Long Beach State University
11-10, 6-3BWC
UC Davis
10-12, 5-4BWC
Beach men lose 82-76 at home to UC Davis
2/5/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 5, 2009
LONG BEACH, Calif. - UC Davis made 24-of-31 free throws in the second half en route to an 82-76 Big West Conference win at the Walter Pyramid Thursday night.
The Aggies (10-12, 5-4 Big West) scored nearly half of their points, 24 of 51, from the charity strip in the second half while fouling out three separate Long Beach State (11-10, 6-3 Big West) players. Vince Oliver led UC Davis with 33 points, 12 of them coming at the free throw line.
Long Beach State's heralded freshman class kept the 49ers in the game for most of the night. The four--T.J. Robinson, Larry Anderson, Casper Ware, Eugene Phelps--combined for 59 points and 35 rebounds.
Robinson scored a career-high for the second straight game leading The Beach with 24 points and 12 rebounds. It was his second-straight double-double and his third game in a row with double-digit rebounds.
Anderson had career highs in points (18) and rebounds (10), while Phelps grabbed a career-best nine boards to go with nine points. Ware had eight points and four boards.
Long Beach State's two leading scorers--Donovan Morris and Stephan Gilling--combined to shoot 2-for-18 from the floor and 1-for-11 from 3-point range. Morris, who is hobbled by a bad foot and didn't start, went 1-of-8 from the floor and 1-of-6 from three while Gilling was 1-of-10 from the floor and 0-for-5 from three.
The Beach pounded UC Davis on the boards getting a season-best 51rebounds, while shooting just 38.6 percent from the floor and 10.5 percent from 3-point range.
LBSU had 23 offensive rebounds, one shy of the Aggies overall total of 24.
Long Beach also shot 18 more shots than UC Davis, but made just three more.
The 49ers jumped out to an early 9-3 lead, holding UC Davis to just 1-of-8 shooting in the first 4:26. But then the wheels fell off for The Beach as the 49ers made just five of their next 25 shots to finish the half.
LBSU stayed in the game in the first half by crashing the boards and shooting free throws. LBSU out-boarded the Aggies 30-17, including 13 offensive rebounds.
Robinson finished the first half with a team-high 10 rebounds and nine points, despite making just 3-of-9 shots. Anderson added five boards and Phelps had four rebounds.
While the 49ers managed to make just 25 percent of their shots and 15.4 percent of their 3-pointers before the break, they made 10-of-15 free throws to trail by just a point.
UC Davis built its lead to as many as 10, 29-19, in the first half, but LBSU outscored the Aggies 11-2 in the final 4:16 to make it a one-point game at the break.
