Willie Galick, seen here in NCAA tournament play against Memphis last March, achieved a career-high 26 points and 10 rebounds against Coastal Carolina Tuesday, Nov. 24. Photo Credit: Jonathan Pobre / Sundial File Photo
The Cal State Northridge men’s basketball team (2-3) hit the floor against Coastal Carolina less than 24 hours after their nail-biting game against Western Kentucky. Northridge was all set up for a let-down against the Chanticleers.
With Willie Galick’s career-high 26 points and 10 rebounds, the Matadors finished their Preseason NIT play with a 76-69 victory over Coastal Carolina Tuesday at E.A. Diddle Arena.
With the game knotted up at 64-64 with 4:11 left in regulation, a Galick layup ignited a 9-2 run for the Matadors. Kenny Daniels, who finished with 13 points, made a few free throws down the stretch to close the game for Northridge.
The Matadors finished the first road trip of the season on a positive note and seemed to be getting better every game. Head coach Bobby Braswell has seven new faces playing for him, and after losing five crucial players from last year’s squad due to graduation, it’s expected that they might struggle in the first couple of games.
Some may forget that in their first road trip last season, CSUN went 0-6.
Galick said before his game against Western Kentucky that he felt that they’re slowly starting to play as a team and players are figuring out their roles.
Transfer players Lenny Daniel, Rashaun McLemore and Kevin Menner all excelled at the junior college level and came to Northridge with a lot of expectations. All three players have struggled in the first five games of the year by committing careless turnovers but are finding out what the Division I level consists of. Having a tough non-conference schedule could benefit the new guys down the road in Big West Conference play.
For the first time in the young season the Matadors didn’t get past 20 turnovers in a game by recording 15. The Chanticleers finished with 14.
The Matadors shot 50.9 percent from the field but were only able to convert on two three-point shots compared to the Chants’ seven.
The Matadors started the game with a 5-0 advantage and did not relinquish the lead until Chad Grey knocked down a three-point jumper with 11:37 left in the first half, giving Coastal Carolina the 17-14 lead. With 1:41 left in the first period the Chants gained the biggest lead of the game, going up 10 points. To end the half the Matadors went on a 6-0 run, cutting Coastal Carolina’s lead to 38-34.
CSUN outrebounded the Chants 41-33, and 13 of those were offensive rebounds. Coastal Carolina had more assists with 17, compared to Northridge’s nine.
Junior transfer Raymond Cody started for the Matadors and chipped in 10 points. Daniel came up short of a double-double with 12 points and eight rebounds.
Next up for Northridge is their home-opener against Cal State Bakersfield Monday night at the Matadome.
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Does anybody read these sports articles before they get published? Yesterday’s was filled with typos and today’s has a few factual errors. Namely, CCU was up 38-28 before a 6-0 CSUN run to end the half. That made it 38-34, not 38-32. Also, can someone crack open an AP style book?
It’s a “Stylebook,” not a “style book” you intelligent human being. I guess you’re not perfect either. I take that back, you might actually be the most perfect douche there is.
It’s “Stylebook,” not “style book,” you intelligent human being. I guess you’re not perfect either. Actually I take that back, you might be the most perfect do*che there is.
thanks for catching that. it’s about time SOMEBODY paid attention to what is written in this world. now if we can only get someone to read the basketball stories before they are printed…
kobe sucks…i thank you again for catching my errors (i did not have my “stylebook” on me as you obviously did). all that says about you is that you are familiar with what the stylebook is and how it is to be used, but i have a hard time saying that for the Sundial staff.
I mean, the content of the stories is good and all, but with careless mistakes made time and time again, it is hard to read anything all the way through without having to stop to understand what word is missing or how the facts have been jumbled…
you can throw out baseless insults all you choose to, but i’m sure anyone will find it hard to argue that it is very embarrassing to put your name on ANYTHING that is factually false or has simple spelling errors in it.
i am just upset and embarrassed (as a CSUN student) that i continue to find errors over and over and over again in the Sundial that I feel could be easily cleaned up with just ONE edit.
you can throw baseless insults at me all you want, but i think you or anyone else will find it hard to argue that it is ridiculous to have to read factual errors and careless spelling and grammar errors in the school paper on a daily basis. i know that it is embarrassing to put my name on something that comes back with tons of “red pen” on it, and my works are not distributed to a potential audience of 35,000+ students (except for that one submission last semester – “The Mainstreaming of Love”) every time i write.
i am only upset and embarrassed as a student to have to read time and time again the errors that appear in the Sundial every issue, especially when the errors are so easy to spot that they could be cleaned up with ONE edit.
sorry for duplicate posts…when i hit “enter” the page froze on my laptop. when i refreshed the thing was posted twice.
ADMIN: feel free to delete the duplicate
:-)