Eastern Michigan came in looking to prove that they can compete with a team like Syracuse. The Orange came in undeafeated, and ranked #4 in the nation. Eastern fell 48-84 at Syracuse. The Eagles came in 5-1 with a lot of high hopes for the season.
Rob Murphy wanted to show his former team that is getting the job done at EMU. There were some strength showed in the game, as well as some weaknesses. It gave the team some footage to work with to prepare for the rest of the season.
Eastern Michigan started the game exteremly well, leading Syracuse 10-3 at the first TV timeout. The defense was getting the ball, and able to hit easy shots. Syracuse started with a full court press that gave the Eagles some problems. Eastern Michigan had a ton of turnovers in this game, with a total of 23 turnover as a team. This led to EMU slowing down in scoring and not being able to get down the court.On the defensive side of the ball the Eagles did okay. Riley had 6 blocks, and 3 steals in this game. A lot of good defense in the paint and decent job with rebounding, offensivly and defensivly. As a team the Eagles had 7 blocks and 13 steals, and 32 rebounds.
Derek Thompson, and Glenn Bryant both had an outstadning game's. Thompson did a lot of work with 18 points and being able to take control and give this team some life even when they were down. Bryant had 16 points, and is probably EMU's player of the game. He led the team in rebounds, and free throws.
For Syracuse, we were expecting to here a lot about Southerland, but he was very quiet in this game. He only had 4 points and had trouble contributing to his team considering the amout of time he played. Grant had a huge game for the Orange, he had 11 points and a stat fo every column in the book.
Eastern can use this game a big learning experience for when conference games come. I think this was a great game for our program and look forward to see what this team can do the rest of the season.
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