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Darian Owens-White
Jose Juarez
Sophomore Darian Owens-White collected his third 20-point game of the season on Thursday.
70
Wayne State WSM 1-6, 1-2 GLIAC
73
Winner Davenport DU 8-1, 2-1 GLIAC
Wayne State WSM
1-6, 1-2 GLIAC
70
Final
73
Davenport DU
8-1, 2-1 GLIAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Wayne State WSM 30 40 70
Davenport DU 31 42 73

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Cameron Weidenthaler, Assistant Media Relations Director

Late Rally Not Enough for Men's Basketball at Davenport

The Warriors nearly erased a 10-point deficit over the final 2:28 on Thursday night.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The Wayne State University men's basketball team (1-6 overall, 1-2 GLIAC) played its first GLIAC road game of the season on Thursday night at Davenport (8-1 overall, 2-1 GLIAC) and the Warriors nearly staged an epic comeback but fell 73-70.  WSU trailed by 10 with 2:28 remaining but trimmed the home lead to one but the Panthers were able to protect their home court with a three-point victory.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Latin Davis, Jr. (Ypsilanti, Mich. / Milan) gave the Warriors an early 5-2 lead at the 18:07 mark of the opening half.  A quick 7-0 run from Davenport gave the Panthers a 12-5 advantage with 14:27 on the clock.  DU continued to control the tempo and held onto a 15-9 lead at the 11:49 mark after a free throw by Chris Rollins.  A triple by Janeau Joubert pushed the home lead to 21-10 with 8:32 left before halftime.  The Green & Gold used a 7-0 rally to trim the deficit to 21-17 at the 6:51 mark.  Antonio Marshall (Detroit, Mich. / Martin Luther King) connected from deep, pulling the Warriors within two, 24-22, with 4:10 remaining.  A jumper from Darian Owens-White (Ypsilanti, Mich. / River Rouge) tied the game at 24-24 at the 3:41 mark and he kept the game tied at 26-26 with a contested layup on the following possession.  WSU pulled within one, 31-30, on a bucket from Owens-White with 20 seconds left to play, which would be the halftime score.

Wayne State took its first lead, since the 18:07 point of the first half on the first basket of the second half by from Karim Murray (Detroit, Mich. / Western International).  Another two points from Davis pushed the advantage to three, 34-31.  Murray's three-pointer at the 15:53 mark gave the Warriors their largest lead of the night, 39-33.  DU answered with a triple from Avery Hudson at the 15-minute mark to pull within three points.  A pair of free throws from Rollins tied the game at 40-40 with 13:45 remaining and another freebie from Dyllon Hudson-Emory gave the Panthers a one-point lead.  The deficit grew to four after a trey from Robbie Bramhill at the 12:21 mark as Wayne State searched for its first field goal in nearly four minutes.  Murray ended the drought with a tip-in at the 11:24 mark, pulling the Warriors withing four, 46-42.  The DU offense stayed hot and the home advantage reached double-digits, 52-42, following a triple by Hudson with 10:32 left to play.  Xavier Cochran (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Huron) made his first attempt from behind the arc to keep WSU close, 56-47, at the 7:52 mark.  A layup from Murray cut the home lead to seven, 60-53, with 5:50 remaining.  After the final media timeout of the night, Owens-White made both free throws to bring WSU within five, 60-55.  However, Davenport had an answer and led 65-57 at the three-minute mark.  Wayne State trailed by five following a triple from Owens-White with 1:39 remaining and Marshall connected from deep on the following possession to trim the deficit to three, 69-66.  A late steal by Cochran led to two free throws from Davis to make it 69-68 in favor of DU.  Delano Smith's first points of the night came with 47 seconds left to play, pushing the home advantage to 71-68.  Owens-White attacked the basket and made both from the charity stripe to make it 71-70 with 37 seconds left to play.  Smith grabbed his own miss and put it back in to give DU a 73-70 lead.  Davis had a look to the tie the game as time expired but the prayer went unanswered.

LEADING THE WARRIORS
Owens-White finished with a game-high 22 points, while Davis tallied 15 and Cochran and Murray both chipped in 10 points.

LEADING THE PANTHERS
Four Panthers scored in double figures led by a pair of 15-point performances from Rollins and Hudson.  Hudson-Emory notched 13 points and Joubert totaled 11.

TEAM STATS
Both teams shot 42 percent as WSU out-rebounded DU 39-32 (12-9 on the offensive glass).  The DU bench accounted for 28 points.

UP NEXT
The Warriors will stay on the west side of the state and play at Grand Valley State on Saturday night.  Tip-off is scheduled for 8:00 p.m.


 
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