ORUTerry Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Eagles get away from T-Birds By Staff Reports 1/5/2006 Green matches career high with 33 points in Mid-Con victory. CEDAR CITY, Utah -- Caleb Green matched a career high with 33 points and Oral Roberts University survived a scary finish to beat Southern Utah 84-79 Wednesday night in Mid-Continent Conference basketball action. The Golden Eagles blew a 13-point, second-half lead and trailed five times over the final 5:12, but went ahead to stay on Green's three-point play with 1:18 left. Southern Utah led 77-75 when Green rebounded Jonathan Bluitt's miss and scored as he was being fouled. His free throw made it 78-77. Larry Owens scored inside to up the margin and Ken Tutt made 4-of-4 foul shots over the final 22 seconds to put the game out of reach. The win allows ORU (7-7, 2-0) to return home in first place in the conference, tied with Indiana-Purdue. The Eagles will play their first home game since Dec. 7, hosting Western Illinois at 3 p.m. Saturday. After ripping Missouri-Kansas City 97-63 on Monday night, Southern Utah fell to 2-12 and 1-1. Green and Owens were a two-man second-half wrecking crew, combining to score 39 of their team's 47 points. Green, who had 10 in the first half, needed less than nine minutes of the second half to score 18 more. That helped ORU build its largest lead, 63-50, with 10:30 left. Until then, Southern Utah had never led. But the Thunderbirds, which shot 62.7 in the UMKC win, exploded on an 18-4 run, taking the lead for the first time on Justin Allen's basket with 5:12 left. From there, the lead changed hands on eight straight possessions before Green scored his three-point play that put the Eagles ahead to stay. "We couldn't stop them," said ORU coach Scott Sutton. "I don't know how many posessions they went where we couldn't get a stop, and the only thing that saved us was that it got to the point where they couldn't stop us." Green made 14-of-20 from the field and five foul shots to score 33 for the third time in his career. He scored the same total at UMKC as a freshman and at Missouri State as a sophomore. He also had 13 rebounds for his ninth double-double of the year and fifth in six games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmh8286 Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 "We couldn't stop them," said ORU coach Scott Sutton. "I don't know how many possessions they went where we couldn't get a stop, and the only thing that saved us was that it got to the point where they couldn't stop us." Read 72.4% in the second half, compared with 59.4% in the second half for SUU. You would sure hate to lose a game at home shooting 59%, huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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