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Kent State Too Much for Men?s Basketball On the Road

Kent State Too Much for Men?s Basketball On the Road

Men's Basketball Dec 03
KENT, Ohio – The ULM men's basketball team dropped a 69-53 decision at Kent State on Thursday night (Dec. 2). The Golden Flashes used a 16-1 run to close the first half to build a lead that would prove to be the difference in the contest.

Junior guard Hugh Mingo scored 16 points to lead the Warhawks offensively, 13 of which came after halftime, Mingo was the lone Warhawk in double figures. Senior forward Tommie Sykes tied a career-high with 10 rebounds.

The Warhawks and Golden Flashes went back-and-forth in the early going, trading the lead four times, with three ties, in the opening eight minutes of the contest.

ULM (2-6) took a four-point lead, 16-12, on a baseline jumper by senior forward Lawrence Gilbert with 7:47 to play in the half. The basket marked the first two-possession lead of the game for either team.

After freshman guard R.J. McCray restored ULM's four-point cushion with a driving layup, Kent State (7-1) went on a 16-1 run to end the half. ULM scored just one point, a free throw by freshman guard Marcelis Hansberry, in the final seven minutes of the opening stanza.

Sykes led ULM with six points and seven rebounds in the first half, Justin Greene paced Kent State with nine points in the opening 20 minutes. The Golden Flashes forced 10 Warhawk turnovers in the first half while committing just a pair.

ULM used a 7-2 run to begin the second half to trim the Kent State lead to just six, 32-26. Mingo and junior center Fabio Ribeiro had layups during the burst and Gilbert hit a triple as the Warhawks cut the lead to a half-dozen.

With the Kent State advantage at seven, an 8-1 Golden Flashes run pushed the lead to 45-31 with 13 minutes left in the second half.

A 12-5 burst for the Warhawks, highlighted by back-to-back threes from Mingo and freshman forward Steven McClellan, brought the Kent State lead back to single-digits, 62-51, with three-and-a-half minutes to play.

But the comeback attempt was halted as Kent State held ULM to just two points the remainder of the contest.

Both teams shot the ball extremely well in the final 20 minutes of the contest, ULM shot 55.6 percent (15-of27) from the floor while Kent State made 57.7 percent (15-of-26) of its attempts from the field.

Greene and Carlton Guyton paced the Golden Flashes with 17 points apiece. Michael Porrini had a game-high eight assists for Kent State.

ULM will conclude its five-game road trip on Saturday, Dec. 4, when it travels to Ruston, La., to meet Louisiana Tech. Game time between the Warhawks and Bulldogs is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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ULM Head Coach Keith Richard

On the end of the first half … “I thought we had done a nice job defensively, I thought we had done a nice job offensively, up until that point. It was exactly the way we wanted this game to go and then, as has been the case a few times this year, we had some turnovers and gave up some fast break points, open threes off turnovers in transition. We struggled on offense and a one-point game went to an 11-point game." 

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