The track meeting turned into a rugby match, which turned into a price fight.
In the end, the Uw-Milwaukee Panthers Released victorious – on the strings, bloody and frustrated, of course, but victorious nevertheless.
In a critical game for sowing in the next Horizon League tournament, the Panthers used a 25-1 sequence to take control halfway through the match, then hung on like a whistling festival paraded Thursday evening for a 71-66 victory against Oakland at Uw-Milwaukee Panther Arena.
“It was just a fight for reaching and dragging,” said Panthers head coach Bart Lundy.
Ludny was not wrong.
With the victory and a loss of Purdue Fort Wayne earlier in the evening, Milwaukee, with a remaining regular season match, now controls its own destiny to welcome a quarter -final of the conference. The Panthers, who also won a bye in the first round and moved into the seeded n ° 2 for the moment, welcome Detroit Mercy on Saturday to conclude their regular season.
Box score: Uwm 71, Oakland 66
“It’s February 27,” said Panthers goalkeeper Aj McKee. “It’s time to win a championship. Each match from now on is a championship match.
McKee scored 15 points on a shooting of 7 for 14 effective, but otherwise did not go so well for Milwaukee in attack, because it drew just 37.9% from the field and missed 17 of the 20 attempts.
But Milwaukee did the work defensively, forcing 20 reversals of grizzlewas and triggering a hot race at the end of the first half and in the second.
Defensive pressure turns the tide
Not much went early for the panthers. Fucked by unusually hot shots of deeply – they entered the day classified 354th out of 356 teams from the country in percentage of three points – and a sweltering area, the grizzlies took an advance of 33-25 with five minutes, 24 seconds to play in first half.
Then Lundy and the company changed their look.
The panthers avoided a heavy program of shooting despite the defense of the area, opting rather for some penetrating guards and athletics on the wings, and passed on the following 17 points.
While the offense obtained what she wanted in painting after decomposing the area with a dribble penetration, it was the defense that stole the spectacle. Milwaukee entered a complete trap and also extended his defensive pressure on the ball on the ball. The panthers forced seven reversals and maintained the 0 for 4 grizzleas on the field during the race, which ended with a frank launch with 0.2 seconds.
“We had prepared a few different presses for them and I thought that our pressure in this first half had really come to them,” said Lundy. “They did some three to take this eight -point lead, then really shaken them.”
The assault of the panthers did not end there. They scored the first eight points of the second half, forcing two other reversals to keep Oakland without a basket for a total of almost eight minutes during the 25-1 race which gave the hosts an advance of 50-34.
Rock Fight in the second half
Grizzlies, however, have not left.
And either the calls for fault.
Jayson Woodrich alone brought back Oakland at a hitting distance with a personal race of 10-2 – he hit three triple, one being a game of four points – in the space of 59 seconds to reduce the deficit to six with 15:32 to play.
At this stage of half-time too, the officials had called 11 combined faults, a trend that would not be broken until the buzzer struck.
The teams were called at 47 combined faults during the match, which turned into a physical battle in the last minutes of the game in which the two parties were frustrated by trying to understand what was the standard for a fault.
“We had a few strokes where he was:” I am the only one who will speak to the referees “, said Lundy. “So we had to get to this point, then it also went from our staff. And then there were a few calls where I lost it too. But it’s a difficult game to call. We put them pressure on the perimeter. They push and push inside, define, you know, many headhole. It is therefore very difficult.
Panthers survive the last section
Milwaukee seemed to be in a solid place before the final thrust of the game, leading by nine with six minutes to play on a pair of free throws from Kentrell Pullian. But a sloppy defense led to a 7-0 race which attracted Oakland in both points for the first time since the first half.
A layup of Jamichael Stillwell – his only goal on the night field to accompany 13 rebounds – with 1:45 to repel the advantage to five, but Oakland has further reduced to a game to a possession with a Layup of Navalurua Tuburu with 42 seconds on the left.
The DQ Cole game is equal to the buzzer, however, was well challenged by the Panthers and Themus Fulks, which was 0 for 7 on the field but 9 for 10 of the free throw line, struck a pair of free throws to freeze the game with a second to do.
This article originally appeared on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Uwm enters second place from the League Horizon with Win Over Oakland
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