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Wednesday, December 22
Bowling Green, Ohio
7 pm
Bowling Green State University
70
vs
57
Manhattan
Falcons Win Second Straight At Home; Beat Jaspers 70-57
December 22, 2010 | Men's Basketball
Joe Jakubowski/Luke Kraus Postgame Audio
Louis Orr Postgame Audio
Boxscore
Bowling Green, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team jumped out to a 40-26 halftime lead and never looked back, defeating Manhattan Wednesday evening 70-57 in Anderson Arena.
Bowling Green won its second consecutive home game by shooting 51 percent from the floor and building a first-half lead. Manhattan never got closer than 10 in the second half as BGSU forced 24 Jasper turnovers by producing 15 steals.
Luke Kraus scored 10 points in the first half on his way to a team-high 15, just one shy of his own career best. Scott Thomas had eight points, eight rebounds and seven assists, while Joe Jakubowski added 11 points and four assists. The point guard duo of Jakubowski and Jordon Crawford combined for eight assists without a turnover in the contest.
After Jakubowski hit the first of his three three-pointers early in the game, Manhattan scored five straight to tie the game at 9-9. But Bowling Green held the Jaspers scoreless over the next four minutes and made all four of its shots during that stretch for a 21-9 lead. Dee Brown and Kraus hit a pair of three's midway through the first and A'uston Calhoun powered home a basket inside to make it 29-14 with 5:47 to go in the first half. Crawford's one-handed runner as the first-half buzzer sounded gave the Falcons a 14-point lead.
Manhattan did score the first four points of the second half to close within 10 but the Jaspers went 0-for-2 with three turnovers on their next five possessions and BGSU weathered the storm. Leading 47-36, Bowling Green scored seven in a row, capped by a Kraus lay-up that gave the Falcons a comfortable 18-point lead and effectively put the game away.
The Falcons had 14 turnovers for the game, 10 less than Manhattan, which negated the Jaspers 35-26 rebounding edge. Bowling Green also made a season-high eight three-pointers in 20 attempts (40 percent). Thomas and Calhoun had four steals each and Crawford added three for the Falcons. Nine of the 10 players who got on the court for Bowling Green scored at least three points.
Manhattan falls to 2-10 with the loss and Bowling Green improves to 3-9. The Falcons will have a week off before hosting Texas San Antonio Dec. 30 at 7 p.m.
NOTES
* Scott Thomas was the first Bowling Green player to have at least seven points, assists, and rebounds in a game since Joe Jakubowski had 13 points, nine rebounds, and seven assists in a 58-38 win over Detroit on Dec. 14, 2008.
* Since shooting 35.1 percent from the field in the team's first nine games, the Falcons have shot 50.3 percent from the floor in the last three games.
* BGSU had 17 or more assists for the third consecutive game after reaching that total just once in the first nine.
* Bowling Green won for the first time this year in a game in which it was outrebounded. The Falcons had lost the previous seven games in which they were outrebounded.
* The Falcons are 3-0 when reaching 70 points in a game this year.
* With three three-pointers, Joe Jakubowski has now made 116 for his career, one shy of moving into the top 10 all-time at BGSU. Cory Ryan (2000-02), Joe Gregory (1986-89), and Kirk Whiteman (1989-92) all made 117 in their careers and are in a three-way tie for eighth.
* By going 1-for-2 from long range, Dee Brown climbed to ninth place on the career three-point percentage leaderboard at BGSU. He is shooting 39.6 percent from three-point range in his career.
* A'uston Calhoun had a career-high four steals.
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