race for the conference is not completely out of the equation
Do not look now, but the panthers are just a first place match in a rocked horizon league race.
With Cleveland State losing consecutive matches, especially on Sunday at home against Youngstown State, four teams are in a Vikings match at the top of the League. A fifth, Purdue Fort Wayne, is two games back.
A glance at the schedules of the rest of the path shows a difficult battle for the panthers, who must go to Robert Morris and Youngstown State, each being half a match of Cleveland State, next week before returning for a Lighter lighter pair of home competition against Detroit Mercy and Oakland.
The most difficult match of Cleveland State, meanwhile, is at the house against Purdue Fort Wayne and the rowing Robert Morris has competitions with IU Indy and Green Bay by sanidishing his match against the Panthers.
Whatever the way the final sow takes place, it is clear that the Horizon tournament is anything but. Panthers, at best, are as good as any team of the conference – if not better. At worst, they left the gymnasium. It’s about finding the rest of the path consistent.
“It’s as difficult as possible to win a league,” said Lundy. “I want us to have a two game lead and we had home matches along the way. For me, Robert Morris could be the best team in the League, but who would not want to be in this place?
“Let’s jump on the bus and let’s see what we got, let’s see what is the challenge.”
This article originally appeared on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Uwm has a victory rebound record in northern Kentucky
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