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ATHENS, W.Va. - In a scheduling change, the Concord University men's basketball team plays host to Alderson Broaddus 2:00 p.m. Saturday at the Carter Center in a Mountain East Conference game. The Mountain Lions were slated to travel to Wheeling, and Alderson Broaddus was scheduled to take on Fairmont State. However, those two respective programs have paused activities.
LIVE COVERAGE
Audio: Jason Reed and
Steve Cox will have live radio play-by-play on Willie 94.5 FM with the broadcast streaming online at www.mywillie.com
Stats: The Concord University Sports Information Department will provide live in-game statistics of Saturday's contest.
Video: Live streaming video is available courtesy of the CU Sports Information Department. Reed and Cox's broadcast will be simulcast on the stream.
RECORDS
CU is coming off a 91-83 upset win over fourth-ranked West Liberty Wednesday at home as it improved to 3-2.
Alderson Broaddus ended a three-game losing streak by defeating Frostburg State at home, 90-76. The Battlers are 2-3 this season.
THREES COMPANY
Three different Mountain Lions had career nights to aid the upset of the Hilltoppers. Senior guard/forward
Malik Johnson scored a career-best 25 points as he shot 8-of-10 from the field and was 6-for-9 at the foul line. With his performance, Johnson moved into 10
th in the MEC in scoring per game at 17.8. Making his second career start, junior forward
Mohamed Bundu tossed in a career-best 22 points and grabbed 14 rebounds. Going into Wednesday, the Largo, Maryland native had only scored 12 points in the first four games combined. Half of Bundu's points came at the foul line where he was 11-of-15 for the night. In his third consecutive start at point guard, junior guard
Seth Brown tallied his first double-figure scoring game in the Maroon and Gray as he posted 15 points on 5-for-8 shooting. Brown also navigated the WLU pressure defense by committing just three turnovers in 28 minutes of action.
PROTECT THIS HOUSE
Concord defended its home court versus West Liberty by taking away the three-pointer and controlling the boards—two staples of WLU's success over the last decade-plus. WLU had gone 132 consecutive games of making more than five three-pointers until Wednesday night when CU limited the Hilltoppers to 5-of-21 from beyond the arc. West Liberty was also outrebounding teams by nearly 15 boards on average ahead of Wednesday night. However, led by Bundu's 14 rebounds, Concord held a 33-26 edge on the glasswhich included holding WLU to 10 offensive rebounds, nearly 10 below its season average. Bundu's 27 rebounds over the last two games are the most for a CU player in a two-game stretch since
Terry Hopewell closed his career with 28 rebounds in March 2016. The Mountain Lions also frustrated WLU's top two players in preseason All-American Dalton Bolon and 2020 MEC Tournament MVP Will Yoakum. Junior guard
Brandon Kennedy and Johnson forced Bolon into seven turnovers. Meanwhile, Yoakum was held to 2-for-10 shooting by Bundu and freshman forward
Luken Hill.
FINDING THE STROKE
A game after going 11-for-27 at the foul line against Davis & Elkins, Concord found its groove at the charity stripe by sinking 26 free throws on 34 attempts (76.5 percent), led by Bundu's 11. The 26 foul shots made by the Maroon and Gray were the most in almost two years to the day when Concord hit 27 in an overtime loss at West Liberty January 19, 2019. Johnson stroked up six successful foul shots to help out at the line. In the final 1:39 of the game, Concord was 11-for-12 at the foul line which helped the Mountain Lions hold off the West Liberty 14-0 run that closed CU's lead to 80-78.
LESS IS MORE
The Mountain Lions enter Saturday's contest leading the MEC in three-point shooting percentage (38.0), but 10
th in the conference in three-pointers made per game (6.4). Concord has shot at least 38 percent from three-point line in three of five games of this season. Johnson is making 42.1 percent (8-for-18) of his three-pointers. In a limited sample size, senior forward
David Bea Mulumba has hit 8-of-13 attempts from outside (61.5 percent). However, CU is one of three teams in the MEC to have yet made 10 triples in a game this season—the others are Davis & Elkins and Notre Dame. Concord's season high for three-pointers is eight—twice in the first two games of the season.
RUNNING EM OFF THE LINE
Concord's three-point defense will be tested Saturday afternoon. Concord has held four of its five opponents below 35 percent from behind the arc this season, and three of five to less than 30 percent. The Mountain Lions are holding opponents to 29.3 percent from three-point range, fourth in the MEC. Meanwhile, Alderson Broaddus is third in the MEC in three-pointers made per game led at 9.2. The Battlers have made at least nine three-pointers in four of their five games this season, but was held to seven triples in their win over Frostburg State. In the last 13 regular season games, the Mountain Lions have surrendered 10 or more three-pointers just three times.
OLD FOES, NEW FACES
Saturday marks the 93
rd meeting between Concord and Alderson Broaddus with AB holding a 62-32 edge, but over the last eight years the teams have met sparingly. After the dissolve of the WVIAC in 2013, CU and the Battlers didn't meet again until November 2016 when Concord outscored Alderson Broaddus 45-30 in the second, winning 81-59. The two teams met again in November 2017 in a non-conference return date at the Carter Center. The Battlesr were able to hold off Concord, 72-69. The only players left on either roster to play in the 2017 meeting are CU's Johnson and Mulumba. Johnson scored eight points in 17 minutes. Mulumba made his only field goal of the game in one minute of action.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
2- Concord has the second-ranked scoring defense in the MEC (74.0) while AB is ranked 10th (89.6).
10- All 10 players that played against West Liberty scored at least one bucket.
61.9- Concord shot 61.9 percent in the second half of the West Liberty win--the highest for any half this season.
ALDERSON BROADDUS AT A GLANCE
The three-point shooting is led by David Shriver who is second in the MEC (46.9 percent / 15-for-32). Shriver scores 13.4 points per game, but KJ Walker is the leading scorer at 16.5 points per game. Jadyn Stewart (11.5 points) and Lacey Watson (10.2 points) also average double figures. Former AB standout and former Glenville State head coach Stephen Dye is in his second year as head coach at his alma mater. While at AB, Dye was the WVIAC Freshman of the Year, and also broke the NCAA Division II record for made three-pointers in a career with 443 which is still second. Dye led GSC to the 2015 MEC Tournament Championship.
