Saturday, February 16
Northridge, CA
7:05 PM
University of California, Riverside
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Cal State Northridge
Larry Cunningham Puts Up 22 At First-Place Northridge, But Men's Hoops Falls, 73-61
2/16/2008 3:32:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Northridge, CA—Senior Larry Cunningham's game-high 22 points wasn't enough for the Highlanders aas they fell to Cal State Northridge 73-61 in Northridge, CA Saturday night. Junior's Aaron Scott and Christian Soto each finished with 13 points for UCR (5-17, 2-9 Big West).
The Highlanders shot 21-of-50 (42.0%) from the floor and 15-for-22 from the free-throw line. The Matadors (17-6, 9-2 Big West), entered the game in first place in the Big West, opened up leads of 10 points or more for most of the first half and took a 34-20 lead into the break after holding the Highlanders to 8-of-21 (38.1%) shooting through the first 20 minutes.
UCR continued to struggle with their shooting to open the second half and trailed by 21 at one point, 50-29 at the 12:11 mark. But hey then produced one of the best scoring runs in school-history, going on a 21-2 run over the next five minutes, led by Cunningham's 15 points during that span. A Soto jumper and two free-throws on consecutive possessions cut the CSUN lead to 52-50 with 6:27 remaining.
Northridge would answer though, out-scoring the Highlanders 21-11 over the final minutes to pick up the Big West victory.
Soto added eight boards to his career-high in points and Cunningham brought down six while tying his season-high in points. Cunningham's sixth 20-plus scoring effort of the season moves him closer to the UCR all-time scoring mark, he trails Howard Lee (1386 total points) by 48 points with six regular season games remaining.
The Highlanders return home to face UC Irvine on Wednesday and the will host Hawaii for the ESPNU BracketBuster next Saturday.
The Highlanders shot 21-of-50 (42.0%) from the floor and 15-for-22 from the free-throw line. The Matadors (17-6, 9-2 Big West), entered the game in first place in the Big West, opened up leads of 10 points or more for most of the first half and took a 34-20 lead into the break after holding the Highlanders to 8-of-21 (38.1%) shooting through the first 20 minutes.
UCR continued to struggle with their shooting to open the second half and trailed by 21 at one point, 50-29 at the 12:11 mark. But hey then produced one of the best scoring runs in school-history, going on a 21-2 run over the next five minutes, led by Cunningham's 15 points during that span. A Soto jumper and two free-throws on consecutive possessions cut the CSUN lead to 52-50 with 6:27 remaining.
Northridge would answer though, out-scoring the Highlanders 21-11 over the final minutes to pick up the Big West victory.
Soto added eight boards to his career-high in points and Cunningham brought down six while tying his season-high in points. Cunningham's sixth 20-plus scoring effort of the season moves him closer to the UCR all-time scoring mark, he trails Howard Lee (1386 total points) by 48 points with six regular season games remaining.
The Highlanders return home to face UC Irvine on Wednesday and the will host Hawaii for the ESPNU BracketBuster next Saturday.
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