RAFORD, Va. ? Radford erased
an 11-point PC first half lead to earn a 68-54 win over the Presbyterian
College Blue Hose on Wednesday evening at the Dedmon Center.
The Blue Hose fall to 0-2 on
the season with the loss, while Radford (0-1) claims its first win in the Brad
Greenberg era with the win.
PC was led in the loss by
Walt Allen (London, Ky.), Pierre Miller (Warner Robbins, Ga.) and Pat Kiscaden (Oviedo, Fla.), who all finished the loss with a team-high nine points.
All three of them scored all
of their points from three-point range as Allen was 3-for-4 for the night
beyond the arc and Miller was 3-for-7 in the game on his three-point attempts.
Kiscaden was 3-for-5 from
beyond the three-point line in the loss to Radford.
Overall, the Blue Hose had
eight different players score in the game.
Freshman Al'Lonzo Coleman (Charlotte, N.C.) had a career-high seven points in the contest,
scoring his first career points against Radford. Coleman obtained the majority
of his points from the charity stripe as he was 5-for-8 from the free throw
line.
Coleman also had five
rebounds in the game to finish his first two Blue Hose games with 11 boards to
his credit.
Nine different Blue Hose
recorded assists in the loss led by Ryan Lamb (Hiram, Ga.), who had four assists in the game.
Radford was led in its first
victory of the year by Martell McDuffy. The Laurel, Md. native finished just one point away from tying his
career-high with a game-high 21 points in the contest. McDuffy was 5-for-9 from
the field in the game.
The Highlanders' Amir
Johnson (Pittsburgh, Pa.) finished with a double-double with 11 points and a
career-best 10 assists.
Radford shot 50 percent from
the field in the win, while the Blue Hose finished the game shooting 43.2
percent.
It was a tale of two halves
as PC shot 57.9 percent from the field in the first half, while the Highlanders
shot just 40 percent in the first half. The tide changed in the second half
with PC shooting just 27.8 percent, while Radford shot at a 63 percent clip in
the final stanza.
The Blue Hose finished the
game shooting 50 percent on their three-pointers, while Radford shot 38.1
percent from three-point range. Once again it was a tale of the two halves as
the Blue Hose shot 61.5 percent in the first half from three-point range and just
36.4 percent from beyond the arc in the second half.
In turn, Radford shot just
27.3 percent from beyond the arc in the first half, but shot 50 percent from
three-point range in the second half.
The
Blue Hose will next travel to New Mexico to participate in the BTI Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M.
PC
will play the University of New Mexico, Loyola Marymount and St. Bonaventure at the
tournament. PC opens the event with a 9:15 p.m. EST game against Steve Alford and the New Mexico Lobos
on Friday, Nov. 16.