Thursday, February 19
Denver, Colo.
9 p.m.
Purdue Fort Wayne
15-11 (8-5,SL)
63
at
47
Denver
10-16 (4-9,SL)
1
2
F
IPFW
28
35
63
Denver
23
24
47
Team Stats
IPFW
DEN
FG%
.625
.320
3FG%
.545
.273
FT%
.680
1.000
RB
25
28
TO
10
9
STL
4
5
Game Leaders
Pts
17
FGM
6
3FGM
1
FTM
4
Pts
14
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
6
Pts
6
FGM
1
3FGM
1
FTM
3
Players Mentioned
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Second Half Run Propels Mastodons to Seventh Straight Win
2/19/2015 8:44:00 PM | Men's Basketball
DENVER - A 16-0 second-half IPFW run turned a four-point, 34-30 Denver lead into a 46-34 IPFW advantage, and the run was stretched to as large as 30-6 when the Mastodons led by 20 at 60-40, propelling the Mastodons to a 16-point, 63-47 win over the Denver Pioneers on Thursday evening.
The Mastodons hit a season-high 62.5 percent of its shots in the game (20-of-32), and went 6-of-11 from long range (54.5 percent) and made 17-of-25 from the charity stripe. Denver, who came into the game with the 10th highest field goal percentage in the country (49.0 percent), was held to 16-of-50 ,(32.0 percent) shooting from the field, and 9-of-33 (27.3 percent) from beyond the arc, while converting on all six of their free throw tries.
Joe Edwards tied a season-high with 17 points, while Steve Forbes scored 14 and Mo Evans 10. Isaiah McCray pulled down eight rebounds to lead the team, while also dishing out a game-high five assists and blocking two shots. Mo Evans picked up three steals, as the Mastodons had a 14-to-10 assist-to-turnover ratio in the game.
The win is the program's seventh straight, the longest win streak since the 1992-93 season, while winning its fourth straight road game, tied for the fourth-longest road win streak in program history.
IPFW trailed on three different occasions in the game, answered by Mastodon runs of 6-0, 10-0, and 16-0, respectively.
IPFW jumped ahead quickly, scoring the first four points of the game on lay-ups by Steve Forbes and Joe Edwards, and didn't trail until six and a half minutes into the game when Marcus Byrd drained a three-point basket with 13:34 to play.
The Mastodons responded to their first deficit of the game with back-to-back three-pointers from Michael Calder and Edwards. The Pioneers pushed ahead by two at 16-14 with 8:23 to play when the IPFW defense tightened, and the visitors ran off 10 consecutive points to lead by eight five minutes later, and held on to a 28-23 halftime advantage.
Denver opened the second half on an 11-2 run before the Mastodons pushed off 16 consecutive points to lead by 12 following an Evans three-point basket, and IPFW never trailed again. The margin reached as high as 20 on Calder's second three-pointer of the game, as the hosts closed the gap to 16 at the final buzzer.
Brett Olson scored a game-high 18 points, while Cam Griffin pulled down a dozen rebounds- more than Denver's entire team total in the first meeting this season.
The Mastodons put their win streak on the line against the nation's sixth-longest home court win streak - 24 games by the North Dakota State Bison - in a 3 p.m. EST tip-off.
~ Feel the Rumble ~
The Mastodons hit a season-high 62.5 percent of its shots in the game (20-of-32), and went 6-of-11 from long range (54.5 percent) and made 17-of-25 from the charity stripe. Denver, who came into the game with the 10th highest field goal percentage in the country (49.0 percent), was held to 16-of-50 ,(32.0 percent) shooting from the field, and 9-of-33 (27.3 percent) from beyond the arc, while converting on all six of their free throw tries.
Joe Edwards tied a season-high with 17 points, while Steve Forbes scored 14 and Mo Evans 10. Isaiah McCray pulled down eight rebounds to lead the team, while also dishing out a game-high five assists and blocking two shots. Mo Evans picked up three steals, as the Mastodons had a 14-to-10 assist-to-turnover ratio in the game.
The win is the program's seventh straight, the longest win streak since the 1992-93 season, while winning its fourth straight road game, tied for the fourth-longest road win streak in program history.
IPFW trailed on three different occasions in the game, answered by Mastodon runs of 6-0, 10-0, and 16-0, respectively.
IPFW jumped ahead quickly, scoring the first four points of the game on lay-ups by Steve Forbes and Joe Edwards, and didn't trail until six and a half minutes into the game when Marcus Byrd drained a three-point basket with 13:34 to play.
The Mastodons responded to their first deficit of the game with back-to-back three-pointers from Michael Calder and Edwards. The Pioneers pushed ahead by two at 16-14 with 8:23 to play when the IPFW defense tightened, and the visitors ran off 10 consecutive points to lead by eight five minutes later, and held on to a 28-23 halftime advantage.
Denver opened the second half on an 11-2 run before the Mastodons pushed off 16 consecutive points to lead by 12 following an Evans three-point basket, and IPFW never trailed again. The margin reached as high as 20 on Calder's second three-pointer of the game, as the hosts closed the gap to 16 at the final buzzer.
Brett Olson scored a game-high 18 points, while Cam Griffin pulled down a dozen rebounds- more than Denver's entire team total in the first meeting this season.
The Mastodons put their win streak on the line against the nation's sixth-longest home court win streak - 24 games by the North Dakota State Bison - in a 3 p.m. EST tip-off.
~ Feel the Rumble ~
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