Postgame Notes



    Feb. 12, 2009

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    D'Aundray Brown
    • Celebrated playing his first home game since Dec. 27 by scoring 13 points, 11 coming in the first half.
    • Added 6 rebounds, 4 steals and 2 assists in 34 minutes.
    • Steal total (4) matched his career high set in the season opener vs. Oakland.

    J'Nathan Bullock
    • The second leading scorer in the Horizon League (15.3 ppg), he scored 16 points.
    • Added 10 rebounds for his 16th career double-double. He now has 738 career rebounds, needing 12 more to become first CSU player with 1,500 points and 750 rebounds in a career.

    Cedric Jackson
    • Flirted with recording the first triple-double in CSU history, scoring 11 points with 9 rebounds and 9 assists.
    • Ranking fifth nationally in steals (3.0 spg), he made 4 to raise his season total to 78, the sixth-highest single season total in CSU history.

    Norris Cole
    • Scored in double figures for the 16th time this season, finishing with 14 points.
    • Added Added five rebounds and three assists and did not turn the ball over.

    MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
    • This was the 31st series meeting between CSU and Milwaukee with the Panthers entering the game with an 18-12 series edge (7-7 in Cleveland).
    • There five lead changes in the first half, the last coming at the 15:19 mark when CSU began an 8-0 run that turned an 11-10 deficit into an 18-11 lead (12:16). CSU would go on to lead by as many as 19 points (38-19, 2:20 & 39-20, 1:10) before UWM ran off five straight points to trail, 39-25 at halftime.
    • Milwaukee closed to within 3 (49-46, 11:17), but nine straight VIking points pushed the lead back into double figures. The Panthers would come no closer than 10 the rest of the way.
    • After shooting .571 in the first half (16-28), the Vikings cooled after the break, going 9-for-27 (.333) to shoot .455 for the game (25-55).
    • Milwaukee was the opposite, shooting .333 in the first half (10-30) and 14-for-31 (.452( in the second half to shoot .393 for the game. They are the 16th CSU opponent held under 40-percent for a game this year.