Long Hits Career Milestone, NCAAM Sunday November 20th Breakdown by Jake Martino
All Rankings are Via Upstate Sports Zone Poll
UNC Ashville 92 Siena 80
Top Performers: Khalil Richard (Siena) 16 Pts, 4 Reb, 4 Ast. Ahmad Thomas (UNCA) 16 Pts, 8 Reb, 5 Ast.
It was a career day for Lavon Long coming off of a three game suspension due to violating school rules. He hit a milestone with his career at Siena as he reached 1,000 points all time. He joins this prestige club with 43 members. Siena scored the opening basket, but after that it was all UNC Ashville from there. The Saints brought it to 6 with 5:19 left to play but Ahmad Thomas knocked down back to back 3s to put UNC up by 10. Big game for Khalil Richard (Siena) coming off the bench as he adds 16 and Ogunyemi totaled 16 for the night. Siena’s next game is Wednesday in their home opener against Arkansas-Pine (1-2) at 7PM at the Times Union Center.
Top 25 Scores
1 Duke 75 21 Rhode Island 65
Top Performers: Luke Kennard 24 Pts, 7 Reb, 2 Ast.
2 Kentucky 93 Duquesne 59
Top Performers: De’ Aron Fox 16 Pts, 7 Reb, 6 Ast
3 Villanova 67 UCF 57
Top Performers: Mikal Bridges 10 Pts, 5 Reb, 4 Ast
9 Xavier 67 Northern Iowa 59
Top Performers: Trevon Bluiett 21 Pts, 8 Reb, 2 Ast
15 Michigan State 78 FGCU 77
16 UCLA 114 Long Beach State 77
17 WVU 100 New Hampshire 41
19 Maryland 71 Towson 66
21 Iowa State 130 The Citadel 63
22 Creighton 112 NC State 94
24 Cincy 71 Penn State 50
Other Local Sports
UAlbany 80 Brown 76
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By Jake Martino