Bobcats Fall in Ogden
2/4/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Montana State picked a bad time to go cold.
The Bobcats failed to hit a field goal in the first eight minutes of the second half and the last seven minutes of the game, watching Weber State turn a 10-point halftime deficit into a 67-56 Wildcat win in the Dee Events Center on Saturday. Montana State shot just 22% in the second half and turned the ball over nine times after intermission.
“We went into halftime really tired,” said Bobcat coach Mick Durham. “The last three or four minutes of the first half there were no whistles and no time outs, and we were playing hard. The second half of the second game of a road weekend you can wear out a little, and I thought we didn’t have a lot of gas in the tank.”
MSU didn’t ease into its second half swoon. Trailing by 10, a revitalized Weber State squad turned up the pressure on the defensive end, holding the ‘Cats off the board for the first 8:37 of the second half, when Jacques Wilson converted a conventional three-point play.
“I knew the first four minutes of the second half would be crucial. My hat’s off to Weber, they grinded it in the second half,” Durham said. “Eventually you have to make a shot, and we didn’t. Weber controlled the ball, controlled the boards, made their shots. We didin’t in the second half.”
Montana State’s hot shooting and Al Beye’s continued dominance were the stories of the first half. Beye scored seven of the game’s first 14 points, made his first three shots while adding a free throw, and led MSU to a 59% shooting effort at the intermission. MSU held a39-29 lead at that point.
Beye finished with 21 points and 11 boards, but had only four points and four boards in the second half. “Al really got banged in the second half,” Durham said. “His shots everything went in during the first half, but not in the second.”
Beye was also involved on the defensive end, snagging seven boards in the fist half, and clogging up the lane as the ‘Cats held Weber State to 41% shooting. Ja’Ron Jefferson’s three-pointer at 11:10 gave MSU an 18-8 lead, a cushion the Bobcats eventually built to 12. Coric Riggs scored six for Weber in the first half and David Patten added five to keep the Wildcats close.
The Bobcats failed to hit a field goal in the first eight minutes of the second half and the last seven minutes of the game, watching Weber State turn a 10-point halftime deficit into a 67-56 Wildcat win in the Dee Events Center on Saturday. Montana State shot just 22% in the second half and turned the ball over nine times after intermission.
“We went into halftime really tired,” said Bobcat coach Mick Durham. “The last three or four minutes of the first half there were no whistles and no time outs, and we were playing hard. The second half of the second game of a road weekend you can wear out a little, and I thought we didn’t have a lot of gas in the tank.”
MSU didn’t ease into its second half swoon. Trailing by 10, a revitalized Weber State squad turned up the pressure on the defensive end, holding the ‘Cats off the board for the first 8:37 of the second half, when Jacques Wilson converted a conventional three-point play.
“I knew the first four minutes of the second half would be crucial. My hat’s off to Weber, they grinded it in the second half,” Durham said. “Eventually you have to make a shot, and we didn’t. Weber controlled the ball, controlled the boards, made their shots. We didin’t in the second half.”
Montana State’s hot shooting and Al Beye’s continued dominance were the stories of the first half. Beye scored seven of the game’s first 14 points, made his first three shots while adding a free throw, and led MSU to a 59% shooting effort at the intermission. MSU held a39-29 lead at that point.
Beye finished with 21 points and 11 boards, but had only four points and four boards in the second half. “Al really got banged in the second half,” Durham said. “His shots everything went in during the first half, but not in the second.”
Beye was also involved on the defensive end, snagging seven boards in the fist half, and clogging up the lane as the ‘Cats held Weber State to 41% shooting. Ja’Ron Jefferson’s three-pointer at 11:10 gave MSU an 18-8 lead, a cushion the Bobcats eventually built to 12. Coric Riggs scored six for Weber in the first half and David Patten added five to keep the Wildcats close.
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