Oakland basketball loses to N.C. State in OT in NCAA tournament: 'Hard because it's over'
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All beneficial things should reach a conclusion. Oakland b-ball's otherworldly run did precisely that on Saturday.
The 14-seed Brilliant Grizzlies tumbled to 11-seed N.C. State, 79-73 in extra time at PPG Paints Field in the second round of the NCAA competition, only 48 hours in the wake of turning into the early sweethearts of the competition by knocking off 3-seed Kentucky.
"Completely different two or three evenings back," OU mentor Greg Kampe said. "It's hard on the grounds that it's finished."
Three pointer Townsend and Jack Gohlke got everyone's attention in the final part. Townsend, the Skyline Association Player of the Year, got done with 30 focuses and 13 bounce back, while Gohlke scored 22 focuses and eight bounce back as he made six of 17 3-pointers.
However, it wasn't sufficient to defeat the 6-foot-10, 275-pound DJ Consumes, who set up 24 focuses, 10 bounce back and four helps, or his group of four of partners that likewise scored in twofold figures: Michael O'Connell had 12, while Mohamed Diarra, DJ Horne and Casey Morsell wrapped up with 11 each.
Reward b-ball
With the game tied at 66 entering the additional period, Townsend kicked the scoring off when he split a couple of free tosses, yet there was Consumes on the opposite end making a finger-roll layup.
After a couple of Townsend free tosses gave Oakland the lead, 69-68, Consumes got a hostile bounce back on a missed 3-pointer from the short corner and his putback gave N.C. Express a lead it wouldn't surrender.
"I don't believe that ball even got 10-feet-2 in the air," Kampe said. "It hits directly before the edge, comes directly down to the enormous fellow and he lays it in. We were fronting the enormous person, the possibly bounce back he'd get is assuming it raised a ruckus around town and came straight down.
"Those are the bobs of the game."
The 14-seed Brilliant Grizzlies tumbled to 11-seed N.C. State, 79-73 in extra time at PPG Paints Field in the second round of the NCAA competition, only 48 hours in the wake of turning into the early sweethearts of the competition by knocking off 3-seed Kentucky.
"Completely different two or three evenings back," OU mentor Greg Kampe said. "It's hard on the grounds that it's finished."
Three pointer Townsend and Jack Gohlke got everyone's attention in the final part. Townsend, the Skyline Association Player of the Year, got done with 30 focuses and 13 bounce back, while Gohlke scored 22 focuses and eight bounce back as he made six of 17 3-pointers.
However, it wasn't sufficient to defeat the 6-foot-10, 275-pound DJ Consumes, who set up 24 focuses, 10 bounce back and four helps, or his group of four of partners that likewise scored in twofold figures: Michael O'Connell had 12, while Mohamed Diarra, DJ Horne and Casey Morsell wrapped up with 11 each.
Reward b-ball
With the game tied at 66 entering the additional period, Townsend kicked the scoring off when he split a couple of free tosses, yet there was Consumes on the opposite end making a finger-roll layup.
After a couple of Townsend free tosses gave Oakland the lead, 69-68, Consumes got a hostile bounce back on a missed 3-pointer from the short corner and his putback gave N.C. Express a lead it wouldn't surrender.
"I don't believe that ball even got 10-feet-2 in the air," Kampe said. "It hits directly before the edge, comes directly down to the enormous fellow and he lays it in. We were fronting the enormous person, the possibly bounce back he'd get is assuming it raised a ruckus around town and came straight down.
"Those are the bobs of the game."