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Game 7-062: Milwaukee at Cleveland State
February 25, 2011 9:20 am ET by Kyle Whelliston

Milwaukee Panthers at Cleveland State Vikings

February 24, 2011 7:00 pm
H. J. Goodman Arena
BBState Stats/Recap



Horizon League shoe blogging, rigged Dougie contests, airport codes, smoke and mirrors, and Milwaukee's big destiny-grab.

@midmajority Game Tweets

18:27 Game 7-062: Milwaukee at Cleveland State. You, me, Bert, Iris, and Horizon League destiny. http://img.ly/35lm
18:34 Whenever I come to the Wolstein, I always pause in the Hallway of Memories to pay tribute to the mayor of "C-Town." http://img.ly/35lt
18:39 The Panthers have already won the shoe battle. #fresh http://img.ly/35ly
18:44 During warmups, Wiz Khalifa came on the PA. A minute in, *THUMP* and switch to Eminem. Not taking any chances tonight at Cleveland State.
18:47 This is the kind of important coverage we provide at TMM. #horizonkix http://img.ly/35lC
18:55 Before we truly begin, let's quickly review what's at stake here tonight at the top of the Horizon League tonight.
18:56 The No. 1 seed in the Horizon League carries with it a semifinal double-bye and hosting duties for the final two rounds of the tourney.
18:57 A Cleveland State win: Vikings go 13-4, and they could clinch the No. 1 outright and a Wolstein weekend with a Sat. W against Green Bay.
18:59 Milw win: They'd be 12-5, and could clinch No. 1 on Sat vs Youngstown. Panthers take a 4-way tie at 13-5 due to superior record vs. other 3.
19:00 So we're three minutes from tip at our advantageous courtside position here in Cleveland. Vikings. Panthers. Pick a side, dammit!
19:02 Nobody has a better seat than this guy. http://img.ly/35lL
19:03 Milwaukee huddlz. http://img.ly/35lN
19:04 These kids have the right kind of hero. Now copy the hair! #norriscole http://img.ly/35lQ
19:08 Underway. http://img.ly/35lR
19:09 Milwaukee walks on first possession, Tim Kamczyc opens scoring with a #superhoop. 3-0 CLST.
19:10 Tone Boyle answers with a MILW bucket, but it's been mostly empty possessions with artistic merit so far. Two minutes in, CLST 3-2.
19:12 6-8 Panther junior Tony Meier with a #superhoop, Aaron Pogue replies immediately with a CLST #omgdunx. This game has it all! 5-5 early on.
19:12 RT @SkywayChicago: @midmajority - Norris "Teach Me How To Dougie" Cole!
19:14 All Cole has to show for this game so far is two pretty missed layups and 2 FT's. Big Aaron Pogue is on the bench with two quick fouls.
19:15 A MILW title would be an amazing comeback story. As recently as Jan 23, the Panthers had a losing record (10-11). Then, 7 straight HL wins.
19:17 MTO: Dougie contest. Norris Cole too busy/ineligible anyway. Media breaks no-cheering-on-press-row clause and tries to help kid #2 win.
19:19 Tony Meier, a stealth #superhooper at 6-8, has two now. Ant Hill with a 3 and a 2 to send MILW up 13-9 at 14:19 1H.
19:21 Having the 6-9 Pogue out w/ 2PF has really minimized CLST's paintosity. Meier now running wild inside and out. 8 pts for him, 17-9 Panthers.
19:23 Luda Ndaye, CLST's 6-9 Canadian froshhhh, now in. Getting splayed and ripped apart down low. Panthers up 24-11 at 11:51 1H. Uh-oh Vike-o.
19:25 Gary Waters rolls the dice and puts Pogue back in with 2 PFs, still in the first quarter. Cole is 1-for-4 and looking like he's itching.
19:27 Cole really not on tonight. Airballed a 5-footer. TMM "olds" know I have not personally witnessed a good game by him, ever. #coincidence
19:28 Pogue set up that Cole airball with a grabby, diving, desperate rebound sequence. 5000 Vikings fans held their breath. Waters pulls him out.
19:29 RT @adamamin: follow @midmajority tonight. he's live at the Wolstein Center covering UWM/Cleveland St. Milwaukee up 11, halfway through 1st.
19:29 RT @kevinhazaert: @midmajority We thank you for your attendance #uwmmojo
19:31 25-13 Panthers, end of the first quarter. Cleveland State really riding a knife-edge now with Pogue out with 2PF and MILW shooting *76.3%*.
19:33 Next CLST big guy: 6-11 junior Joe Latas.
19:33 Confirm/corrected: he does. Magic stat screen gave it to someone else initially. RT @kevinhazaert: @midmajority I thought Pogue had 3 fouls?
19:36 Cole looks the kind of irritated we've seen before. He wants ball. Team shooting a slightly better percentage (28) than he is (20).
19:37 Milwaukee now has a clean dubl-up on Cleveland State, 30-15. Vikings won the first meeting at the Cell, 82-59. December 4: long time ago.
19:40 Ant Hill layup makes him perfect from the field at 3-3, but now he has 2 PF too. However, his team's up by 15. Panther second line comes in.
19:43 The crowd, electric at the start, has been reduced to a series of spasmodic and anguished yells. CLST has 6 made FG's in 26 tries.
19:47 MILW has lost to Portland by 20, DePaul by 14, Wright State by 24 and Valpo by 17. At some point, they were replaced by Robots. (or humans?)
19:48 And it's not just an inside story. CLST, the best 3-point shooting team in Horizon play, has been held 1-for-9 so far. #blooperhoop
19:51 Cole a made basket to bring him to 2-of-7, but he just blew a bunny layup that sent heads snapping back in anguish all over Wolstein.
19:52 RT @Ron5Robot: I assure you that's not the case. RT @midmajority At some point, MILW players were replaced by Robots. (or humans?)
19:55 Panther guards love to chip away at real estate with big semicircle drives. Love that. But it does end in travels sometimes, and MILW has 3.
19:56 Cole struggling from the floor (2-for-9, 8 pts); so is Trevon Harmon (3/9). But Josh McCoy, off the bench, drains a 3 at the HT buzzer.
19:57 Halfway through the virtual Horizon League regular season championship game, Milwaukee leads 41-32. Tony Meier has 15 for the Panthers.
20:06 Both teams have 12 FG's, but CLST has 35 shots while MILW has taken 21. Turns: 9-2 Panthers. Vikings' way back into this game is pressure.
20:10 RT @mwmiller20: @midmajority You could always call them UWM. Oh wait, they hate that too.
20:11 When they build a new arena on the tarmac at Mitchell Airport, we'll call them MKE.
20:13 We are underway in the second half. Pogue is back in with three fouls for Cleveland State. Intrigue!
20:13 RT @kevinhazaert: @midmajority @mwmiller20 I happily embrace my UWM roots, but don't call us UMW #fightdyslexia
20:15 And the second half begins with that most exciting of basketball plays: a team deadball rebound for CLST.
20:17 CLST sure has a peppy fight song. Contains the line, "We always will defend/the pride of Cleveland faithfully," which rhymes with "victory."
20:18 For those of you keeping a set list, that was Cleveland State Fight Song > All Night Long.
20:20 And there's Pogue's fourth... on an offensive foul. Whoa, ouch. 43-36 Milwaukee at 17:45 2H.
20:22 Kaylon Williams celebrates Pogue's fourth with a long #superhoop. Fireworks! Double digit lead again for MILW, 48-36.
20:26 56-40 Milwaukee at 14:19 2H. There was a lot of hope a few minutes ago, but the mood in Wolstein has gone sullen and dark.
20:28 Fans turn attention to berating refs for missing MILW travel calls. They have a point, but it wouldn't make a diff. CLST getting smoked.
20:31 MILW's Tony Meier, tonight's #superhoop genius, bangs another one and adds a long 2, and now it's 61-42 Milwaukee. 12:38 2H.
20:36 We are on alert! RT @PanthersInsider: A Ryan Allen #omgdunx is coming. He's lurking the baseline. Just you wait! @midmajority
20:38 Close to the end of the third quarter, and it's 63-46 Milwaukee. Pogue is in with 4PF's for his last stand.
20:41 Ant Hill getting some serious bounces on his last 2 shots, and it's a 16-point lead for MILW. Would be much more without all the turnovers.
20:42 As in, two straight travel calls in the backcourt on Milwaukee. Credit those to peanut gallery input.
20:44 Scary moment as MILW's Ryan Allen hits the floor hard after a collision. Got up after a minute on the canvas. 67-53 MILW, 8:00 to go.
20:44 RT @Dobber_BtB_SBN: @midmajority I know Waters has to roll the dice again, but it doesn't look like it's going to matter for CLST.
20:46 RT @kevinhazaert: @midmajority Ryan Allen injured his back vs. Valpo last week. Probably reaggravated it.
20:46 Score update from Shreveport: Centenary 30, Western Illinois 17 at 3:00 1H.
20:48 Trevon Harmon a Statue of Liberty layup made possible by a hard dubl-screen. Cleveland State draws within 12 at 7:11. Still time?
20:49 Cole gets his 20th and 21st points at the line, and it's 67-57 at 6:55 2H.
20:52 And Ant Hill fouls out before Aaron Pogue does. Norris Cole at the line for two shots: MISS, MISS. Milwaukee up 71-61 at 5:45 2H.
20:52 Hmmm. RT @midmajority360: Charleston 70 Appalachian State 85 | COFC 22-8 (14-3) APST 14-14 (9-8) | http://tmm7.me/ez0 #SoCon
20:54 And ANOTHER Cole make: a textbook jumper. 4:25 left, Milwaukee by six!
20:56 Reminiscent of the wild, desperate, frothy CLST comeback we saw at Valpo last month. Vikings have knocked 8 pts off the lead in 4 mins.
20:57 We've said it before (in a much different context), but we'll say it again. WHO'S GOT THE HORIZON LEAGUE BALLZ
20:58 RT @Dobber_BtB_SBN: Did Norris Cole lose a tooth? #TheHorizonRaceWillHurtYou @midmajority
21:00 Big 3 for Josh McCoy, but Tony Meier answers with a second-chance layup. 75-70 Milwaukee at 2:30 2H.
21:02 Ryan Allen a big open-court steal for MILW, and it leads to two Tone Boyle FT's. Makes both. 2:11 to go in regulation, Panthers up 77-70.
21:02 RT @rtruesdell: @midmajority in case you missed it, Gents lead by 8 at halftime. #GoCentenary
21:04 Yuck. RT @BigSouthSports: Troubling allegations in NY Times story : Coastal Carolina under N.C.A.A. investigation... http://nyti.ms/dFOMkk
21:05 One minute left, and it's 78-72 with Tone Boyle going to the line. Make, make.
21:06 "You're not supposed to make the free throws!" yells the little girl behind us. Badly-written storybooks are a real downer.
21:09 48 seconds to go, and the tenth timer twirls. 84-75 Milwaukee, and #peopleareleaving.
21:14 The Vikings have cut it to four at 14.8 seconds left. Now, it's an unending foul parade. We'll be here as long as it takes.
21:15 9.6 seconds left, 86-81 Milwaukee, Josh McCoy shooting FT's. Make, make. Now it's 86-83.
21:18 Cole a loooooong three when he needed a Globetrotter four, and Milwaukee comes away with an 87-83 win. That's a final!
21:19 Milwaukee, never in the Horizon title discussion until a couple weeks ago, now is one win away from the No. 1 seed. Sat vs. Youngstown.
21:23 The first meeting between Milwaukee and Youngstown: a 76-67 Panther win on December 2, the first HL game of the year.
21:25 Elsewise, Loyola is up 40-30 at Valpo with 13 minutes to go. A Valpo loss would simplify this tangle somewhat, no?
21:28 So! At the moment, there's a three-way tie at 12-5 between BUTL, CLST and MILW. VALP is 11-5 and in progress, down dubl-digits to Loyola.
21:31 & of course, MILW wins if it's upset city on Sat. w/ a 12-6 three- or four-way tie. No team has won the reg ssn with 5 losses, much less 6.
21:31 RT @kevinhazaert: @midmajority Rob Jeter should channel Herb Brooks before YSU on Sat: "If you lose this, you'll take it to your ####ing graves!"
21:31 RT @midmajority360: Milwaukee 87 Cleveland State 83 | MILW 17-12 (12-5) CLST 23-7 (12-5) | http://tmm7.me/ezo #Horizon
21:33 End of the third quarter in Shreveport: Centenary 50, Western Illinois 40.
21:36 Hard times. http://img.ly/35oz
21:37 Rob Jeter: "Are we excited? Not yet. We have 40 minutes left."
21:49 Waters re key losses: "No bench. We don't rebound the ball. Are we doing this with smoke & mirrors? I'll admit it, that's what we're doing."


Boxscore

MILWAUKEE 87, at CLEVELAND STATE 83
02/24/2011

MILWAUKEE 17-12 (12-5) -- T. Boyle 3-9 8-8 16; K. Williams 2-4 1-5 6; T. Meier 9-14 6-8 28; R. Allen 3-6 1-2 7; K. Kelm 3-5 1-2 7; A. Hill 7-7 1-2 16; J. McCallum 0-2 7-9 7; J. Ajami 0-0 0-0 0; R. Haggerty 0-0 0-0 0; C. Wolf 0-0 0-0 0; L. Boga 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-47 25-36 87.
CLEVELAND STATE 23-7 (12-5) -- N. Cole 10-25 7-9 27; T. Harmon 10-21 1-1 22; J. Montgomery 4-8 4-4 12; T. Kamczyc 3-6 0-1 7; A. Pogue 1-3 0-2 2; L. Ndaye 0-1 0-0 0; J. McCoy 3-5 5-5 13; J. Latas 0-0 0-2 0; D. Long 0-0 0-0 0; A. Wells 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-69 17-24 83.

Three-point goals: MILW 8-21 (A. Hill 1-1; T. Meier 4-8; K. Williams 1-3; J. McCallum 0-1; T. Boyle 2-6; K. Kelm 0-2), CLST 4-21 (N. Cole 0-6; T. Harmon 1-7; J. Montgomery 0-1; J. McCoy 2-3; T. Kamczyc 1-4); Rebounds: MILW 34 (T. Meier 8), CLST 26 (A. Pogue 6); Assists: MILW 12 (K. Williams 9), CLST 10 (N. Cole 4); Total Fouls -- MILW 19, CLST 28; Fouled Out: MILW-A. Hill; CLST-A. Pogue.