| Penguins to Play Canisius As BracketBuster Matchup |
| Tuesday, January 31 2006 |
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| Youngstown – The Youngstown State men’s basketball team will play at Canisius on Saturday, Feb. 18, in a matchup created by the pool of BracketBuster teams, it was announced on Tuesday. The time of the game has not been determined. This will be the second-ever meeting between the two programs. The last and only contest between the schools was on Jan. 18, 1941, when the Penguins lost 51-47 at Canisius. Entering play this week, the Golden Griffiths are 5-14 overall and 4-7 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Located in Buffalo, N.Y., the Griffs are coached by Mike MacDonald and play their home games at the 2,176-seat Koessler Athletic Center. Canisius and the Penguins share two common opponents this season. Both teams have played Detroit and Siena. YSU lost narrow contests to both teams falling 75-67 at Siena on Dec. 28 and dropping a Jan. 7 contest at Detroit, 68-63. Canisius lost to Detroit (69-68) on Dec. 17 and split two games against the Saints, winning 67-50 on Dec. 11 at home and losing 76-55 on Jan. 22 at Siena. Entering play for the coming week, Youngstown State is 7-13 overall and 4-6 in the Horizon League. Canisius is 5-14 overall and 4-7 in MAAC. As part of the agreement with all BracketBuster participants, the selected host team must return the game versus its BracketBuster opponent next season. So, Canisius will play at the Beeghly Center during the 2006-07 campaign. YSU returns to Horizon League action on Thursday night at the Beeghly Center against UIC. Tipoff is set for 7:35 p.m. and follows the Penguins’ women’s game against Butler. |
| Wood's 35 Too Much For Penguins to Overcome |
| Tuesday, January 31 2006 |
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| Dayton, Ohio -- The Youngstown State men’s basketball team could not stop Wright State's DaShaun Wood as the Penguins suffered an 81-67 defeat to the Raiders at the Nutter Center on Monday night. Wood finished with a career-high 35 points and scored his 1,000-career point on the evening. Quin Humphrey scored a team-high 15 points for YSU which dropped to 7-13 overall and 4-6 in the Horizon League. John Barber had a solid effort for the Penguins recording a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds. Domonique Crawford had 14 points and Derrick Harris added 13 as Youngstown State had four players finish in double figures. The Penguins played tough in the second half, but some first-half struggles were too much to overcome. After the game was tied at two, WSU scored the next five points and never trailed the remainder of the game. Wright State led 42-26 at halftime making 16-of-35 shots while YSU was just 9-of-20 from the field. The Raiders outrebounded the Penguins 22-12 in the first half to open up a 16-point lead. Both teams shot 50 percent from the field for the contest, but the Raiders made six more field goals. In the second half, YSU feel behind by 19 in the early going, but was able to pull within 76-67 with 2:00 left. However, the Raiders scored the final five points of the game to seal the victory. The Penguins return to action on Thursday night against UIC. The contest against the Flames tips off at 7:35 p.m. |
| Adams Leads Penguins Over Cleveland State, 68-63 |
| Sunday, January 29 2006 |
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| Cleveland, Ohio – Senior center Mike Adams scored nine points and had eight rebounds to help the Youngstown State men's basketball team to a 68-63 victory over Cleveland State on Saturday at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland. Adams came into the game with a total of three points and eight rebounds for the year, before going off on Saturday. He scored eight of the Guins' final 17 points for the game. Quin Humphrey, who was held to nine points in the first meeting, had 27 this time making 10-of-17 shots from the field. But Adams was the story for the game as the Penguins improved to 7-12 overall and 4-5 in the Horizon League. He played 17 minutes and his rebound with 7.1 seconds left helped seal the game. He then stepped to the line and drilled two free throws as the Penguins clung to a 66-63 lead. For the game, YSU shot 42.9 percent from the field making 24-of-56 shots while Cleveland State was 21-of-57 for 36.8 percent. During one stretch in the second half, CSU was held to just one point during a seven-minute span. Cleveland State led 50-46 at the 13:09 mark of the second half on a 3-pointer by Luke Murphy. But the Penguins went on a 12-1 to pull ahead 58-51 at the 5:25 mark. Twice in the final five minutes, the Vikings were able to get within three points, but each time the Penguins withstood a frantic attempt to hold on for the win. Junior guard Keston Roberts had 16 points as well for the Penguins. Ije Nwanko had 13 points to lead Cleveland State, which dropped to 8-11 and 4-5. YSU is back in action on Monday night when it travels to Wright State. Tipoff at the Nutter Center is set for 7 p.m. |
| Late Comeback Not Enough in 78-70 Setback to UW-Milwaukee |
| Friday, January 27 2006 |
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| Youngstown -- UW-Milwaukee scored the final six points of the game to hold off a late second-half Youngstown State comeback in a 78-70 victory Thursday evening at the Beeghly Center. The Penguins went on a 12-2 run to cut a 70-58 deficit to two with 1:10 remaining on a 3-pointer from Keston Roberts, but Boo Davis scored two of his game-high 22 points and two Chris Hill free throws off an immediate YSU turnover all but sealed the win for the Panthers. With the win, UWM improves to 8-1 in the Horizon League and 15-4 overall while YSU falls to 3-5 in the league and 6-12 overall. Roberts led four Penguins in double figures with 17 points while Quin Humphrey picked up his eighth double-double of the season with 13 points and 11 rebounds. Derrick Harris added 14 points and nine assists while John Barber added 12. UW-Milwaukee led 36-35 halftime after six lead changes in the first half. The Panthers took a quick 14-6 lead before YSU scored the next seven points to get within one with 9:23 left. The Penguins then took the lead on a 3 from Harris and took its largest lead of the game when a Roberts 3 put them up 21-19. The Panthers then scored the next seven points to go up five before Humphey put YSU up again at 35-34 with 38 seconds remaining. An Adrian Tigert layup with seven seconds left put UWM up 36-35, and the Panthers led the entire second half. Tigert finished with 15 points while Tucker finished with 14. Davis scored UW-Milwaukee's first 14 points in the second half but was held scoreless until his bucket with 45 seconds remaining. YSU will travel to take on Cleveland State on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. |
| ‘Paint Beeghly Red’ Promotion Planned for Feb. 2 Basketball Doubleheader |
| Wednesday, January 25 2006 |
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| Youngstown -- The Youngstown State athletic department will partner with the YSU Student Government Association and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee in sponsoring an event called “Paint Beeghly Red” in conjunction with the YSU basketball doubleheader on Thursday, Feb. 2. The event will feature giveaways, contests, a pizza party and the chance to win one of 20 pairs of tickets to Jerry Seinfeld’s Youngstown performance for YSU students. “We’re excited about the opportunity to get a large number of students at one of our events,” Executive Director of Athletics Ron Strollo said. “As student activity continues to grow on campus with the wellness center and the Courtyard apartments, this is an avenue to increase interest in our athletic programs and have our student body rally around our basketball teams.” SGA President Bob McGovern echoed Strollo’s excitement. “SGA’s ad-hoc committee on student athletics has been working hard to see things like this through,” SGA President Bob McGovern said. “We hope that this event will encourage more people to attend YSU sporting events in the future.” All attendees are encouraged to participate in the event by wearing red, but only students who show a valid YSU ID will be eligible for the contests and giveaways. The women’s basketball team will play host to Butler at 5:15 p.m. and the men’s squad will take on Illinois-Chicago at 7:35 p.m. |
| Crawford's Free Throws, Strong Defense Lead YSU Past Butler |
| Sunday, January 22 2006 |
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| Youngstown – Domonique Crawford's two free throws with 28 seconds remaining helped lead the Youngstown State men's basketball team to a 64-62 victory over Butler on Saturday night before a raucous crowd of 4,211 at the Beeghly Center. After Avery Sheets' 3-pointer with 49 seconds left put the Bulldogs in front 62-61, Crawford scored his only two points of the night converting two free throws with just under 30 seconds left in the game. On the ensuing Bulldog possession, John Barber and Quin Humphrey forced Brandon Polk into a traveling violation with eight seconds left. Humphrey was fouled on the inbounds play with 6.6 seconds remaining, but missed both free throws. On the second attempt, Crawford tipped the ball out to Derrick Harris who was fouled with 3.3 seconds remaining. Harris made the second of two free throws and A.J. Graves' desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer was short giving the Guins their first win over Butler since 1983 and first since joining the Horizon League in 2001-02. Keston Roberts scored a team-high 23 points for the Penguins going 10-of-18 from the field. Humphrey finished with 17 points and a career-high 14 rebounds to finish with his seventh double-double of the campaign. Polk scored a game-high 26 points for the Bulldogs, but had 18 of those in the first half. Polk was 9-of-15 from the field and 8-of-16 from the free-throw line. Butler's eight other players combined for just one free throw on the evening. With 7:46 remaining in the contest, the Bulldogs held a 55-47 lead on back-to-back 3-pointers by Bruce Horan. Horan finished with 18 points for the contest making six treys. YSU (6-11 overall and 3-4 in the Horizon League) scored the next eight points to tie the contest at 55 on a Roberts basket with 4:28 left. The Bulldogs scored the next four points on a Graves jumper and a Polk dunk, but six straight Penguin points put them back in the lead at 61-59 on two free throws by Humphrey. Sheets drilled his trey to put Butler (9-8 and 2-3) in front by one, but the Penguins scored the last three points of the game to pull out the victory. For the contest, YSU held a 41-22 advantage on the boards. Youngstown State, which had dropped three straight before Saturday, closes out a four-game homestand against league-leader UW-Milwaukee on Thursday night at the Beeghly Center. The contest has been moved to 7:35 p.m. from its original tip time of 7:05 p.m. |
| Cleveland State Cruises Past Penguins, 63-50 |
| Saturday, January 14 2006 |
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| Youngstown – The Youngstown State men's basketball team suffered a disappointing 63-50 loss to Cleveland State on Saturday night at the Beeghly Center. The Penguins (5-11 overall and 2-4 in the Horizon League) shot just 34.7 percent for the night from the field, made 62.5 percent from the line, converted just one 3-pointer and committed turnover in dropping their second straight home game on this four-contest homestand. The Vikings (6-8 and 2-3) led by 10 in the first half before Youngstown State was able to take a 32-31 lead just under four minutes into the second stanza on a Dwight Holmes basket. However, Cleveland State scored 18 of the next 22 points and never looked back building a 49-36 advantage. The closest the Penguins could get was 49-43 with 8:58 remaining in the game on two Quin Humphrey free throws. CSU scored the next 10 points to take its biggest lead of the contest at 59-43 at the 5:11 mark. Humphrey had scored in double figures in all 15 games this year and 18 straight dating back to last season, but was held to nine points while grabbing 11 rebounds. Keston Roberts led the Penguins with 13 points. Patrick Tatham had a game-high 16 points to pace the Vikings while J'Nathan Bullock finished with 14. The Penguins converted 17-of-49 shots from the field and were just 1-of-11 from behind the 3-point line with the lone three with just over three minutes left in the game. YSU is next in action a week from today when it plays host to Butler at the Beeghly Center. |
| Penguins' Offense Cools in 64-60 Defeat to Wright State |
| Thursday, January 12 2006 |
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| Youngstown -- Wright State had five players score in double figures and led the entire second half to stay unbeaten in the Horizon League with a 64-60 win over Youngstown State Thursday night at the Beeghly Center. Junior guard Keston Roberts scored a game-high 28 points for YSU, but the Penguins were held to 39.6 percent shooting and 31.8 percent in the second half as they dropped to 5-10 overall and 2-3 in the Horizon League. The Raiders improved to 8-6 overall and 4-0 in league contests. Quin Humphrey scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for his sixth double-double of the season, but the junior was held to just three points in the first half after hitting a 3 for game's first points at the 19:43 mark. Forward Drew Burleson scored 15 points for Wright State, which outscored YSU 30-8 in the paint. The lead changed nine times in the first half before Wright State scored the final three points of the half to take a 35-33 lead at the break. YSU clinched its largest lead of the game at 19-12 with 11:23 remaining after a jumper from John Barber, but Wright State went on a 10-0 run to go up 22-19 at the 7:59 mark. One of Roberts' five treys sparked a 5-0 run that put YSU up 25-24, and the Penguins led by three twice before the end of the half. Wright State upped the margin to five after a Burleson layup early in the second half, but Humphrey answered with four straight points to get YSU within one at 38-37 with 16:03 remaining. The Raiders scored the next six points to go up seven, and YSU never got closer than three the rest of the game. The Penguins had their chances as the score remained 58-53 for more than 3 1/2 minutes after a Humprhey free throw at 4:28. During that span, YSU missed three shots and committed two turnovers. Wright State missed straight five shots from the field and the front end of a one-and-one. YSU will play host to Cleveland State on Saturday in the second half of a doubleheader with the YSU women's squad. Tipoff for the men is set for 7:35 p.m. |
| Humphrey Named Player of the Week For Second Time |
| Monday, January 9 2006 |
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| Indianapolis, Ind. – For the second time this season, Youngstown State junior guard Quin Humphrey (Ellenwood, Ga.) has been named the Horizon League's Player of the Week, Robert Hester, the Director of Communications for the conference office announced on Monday. Humphrey, who ended last week with a career-high 33 points at UIC, maintained his high level of play in three games for this week's selection period averaging 27 points and seven rebounds per contest. He helped led the Penguins to their first Horizon League road win since January 2004 on Monday, when YSU beat Loyola, 84-76. In Monday’s win against the Ramblers, he scored 32 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season. On Thursday, he scored 31 points in just 34 minutes as the Penguins beat UW-Green Bay 95-70. The victory over the Phoenix was YSU’s biggest margin of victory since joining the Horizon League in 2001-02 and largest in a conference game since January 1988. On Saturday, Humphrey almost willed a tired Penguin team who was playing its fourth game in eight days at its fourth different venue to a victory at Detroit where YSU has never won. He scored 18 points, including the team’s final eight to almost pull out the win over the Titans. In helping YSU post a 2-1 week, he was an impressive 30-of-44 from the field (68.2 percent), 10-of-14 (71.4 percent) from 3-point range and 11-of-13 (84.6 percent) from the free-throw line. Entering the week, Humphrey had scored a career-high 33 points against UIC and with his efforts against Loyola and UW-Green Bay became just the fourth player in school history to score more than 30 points in three consecutive games and first since February 1978. In Horizon League play he is averaging 28.5 points through the first four games and he ranks in the top 25 in the country in points per game overall with 21.2. |
| Strong Titan Second Half Does in Penguins, 68-63 |
| Saturday, January 7 2006 |
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| Detroit, Mich. -- After a strong first half, the effects of playing four games in eight days in three different cities caught up to the Youngstown State men's basketball team in a 68-63 loss at Detroit on Saturday afternoon at Calihan Hall. Youngstown State (5-9 overall and 2-2 in the Horizon League) came out on fire shooting better then 70 percent and amassing a 28-13 lead by the 7:19 mark of the first half. By halftime, the Titans (9-8 and 3-1) had cut the deficit to 36-25. In the first frame, YSU shot 52 percent from the field (13-of-25) and made 7-of-12 3-point attempts. In the second half, Detroit shot 56.3 percent (17-of-30) while YSU struggled making just 32.1 percent (9-of-28) from the field and 33.3 percent from the behind the 3-point arc (4-of-12). The Penguins regained a 14-point advantage at 43-29 in the second half on a 3-pointer by Keston Roberts. After that point, Detroit stormed back and eventually grabbed a 52-51 lead on a Chuck Bailey dunk with 6:27 remaining. YSU regained the lead at 53-52 with another Roberts bucket. The Titans led 56-55 before scoring the next four points to build a 60-55 advantage. Quin Humphrey scored the next five points tying the contest at 60 with 1:02 remaining. Jon Goode's jumper with 39.6 seconds left put the Titans ahead 62-60. After a quick timeout Humphrey missed a 3-point attempt and Goode grabbed the rebound. Goode answered with two free throws before Humphrey stepped up and drained three to cut the deficit to 64-63. Goode made two more free throws with 15 seconds, but on the ensuing inbounds pass, Derrick Harris lost the ball out of bounds of his leg. YSU fouled Goode on the inbounds pass, who made two free throws to seal the victory. Humphrey finished with a team-high 18 points while Goode had a game-high 28 points. Roberts had 17 points for the Penguins as well. The Penguins return home for the first of four consecutive home games when they entertain Wright State on Thursday night at the Beeghly Center. |
| Strong Second-Half Start, Humphrey's 31 Pace YSU to 95-70 Victory |
| Thursday, January 5 2006 |
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| Youngstown -- The Youngstown State men's basketball team used a 33-11 run to start the second half and Quin Humphrey scored 31 points to lift the Penguins to a 95-70 victory over UW-Green Bay on Thursday evening at the Beeghly Center. With the win, the Penguins improve to 5-8 overall and start league play 2-1 for the first time since joining the Horizon League. Humphrey also became the first YSU player to score 30 points in three straight games since Jeff Covington accomplished the feat in 1978. UW-Green Bay dropped to 6-9 overall and 0-3 in league contests. YSU shot 62.9 percent from the floor overall and 68.8 percent in the second half while only committing eight turnovers in the game. Its 95 point output was the most since the Penguins scored 106 against Slippery Rock on Dec. 3, 2003. The lead changed nine times in the first half before YSU took the lead for good at 17-15 on a Domonique Crawford 3-pointer with 9:42 left. The Phoenix got within one six times before YSU closed the half on a 7-2 run to take a 40-34 lead on a Dwight Holmes jumper with 58 seconds remaining. The Penguins then opened the second half on a 16-3 run and hit 10 of their first 13 shots to go up 65-45 at the 12:26 mark. YSU then scored eight straight points to go up 28 and extended its lead to as high as 35 points after Keston Roberts hit a jumper for two of his 19 points with 5:38 remaining. Crawford finished with 12 points off the bench while Jack Liles finished with 10. Terry Evans scored 13 points to lead the Phoenix. YSU held a 46-28 advantage in points in the paint and scored 18 points in the fast break. The Penguins will play at Detroit on Saturday at 4:05 p.m. |
| Penguins Win At Loyola |
| Monday, January 2 2006 |
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| Chicago, Ill. – Quin Humphrey was at it again on Monday afternoon finishing with more than 30 points for the second straight outing as the Penguins earned a Horizon League victory at Loyola, 84-76 at the Gentile Center. Humphrey scored 32 points against the Ramblers on Monday becoming the first YSU player since Dave Zeigler to score more than 30 in consecutive games since January 1980. Humphrey had a career-high 33 points on Saturday in a heartbreaking 85-84 overtime loss at UIC. For the game, Humphrey was 12-of-16 from the field and finished with his fifth double-double of the year by grabbing 10 rebounds. The Penguins (4-8 overall and 1-1 in the Horizon League) never trailed against the Ramblers (9-3 and 1-1). Things got tight midway through the second half, but YSU didn’t wilt. Loyola went on an 11-2 run to pull within 52-50 at the 11:30 mark, but Youngstown State responded with a 12-2 and never looked back. Domonique Crawford scored 19 points and grabbed six rebounds off the bench. Keston Roberts finished with 10. Majak Kou scored a team-high 22 for the Ramblers while Blake Schilb finished with 20. YSU shot a season-high 55 percent making 33-of-60 shots, including 18-of-27 attempts in the second half. Youngstown State outrebounded the Ramblers 39-32. The Penguins shot out of the gate at the start of the game. YSU jumped out to a 22-8 lead eight minutes into the contest. From there, the Ramblers pulled within 27-19 at the 6:06 mark, but YSU scored seven of the next nine points to increase the lead back to 13 with 4:22 remaining on a 3-pointer by Humphrey. Despite not scoring a point the final 4:22 of the frame, the Penguins still led 34-25 at halftime. Loyola scored just four points in that span to trim the 13-point deficit to nine at the intermission. Humphrey led the way by scoring 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting from the field and he was 3-of-3 from 3-point range. YSU shot 45.5 percent making 15-of-33 attempts while Loyola struggled making 9-of-28 shots, for 32.1 percent. The Penguins play their first Horizon League home game of the season on Thursday night when they play host to UW-Green Bay. Tipoff at the Beeghly Center is set for 7:05 p.m. |