Elite Eight Basketball Quarter Final: MTU vs Gannon University

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this is coach Josh Bittner from Michigan Tech Men's Basketball.

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On the shores of the Allegheny, welcome to the NCAA Division II Men's Elite Eight.

The Michigan Tech Huskies take on Gannon today in Men's Basketball.

My name is Josh Yolotello.

Thank you for joining us here on the Kirkish Furniture Countdown to tip off.

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in school history and they do it with a school record time 29 wins looking for win number 30 here today and keep on dancing.

We are live from Duquesne University, the UPMC Cooper Field House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the site of the Elite Eight for men's and women's basketball.

Four games took place yesterday on the women's side of the bracket, Grand Valley State Advanced, Minnesota Duluth.

Was dispatched in their contest so some of the schools that you know With their results, but there are eight fresh teams ready to roll here At the men's side of the elite a tournament and the Huskies have a big challenge ahead of them.

It is the number six ranked Ganon and the number 16 ranked Huskies The Huskies are the number six seed in the elite eight

Ganon is number three.

They are 31 and three overall.

They were 19 and one in the PSAP conference undefeated at 19 and 0 at home.

One and one away from their home gym.

And then one and two on neutral site games.

So perhaps the Huskies who've got 10 games of neutral site experience going eight and two in those games this season may have the slight advantage in that aspect.

However, this

facility is only about 90 minutes away from Erie, Pennsylvania, where Gannon calls home.

So there may be an influence in Gannon fans here.

There are quite a few Husky fans in attendance here for today's game, both in the traditional fans that have made their way from across the country with friends and family and some new fans the Huskies have made here with

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We'll hear from the head coach Easton Bazzoli of Gannon.

We'll also hear from head coach Josh Bittner in both the NCAA media availability and our one-on-one conversation that I had with him just a little bit earlier this morning in preparation for this event here.

Starting lineups opening tip off all about 21 minutes or so away from UMPC Fieldhouse.

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the men's elite eight coming up here on the home of the Huskies, MIX 93 WKMJ.

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Welcome back inside UMPC Cooper Field House Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the site of the men's division to NC double a elite eight Michigan Tech Huskies Ganon Golden Knights coming up

in just a little bit.

Husky fans out there, you may be familiar with Gannon for multiple reasons.

Most common one, of course, being that Gannon was a member of the GLIAC for the better part of 10 to 12 seasons, 1996 to 2007.

And they since moved to a conference that a little more geographically friendly for them and naturally with the travel that the Huskies have had to experience here.

It makes perfect sense that they would want to do that.

They've played 18 times in the history between these two teams.

Huskies with two-thirds of the wins in those.

The Huskies winning the last meeting back in 2018 at a tournament held or hosted by Gannon, Owen White, Brian Heath, the leaders for the Huskies in that game back in 2018.

In 2004, these teams met in Romeoville, Illinois in the NCAA tournament, where Michigan Tech also victorious.

So just a little bit of history, which I guess is pretty irrelevant considering that no player, of course, was on either of these teams at the time that they faced off with each other, though Josh Bittner certainly has a little bit more history with Gannon, having played them during his time as a Husky player and was on the staff.

during that Gary Miller classic back in 2018.

But it's still a different environment for these teams as the Elite 8 provides some different challenges both with travel, the hotel accommodations, all the different teams staying in the same places and being in unfamiliar territory.

And that was kind of some of the thoughts that each coach had to express during their

pre-gamer, pre-tournament interviews with the NCAA.

We'll start with Easton Bazoli of Gannon.

And he provided the opening statement for the Gannon side of things during his NCAA media availability.

Yeah, same.

We've got a group that's really fired up to be here.

It's cool being relatively close and being able to come down, so to be able to have.

a little bit more local and to get some fans maybe should be good for us.

You know, I think being a local guy myself, it feels cool to be able to have family around and things like that.

So, same thing he said, you know, the NCAA has done an awesome job by making this feel exactly how it should feel for what each of these teams has accomplished so far.

And, you know, I think this venue is a special place to have it too.

There's Easton Bazzoli the head coach of the Gannon Golden Knights talking a little bit about his team's journey and he Expanded upon his experience having been to the elite eight previously in a coaching role

Yeah, the experience of that one helps for sure being able to even just have an idea of what the schedule is gonna look like an idea on

how to even just set up meals and figure out the routine of things when it's different.

Hopefully we can play a little bit better than we did a couple years ago.

But I think that there's a comfort level that myself and then Mike Chalice as well, being at a bunch of these can pull from and hopefully relay that comfort to our guys of just a confidence of.

having an idea of what this thing looks like.

Again, Easton Pazzoli talking about previous Elite 8 experience here as a coach.

Now he has not been here as a head coach, but anything you can glean from this time certainly is helpful.

Now both of these teams certainly have had a good season.

Golden Knights again are 31 and 3 overall 19 and 1 in conference play and for coach Bazzoli He was posed a question the moment that he thought his team couldn't make it to this situation What when did that occur Lee Dale?

Yeah in a sense in a sense

Pretty early on we felt like we had a chance to be to be really good just based off of The character that we have in the locker room and the competitiveness that they brought every day in the fall And there was you you begin to compete against other teams You know, we had a we had an early bump in the road and I thought Somewhere what coach said, you know, like probably for all of us we had we had player leadership that that really

allowed a great response and I thought just our guys have responded well to adversity all year and you know I think adversity is sometimes subjective because you know obviously there's a lot of a lot of people that would love to have won as many games as the people that are that are sitting up here right now and you know I think that that's that's not because of a lack of adversity I think everybody here has faced it.

And then I'd say, you know, I thought there was, you know, we're all trying to peak at the right time.

And I'm sure we're all probably playing, feel like we're playing our best basketball right now to be able to get here.

And I just thought that there was a, that there was a stretch in mid December to early January, where we knew we weren't playing our best, but our guys were figuring out ways to win just, just out of competitive will.

And, you know, I thought that.

That was a sign where knowing the character of our group, knowing the integrity that they played with and showed up with every day.

And to be able to just figure out ways to win, you sit there and you just have a level of confidence and belief of at some point, we're going to continue to get better and we're going to correct some of these weaknesses.

I'm not sure we could throw the ball in the ocean for the first two months of the season, but we're able to figure out ways to win.

It's just a testament to our guys for figuring that out and giving that confidence to each other and us as a staff.

Probably early January, we're sitting there going, man, we're really good and we're even close to where as good as we can be and felt like that was the moment where we're gonna get there.

There again, Easton Bazzoli of Gannon talking about his team's journey to get to the Elite Eight.

Now the Michigan Tech Huskies certainly Husky fans out there are aware of what the expectations were coming into this season, following what happened last season, going to the tournament and bringing back the players that they did.

And head coach Josh Bittner had his response when he knew this team or when he thought this team could make it to the NCAA tournament and make some noise all the way to the elite eight.

I guess.

After last season when when Marcus decided to come back and better being an all-american Returning to D2 was what that sounds nice.

We knew we knew the the expectations would be pretty high and After the final four we actually got invited down to the the small college classic down in Florida and our administration worked with us and found a way to get us down there Suzanne did a great job doing that and When we went down there and we played

Dallas Baptist and the Nori and two really good teams have been in the elite eight last year and You know what?

We found a way to win both games in overtime and I think that just kind of gave our guy guys the confidence to know that we could play with anybody in the country when when you you find a way to win those two games Our non-conference was was really tough We went on the road and played a Duluth team and a St.

Cloud team that that obviously coach is familiar with from their regional that were both in the NCAA tournament

To come out of there with those wins, our guys just felt like we could play with anybody.

And we see everything and anything in our conference.

And I think that prepared us for the NCAA regional.

There was in a situation that we hadn't been through.

I mean, we took kind of everybody's best shot with the target in our league.

But I think that first weekend kind of just gave us the confidence to play with anybody.

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My name is Josh Yolotello, live from the UTMC Cooper Field House on the campus of Duquesne University.

Well, the Huskies and the Golden Knights have a couple of common opponents this season.

Early, though, those were Lake Superior, State Togon, Gannon,

Back in November, and in that game, it was actually the Lakers getting the win, 99-87.

Suleiman with 19, Pace Prosser for Gannon with 25.

Then it was the Lake Erie Storm, which the Huskies saw not all that long ago.

And it was 105-75 in favor of Gannon.

And the final team that they faced off with each other, Saginaw Valley State in December.

95-67, Gannon gets the victory in that game.

So two-and-one against common opponents at the Huskies have faced as well this season.

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Welcome back here with head coach Josh Bittner.

It's the elite eight here in Pittsburgh.

First time the Huskies have ever had this experience with men's basketball.

Just talk about what it's been like here this last week or so since the Huskies got that bid and the travel and the combinations and everything that goes

along with this event.

I mean it's been it's been an awesome experience.

The NCAA does a great job of this.

You feel like you're part of the big time.

We get the charter out here.

just the facilities and the people in the banquet were at the Steeler Stadium.

It's been a really cool experience and we're trying to do it in two ways.

One, I want to make sure our guys enjoy the experience, but two, make sure that they're just not here to enjoy the experience and not satisfied to be here and hopefully that we can come out and play well today.

And also the week's just been phenomenal from all the alumni and people that really helped build us to get to this spot.

coach Luke started laying his foundation 30 years ago all the guys that have come before us so many of them reached out they're all a part of this and that part makes it feel even more special.

So as

we look back towards this season I mean we're formed five months deep into this whole process here as you get

practice preparation this last week, with all the travel and with everything going on here.

How have you been able to manage the time and the bodies and the health and the rest and everything?

It's been good.

We wanted the rest.

We took a long trip back from Cannes.

We took the next day off.

We got into it two days, pretty good, but obviously the guys are excited.

You're playing this time of year.

We're not going long, but we tried to go hard.

The practices on the road have been, they've been fun.

I mean, we've played in two other gyms besides the one

we were

here, and you know what I mean?

Sometimes when you're there, it adds some excitement to practice and keeps it from getting stale at this point in the year, but the guys were locked in and I thought our execution's been really good.

responsibilities

that you've had during this experience here.

It's involved connecting with some other coaches that you wouldn't otherwise get a chance to interact with.

How have those been and have you tried to pick each other's brains a little bit as best you can knowing that you know you might be

competitors coming up?

No, for sure.

There's eight men's and eight women's coaches here and obviously anybody that's at this level has had phenomenal seasons and

There's coaches here that have been here multiple times and won national championships.

Anything you can learn, that's part of coaching, part of sports.

You never know all the answers.

So the more you can learn and the more you can network and find from other people, the better it is.

It's just cool to kind of see how other elite programs work.

Well, Gannon's the opponent.

We'll talk about them next year on

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And welcome back to the pre-game show here with head coach Josh Buettner.

We continue here on our pre-game interview.

And as we look ahead towards the Gannon squad, before we dive into any of the individuals on there, this is a team that can score points.

They score over 95 points per contest.

What is it about their offensive system that allows them to score at such a high volume?

I mean, they're part

of the Crutchfield tree, which is the Nova tree.

It's interesting because the things in that system that make them such a high scoring team are they turn you over and get easy baskets that way and they crash five guys and get easy points on offensive rebounding.

They average forcing 23 turnovers a game and average 17 offensive rebounds a game and I think those might be the highest in the country in both of those statistics.

It's easier said than done, but probably the two keys to all of our games in the entire season are take care of the ball and rebound.

And obviously what makes them successful is turning you over and rebounding.

So it's a little bit of a battle of systems in that way.

So if we can do the things that got us here, which are the things that they try to take away.

I guess that's what makes games good at this level.

I mean, our strengths versus their strengths, and we'll see what happens.

We've seen a lot of full-court pressure and presses here in the last couple of weeks.

How does theirs compare to what we've seen recently?

I mean, Grand Valley was twice in there.

Grand Valley's a straight man-to-man pick-up, so it's a little different in terms of teams that kind of run that system, I think.

They're a little bit more under control than Mike Erie was.

Not quite the cast.

And I think they're a little more aggressive than Walsh was.

Their personnel is, I think, similar to Walsh is more so than Mike Erie.

But I would say the level of aggressiveness in that press is probably a little bit closer to Mike Erie than Walsh.

Going all the way back to the end of the year, I mean, I think that's what we keep telling the guys.

And we handled that Dallas Baptist pressure the first game of the year.

Now that was some crazy pressure.

So I mean, we went down there, Suzanne helped us out and got us into that tournament to prepare us for the postseason like this.

And it's giving us an experience that we know we can handle if we're mentally there.

and execute.

From an individual

perspective, Pace is their leading scorer.

He's a phenomenal player.

He's probably the closest thing to their Marcus that they've got here.

What is it about his game that he does well that you'll have to control?

We're

looking at, we're going to try to take away threes.

I know he can put it down.

He can get fouled.

He's good at getting the line.

He's got a nice right to left cross over going that way.

He's a good all-around scorer, but he really likes getting open threes.

So one of our keys is let's just not give him those above the break threes.

And we'll see he's an all-American.

He's a good player.

We're not going to shut him down.

But I think NATO will start on him and hopefully give him a good look.

And we'll mix up some game in Jesse to throw some length at him and give him some different looks.

That said, they obviously score

95 points and have a lot of depth.

They have a lot of guys who can score.

So what do you try to do to disrupt the

rest of the group?

I just want to get in the half, or I want to not give them live ball turnovers.

I want to make them score against our defense.

Obviously, they're third in the country and points per game.

I think when you take into the rating and look deeper at your defense, we're one of the top defenses in the country.

And I just want to give our defense a chance.

If we make them have to score in the half court, I want to see what that looks like.

When you get to this level, you want to

Test yourself against the best and I think our defense is up there with anybody's and I want to see how it matches up against one of the best offenses.

There you have head coach Josh Bittner free game conversation here on the Kirkish furniture countdown to tip-off.

Starting line-ups being announced right now.

Let's go for the Gannon University Golden Knights and head coach Easton Bazoli.

He will start number one Mackenzie Morgan.

A six-foot-four junior from Sydney, Australia.

A transfer from West Texas A&M.

Number three, Precious Idaru.

A six-ten redshirt junior from Speyer, Germany.

A transfer from UMKC.

Number four, Victor Desmond.

A six-seven senior from Onalaska, Wisconsin.

A transfer from Des Moines Area Community College.

Number 22, Pace Prosser.

Six-two sophomore from Berlin, Pennsylvania.

And number 34, Lucas Morgan, a 6-4 junior from Sydney, Australia, a transfer from St.

Cloud State.

For the Michigan Tech Huskies, it is the all-too-familiar starting lineup of number one, Marcus Tomaszek, 6-6 senior from Green Bay, Ashwabinon.

Number three, Nate Abel, 6-2 redshirt senior from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Number 13, Josh Tarian, 6-4 senior from Pawaki, Wisconsin.

Number 20, Gabe Smith, a 6'6 redshirt sophomore from St.

Germain, Wisconsin, Northland Pines.

And number 33, Dawson Norgaard, 6'10 redshirt senior from West Depeer, Wisconsin.

Gannon will wear white uniforms with maroon numerals and gold trim.

The piping around the jersey will have the maroon color as well.

The Huskies in the road blacks.

with white numerals, gold trim, gold piping.

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Huskies gonna move here from my right to left.

It'll be Nordgaard jumping center for the Huskies.

Idaru for Gannon, who will control the opening tip.

Underway in the NCAA Men's Division 2 Elite 8 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Looking down low and getting the pass to Mackenzie Morgan.

Shot is no good in the rebound for Gabe Smith.

Relieving pressure to Josh Tarion.

And a head going all the way to Maschuk to Smith.

Smith into the corner, Abel.

Kick outside, Marcus, top of the key for three.

No good, rebound loose.

and recovered by Pace Prosser.

Quickly down the floor, looking to Mackenzie Morgan.

Morgan inside, fence went off the glass.

First points to Gannum.

Terri into inbound here for Michigan Tech.

Gets it down low for Abel.

Full court pressure applied here by Gannum, but the Huskies break through.

Here is Smith, down low, Norgaard.

Dawson.

Backing in, kicked outside.

Terrian gonna slow things down here.

Half court offense for the Huskies.

Abled on the dribble for Terrian.

Now down to the corner to Mashik.

Launches another three.

That one's no good.

Rebound 0 for Nordgaard who's fighting through some arms and a held ball going to be called possession to the Huskies.

Couple quick rebounds here for Smith and Nordgaard from Michigan Tech.

Minute 13 gone off the clock, only points belonging to Gannon.

Inbound goes to Nordgaard, working against Idaru outside.

This is Tamashek for Abel, right back to Marcus.

Picked up defensively there by Victor Desmond.

Now back to Abel.

Abel on the dribble, pulls up, shot is short, rebound goes out of bounds and it will be Gannon basketball.

Nice crowd here.

Lower Bowl area all filled at the UMPC Cooper Field House in Pittsburgh.

Certainly Gannon has the geographical advantage, but both teams with some student sections.

Broadcasting right here from court side as Prosser with Nate Abel in his hip pocket.

Outside for Idaru, three-point shot is good.

Precious Idaru has started 19 of his teams picking out 20 of his teams games.

He's got a steal other way.

Mackenzie Morgan the layup.

Husky's going to have to contend with that full court pressure after made baskets all day long.

Abel hustling it across here going for Tamashik.

Marcus step back for three.

That one is no good.

Tipped and out to Terian who's going to launch a distant shot.

That's no good.

Rebound stays loose.

and is recovered by Gannon.

Golden Knights, Prosser down the floor into the lane, little hand off to Desmond, loses the ball inside, back outside for Idaru.

He's going to work against Lord Guard here, Dawson picking him up defensively, mid-range jump shot is good.

Idaru averages about 11 points per game, does take a fair amount of threes in addition to those...

Two-point shots.

He's got the 1-3 already made here today.

Gannon out to an early 9-0 lead.

Huskies, though, not fazed.

As Dimashin gets bumped, loses the ball, it goes out of bounds.

Last touched underneath by Gannon, who's going to sub four in.

It was Victor Desmond diving for the loose basketball.

He'll be one of the players checking out.

Gannon's going to only keep...

Mackenzie Morgan on the floor.

The rest of them are going to be substitutions including Lane Sarver, number 12, 6-6 senior from New Madison, Ohio.

Number 31.

See me, 33 is Mason Kemp, a 6-7 sophomore.

Ruchani, Kansas.

Number five, Jaden Callaway, a 6-2 freshman from Columbus, Ohio.

Inside, Gabe Smith, bothered, gets it to Jesse Napkezik, who's come in for the Huskies.

Jesse gets the follow-up put back to score.

Huskies break the seal and they are on the board trailing 9-2.

Final substitution is Lucas Sacasi, a 6-6 sophomore from Washington, D.C.

for Gannon.

Huskies only made the napgezik substitution.

Jesse, the one-player in came in for Josh Tarion.

Napgezik a 6-4 freshman from Wausau, Wisconsin.

baseline move here from Mackenzie Morgan guarded by Tamashik, Marcus staying in on him misses the shot rebound goes to Marcus and Abel right back up down the sidelines for Tamashik now Nef Gezik steps in for three no good rebound loose and handled by Gannon Sakasi Sakasi wants to go end to end and does not travel blocked shot and a foul is going to be called

Mason Kemp going in against Dawson Nordgaard and draws the first foul of the game against Michigan Tech and it goes on the big man Nordgaard.

Huskies will get ready for a substitution.

We'll see Grant Warren ready to check in for the Huskies here in just a few moments as Mason Kemp will go to the free throw line.

Kemp has played in 30 games this season.

Average is about 10 and a half

minutes.

Has taken a fair amount of free throw attempts though.

48 coming into today's game is a good free throw shooter at 83 percent.

As a whole Gannon shoots 75 percent from the stripe.

Huskies also bring in Ty Fernholz for Marcus Tamashek.

Along with Warren for Nordgaard.

And the free throw good.

So Gannon takes the advantage here with an 11 to 2 lead.

About 4 minutes in, just shy of 4, Fernholz.

We'll get it in for Smith.

Little handoff to Jesse.

Napgezik being double teamed in the backcourt.

Ahead for Abel and for Smith.

Looking down low, Grant Warren gets blocked.

And a hell of a ball again, going to be called.

And we've got a timeout on the floor.

With 15-52 to go in our first half, it is Ganon out to the early advantage, 11-2 over Michigan Tech.

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It is Ganon 11-2 the leaders Huskies one of nine from the floor all of six from outside Only basket from the floor so far made by Jesse Nepkezik was a putback on an offensive rebound for Ganon They've got two shots from Edaru and two shots from Morgan and then one Trip to the free throw line for Mason Kemp to give them their nine-point advantage

in the game.

For again and they lost three games all year.

One of those I mentioned was to Lake Superior State back in game four of the season.

99 to 87.

Then their other two losses came at California, Pennsylvania and at home against that same California PA team later on in the year.

They did end up getting some revenge.

in the postseason against them with an 89-73 win back on the 15th.

Those are the only three losses that Gannon has suffered this season.

Of course, for Michigan Tech, three of their losses came against Grand Valley State before getting the semifinal victory over them in the last round.

Northern Michigan, Davenport and Missouri St.

Louis each hanging an L on Michigan Tech earlier in the campaign.

Huskies won't make any new substitutions here so nap Gezek Fernholz Warren Smith and Abel for your Huskies.

Gannon will get her over to Mason Kemp Kemp the handoff into the lane driving towards the basket Sikasi it's no good rebound Gabe Smith and the full court press is on for Gannon three players trying to trap in the back court Abel and a jump basketball

and a 10 second violation.

It's going to be before the jump ball as the Huskies being frustrated in the back court.

So 10 second violation against the Huskies results in a turnover.

It's going to be the second turnover now on Michigan Tech.

Gannon forces a lot of turnovers for their opponents to the tune of 23 per game.

Down into the corner.

Knappgesek picking up defensively going towards the Kassi and it's stolen away.

Gabe Smith those active hands.

Fernholz picks it up.

Passes ahead for Abel.

No break half court this time for Gabe.

Up top Fernholz.

Fernholz harass near half court by MacKenzie Morgan.

This is Fernholz down low.

Knappgesek.

Cross court for Warren.

Warren backing in, turning back to Jesse.

Left side corner for three, no good.

Warren gets the rebound, looking to pass it outside.

It's deflected and stolen by Gannon.

Sakasi driving inside.

Pass out for Mackenzie Morgan.

Three point shot rattles in.

Tapped out of bounds.

Last touched by Lucas Morgan.

And both juniors from Sydney, Australia took different routes to get here to Ganon, but ultimately ended up in the same place.

Both Sydney, Australia, Mackenzie going to West Texas, Ann M. Lucas going to St.

Cloud before reuniting here in Ganon colors.

Tamashik has checked back in for the Huskies, has replaced Jesse Napgezek.

Bodying up there with Morgan right back to Tamashik.

Marcus for Fernholz looking down low.

This is Warren.

Double team came in Grant battling through it.

He fades away for the jump shot.

That's no good.

The rebound Gabe Smith and a foul is going to be called underneath trying to fight through to the basket.

And Gannon's defense right now seems to be everywhere all the time against Michigan Tech.

No matter where they go, it seems they have two defenders in the area.

This time the foul goes against Lucas Morgan.

It's gonna be the first on Gannon and subsequently first on Lucas Morgan.

Huskies have just two points here to get things rolling against the Gannon squad.

That defensively...

Gives up an average of 30 or 73 excuse me and a half per game Game can't collect the front end.

That's been one of his bugaboos of late just under 50% the free throw line One of the least successful Huskies at the stripe here this season they'll step back at the line and This is the second Huskies remain with just two points heading back on defense

Sakasi into the corner, faking the three-point shot and working it right back out to Sakasi there was Jaden Calloway.

Maui Daru defended up by Nordgaard.

Outside, Prosser loses it.

It's gonna be Husky basketball.

Prosser reaching over the top of Nate Abel to try to save that from going out of bounds in the baseline but not able to do so.

And a turnover for the Golden Knights.

It's going to be their second of the game.

Huskies get Josh Tarion back in.

It's the inbound to Tamashik.

Marcus with Abel.

They're going to bring it back across, going towards Tarion, saving it right in front of the Gannon bench.

And the Dawson.

Nordgaard.

And the Huskies getting it all the way back out to the top where Nate will settle it.

To the left, Fernholz, right back down Dawson, left block.

Into the lane, turns, skyhook, off glass, no good.

And the Huskies can't buy one from the floor right now.

Ahead, Calloway.

Kernholtz defending.

Calloway fade away, jump shot, too strong, rebound tapped out.

Recovered by Sakasi.

Tuidaru back out for Calloway, pump fakes there.

Sakasi, the head fake to the free throw line.

Outside, Prosser, three point shot, is no good.

Rebound goes long, collected right back in the corner by Gannon, went right back to Prosser.

And they'll reset here to 10 on the shot clock.

Sacasi, the dribble, left side, too strong off the glass, the foul is going to be called.

It's going to go on the Huskies here with four remaining on that shot clock.

12-37 to go in the first half.

And it's going to Marcus Tamashek, his first team second.

And it will result in additional free throws here for Gannon.

So far only three fouls have been called in the whole game and all have been shooting fouls.

That one for Sakasi is no good.

Sakasi, third leading scorer off the bench.

Plays 22.5 per game, scores 11.5 and shoots it a 69% clip.

from the free throw line.

Looks like he'll be checked out here.

Should he make this one?

He does not.

Husky's tracked down the rebound in the corner and they'll push it ahead.

Abel fires down to the corner.

This is Bernholz back to Tamashik and a foul is going to be called and it's going on Bernholz.

No, they didn't call it on Fernholz offensive foul.

They call a moving screen on Ty who was trying to hand off at Tamashik and got knocked to the floor.

So the Huskies pick up their 13th foul.

We'll get Nordgaard out and Smith back in.

Matt Schmindo will make his first appearance in the game now for the Huskies as well.

The 6-2 junior from Brookfield, Wisconsin.

And inbound will come all the way down.

It's going to be Husky basketball here, so I'm not sure exactly what the call was on the Huskies there if they end up with basketball.

But it goes through to Masiek.

Marcus, bodied up there defensively, working his way inside.

Mark, free throw line, fade away is no good.

Up high for the rebound, Gabe Smith and Gabe.

Gives it cross court for Shminda and Tamashek Marcus the dribble outside Tarion lines up for distance that shot though no good Mark goes to the floor and a foul is going to be called on Ganon Husky still cannot buy one from the field here And it's gonna go on Sarver who is defending against Tamashek there

Fernholz back in, he will replace Nate Abel.

So Schmeinde, Tamashik, Smith, Fernholz, Terian, the five for the Huskies, they go down low towards Schmeinde, it's tapped away by Gannon, they'll do it again.

Huskies inbounding deep underneath the Gannon basket here, still trying to find a second make from the floor, only Jesse Napgezek on his own put back able to be successful.

Terian.

up high, getting it for Schmeinde.

Furnholes, no good for three, and it's rebounded by Gannon.

Prosser gonna try to take it to the distance himself, banks went in and scores.

Huskies will have to inbound here again with the heavy full court pressure from Gannon.

That one's tipped and out of bounds last touched by Tamashik.

And with 11-44 to go in the first half, we'll get another timeout on the floor.

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Huskies trailing 16 to 2 here getting us going here.

Michigan Tech.

Cannot find a basket from the floor right now one of 15 With an 0 for nine count from three-point range Huskies have six offensive rebounds, but if not been able to Get much from them.

That's where they're only two second chance points in the game have come from Jesse nap Gezik missed a shot got his own putback And that's the extent of the Husky scoring in this game

Meanwhile, two offensive rebounds for Gannon.

Leading to no second chance points, but they do have six fast break points, six points in the paint, two points off turnovers, and two points off the bench from Mason Kemp.

Huskies obviously have not yet led in this game.

It's been all Gannon thus far, seven and a half minutes or so of lead time, 11-44 to go in the first half.

Huskies have Abel back on the floor here.

Fernholz in place of Tarion right now, otherwise the Huskies starting five.

Gannon will have Pace Proster to inbound.

And Proster will get it in here for Lucas Morgan, bodied up by Gabe Smith.

Goes down to the floor.

Sarver and now a loose ball there.

Prosser going to draw a foul.

It appears against the Huskies on the inside.

It's going to go against Nate Abel.

Gannon just refeeding.

And that will send Prosser to the free throw line.

He has their team's leading score at 18.3 per contest.

88% shooter from the free throw line.

He's played about a thousand minutes this season himself.

Game and start number 35.

Sakasi, Idaru back in the game for Gannon.

Joining Sarver and Kemp and Prosser who makes both free throws.

And right now the Huskies digging themselves a hole.

Fernholz gonna get it in for Tamashek.

And Marcus.

We'll get it back over for Fernholz, right back to Mark, left side, and he'll cross that timeline here.

Husky setting up with 20 on the shot clock here in the half court.

Abel, looking down low, floats it forward, Nordgaard.

Nordgaard with Idaru, right back out, Nates, pump fakes, drives inside, and then swings for Fernholz, back to Tamashik.

Marcus lines one up, still can't get it to go.

Ball goes loose off the foot of a Ganon player.

I think that was Sakasi down low number zero and it will be Husky basketball here with a reset of 20 on the shot clock.

Abel will be the inbounder here again underneath the basket.

Goes wide for Nordgaard.

Dawson driving his way in.

Pump fakes and draws a foul.

Looks like it's going to go against Precious Idaru.

Good job by Dawson backing down against Lucas Morgan Rather 33 Mason camp not 34 Morgan and then a Daru came into his spot defensively and drew the foul North guard makes the free throws with a husky scoreless stretch lasting nearly six minutes Last field goal at 1651 it's

10-58 on the scoreboard right now.

Second for Dawson goes through, so the Huskies have doubled up their scoring here, but it's 18-4, Gannon with the lead.

Huskies bodying up here defensively as Napjesek and Schmeinde have come in.

Pull up, jump shot, Sarver back irons, that high rebound for Kemp goes in, lays it up and scores.

Mason Kemp just got...

premium position to get the rebound.

Abel with napgezik in the Husky backcourt here.

Got to have to hustle though.

24, gives it down deep.

Nordgaard with wide open draws the foul on Kemp this time.

Could have gone up hard to the basket, tried to dunk it, maybe get the end one, but he draws the foul instead against Kemp.

And Nordgaard will go back to the free throw line where he just...

collected a couple for Michigan Tech a few moments ago.

That one goes through.

Second free throw here for the Husky senior from Depeer, Wisconsin.

He's made all four from the line.

And it is 22 six Michigan Tech trailing here by 14.

Sakasi working against Napgezek.

Looking for Prosser.

Abel right in front of him.

Nate doing a great job standing up there and the ball goes out of bounds and it will be basketball Ganon.

20 on the shot clock here.

10-10 in the game clock inbound.

Four Ganon was nearly stolen away and then it was.

Gabe Smith got his hand on it, got bounced all the way back about 15 feet to Dawson Nordgaard.

Huskies dealing with a ton of pressure here in the back court and they are not going to be able to break it.

Another 10 second violation forced by Gannon defensively.

Huskies just couldn't find a way to get a clean handle on the basketball with a look ahead.

And now Gannon will inbound again from that offensive baseline.

Inbound going down low towards Idaru, and it's knocked out of bounds.

Idaru goes to the floor, Shminda tips it away.

Jaden Callaway is going to come back in for Cannon.

No other changes.

And as they're finishing the mop-up duty there, Gannon will inbound now 17 on the shot clock, 9-50 to go here in our first half.

Knights leading 20-6.

Prosser, step back, jump shot is no good.

Nordgaard, good rebound position.

Hands off for Schmeinde.

And Schmeinde will be able to get it across half court with some of the least amount of harassment the Huskies have seen all day.

Part of that is due to the fact that there was finally a missed shot.

Able, left wing side.

Looking down low towards Nordgaard.

Motherfoul is going to be called here on Gannon.

This one's going to go on Sarver, I believe, number 12.

Go ahead to the bench.

We'll see Lucas Morgan come back in and Mackenzie Morgan come back in.

A law firm of Morgan and Morgan back in for Gannon.

Nordgaard gets the inbound.

Backing down.

Against Idaru high sky again for Nordgard and it drops through good hook there for Dawson Nordgard who's been the Huskies offense here in the last few minutes And really for the bulk of the game at this point Idaru driving by and he's gonna get fouled and he's gonna have a Injury it looks like he's holding on to his knee and that's not a good look there for precious Idaru He landed awkwardly on that knee that

Right knee.

Non-contact.

I don't think he's not getting up here.

He's sitting down.

The training staff's not hustling over to look at him at all, which is a little surprising.

He will be helped up by some teammates, but able to hobble it off right now and stretch it out.

Reminiscent of a couple of the Division 1 injuries we've seen of late, including Michigan's backup point guard, Kaysen.

That was not a good injury for LJ Kaysen of Michigan, and Idaru will see if he's going to get to continue here.

And for Gabe, that's going to be his first, and the team is fifth.

Idaru is going to keep walking it out here.

Ganon does not look like they're gonna sub for him at this point And here he goes to the free throw line This is that free throw He's a good shooter from the free throw line So wondering if that knee affecting his motion at all

Didn't that well wasn't being sucked originally and now he will potentially This is both rebound goes to Nordgaard, and he's definitely still favoring that knee hustling his way back though And it's stolen away Husky looking ahead to nap Gezek and it was taken by Mackenzie Morgan Now Lucas Morgan for Calloway back for Ederu

and Calloway on the dribble against Terian.

Fade away shot is no good.

Rebound hung around the rim for a moment so Nate Abel couldn't grab that.

Lobs it ahead for Nefgesik.

Will get it back for Nate and the Huskies will try to get back to 10 or less on this possession down 20 to 8.

For Terian.

Off for Nefgesik, Jesse.

Had it swatted at, keeps the dribble alive here.

Backing down against Mackenzie Morgan.

Another swap, and a foul is gonna be called.

Looks like Mackenzie's gonna pick that one up here.

Little grab on an aphgezic trying to hustle back to the loose ball.

Couple times it was knocked away.

Yeah, and there's a little bit of a hook on his right arm there.

Good look by our officials.

Officials today, Wasey Lim, Devon Page, Owen Lucky.

Inbound goes to Nordgaard, and Nordgaard had it swatted and another foul is going to be called.

Victor Desmond has checked in in place of Idaru, who's going to be looked at by the training staff off in the corner.

Sent Dawson Nordgaard back to the free throw line.

This is a one-on-one though, 17 foul against Gannon.

And that rattles out no good.

Huskies had a chance to cut it to 10 potentially with a pair of free throws.

Now Lucas Morgan outside from Mackenzie.

Mackenzie on the drive and off balance shot as he's fouled by Nap-Gezik goes tumbling to the floor and will have a timeout on the floor.

7-57 remaining in our first half.

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Two of 17 shooting.

Four of seven from the free throw line.

Rebounds are even at 14.

The Huskies seven and seven offensive defensive.

Gannon four and ten.

Huskies have committed seven six personal fouls have drawn seven have turned it over six times Three steals by Ganon four turnovers for them They're shooting percentages pretty average right now Excuse me seven of 16 for the Knights two of three from outside four of eight at the free throw line Huskies

0 of 10 from distance, need to find a three point shot here.

Starting five out there for the Huskies, minus North guard and plus Grant Warren.

Dawson leads the Huskies with six of the eight team points right now.

Now, Gezik, the other two is Mackenzie Morgan will make the first free throw here and a second one coming up here for the Aussie.

is good.

22 to 8.

Gannon's got the lead.

Huskies get the inbound to Abel.

Huskies quick to break and push it ahead for Tamashik.

Marcus helps Gordelis on five shots here thus far.

Warren to Marcus.

A little bobble there goes back to Abel.

Nate gets a screen throws it across from Marcus.

Marcus another step back three point shot.

That's offline rebound goes to

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Husky fans in behind the Michigan Tech bench right now not getting a lot of Stuff to cheer for offensively from the Huskies at this point defensively.

I think the Huskies have done a pretty decent job enforcing some turnovers and limiting good looks for cannon 44% shooting

Shot clock will be reset to six seconds as it did not hit the rim.

Gannon shoots about 46 and a half percent from the floor per game.

So they are a pretty good shooting team as a whole.

So right now being held just slightly below average.

We'll just call it on average at this point.

Huskies though being held well below.

Shot clock way down ball tipped out of bounds and now we're going to have a reset to three on the shot clock seven and a half to go.

Husky's off to do it again, have to find a quick shot here.

In the Gannon bench, it goes to Marcus in the corner, heaves one up, hits the rim, doesn't get the rebound though and it goes to Gannon.

Pushed ahead, Sakasi.

Working in against Gabe, back outside Calloway and Lucas Morgan.

Now in against Grant Warren.

High shot is no good.

Going to the floor looking for a foul.

On the play was Victor Desmond.

None to be had.

Tamashik open for three.

Huskies still cannot buy one.

And a miss by the Huskies.

Easy rebound and transition for Gannon.

Desmond back outside.

It's tipped and collected again by the Knights.

Calloway.

Refeed to Desmond.

Against Warren.

And Sikasi, they're going to go to the other side.

This is Lucas Morgan.

Pass back from Mackenzie, three-point shot is good.

Timeout Huskies coming up here by Michigan Tech.

And the Huskies on the double team there, just real slow to try and get out to defend on the three-point shot.

Frustrating Coach Bittner.

And stretching that lead back out here.

to now their biggest of the game at 17 points.

Gannon with 631 to go.

Husky is held to just eight points at this stage in the game, shooting 10% from the floor, all of 13 from distance.

You'd think things will start to shake out from Michigan Tech offensively sooner rather than later.

Be hard pressed to believe you're going to shoot this poorly all game long.

Some of it is Gannon's defense certainly making it difficult in the back court to get things set up to a half court offense Once they're in the half court tech has had some decent looks So Huskies will inbound here going ahead for able and Nate's will throw it down for Smith Reset here able

And off to Marcus to Gabe and swung around Tarion Josh on the dribble here back from Marcus Marcus gonna get into the lane dumps one off to Gabe Double team comes there and he heaves it and it's gonna go out of bounds all the way into the backcourt way too tall intended for Tarion and another Husky turnover caused by Double team defense Substitution's gonna take

Gabe and Warren off the floor, Nordgaard and Nefgezek back in for the Huskies.

Roster going to be the inbounder here and he'll push it back for Precious Edaroos back in after that knee injury a little bit earlier.

Looks good, goes all the way to the basket, lays it in.

Ahead for Abel.

Nate pushes it down the floor to Nordgaard.

Dawson back for Nate in the corner.

Baseline drive outside Nordgaard.

And Nefgezek.

Terry in left wing.

Down low, here's Nordgaard.

They're looking to double again.

Dawson turns, hooks, scores.

Right now Dawson Nordgaard is the Husky offense here today, getting a couple of nice hook shots from inside.

Meanwhile, Gannon on three, going to miss that one.

Sarver and a foul is going to be called.

A little too much pressure.

It's going to go on Victor Desmond.

It's going to be another one-on-one try.

Excuse me, from the Huskies.

It's going to be Josh Terrian to shoot free throws.

It really hasn't been a whole lot of fouling called on the full court pressure defense by Gannon.

That right there, one of the exceptions.

Mash it off the floor.

Substitution in.

Bring back in Ty Fernholz, the Husky sophomore from Stoughton, Wisconsin.

Free throw, good for Terry in earth, the second.

On the one and one here.

Eighth team foul.

Desmond's got two personals.

Sarver's got two, the only two for Gannon with multiple.

The Huskies have nobody with multiple fouls at this stage.

But they do trail by 15, 27-12.

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Prosser for Morgan.

Lucas Morgan backing down against Terriott.

Josh holding his ground and able to defend against Morgan.

Float ahead for Fernholz and the Huskies finally collect a three.

Top between my words there is Fernholz catches the floater ahead and without any defender standing in front of him able to hit the three.

Idaru is going to try to answer and he will.

Right wing side drawing North guard away from the three points to the three point line.

Terian inbound and Apgezek.

Able ahead and too high into the children.

And I think everybody's good over there.

Officials did double check, make sure everybody was all good down in the students section behind our...

Television and other radio crew.

Goes to Idaru now, floater is blocked, tipped up and recovered by Tarion.

Tarion leads it for Fernholz.

Fernholz, top of the key to the right wing side, napgezik on the dribble.

Back for Fernholz, launches from distance, too strong.

Rebound block out hard and Tarion to the floor.

Foul is going against Gannon.

And with 359 to go in our first half, we have a timeout on the floor.

Foul call coming up for you when we return.

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last foul against Gannon McKenzie Morgan responsible his second of the game And now that is Three different Knights players with two personal fouls Team total of nine and Huskies should have a one-and-one coming up here first three-point shot finally

made by Ty Fernholz a little while ago.

Huskies one of 15.

Overall now four for 23 from the floor.

I'd say they're heating up.

That's probably disingenuous, but at least they've made a couple of their last few shots.

I think going from two of 20 to four of 23 is a bright spot here for the Huskies in the last few moments.

Dawson Nordgaard leading Michigan Tech with eight.

Idaru and Mackenzie Morgan in double figures for Gannon.

with 10 and 12 respectively.

Prosser and Kemp each with four for their team total of 30.

Terian and Epgezek have the two and two for Michigan Tech.

Terian gonna try to make it three and hopefully four at the free throw line here for the Huskies.

The one and one, last of the one and ones for the Husky offense.

That is no good in the rebound.

Lucas Morgan.

goes back for Sarver excuse me that is a secassi and now for Morgan looking down to Foster can't find him there in an offensive foul called that's Mackenzie Morgan's third and our review is going to happen here as Lucas Morgan goes down or a communication between our officials

I think Mackenzie Morgan's gonna pick up a third personal foul and now they're talking about a foul potentially after the play here Moving screen on Mackenzie Morgan Would be three on him The officials though look like they're gonna discuss something that might have happened after the play let's see if we can get an announcement on that Yeah, they are saying something after the play

Didn't

get a great here from our official So they'll look at the monitors here and discuss things But you know that in 342 of game time our halftime show will come up for you where a full recap of stats

will come your way.

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More games are on the schedule, of course, for today.

There are three more.

Cal State, East Bay, the number two scene will face number seven, Oklahoma Baptist at 2.30 to round out session one.

In session two, number one, Nova Southeastern will face Black Hills State.

Six o'clock start at 8.30.

Damon and Lander 4.5 will round out session two and today's games.

And let's see what our officials have to say about the possibility of a late foul.

announced to our television crew what the call is

here.

So a technical foul called on Josh Tarion.

Under the basket there late after the whistle had blown and he's talking to the official wondering what the purpose of that was for So Proser gonna get to shoot technical free throws And Proser makes the first second one coming up here makes that one as well

and the Huskies not gonna get possession after the common foul on Mackenzie Morgan as the technical will take precedence so it's Gannon basketball again after those free throws so hurts the Huskies chances of Climbing back in here a little bit with those free throws and now possession Lucas Morgan on the dribble goes down fouls gonna be called on Gabe Smith

It's going to be two, I believe, on Gabe now.

And it is just that.

Now eight on the Huskies.

So one and one here for Lucas Morgan.

This is a free throw.

Nap-Gezik gets the board for the Huskies.

Jab step there for Jesse.

One-on-one with Pace Prosser in the backcourt.

A little stutter move.

And Epgeza got it across.

Jesse for Nordgaard top of the key.

For Fernholz.

Closed out there.

Sarver.

Now Abel in front of the Gannon bench.

Pulls up for three.

No good long rebound going outside.

Saved by Gabe but it will be saved as a loose ball to Gannon.

And pushed ahead here for Pace Prosser.

Prosser slams into Nap-Gezik and Jesse's gonna pick up a foul there.

Hard foul against Jesse Nap-Gezik.

And that's gonna be two now on Jesse.

And a one and

one here.

Final one and one, another half, Pace-Prosser.

Back to the line, makes the first.

88% shooter on the season is Pace-Prosser.

Makes it both again.

And Prosser, perfect from the line in this game.

As Fernholz will trigger it in for Gabe Smith, who's checked back in.

Set back for Abel and now the double team shows Abel pushes ahead for Tamashik Marcus left wing the top Abel settling into half court 15 on the shot clock Gabe for Marcus wide open down low as Nordgaard nowhere to go for Dawson He turns then skies up again misses the shot rebound loose comes deep Abel pump fakes goes inside dishes off for Nordgaard again

Still can't get the shot to go, out of bounds, off of Nordgaard.

Schmeinde reenters, preferred holes.

Husky shooting just 15% from the floor right now, one of their lowest scoring outputs in a first half this season.

As the dish off for Idaru, three point shot, wide right.

Air ball is no good and Gabe Smith gonna dribble it out of trouble.

A head for Schmeinde.

Schmeinde gets run into by Prosser who steals it away.

No fouls called.

Prosser goes right through Abel and now I think Abel's gonna pick up a foul.

And cheese.

Prost are able to take out Matt Schmeinde with the basketball and then when he's got the basketball goes ahead and clears out Nate himself.

So Prost are really causing some havoc there for the Huskies.

We'll see Fernholz come back in here.

For somebody, seems like it's going to be Schmeinde.

And Proser makes another free throw.

So everybody's in double figures here for team Fowles, so two free throws either direction.

Inbound to Abel.

Abel zips it down for Gabe Smith outside, Furnholz, tees it up for three, bang.

And

Furnholz doesn't need a lot of daylight generally.

He didn't have much there.

Abel to connect on the three-pointer.

Important basket for the Huskies is Sakasi underneath.

This is Kim.

And swung around here.

Sakasi will get it back.

Right wing, beat up by Gabe Smith.