MBBALL: Judges survive Emory, blow out Case
by Jeffrey Pickette
Senior writer
Sports | 2/12/08
Posted online at 3:11 AM EST on 2/12/08
/ Last updated at 8:43 PM EST on 2/12/08
Unlike the victory over Emory, last Sunday's game against Case Western was never close. The Judges scored the game's first 11 points and led by as many as 38 points midway through the second half. The blowout allowed coach Brian Meehan to empty his bench, and 12 of the 15 Judges' players scored.
"[Case] has been struggling, so what you want to do is jump on them as quick as you can so that it kind of demoralizes them," Meehan said. "[Blowouts] allow us to play some of the guys that work hard in practice."
The win over Emory, however, had its fair share of drama even before the end of regulation. The Eagles closed out the first half on a 13-3 run to open up a 38-28 lead, and increased their advantage to 45-32 just 2:35 seconds into the second half.
Brandeis slowly battled back, making a number of timely defensive stops.
With 5:19 remaining, guard Kwame Graves-Fulgham '08, on his hands and knees, stole the ball from Emory guard Brian Giometti and tapped it to a wide-open Coppens for an easy layup which cut Emory's lead to 63-62.
Forward Terrell Hollins scored the next six points for Brandeis to tie the game at 68-68 with 3:04 left. After his last score, Graves-Fulgham and Coppens pressured Emory's inbound pass attempt, and Coppens intercepted Emory junior guard John Kresse's lob pass. Coppens dribbled back to the three-point line, and after a pause, sank a shot in front of the Brandeis bench to give the Judges a 71-68 lead, their first since Hollins hit a layup on the first possession of the game.
Still, led by Ferderigos, Emory reclaimed the lead with 22 seconds left before Roberson's free throws.
"A team like [Emory] you can't really put away," assistant coach Eric McKoy said last Friday. "They play so hard you have to hope you get some lucky bounces down the stretch. If you don't put them away early, you give them confidence and they'll stick around until the end."
After scoring a career-high 29 points Feb. 3 at Emory, Roberson had just two points in the first 39:38 last Friday, but spearheaded the Judges' comeback effort with eight points in the final 5:22, including overtime.
Coppens led Brandeis with 23 points, 20 in the second half. The Judges' defense harassed Emory with 13 steals, and after shooting just 40 percent from the field in the first half, their offense bounced back to shoot 62.5 percent after the break.
The Judges look to avenge their Jan. 20 74-68 loss at No. 6 University of Rochester when the Yellowjackets come to Brandeis Friday at 8 p.m. The Judges also play Carnegie Mellon University Sunday at 11 a.m.
"[Case] has been struggling, so what you want to do is jump on them as quick as you can so that it kind of demoralizes them," Meehan said. "[Blowouts] allow us to play some of the guys that work hard in practice."
The win over Emory, however, had its fair share of drama even before the end of regulation. The Eagles closed out the first half on a 13-3 run to open up a 38-28 lead, and increased their advantage to 45-32 just 2:35 seconds into the second half.
Brandeis slowly battled back, making a number of timely defensive stops.
With 5:19 remaining, guard Kwame Graves-Fulgham '08, on his hands and knees, stole the ball from Emory guard Brian Giometti and tapped it to a wide-open Coppens for an easy layup which cut Emory's lead to 63-62.
Forward Terrell Hollins scored the next six points for Brandeis to tie the game at 68-68 with 3:04 left. After his last score, Graves-Fulgham and Coppens pressured Emory's inbound pass attempt, and Coppens intercepted Emory junior guard John Kresse's lob pass. Coppens dribbled back to the three-point line, and after a pause, sank a shot in front of the Brandeis bench to give the Judges a 71-68 lead, their first since Hollins hit a layup on the first possession of the game.
Still, led by Ferderigos, Emory reclaimed the lead with 22 seconds left before Roberson's free throws.
"A team like [Emory] you can't really put away," assistant coach Eric McKoy said last Friday. "They play so hard you have to hope you get some lucky bounces down the stretch. If you don't put them away early, you give them confidence and they'll stick around until the end."
After scoring a career-high 29 points Feb. 3 at Emory, Roberson had just two points in the first 39:38 last Friday, but spearheaded the Judges' comeback effort with eight points in the final 5:22, including overtime.
Coppens led Brandeis with 23 points, 20 in the second half. The Judges' defense harassed Emory with 13 steals, and after shooting just 40 percent from the field in the first half, their offense bounced back to shoot 62.5 percent after the break.
The Judges look to avenge their Jan. 20 74-68 loss at No. 6 University of Rochester when the Yellowjackets come to Brandeis Friday at 8 p.m. The Judges also play Carnegie Mellon University Sunday at 11 a.m.
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