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Sara Guymon
Brandon Myer connects on a free-throw Saturday vs Concordia-St. Paul
92
Concordia-St. Paul CSP 6-10,4-8 NSIC
101
Winner Minn. Duluth UMD 14-4,9-3 NSIC
Concordia-St. Paul CSP
6-10,4-8 NSIC
92
Final
101
Minn. Duluth UMD
14-4,9-3 NSIC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Concordia-St. Paul CSP 48 44 92
Minn. Duluth UMD 55 46 101

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Kevin Rivers

BLAIR AND MYER COMBINE FOR 64, BULLDOGS BOUNCE BACK TO TAKE DOWN CONCORDIA-ST. PAUL

The University of Minnesota Duluth climbed over the 100-point mark for the third time this season and bounced back in convincing fashion to take down Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference rival Concordia-St. Paul 101-92 Saturday evening at Romano Gymnasium in Duluth, Minn.

Senior forward Brandon Myer helped get the Bulldog offense get back on track early, adding a lay-in and a three-pointer to put the Bulldogs up 8-6. After losing the lead on a 6-1 run from the Golden Bears, senior guard Trevor Entwisle grabbed it right back with a three-pointer from the left corner to put the Bulldogs (14-4 overall, 9-3 NSIC) back up by two points. Just after the halfway point in the opening 20 minutes, back-to-back threes from freshman guard Jack Middleton and sophomore guard Hunter Plamann helped push the Bulldog lead up to eight points at 28-20. Red-shirt freshman Drew Blair put a halt to a 6-0 run from CSP (6-10 overall, 4-8 NSIC) by converting an and-one opportunity after being fouled on a lay-up. Blair added a layup on the next possession and two more free throws from Myer gave the Bulldogs a 7-0 run of their own. Blair would push the lead to 10 points at 47-37 after being fouled on a three-pointer and converting all three attempts from the charity stripe. Myer closed out the scoring for the Bulldogs in the opening half with his third three-pointer of the game, this one from the top of the key, to give the Bulldogs a 55-48 halftime lead. 

Three minutes into the second half, Blair, from the left-wing, cashed in his first three of the game and added a layup two possessions later to give the Bulldogs a 67-54 lead. The 13-point advantage was UMD's largest of the game to that point. Plamann added to the three-point barrage with his second of the night, this time from the left corner, to put the Bulldogs up by 16 points at 75-69 with 12:55 remaining in the game. The Golden Bears wouldn't back down and took a bite into the Bulldog lead with a 10-2 run. The run cut the Bulldog lead back under 10 points at 79-70 just after the halfway point of the second half. Jordan Coblin added to the run by cashing in on a three from the top of the key and added a free throw after a foul on the shot from Entwisle. The four-point play cut the Bulldog lead down to five points at 79-74 with 8:40 remaining. With just under five minutes remaining, Blair and Myer added 4 points on free throws from a CSP technical foul on-top of a shooting foul that pushed the UMD lead from six to ten points at 90-80.

Notables:
Seven was UMD's lucky number in the first half as they used seven three-pointers and created seven points off of five Golden Bear turnovers to build a seven-point half-time lead … Myer and Blair led all scorers in the first half: Myer tallied 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting and Blair followed up with 16 points on 4-of-5 shooting … for the game, the duo combined for 64 points.

Three Bulldogs landed in double figures Saturday night: Blair (33 points, 9-11 FG), Myer (31 points, 8-15 FG), and senior forward Alex Illikainen (10 points, 4-8 FG) … Blair and Myer also tallied perfect nights at the free-throw line: Blair went 12-12 while Myer followed up by going 11-11.

As a team, UMD won the battle on the boards Saturday, outrebounding CSP 30-24 … The Bulldogs put on an offensive clinic, shooting 30-56 from the field (53.6%), 14-25 (56.0%) from beyond the three-point arc, and converted 27 of their 31 attempts (87.1%) from the free-throw line. 

Up Next: 
The Bulldogs will kick-off a four-game road trip beginning next Friday (Jan. 24) when they take on Minnesota State University-Moorhead. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. in Moorehead, Minn.
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