on a-sun hoops for the colonels and the bears and in backcourt hunter will move it right to left to the wall end of the arenas we're underway in richmond first ever meeting between uca and eku and the hardwood and another bad pass right out of the gate a turnover prone team in the top 20 of turnovers against the team that turns over teams the fourth most in the nation it'll be a story that will script and follow all night long crookshank high post to blanton taytay turns and walked with a basket
ball no whistle turn over the other way here comes central arkansas driving his cooper that ball rolls away rolls out to a shooter for the lead cannot get it on the miss by ebay clinton off the clinton miss here comes crookshank opening up man-to-man or the bears throw to the big guy inside in bennett they got a double team on him he'll turn to the left hand in store boy that was a total mismatch right there bennett outweighs hunter probably a hundred pounds they are switching defense and eku ta
kes advantage there goes for the trap skip pass to the far side to clinton head of the key crossover dribble by hall back to clinton ebay clinton from malmo sweden into the line to their star hall floating fire from eight on the run to tie it at two cooper robb got burned trying to get the steal right there gave up penetration crookshank gives it to blanton who just inched his way to four court in time off to brown getting his first start this season brown drives got around the defender who got
a hand on it good enough defense missed shot chatham with the defense here come the bears looking for the lead hall throws it high rising to get it into the corner near side cooper cooper backs it away blanton inches out hunting as we've played near two minutes think of the hand back by hall started his career at arkansas then to depaul now back at his home state top of the key to chatham 17 foot or no rebound by brown off the backboard but it falls to hall and he'll put it up and in or wait tha
t was clinton i think got blocked out 4-2 bears brown stop and go dribble to the baseline it was clinton and that shot only the backboard offensive rebound bennett hooks it from seven no good 4-2 central arkansas this is cooper colonel switch defensively head of the key to hall leans in on brown who reaches in a little arm hook to get him defensively away into the left corner to cooper bring it top of the key drive on bennett turn chatham got it 6-2 bears real nice spin move in the lane to creat
e some space and get that shot up over bennett 6-0 run here after eku got the first two by iron bennett blanton behind the back into the lane dropped the dribble saved him before it went out in front of the central arkansas bench manned by their head coach and here's rob losing it but got it back pitched it into the corner to blanton he missed followed his own miss bear falls down and blanton on an eight-foot offensive rebound miss and the bears are running up to chatham stolen by crookshank but
he ran out of room 16 39 in the game half one 6-2 central arkansas great hustle by crookshank right there to get a handle on that lead pass both teams opening up man-to-man and doing a lot of switching gonna reset the shot clock here says jason baker put it at 20 crookshank never had control bennett to guard inbounds trigger by hunter good defense but they got it in to cooper cooper high post to chatham back over to the shooter he missed in an offensive rebound push by hall trying to get loose
and he picks up the foul he goes to talk to the official asking about the call pats him on the backside after getting the explanation 6-2 uca central arkansas just some token man-to-man pressure right here hasn't shown any kind of trap so far crookshank coming back for another year fifth year graduate student through a junior college he's out of milwaukee latest high school ball down in texas to brown eku has opened one of six uca three of six brown drives on hall dropped the ball did it roll of
f all no brown appealing but a turnover by brown and if there is a knock on jamarro brown's game it is the lack of consistent ball handling yeah it's been something that's been a problem for him at times this year eastern's been going a lot of one-on-one so far in these possessions hunter flips it up to clinton alley-oop for a monster jam by jared chatham back-to-back buckets and after a 2-0 deficit the bears have ripped off eight in a row moreno and warty coming to the scoring table to check in
for the home team brown he wants crookshank to clear it out underhand to blanton one of six start for the home team blanton a hand in the face tough 17-footer he cans it for his first two he scored 23 games in a row and bennett interrupts up in murray state and morehead state lob into hall rob got help from warty and he walked warty is checked in coming off his five five-dunk effort against denan d1 and also michael moreno in as well so they along with rob force the turnover and that is the sec
ond of the night on central arkansas eku has made two as well moreno a quick shooting three barely got it to the rim ball skitters to the corner and a rebound to ebay clinton they throw over the defense wardy was not aware but he was able to shell out chatham hall drives in extra share to the baseline to hunter along the baseline turning tough shot no good off the miss it looked like it was chatham i was blocked out warty the rebound juco through nebraska also a division two stop at peru state t
hey go to warning goes up and he dunks it and he's up to 60 percent of his field goals made now doug are dunks that's dunk number 17 for warty off the bench hunter beats him ali open oops they go as they tried to do the one-hand alley-oop for the highlight and it was off target to hall from hunter turned over hunter third on the team yeah they had the advantage though it was a right idea just poor execution on the pass cricket guard again braxton beverly medical scratch tonight the normal starte
r up the warty back to the basket ham back to crookshank high pumping left handed dribble and he'll fall away for a three no good blanton follows tips it across the flange kept it alive but through his legs it goes into the hands of hunter hunter to cooper cooper to the foulheim back to hunter hunter a freshman guard and he's played well 6-3 freshman true freshman now hall spinning his way into the lane warty challenge may have gotten a fingernail on it pulled down by chatham he missed and moren
o got the rebound for eku86 uca here's rob catch and shoot three for the lead no over the back award he goes hall cleanly for the rebound all the forecart played at arkansas and depaul now he's back in his home state at uca about a half an hour north of little rock eight six uca 13 30 in the first half honor one hands it down the left of the lane and off the window for two well you got to pay attention to your scouting report hunter left handed and scored going to his left two bears and one kern
el getting ready to come in they'll all be new subs this is crookshank to the baseline in trouble turnover and it's rare for crookshank he's 3.1 it's just turnover ratio miller for eastern kentucky a walk-on it'll be eddie kyolud in and let's see who the other player back in or is it a new player it's a new player it's gonna be jackson baker so kyle lewd and baker in for uca deep three got it stripping core never hit the rim for colin cooper is 27-3 to lead the team 13-6 biggest lead at seven fo
r uca five in a row after eku scored four in a row to get it within two we're down to 12 50 first half rob step back three missed his first hits his second and he answered the three by cooper with one of his own had a team leading 35th well it's important for eastern to hit the basket to get that press set up that they're so noted for they throw over it to baker to the baseline warty fouty after he got around moreno to the baseline left in transition looked like he was in good position but he br
ought those arms down on the shot and you're going to get a foul caught on you just about every time when you do that jackson baker out of phoenix arizona brophy prep six is average last year 4.8 this year and he's it's good he'll have one more he's the president of the student athletic advisory group at uca communications major and uh i guess i'll fault him a little bit for being a man you fan since i'm a chelsea fan and premier league soccer i'll tell you what that kid can shoot the ball if he
gets a look at the basket tonight you can expect go in got him both from the foul line 15-9 biggest lead seven biggest lead for eku 2-0 and then they got outscored eight nothing bad pass by mitter but wardy saves it got it back to midair the 13 point guard here playing because beverly is out good find in the corner to rob by mitter and he airballed it but wardy picked it up with back up after he lost the handle got decked and fouled he'll have to earn him from the line where he's seven of ten t
his year awardee is so active on the boards here's a reap but we thought we're going to get a replay there not right now but uh here he is so just saw the end of the play there where he got knocked out of bounds but he's so active he's very quick and he's got springs one thing that eastern kentucky's not been able to do tonight is get a run central arkansas had an 8-0 run as wardy now 8 of 11 from the foul line and he has three that's one thing that eastern kentucky hangs its hat on with its goo
d turnover margin you look at runs they've had 13 runs this year of double figure points in a row well usually that's predicated on them getting the basket and then setting up the press and getting those turnovers and creating offense from their defense sacrament no good by warning and the rebound by hall you could see as athleticism here baker almost lost the handle but it got to a teammate new player in and hola woo kerry odukeri has checked in so they've been a little deeper on the bench they
have not been hit by the medical scratches like eku doug talked about baker shooting and he flattened that one out off the back land straight away no good blanton the rebound bumped by now backing it up is blanton to moreno back to blanton 11 35 first half planting a three to cut it to two he missed at eastern kentucky shooting poorly four of fourteen one of seven from three at a defensive rebound and here come the bears looking to add to their big advantage of five baker no look past corner oh
lulucary misses it and a rebound high near the foul line toward a diminisher to four court right side moreno crossover dribble and they'll settle into an offensive pattern here as we near the 11-minute mark don't know the baseline with the height advantage moreno skip past left quarter blanton three ball good on the assist by moreno his 27th assist and blanton hits the three for his fifth point nice pass but a nice screen over there on the weak side by the way for central arkansas both teams ha
ve made three turnovers central arkansas ball this is kyle lewd and he got around the defender but missed the shot at the cub ball falls to hall his 16-footer went too far easy rebound blanton pushing pace to brown brown deep three from the corner for the lead no good eku two of nine from deep guard colin cooper the rebound out of fayetteville arkansas to the elbow left over bennett no good may have gotten a piece of it rebound brown give bennett a partial block brown stop and go dribble down th
e left of the lane crook shanks come back in and brown dribbling up the near side or the far side in front of the central arkansas bench to moreno catch and shoot three for the lead no good eku's only lead two nothing they'd be down as many as seven they play on d one quarter of the way in to the baseline driving in olo wukeri nothing up top extra share cooper double extra share hall to the corner missed it they're not a great shooting team and a rebound by brownell to reach in foul called on ky
le good rotation defensively there by eastern get a little pressure on the shot and they've done a pretty good job on that on the other end though eastern has taken a lot of quick shots and settling for the three and not really working the ball inside out which i expect coach hamilton will probably adjust to that university of central arkansas bringing starter ebay clinton back in out of malmo sweden scotland campus prep asa newcomer of the week once they've had three newcomer picks this year ek
u's had one chance at williams medical scratch tonight the graduate student brown dropped the ball got it back in front of clinton he finds it opening and he sacks it very good patients who were tied at 15 and eku scored six in a row quickly down court clinton after brown put it in the bucket for his first two clinton crossover loses brown good help steal by crookshank it's a 2-1 coup crookshank will pull up a three good at eastern kentucky with one of those grund illinois knight 18 against midw
ay ohio valley and 15 against dallas lloyd college so just one double figure run way high up there they chase easy hall behind the back over rob from 15 and we're back within one as hall shows his great handling and his ability to find a shot there he's got that elevation on that mid-range game crossover dribble crook shank little shove off nothing there back to moreno up top to brown little body bump by clinton they're letting him play but letting him play fairly brown muscling in through the f
oul that time it was clinton pushing then it was brown pushing and then clinton comes back and clinton gets called for the foul haven't had a lot of fouls just four of the bears two on the curdles as we watch this one-on-one battle here you know brown made a really nice quick crossover and got to the left of the lane there before he got the contact good foul shooter and jamaru brown goes to line 73 on his career 84 this year and that is his 13th foul shot in a row hit he is 22 at 26 on the year
he's been to the foul line as many as 19 times in a game he was 18 of 19 back in the night 2019-2020 season against tennessee state and he's just been silky smooth as he got him both to go had a biggest lead of three for eku the biggest deficit at seven central arkansas baker throws over past half court clinton they got him in a double team and the new player ended sean jackson the steal jackson a bounce pass and threw it away he thought it was deflected they said no five turnovers uca four turn
overs eastern kentucky deshawn jackson coming off that outstanding performance in the last game against alex lloyd where he came off the bench and had 15 points they're looking for him to help out this time where the people are out here with medical scratches jackson the one with the orange shoes on wearing 23 in white around to the right side clinton for the lead missed the three good block out by jackson and they went over his back but jason baker says no we're going to do it the other way say
jackson burrowed in to the offensive player there position just didn't make a pivot there to keep his rear end on the uh offensive player and yeah we saw a little late to see what happened there hall is real aggressive on the boards hall got the inbounds goal camping inside lane just lost the ball was kyle lewd for their sixth turnover of the night they are a high turnover team over 16 a game 2017 eastern kentucky they were down early in this one 13-6 brown a tough three he missed it tapping it
off the backboard has been it but couldn't get the rebound so eastern kentucky has been on a 14-7 run since they were behind make it a 14-4 run for eastern kentucky chatham driving in using his body misses but a hall there for the follow tip in hall's been the most active player on the court tonight that i've seen doug yeah he's athletic long and really attacks the glass they post him up some in their half court offense too 2019 eastern kentucky seven and a half in the first half brown loosely
guarded by chatham head of the key good screen by bennett nothing there now brown drives got loose double team top wood off the window and scored it i don't know how but he has six and up the other way nobody back and it's easy throwing over the defense at a dunk by chatham 22-21 eastern kentucky they beat the defense down by a long shot right there starter cooper waiting to come back in for uca jackson left wing three missed it rebound pulled down by clinton also eastern kentucky getting ready
to bring blanton and wardy back in here near steel by brown but clinton got it back and then threw it away trying to forward an aggressive six rebounds for him individually already along with six points chatham has six points six points for brown for eku five by blanton here's brown high right guarded by clintman rising fall away 14-footer good and brown feeling game right now and he has eight yeah he did a good job right there getting to where he wanted to be and then rising up and shooting und
er balance blanton tracking the guard cooper to four court now they switch rob on him but a quiet night for rob so far except for a big three top of the key chatham who's had a good game almost wah kept the pivot foot down cooper drives through and rob reaches in and fouls him well that pivot foot almost came off the court there as chatham was in no man's land they say the reach is on brown before rob got him first on brown and both teams now with four personal fouls and a low foul game in a poo
r shooting game for both sides eastern's done a good job in their rotations and help on their half court defense they've uh really kept central arkansas out of their offense for the most part first foul shot good by cooper he has four colin cooper averaged 10.8 last year 10.2 this year sophomore got them both 75 percent foul shooter this is a good foul shooting team at 74 percent third best in the a sun they pull within one of the home team eku one of three games in the a sun tonight one postpon
ed bellarmine covered problems in their program they were supposed to be at jacksonville state brown to the baseline 12-footer couldn't get it hall falling out of bounds but saved it in got it to hunter hunter rob went for the steal and got a nick on it warty picked it up through robbed crookshank crookshank high off the window no warty follows and dunks it so warty two dunks tonight on his two field goals the 18 dunks now on 29 makes this year can you believe that following that shot across the
timeline clinton to hall good feed inside and warned he blocked it on chatham throw over to warty collects it runs down the room finds crookshank in the corner no good that would have brought the roof down the big wooden beam arched roof here a signature here of this arena built in 1963. five minutes first half hunter stop and go dribble there's that pretty left-handed kiss off the window he's done two down the lane and that's his shot isn't it quick release too and it got it up on the board be
fore the defense could react 26-25 eastern kentucky not able to get up by more than three in this game central arkansas had an early seven point lead lanton lost the dribble got it back find rob in a right wing make a man fly by him open three splash boy all you young kids right there take take note of that pump fake throw over the defense and hall missed the dunk warty fountain morty almost deflected the pass before that and aw hamilton thought that wardy got fouled when he tipped it away from
the first intended receiver as he works hard and now does the head coach and they'll pats one of the three officials on the back and they have a smile together coach hamilton can charm people he's really got the personality over on the sideline played at wake forest then when they brought in this guy named chris paul he transferred to marshall here's hall deep knee bend foul shot good in a lab one more again a good foul shooting team hall has seven he's a 73 percent foul shooter and uca tonight
a perfect five for five got em both they went 17 of 18 in the loss of missouri state the biggest lead of four for eku cut in half to two 418 in the first half when they're in the weave in front of the central arkansas bench and anthony boone their third year head coach who played at ole miss good feed low to warning in a clean strip by clinton when warney was collecting threw a teammate to hunter down the left side to the baseline he's in trouble but find cooper for the lead he got it his second
of the night they went down to double team the post and a good kick out assist right there cooper wide open on the three-point line third lead switch two ties 30-29 uca crookshank stop and go dribble inside throws it into the corner to rob finds a three with a hand in his face and this one no good easter kentucky four of 16 25 and in transition rob gets back and makes a steal at the foul line scoops it to an unguarded crook shank and he missed it planting the rebound pogo stick back up and in a
nd eastern kentucky switches the lead back to 31-30 their side also been an assistant at uca before he took over as interim coach in 2020. and a baker their freshman guard back to clinton a freshman back to baker to four court colonels have a trap in trouble baker almost stolen but they got it no look to chatham and he hit the back flange when he went to dunk but held on to it and it finally went down the pipe for two chatham has been impressive tonight the graduate student out of l.a hunter was
lucky to get the ball out of that trap there at midcourt 32-31 bears on her fifth lead switch in a tight game pick and roll to ward he dropped it but it went off the foot of chatham when wardy couldn't handle the pick and roll throw down low from rob up high central arkansas does a great job of helping off of penetration and they did a good job right there rotating morty was rolling right wide open to the basket eku playing without three of its top six players tonight lewis who is a dynamic ath
letic freshman and then two starters two transfers in beverly air ball throw by rob rebound by moreno but he's shot no good blanton had a chance kicks out to rob and the shot clock runs out get in moreno all over him dangerous though caught by chatham got it through to clinton but nothing there out to their shooter and he's hit three tonight came in 26-69 and he's to double figures is colin cooper feeling it in richmond 35-31 uca they were down 29-25 eastern kentucky another quick shot at anothe
r miss on a 10 and a big run here they were down four they're up for a 10-2 run if my numbers are right baker guarded by blanton under two minutes chatham from the elbow over bennett sack well he has the ability at the five spot to stretch the defense bring bennett out away from the basket and he's taking advantage of that a couple times a 12-2 run by uca double figures for chatham for the fifth time this year blanton good fake out on clinton and then he missed the shot and they tapped it over h
is back and out of bounds eastern kentucky struggling from the field tonight 12 of 35 34.3 percent 48.3 percent for the bears who came in a 43 percent shooting team of the year crookshank into moreno moreno spins to the baseline 12-footer short follows zone miss hopscotches to the goal and misses from two feet got it back he'll try it for a third time partially blocked rob picks it up rob whips it out to crookshank into the lane float yoyo the body missed another miss good hustle bennett comes o
ut of there with it he'll put it up he missed it cup denies it again eku as crookshank takes it elbow he falls down five on four hunter off to the guy that wanted to heat stroke it couldn't get loose hunter walks down the lane finds a teammate who put it in for a 14-2 run by chatham who's had 12 tonight and it's 39-31 uca here goes moreno dropped the dribble got it back and he's fouled 42 seconds to go in the first half at uca on a 12-2 run for their biggest lead of the night at eight yeah that'
s only the 15th foul on the bears so eastern not in the bonus yet eastern has 16 fouls so if they were to foul again this half central arkansas will go the line bennett will go to the bench warty back in struggle city for eku crookshank 106. brown three of eight lantern three of seven bennett one of three robb two of six only worthy two for two blanton trying to muscle inside he missed but he drew a foul go to the line he just just played bully ball right there got the ball in the lane and just
bowled his way in there to get the shot off second foul on clinton as we take a look at clinton's second foul right there with the body he's changed his body so much since last year when he was a freshman he got in that weight room and worked out really hard in the summertime and you can just tell he's a different looking athlete than what he was a year ago blanton got the first he asked six same high school as darlington nagby darlington nagby a great player on the u.s men's national team from
15 to 18 soccer he got them both stopped the 12-2 rhone by a bit here comes clinton the swede leans through two curdles finds hunter in the lane and there's that little floater with the left hand good he has six and they've all been left-handed floaters 41-33 central arkansas big run of 8-0 early and another run here late of 12-2 and a time-out they dealt for chatham eight for hall six by hunter eku has nobody in double figures lantern trouble getting it in but wardy pops out high with 13 to pla
y to crookshank crookshank eight to play between the rings a lot of dribbling anything there crookshank stepping it back hand in the face three missed it and that'll be the end of the first half and rob so all starters except for warty in for bennett on the other hand it will be clinton along with hall cooper hunter and chatham for the bears wardy picks up the dribble good defense a double team find rob a tough shooting night for the curdles here's their leading scorer in the rebounder blanton t
ipped away got it back over to rob he fakes drives two of six from three tonight all the shots behind the loop not this time though good duck under tough one no woody as it comes off the rim taps it in for a seventh point cooper rob really had to work to get that shot off excellent defensive job by central arkansas and they throw it to an official good catch by jason baker leaving his feet and the throw away for his fourth turnover on cameron hunter and you said at the top of the broadcast that
they get sped up and then they leave their feet to pass and it's hurt them that's why they're one of the top 20 in turnovers this year in the country classic example right there baseline blanton leaning in tough shot left it well short curtails kind of forcing shots tonight i think they kind of have that feeling that they're short staffed on the bench tonight oh good drive by hall comes to a sliding stop and walked wait they called a foul and a curdle they have on a push gonna be on crookshank w
ith a hold according to jason baker the crew chief boy i really am impressed with hall's athleticism three-time high school allstater 5a champion at mills high school in little rock his senior year that last field goal for eastern kentucky was their first on that rewardy tip in in three minutes and 54 seconds no field goal long dry spell for the second time in this game and a dry spell with no points at 3 22 and they post up rob and hall put it in a nice high low action right there they hit the
high post hall just sealed his man off cooper rob and they will throw over that is the ninth double figure game and 14 this year for hall here's brown switching his way baseline got bumped either clintman or hunter got him let's see who they pick it's going to be on hunter no going to be on clinton instead ebay clinton his brother bobby has signed with maryland so take another look at it he's third on clinton so he's in foul trouble up found out of a game this year but he's two away from doing s
o tonight with 18 24 to go and his team up by eight crookshank lobs it up to the hash in front of eku's bench to brown brown hunting for a shot though he got around the defender reverses it good and he's fouled pretty one-on-one move to beat jared chatham to the rim and brown goes to double figures great hesitation dribble you'll see it right here watch him hesitate and go back to the baseline and finish with his left hand with a little english on that backboard chatham with the foul his first b
usiness major out of la and brown hits another foul shot three for three tonight he has 11 and he has now hit 15 in a row at eku within five 43-38 after falling down here's a bad pass warty and backcourt the steal to rob high post back to rob from warty morty backs it away blanton sets a screen rob drives kisses window and scores his first inside to three-point line and it's down to a three-point game from 41-33 at halftime impressive finish by rob putting it high on the glass for that bank shot
bounce pass low and blocked by warning second block of the night on the shot inside by chatham after the penetration that penetration by oluwu kerry out of brooklyn new york masai olo wukiri his uncle by the way udonis haslam of course in the nba for a long long time since 2003 41 years of age and there is a shoulder shoved into rob and hall the offensive fallon turnover and a little bit of pick-me-up in the eastern kentucky comeback here down by three cooper robs had that defensive assignment
on hall this half and you see it right here he kind of made a little move to the lane and rob moved his feet defensive position referee said was enough to draw the charge all took that right arm into him it appeared that's where the call came five oh run by eku they've taken it from eight to three chance here to tie or get within one crook shank back to rob takes his man out three for the time bang well it's the second time he's done that tonight got the defender to go buy him central arkansas 8
-0 run and 12-2 run we're tied at 43 and at half court of foul on brown a late whistle at aw hamilton doesn't like the call but i think it's an advantage call there doug as brown was jostling colin cooper at half court on the inbounds and when cooper fell down the whistle sound it looked just exactly like a football play with the cornerback not seeing the ball when the ball was passed and kind of ran into the offensive player and they gave the benefit of the doubt to the offense and a tough call
for brown because he'll have to come to the bench as he has had 11 points of the game at his third foul at 17-18 with eku down three players on medical scratch tonight chatham and off to their point guard the freshman hunter has been turned over four times minner's come in at point guard so they play two point guards with kirk jenkins blanton tipped it away from haul another turnover here comes minor dangerous pass to blanton his shot blocked saved in and now it is a run out on the throw to hal
l but rob gets back with crookshank they got it back to the shooter and the three missed by oluwukeri at a foul on miner called and aw hamilton upset twice with a call he's really upset with the officials got a technical last game and he is enraged did a good job rotating and getting back into the play and he blocked out uh chatham just did you know just came over his back looked like but we'll see it on the replay right here i don't i don't see the uh i don't see the call there crookshank falls
down a warty foul's hall welcome to the a sun aw hamilton jason baker gonna come try to settle hamilton down the veteran official who work ovc games as well they're no longer just an official or an officiating crew from one conference anymore jason baker doing the thing to you know i think good officiating right here doug yeah he's taking up for his partner there and going over trying to get a.w hamilton to understand the call and hall hits the foul shot he's three for three he has 11 coming in
averaging 12.3 at 30 in the loss to arkansas state 16 rebounds in the win over oral roberts and hall does have 10 rebounds as he misses one their first miss on eight attempts robbed the rebound here comes mitter driving tough shot he missed it they took it in against a 6-8 guy doesn't work here comes hunter men are hawking from behind into the corner left side fake drive move in tough 15-foot air ball missed by hall rebound by blanton who's having another big night blanton working his way in fi
nd a left corner shooter and rob for the lead on a fine by blanton who's led the colonels at assist tonight and the defense beginning to turn it over here 46-44 eku hall alley up for the monster jam to chatham who's had two of those tonight chatham at 14 off the hall assist and we're dead locked at 46. crookshank dribbling in place high left as we go under 16 minutes up to rob bob has had a shooting hot streak going here in the second half right side to mitter extra share corner crookshank back
to minner mitter drives in a floating fire from eight and that knitter was in the air for a long time they pull him out of the game no he stays in moreno is the new player in and a handshake foul called on mitter been a tough spell for isaiah emitter local kid played for alvin feldhouse a former colonel back in the 80s coach of a state championship team at madison central and isaiah miller picks up the foul again eku without two starters and three of their top six players tonight medical scratch
es as the landscape of college basketball impacted by guys unable to play they're on the bench tonight in street clothes here's chatham pump faking now shooting from 15 as he was given space blant the rebound tipped away but got it back as blanton now with seven rebounds good pass to rob rob saved it in as he ran out of room to crookshank up to moreno he needs one to go and he is overnight as another one missed by moreno he's now over 7-0 for four from three had two right at the cup hall caught
and walked with a step got a low to chatham and he missed the bunny but got his own rebound brings it out to cooper their shooter he misses one he was three for three in the first half from deep the cooper couldn't get that one to go and it's his first miss of the night still tied at 46. rob first ever meeting between central arkansas at eku both new members of the a sun here's cooper in the corner fakes out hunter now hunter sees him drive around him feed it to minner up to crookshank nine to s
hoot he knows it crossover dribble in trouble to blanton blant drives left corner moreno and he got it just ahead of the shot clock for his first points of the night and he's now scored in 75 straight games great patience and clock awareness there near 10 second call but they got it across and alley-ooped it but a blocking foul to curdle threw it away but a colonel bails him out here and it's mitter with the reach wow and he's already got four fouls up four fouls quick there doug yeah that is he
's really aggressive defensively good call there you saw the body just kind of undercut the leaper there as he was going for the dunk 49-46 eastern kentucky [Applause] baker back in for hall a minner in his playing time got his worth of fouls four fouls in six minutes missed the foul shots so chatham goes over they had hit eight straight foul shots but they missed three in a row here here's moreno who hit the big three just ahead of the shot clock underneath 14 minutes at eku down eight at halft
ime now up three moreno back door cut to blanton for the lay in at a foul getting there too late on hollow lucari the eastern kentucky 51-46 lead one thing i noticed here's a good cut there by blaine his man just started ball watching there just a little bit that's one thing central arkansas will do at times they'll kind of lose focus of where their man is and be so concentrated on the ball that they're able to be beat on back door cuts 18-5 start in the second half for eku after they were down
at intermission 41-33 blanton 11 points eight rebounds four assists moreno hits a big three and then a big give and blanton misses the front end of the one or the uh extra foul shot after the field goal and they throw it away and backcourt the eku defense creeping out at all and the bears are wielding their offense is hibernated and the colonels have put him in a spot of bother here with that 18-5 start of the second half well warty's got three fouls eastern has gone really really small right he
re with moreno playing the five spot three fouls on brown four on minner three on awardee and three players unable to play tonight in street clothes on the bench jackson has come in over to moreno his three short may have been partially blocked good close out by hall here comes cooper to forecourt he's hit three or four threes but missed one this half high post driving not much there for kia luke and they got it out to cooper and he hit another one boy he's had a big night hadn't he with 14 one
away from his season high of 15 and they've all come from three plus a foul shot well he's got a nice stroke and he had plenty of time to get that one off right there back door cut moreno to rob bank and score they were high school teammates and they worked a little former scott county high school magic there 53-49 eku uca three minutes 12 seconds without a point a near stealing it is moreno deflected it jackson's got it the freshman season opening but puts on the brakes maintains the dribble ek
u by four at 12 22. uca plays defense crookshank three got it the defensive end as well right sometimes it's not a quantity of shots is quality of shots eastern's done a lot better job moving the ball the second half meanwhile central has struggled four ties six lead switches in the game they're up to 15 turnovers eku's fans wanted to travel didn't get it hunter finds a shot and there's that silky smooth left-hander i can watch that floating fire all day he is so good at that you know that is no
t an easy shot too when you're floating towards the basket like that is for him it's 23 to eight for eastern kentucky before hunter hit another one rob gets a screen from moreno goes inside got around hunter but got cut off with help from all to crookshank his three no good high skying rebound jackson pump fake back up and in that'll bring the bench up the freshman with his first two and offense he put put back 58-51 eastern kentucky rob went for a steal they've got a four on two their shooter b
aker out of the corner no good rebound pulled down and put in as two colonels get decked and it was in by kyle lude his first two in his 100th game as a bear and it's 58-53 eastern kentucky by five big basket by central arkansas kind of stopped the bleeding a little bit they've gone over three minutes without a field goal earlier this half moreno hit that big three backing down tough eight-footer banks it in where the offense has been like night and day jekyll and hyde from the first half hunter
had to save that one along the end line on the inbounds and the sideline left his feet but did not travel to hall hall ducks under moreno and banks it in hall up to a double double game again he has 13 points along with 11 rebounds his fourth double double had it against missouri state oral roberts and this team called baylor that's pretty good just a little bit 60-55 eastern kentucky neither team has had a double figure lead crook shanks stepped back thought about a three didn't take it picks
up the dribble eight on the shot glock low to blanton baker on him four on the shot clock tried to hit a cutting moreno and threw it away as the shot clock forced the seventh turnover of the night by eku 15 turnovers by central arkansas and points off turnovers duggar was 9-8 eku at halftime they're plus 8-8-0 here in the second half yeah they've been able to hit the basket which sets up their press and when eastern's able to get into that style of play they're a lot more effective and 11 of 18
from the field in the second half 61 they've taken a 30 percent mark up to 39-7 around brown challenged by warty third block of the night by warty who just came in to brown powering through and baker blocked it out no foul good defense baker after he got beat on one end comes back and plays defense on the other and jackson baker out of phoenix arizona well i thought he should have dropped the ball off to blanton right there on that break two on one baker with a great defensive play blanton and b
rown have 11 rob leads the curdles with 16. six of 11 from the field crook shank no looks it up top to blanton he wants brown to clear out picks up the dribble tipped away but rob right there to save it with 14 to shoot we go under 10 minutes rob tough lean bumped shoots misses rebound kicks high crookshank runs it down often tapped by either warty or baker or the other team and a reset with a new 20 on the clock nearing the nine minute mark 60 55 eku and the a-sun opener for both teams 15 years
in the southland for uca 73 in the ovc for eku rob another three missed it the rebound pulled down hall his 12th of the night across the timeline he comes going down low turning and a beautiful put in there by kyle lude he's had back to back buckets in this half and it's down to a one one-possession game 60-57 eku 8.50 in a moving clock and two bears ready to come in moreno getting a breather on the bench worthy brown rob and blanton playing with crookshank crookshank dumps it off to a cutting
rod at eastern kentucky he's done something to fight opening here in the second half rob has nine this half and it's a five point game third back door cut by eastern this half for layups rob has been active on both ends of the court 15 for cooper robb the charlotte transfer got around crookshank woody tries to challenge good use of the body by hunter and he's to double figures a balanced scoring sheet for the bears 14 cooper 10 hunter 14 chatham 13 haul you can't get much more balance than that
eku brown 11 points blanton 11 rob 18. brown crossover dribble inside baker bumps him no whistle shot no good good enough perpendicular defense there it's a three-point game they feed it low to kyle lewd got it out to baker he missed the three rebound by blanton blanton now one rebound away from back-to-back double-doubles we go down to the 7-40 mark 62-59 eastern kentucky on their home court high to warty has been a big factor to rob back to warty over the defense went up and laid it in okay af
ter the bolting start by eku and it's 62-61 now and they've got the ball a chance to retake the lead big night for cooper with 14. crookshank got the steal and then they threw him down with the arm and the shot missed by clinton and they've probably fouled on rob wow a lot of contact out here in the mid-court area on the loose ball crookshank down on the ground grabbed his arm dug a solid right in front of him but now you've got to recollect yourself aw hamilton knows he's sitting on one tech le
t's watch it here here's the replay that was the foul on raw but before that crookshank got grabbed by cooper i believe and hall to the line hits one to tie it 9-2 run here for u-c-a good response on the road for a team that came in against a brutal schedule three and ten they bring their guard hunter back in baker to the bench for their head coach anthony boone former mississippi player coached in the ovc as an assistant under to bester anderson and hall gives them the lead on a 10-2 run 63-62
we have had five ties seven lead switches in the game and we're nearing the seven-minute mark spine tingler in the a-sun high post left to blanton working his way in all he threw the elbow into the face this could be a flagrant as hall got up under him and that was the right just gonna be a common foul out of bounds player control what a game by hall 15 points 13 rebounds into their shooter cooper has had a big game with 16 as well including four threes and across the time line with two to spare
on a 10-2 run and a one-point lead after they saw their eight-point lead go to a similar deficit down to 12 to shoot here's hall crookshank on him around him into the lane wardy challenges hall misses tip in by an unchecked cutter to the goal in cameron hunter 12 by hunter three-point lead central arkansas you just use his athleticism to get to the rim there tip that ball in moreno after a long sit on the bench loosening up to come in blanton from 16. nope so eastern kentucky after a hot start
11 of 18 this half has gone cold of late one of their last six after the 11 of 18 start and hall has taken over drives on rob spins in the lane dumps it even lower they shoulder into rob and called a jump ball and the ball out to central arkansas on the possession arrow right now the colonels are going to have to have some leadership out on the floor they they've had a really bad run of what they thought were bad calls and central arkansas has stepped up and made a great comeback here in the las
t few minutes eastern has to kind of steady the ship and get back to their game plan central arkansas eight fouls below their average of over 18 a ball game eku averages 17 and a half fouls they've been called for 16. eastern going 2-3 for the first time tonight clinton into the lane from hunter her hunter got it from clinton and put it in and so it is 67-62 central arkansas they've scored 10 in a row in 14 of the last 16. baseline tough shot for jamaru brown and he hit it that's what he can do
sometimes quick advance here brown up to 13. hunter flies in moreno got the block 3.1 possession game 5 20 to go hunter now catches up we play five on five rob who's had a big second half to brown brown takes a moreno screen nothing there 13 to shoot still dribbling to the baseline dropped the ball got it back in trouble forces a shot up bad possession but they get a break as cooper touched the ball out of bounds going for the defensive rebound they do not reset the shot clock for now eastern ke
ntucky's bench asking for a reset of the shot clock and the officials deny it looked like cooper had it now they are asking for a reset no they moved it just a second up to four and they'll talk it over again jason baker the crew chief a little exasperated with the word he got from one of the other officials jason baker darren williams jesse joseph in a pressure cooker here tonight 67-64 and now they've reset the shot clock they're saying that jamaru brown shot hit the rim before it was touched
out of bounds so that's what it was throw to the back court to rob four players for central arm consultant double figures all between 14 and 16 points for the tie rob no good brown went over the back couldn't get the rebound hall's got it yet another one hall to four court now he drives moreno stays in front of him 15 rebounds for hall one away from his career high spin stops robb stripped it away but called the foul on him and he can't believe it watch it again here here's a good spin move rob
came in tried to blindside him there and the referee said he got a piece of the arm on the way up an exasperated a w hamilton arms outstretched upset with a call that's three on rob so now you've got foul troubles four on bitter three on warty three on rob three on brown 17 fouls on eku and hall back to the line where his double double night continues 11 fouls this half eastern kentucky four on central arkansas and a four point lead as hall put another one in eku's rob a deep three that could ha
ve tied it what about hall's night it has been tremendous 16 points 15 rebounds make it 17 and 15. he's just that athletic looking kid you just could pick him out in the warm-ups he hadn't seen him play at all you would know he was a player 69-65-4 central arkansas with 4 30. pick to finish last in the a sun but bidding for a big upset here against a depleted eku team with out two starters and three of their six best players in moreno with a reach in foul on chatham and a mock cheer from the eas
tern kentucky crowd we're going to say common foul out of bounds underneath that's the i think greg you told us already five team fouls on the bears right yep it was 11-4 11 fouls at eku now 11-5 for the night 17-11 into moreno he'll catch and shoot the three and miss it blanton the rebound spins around the defender his shot no follows again though and he's fouled this time and now blanton will go to the foul line with 4 10 to go 69-64. watch it again here blanton working hard and baker got him
on the arm the second time just wouldn't be denying right there great toughness by blanton going to the glass that puts blanton in double figures in both rebounds and points 11 and 11 and he hits the foul shot you can see the way he bobbled with the foul line he didn't think that was was in he missed one a little bit earlier 12 points 11 rebounds for blanton his third double double of the year and second game in a row 69-66 after blanton hits them both and cooper cooper had it tipped away but bl
anton couldn't get to it they chased baker three to get it across and they do up to hunter hunter will back it away and anthony boone calls for circulation so we go underneath four minutes in the game and uca up by three inside hunter an extra step in the lane and he put it up and in as they post hunter the 6-3 freshman guard at es14 in the scout today the coaches were talking about how they love to post their guards and another example that right then 16 for hunter brown drives in banks misses
moreno follows offensive rebound put back seven all this half moreno one possession game yet again how many times have we said that 71-68 rob went for a steal didn't get it now moreno shuts down the driver and olo lucari deep three known moreno the rebound they went over his back and tipped it away but the rebound skittered out to a teammate 3-10 left in the game here's blanton trying to will his team moreno fakes the three back to blanton three to play eku down three on their home court blanton
backdoor cut pass tipped away by rob fuel you once pull you twice fool you three times but not the fourth and fifth time yeah great defensive recovery on the cut right there crucial turnover eku their ninth of the night they force 15. brown tries to close out hunter got around him and knocks down blanton for a truck saw and they went back out on top 68 to 64. 235 to go at eku who has played a bunch of close games this year had a spine-tingling loss to jmu here at a spine-tingling win against no
rthern kentucky central arkansas had been in a lot of close games this year crookshank back in at guard over to blanton tend to shoot bland to the lane crossing over baker follow a 10-footer good by blanton blanton has 15. i think that's a good match up for the colonels right there blanton against baker 71-70 baker unguarded got it into the lane and it's an easy lay-in as curdles extended the defense and they found chatham baker did chatham asked 16. the balance scoring hall 17 chatham 16 hunter
116 cooper 16. how good is that three-point lead uca with 142 to go moreno from 25 missed it but a tough night for michael moreno he's one of eight from deep here's hall who's been one of the best players on the court tonight and his team up 73-70 eku's missed three threes that could have tied the game big possession they got it into cooper off the hunter hunter passes up the three with a minute 13 to go they milk clock back up top to cooper and he overthrew paul trying to post high and another
chance to cut it even or within one crook shank to brown minute five to go bear 73-70 lead brown drives inside banks misses round one of the foul didn't get it big-time rebound by hall how good has he been 17 points and he equaled his career high with 16 rebounds tonight 43 seconds ago hall behind the back into the lane brown tipped it away and a foul call on brown on the arm 39.5 to go eastern kentucky playing without three guys that are in their top six tonight and it's taken its toll on this
eastern kentucky team and boy central arkansas has come in here and answered the bell after they lost the lead they had at halftime hall has just been tremendous they kind of spread the floor right there let him go one-on-one he's working in the lane and once he got penetration the help came off and that's when the foul occurred tonight's madison county ema csep players of the game that guy right there in a hall along with tate blanton of eastern kentucky here's the first shot good and it's a t
wo possession game madison county ema csep can help you prepare for an emergency learn more by visiting madison county ky.com ema madison county ema csep is your partner in preparedness so darius hall along with taytay blanton the players of the game tonight there's one more for hall and he's hit all five 75-70 and eastern kentucky a turnover on the inbounds and the writing is on the wall in the first ever a-sun game in school history for central arkansas and eastern kentucky crookshank zigged w
hen blanton thought he was zagging and didn't get hooked up on the play right there's a tip away from brown on the inbounds to hall brown will go up and lay it in and they're still up five trying to close it out brown steals and scores now into cooper uca shot clock is two seconds ahead brown went for the steel here's cooper and he makes it a two possession game again with 27.5 to go 76-72 cooper with 17 tonight give him 18. they have sealed this thing so far from the foul line 25 seconds ago th
ey don't guard crookshank but he doesn't take the layup into moreno his three no good blanton raced for the rebound and didn't get it they go out the hall and he's looking highlight time and he got to around two kernels and puts it in and the bears in a first ever game and the a sun will go on the road and beat a depleted eastern kentucky team here by seven as they came
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