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Rapid Recap: Seton Hall 82, GCU 75
11/22/2018 6:58:00 PM | Men's Basketball, Paul Coro
Lopes open play at Wooden Legacy tourney
FULLERTON, Calif. — Grand Canyon tested Seton Hall at every turn Thursday night but never could find the turning point until the final moments.
The Lopes would not go away throughout the Wooden Legacy first-round game, trying the score repeatedly and keeping the Pirates' lead in single digits before taking its first lead with 2:07 to go and leading again with 1:33 to go. But a 9-0 Seton Hall run stole back the lead from GCU and ended an 82-75 Pirates win Thursday night at Titan Gym.
The Lopes (3-2) will play the loser of Thursday night's Utah-Hawaii game at 7 p.m. (Phoenix time) Friday.
GCU sophomore center Alessandro Lever played his best game of the season despite carrying foul trouble in both halves. Lever scored 20 points, re-entering the game with two fouls in the first half and playing the final stretch with four fouls.
The Lopes trailed 69-62 before a scoring spurt that began with senior power forward Michael Finke battling for a tie-up on the offensive boards. Sophomore point guard Damari Milstead, who scored a team-high 21 points off the bench, sparked the comeback and that freshman guard Tim Finke continued with a 3-pointer that cut Seton Hall's lead to 69-68.
The momentum spilled over a Pirates time out and the Lopes took their first lead of the game when Tim Finke found his big brother, Time, for a 3-pointer and a 73-72 lead. After Seton Hall re-tied the game, Milstead put GCU back ahead with a pullback floater in the lane and a 75-73 edge with 1:33 to play.
The Lopes got an ensuing miss from Seton Hall (2-2) but the Pirates rebounded to start the game-deciding 9-0 run.
Seton Hall shot 62.2 percent from the field with guard Myles Powell scoring 40 points, which tied James Harden's tournament record.
GCU committed three turnovers in the first 2:37 of the game and dug a 10-2 hole to start the game. Again, the GCU reserves proved to be saviors. In a first half in which the Lopes bench outscored the Pirates bench 16-6, GCU rallied in a hurry with 15 points in a span of 4:21.
The move to the reserves began with Lever picking up an early second foul, which has happened in most games thus far this season. Milstead gave the Lopes the largest lift off the bench, scoring 12 of those 15 points by penetrating the paint and hitting a pair of 3-pointers.
Powell was the biggest concern entering the game and he proved to be even more of a problem than when he averaged 23.3 points per game in the Pirates' first three games. Powell scored 12 in the first 7:17 and had bested his season average after the first eight minutes of the second half.
Powell accounted for most of Seton Hall's 40 first-half points with 21 on 6-of-9 shooting from the field and 6-of-7 shooting from the free throw line. Despite Powell and Seton Hall's 65 percent first-half shooting, the Lopes tied the game on three occasions in the first half and only trailed 40-37 at the break. The Lopes defense was creating havoc with 10 Seton Hall turnovers in the first half.
Lever had not returned to first-half action with two fouls in previous games but did Thursday, when his free throws and 3-pointer were part of a 7-0 run that tightened the game.
Return to gculopes.com for Paul Coro's full game recap with comments from Dan Majerle and Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard.
The Lopes would not go away throughout the Wooden Legacy first-round game, trying the score repeatedly and keeping the Pirates' lead in single digits before taking its first lead with 2:07 to go and leading again with 1:33 to go. But a 9-0 Seton Hall run stole back the lead from GCU and ended an 82-75 Pirates win Thursday night at Titan Gym.
The Lopes (3-2) will play the loser of Thursday night's Utah-Hawaii game at 7 p.m. (Phoenix time) Friday.
GCU sophomore center Alessandro Lever played his best game of the season despite carrying foul trouble in both halves. Lever scored 20 points, re-entering the game with two fouls in the first half and playing the final stretch with four fouls.
The Lopes trailed 69-62 before a scoring spurt that began with senior power forward Michael Finke battling for a tie-up on the offensive boards. Sophomore point guard Damari Milstead, who scored a team-high 21 points off the bench, sparked the comeback and that freshman guard Tim Finke continued with a 3-pointer that cut Seton Hall's lead to 69-68.
The momentum spilled over a Pirates time out and the Lopes took their first lead of the game when Tim Finke found his big brother, Time, for a 3-pointer and a 73-72 lead. After Seton Hall re-tied the game, Milstead put GCU back ahead with a pullback floater in the lane and a 75-73 edge with 1:33 to play.
The Lopes got an ensuing miss from Seton Hall (2-2) but the Pirates rebounded to start the game-deciding 9-0 run.
Seton Hall shot 62.2 percent from the field with guard Myles Powell scoring 40 points, which tied James Harden's tournament record.
GCU committed three turnovers in the first 2:37 of the game and dug a 10-2 hole to start the game. Again, the GCU reserves proved to be saviors. In a first half in which the Lopes bench outscored the Pirates bench 16-6, GCU rallied in a hurry with 15 points in a span of 4:21.
The move to the reserves began with Lever picking up an early second foul, which has happened in most games thus far this season. Milstead gave the Lopes the largest lift off the bench, scoring 12 of those 15 points by penetrating the paint and hitting a pair of 3-pointers.
Powell was the biggest concern entering the game and he proved to be even more of a problem than when he averaged 23.3 points per game in the Pirates' first three games. Powell scored 12 in the first 7:17 and had bested his season average after the first eight minutes of the second half.
Powell accounted for most of Seton Hall's 40 first-half points with 21 on 6-of-9 shooting from the field and 6-of-7 shooting from the free throw line. Despite Powell and Seton Hall's 65 percent first-half shooting, the Lopes tied the game on three occasions in the first half and only trailed 40-37 at the break. The Lopes defense was creating havoc with 10 Seton Hall turnovers in the first half.
Lever had not returned to first-half action with two fouls in previous games but did Thursday, when his free throws and 3-pointer were part of a 7-0 run that tightened the game.
Return to gculopes.com for Paul Coro's full game recap with comments from Dan Majerle and Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard.
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