SIU Basketball 2019: Part 1
Jan. 9th, 2019 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23This time of year is when I get my taste of Missouri Valley Conference basketball and particularly, Southern Illinois University. Like last year, I am going to see both of their games in Iowa.
SIU finished second in the MVC last year, finishing to Loyola who everyone remembers had a very talented team. SIU essentially returns all five of their starters. They took a gamble in the first part of the year (nonconference play) and booked games against some good teams- Kentucky, Buffalo (twice), Winthrop, and UMass. The gamble though didn't pay off as they were not able to win any of these.
They won their first game in Conference play, which then brought them to Cedar Falls to play Northern Iowa.
This game was a bit of a struggle for everyone in the first half. Coach Barry Hinson would claim it was the angriest he'd ever been at Halftime in his seven-plus years at SIU. He had never seen a game where his guards did not have one assist (in his anger, Barry had missed the fact they had two). Still ,the first half was rough for everyone and SIU led 26-24 at Half.
SIU would dominate the second half and win fairly easily 58-51.
SIU is led by the 6-10 Senior Kavion Pippen (nephew of the Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen). Pippen had 18. Junior Guard Aaron Cook had 14 and Senior Marcus Bartley had 13. Junior Guard Aaron McGill led the team in rebounds with 8, led in steals with 4 and scored 7. With injuries and suspension, the Salukis only had only three come off the bench including Freshman Darius Beane, whose brother Anthony was a star at SIU a few years back.
Freshman Guard AJ Green led UNI with 16 and Sophomore Trae Bertow had a double-double with 11 points and 11 assists. UNI has had a rough start, but apparently have some real talent in their lower classes.
SIU finished second in the MVC last year, finishing to Loyola who everyone remembers had a very talented team. SIU essentially returns all five of their starters. They took a gamble in the first part of the year (nonconference play) and booked games against some good teams- Kentucky, Buffalo (twice), Winthrop, and UMass. The gamble though didn't pay off as they were not able to win any of these.
They won their first game in Conference play, which then brought them to Cedar Falls to play Northern Iowa.
This game was a bit of a struggle for everyone in the first half. Coach Barry Hinson would claim it was the angriest he'd ever been at Halftime in his seven-plus years at SIU. He had never seen a game where his guards did not have one assist (in his anger, Barry had missed the fact they had two). Still ,the first half was rough for everyone and SIU led 26-24 at Half.
SIU would dominate the second half and win fairly easily 58-51.
SIU is led by the 6-10 Senior Kavion Pippen (nephew of the Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen). Pippen had 18. Junior Guard Aaron Cook had 14 and Senior Marcus Bartley had 13. Junior Guard Aaron McGill led the team in rebounds with 8, led in steals with 4 and scored 7. With injuries and suspension, the Salukis only had only three come off the bench including Freshman Darius Beane, whose brother Anthony was a star at SIU a few years back.
Freshman Guard AJ Green led UNI with 16 and Sophomore Trae Bertow had a double-double with 11 points and 11 assists. UNI has had a rough start, but apparently have some real talent in their lower classes.
