Post game radio GU-USF
Hudson and Morrison: Zags win 75-65 in San Francisco. GU takes lead 8-4 2 1/2 mins in and never trailed. Pushed lead to 14 points with nine minutes left. It's tough for GU to deliver the knockout punch in this building. Some bonehead errors and some questionable officiating, yes they said it, allowed USF to creep back toward the end of the game, but the Zags held on. Baum, Ratinho and Ferrari combined for 56 of USF's 65 points. J3 with 17 and 9, 16 for Perkins, 14 for Melson and 10 for Rui. GU shoot 53%to 38% for USF but USF made 12 threes to GU's 7. USF had 2 big chances to really make a move but 6 consecutive missed free throws for USF was a big missed opportunity for USF. Another came when GU had no field goals for the final 4 minutes until Tillie's with 15 seconds left. Morrison noted USF has to feel good about themselves but moral victories don't do much for you. GU wins rebounds 42-26. Statistically it looks like a bigger margin, but the three is the great equalizer. Also two late blocks by Rui were huge!
Michaelson: We know coming in here this was going to be a step up. We did a good job early shutting down the three, but not in the second. We said we wanted to shut down the three and not turnover the ball and we didn't do either of those well tonight. J3 really did a great job tonight, just missed a double double by one rebound. We talked about sticking with the plan and I thought we did that well tonight other than a couple rotations and too many turnovers. A couple role players for us came in played well. Norvell hit a couple really big free throw for us. SMC picked to win the league and Landale is doing a great job. SMC has not lost since November, they have so much experience, it's going to be different for some of our young guys but it's going to be great to have our students back after a long break.
Hudson and Morrison: Zags move to 16-3, 6-0 in the WCC. Kispert made the only shot he took. For the first time tonight we saw the bench shortened up a bit. Not a lot of minutes for some of the bench. Jones and Larsen will probably see their minutes shortened up a bit as the season moves along, something Few almost always does. The starters logged a lot more minutes tonight. USF was 8-16 shooting threes in the second half which is what Michaelson was upset about. GU caught a break as USF was only 9-19 from the line and they are a better free throw team than that. GU had a pretty good defensive plan and survived some dubious foul calls, the second time they noted this. GU-SMC Thursday night but you all know that!
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