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Wisconsin-Green
Bay cruises into second round SEATTLE – Freshman Ryan Tillema scored a game-high 18 points on 6-for-10 three-point shooting in his collegiate debut to lead Wisconsin-Green Bay past depleted North Carolina-Greensboro 71-48 Sunday night in the final first-round game of the Black Coaches Association Classic. Tillema's splashy debut was the highest-scoring for a Phoenix freshman since 1983, when Richard Sims began his career with 27 points. Tillema's classmate Terry Evans added 14 points -- 11 in the second half for the Phoenix, considered a contender for the Horizon League title in 2005-06 after going 17-11 last season. They play host Washington Monday evening in the semifinals. Washington walloped Morgan State, 118-51, earlier Sunday night. North Carolina-Greensboro (0-1) was playing without last season's Southern Conference freshman of the year Kyle Hines, starting guard Ricky Hickman and transfer Matt Akinosho, a third potential starter. All were suspended Sunday after the school reported to the NCAA that they played in an non-sanctioned recreational league last spring. Hines will miss just Sunday's game. Hickman and Akinosho will also miss today's second-round game against Morgan State. Sunday's effect was the Spartans, who shot just 29.8 percent from the field, having four of their five starters in their college debuts. One of those new players, guard Kevin Oleksiak, scored a team-high 12 points. The Phoenix grabbed a 20-8 lead on Josh Lawrence's three-point basket with 8:26 remaining in the first half. They maintained that edge until Tillema, a two-time first-team all-state high school star from Randolph, Wisc., drilled his sixth three-pointer. That gave Wisconsin-Green Bay a 39-25 halftime lead. The Phoenix nailed nine of 12 bonus baskets in the opening half and 12 of 18 for the game. They shot 52 percent from the field overall. North Carolina-Greensboro, a shadow of the 18-12, Southern Conference finalists of last spring, never threatened after that. |