Game Day: Portland State at Idaho State
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When: 6 tonight
Where: Reed Gym (3,141), Pocatello, Idaho
Records: Portland State (8-11, 3-4 Big Sky Conference); Idaho State (5-14, 2-5)
On the air: Radio on KPDQ (800)
Probable starters: Portland State -- F Phil Nelson (12.9 ppg), F Julius Thomas (8.2 ppg, 5.4 rpg), C Jamie Jones (12.5 ppg, 6.9 rpg), G Paul Guede (4.5 ppg), G Dominic Waters (18.9 ppg, 4.7 apg); Idaho State -- F Demetrius Monroe (9.5 ppg, 8.3 rpg), G Amorrow Morgan (18.2 ppg), G Broderick Gilchrest (14.6 ppg, 2.9 apg), G Donnie Carson (4.1 ppg), G Austin Kilpatrick (6.2 ppg).
Briefly: PSU has won eight of the last nine games against Idaho State and leads the all-time series 22-13. The Bengals’ last victory in the series was last season when they won 78-69 in Pocatello. … The Vikings dropped an 86-83 decision Friday to first-place Weber State in Odgen, Utah. It was PSU’s second consecutive loss and fourth loss in the last five games, dropping the Vikings into a fifth-place tie with Northern Arizona, one game behind Montana.
The Vikings rallied from a 13-point deficit early in the second half against Weber State and had two chances to send Friday’s game into overtime, but Waters and Melvin Jones each missed three-point attempts on the game’s final possession. “We two great looks, and I told the guys, ‘You know what, they didn’t go down, but the momentum has got to change for us sooner or later,’” Vikings coach Tyler Geving said during his post-game radio interview. “I was proud of the way we competed and I said, ‘You guys, keep your heads up and let’s go get one tomorrow.’ You can’t be down about the way we played.”
Waters scored 18 of his team-high 21 points in the second half, and Jamie Jones added 14 points and 13 rebounds for his fourth double-double in the last six games. The Vikings also had a 40-32 edge in points in the paint, a 19-6 advantage in second-chance points, and 34-30 edge in rebounds. “I proud of the guys for the way we rebounded,” Geving said. “That was a big key for us. Weber leads the league in rebounding at a plus-6 margin, and for use to out-rebound them by four tonight and come up with 14 offensive rebounds was a great performance by our guys on the glass.”
Looking ahead to the Idaho State game, Geving said the Vikings “can’t have moral victories anymore. I’m tired of moral victories. We need to get a win, and I told our guys, ‘Keep your heads up. You battled.’ And, win or lose, the tough part about these road trips is you’ve got to start thinking about the next game tomorrow. We’ve got to put this behind us, but build of it, because we did do some good things tonight.”
Gilchrest and Chron Tatum scored 19 points each to lead four Idaho State players in double figures, carrying the Bengals to an 80-74 victory over visiting Eastern Washington in Reed Gym Friday. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak and lifted the Bengals into a tie with Eastern Washington for seventh place, one game ahead of last-place Sacramento State. "It was a little faster paced game than we typically play, but sometimes that happens in Reed. This gym is a little more conducive to helter-skelter and fast break basketball," said ISU coach Joe O'Brien, whose comments appeared on the school’s website. "It’s a task to guard those three-point shooters. We gave up 12 threes and I thought we guarded the three-point line pretty well. Most of those threes were guards threes and contested threes." … The Bengals are using 3,141-seat Reed Gym this weekend, while 8,000-seat Holt Arena is being used this week for the University of Idaho Agricultural Show and Potato Expo.
http://www.oregonlive.com/vikings/index.ssf/2010/01/game_day_portland_state_at_ida.html
When: 6 tonight
Where: Reed Gym (3,141), Pocatello, Idaho
Records: Portland State (8-11, 3-4 Big Sky Conference); Idaho State (5-14, 2-5)
On the air: Radio on KPDQ (800)
Probable starters: Portland State -- F Phil Nelson (12.9 ppg), F Julius Thomas (8.2 ppg, 5.4 rpg), C Jamie Jones (12.5 ppg, 6.9 rpg), G Paul Guede (4.5 ppg), G Dominic Waters (18.9 ppg, 4.7 apg); Idaho State -- F Demetrius Monroe (9.5 ppg, 8.3 rpg), G Amorrow Morgan (18.2 ppg), G Broderick Gilchrest (14.6 ppg, 2.9 apg), G Donnie Carson (4.1 ppg), G Austin Kilpatrick (6.2 ppg).
Briefly: PSU has won eight of the last nine games against Idaho State and leads the all-time series 22-13. The Bengals’ last victory in the series was last season when they won 78-69 in Pocatello. … The Vikings dropped an 86-83 decision Friday to first-place Weber State in Odgen, Utah. It was PSU’s second consecutive loss and fourth loss in the last five games, dropping the Vikings into a fifth-place tie with Northern Arizona, one game behind Montana.
The Vikings rallied from a 13-point deficit early in the second half against Weber State and had two chances to send Friday’s game into overtime, but Waters and Melvin Jones each missed three-point attempts on the game’s final possession. “We two great looks, and I told the guys, ‘You know what, they didn’t go down, but the momentum has got to change for us sooner or later,’” Vikings coach Tyler Geving said during his post-game radio interview. “I was proud of the way we competed and I said, ‘You guys, keep your heads up and let’s go get one tomorrow.’ You can’t be down about the way we played.”
Waters scored 18 of his team-high 21 points in the second half, and Jamie Jones added 14 points and 13 rebounds for his fourth double-double in the last six games. The Vikings also had a 40-32 edge in points in the paint, a 19-6 advantage in second-chance points, and 34-30 edge in rebounds. “I proud of the guys for the way we rebounded,” Geving said. “That was a big key for us. Weber leads the league in rebounding at a plus-6 margin, and for use to out-rebound them by four tonight and come up with 14 offensive rebounds was a great performance by our guys on the glass.”
Looking ahead to the Idaho State game, Geving said the Vikings “can’t have moral victories anymore. I’m tired of moral victories. We need to get a win, and I told our guys, ‘Keep your heads up. You battled.’ And, win or lose, the tough part about these road trips is you’ve got to start thinking about the next game tomorrow. We’ve got to put this behind us, but build of it, because we did do some good things tonight.”
Gilchrest and Chron Tatum scored 19 points each to lead four Idaho State players in double figures, carrying the Bengals to an 80-74 victory over visiting Eastern Washington in Reed Gym Friday. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak and lifted the Bengals into a tie with Eastern Washington for seventh place, one game ahead of last-place Sacramento State. "It was a little faster paced game than we typically play, but sometimes that happens in Reed. This gym is a little more conducive to helter-skelter and fast break basketball," said ISU coach Joe O'Brien, whose comments appeared on the school’s website. "It’s a task to guard those three-point shooters. We gave up 12 threes and I thought we guarded the three-point line pretty well. Most of those threes were guards threes and contested threes." … The Bengals are using 3,141-seat Reed Gym this weekend, while 8,000-seat Holt Arena is being used this week for the University of Idaho Agricultural Show and Potato Expo.
