Friday, February 21
Bemidji, MN
7:30 p.m.
St. Cloud State
at
Bemidji State University
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Men’s basketball to face Bemidji, Crookston in final games of regular season
2/19/2020 9:30:00 AM | Men's Basketball
ST. CLOUD, MINN. – For the St. Cloud State University men's basketball team, it all comes down to the final weekend. After three months of Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) play, the Huskies look to solidify their place in the conference standings, as they travel to Northern Minnesota to face Bemidji State University and the University of Minnesota-Crookston in the final regular season games of 2019-20.
St. Cloud State enters the final weekend of regular season play with an overall record of 13-13 and a mark of 10-10 in NSIC play. If the Huskies win both games this upcoming weekend, they have a chance to host the opening round game of the NSIC Tournament in Halenbeck Hall on February 26. For this to happen, St. Cloud State also needs Winona State to lose two games to Minnesota State and Concordia-St. Paul, giving the two teams matching records of 12-10 in NSIC play.
Tip off for Friday's game against the Beavers is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday's game at Minnesota-Crookston is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. Live stats, video and WJON's live radio broadcast will be available and score updates will be posted to the team's official Twitter page (@SCSUmensbball).
Here are the five things to know before this weekend's NSIC contests:
3 – The Huskies are looking to snap their three-game losing skid this weekend, having lost three consecutive games at home to Augustana, MSU-Moorhead and Northern State. St. Cloud State has not lost four consecutive games in NSIC play in over five years and has not lost more than three games in a row in general since the 2016-17 season.
1-1 - The Huskies split their earlier weekend series with Minnesota-Crookston and Bemidji State, opening the weekend with a 72-57 win over the Golden Eagles before falling to the Beavers by a final score of 91-82. Trevon Marshall (Evanston, Ill. / Evanston Township) and Anthony Roberts (Chicago, Ill. / Oak Park) were the top scorers for St. Cloud State that weekend, as Roberts led the way with 20 points and 13 rebounds against Minnesota-Crookston before Marshall put together a 34 point performance against Bemidji State.
1001 – Thanks to his 12 point performance against Northern State on Saturday, Marshall became the 43rd student-athlete in program history to score 1000 points in his Husky career. A four year contributor for St. Cloud State, Marshall saved the best for his final season, as he's set career highs in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks in 2019-20. It's his point total that's most impressive, though. Marshall scored just 449 points in his previous three seasons with the Huskies, averaging roughly 149.7 points per year while playing in roughly 30 games a season. At this point, Marshall has scored more points in a single-season than he had in the previous three, as his 547 single-season points as a senior is one of the most impressive scoring displays in history.
26.8 – For the last time ever, St. Cloud State is tasked with finding a way to stop Minnesota-Crookston's Harrison Cleary from scoring. The Huskies did a pretty good job of that back in January, as they held the NSIC's leading scorer to 20 points on 7-20 shooting from the floor, including a 3-10 average from beyond the arc. Cleary eventually passed former Husky Gage Davis as the NSIC all-time leading scorer and is currently averaging 26.8 points per game against conference opponents.
2 - The Beavers may be a bit harder to defend overall than Clearly, as the shortest players on their roster are 6-1. While St. Cloud State's players are not short by any means, Bemidji State's height and length gave them issues in the first two meeting, as three of the four Beavers to score in double-digits were over 6 feet, four inches tall. Bemidji State's leading scorer from that game, Derek Thompson, is one of two players listed at 6'8, while two more contributors are 6'4 or taller.
St. Cloud State enters the final weekend of regular season play with an overall record of 13-13 and a mark of 10-10 in NSIC play. If the Huskies win both games this upcoming weekend, they have a chance to host the opening round game of the NSIC Tournament in Halenbeck Hall on February 26. For this to happen, St. Cloud State also needs Winona State to lose two games to Minnesota State and Concordia-St. Paul, giving the two teams matching records of 12-10 in NSIC play.
Tip off for Friday's game against the Beavers is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday's game at Minnesota-Crookston is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. Live stats, video and WJON's live radio broadcast will be available and score updates will be posted to the team's official Twitter page (@SCSUmensbball).
Here are the five things to know before this weekend's NSIC contests:
3 – The Huskies are looking to snap their three-game losing skid this weekend, having lost three consecutive games at home to Augustana, MSU-Moorhead and Northern State. St. Cloud State has not lost four consecutive games in NSIC play in over five years and has not lost more than three games in a row in general since the 2016-17 season.
1-1 - The Huskies split their earlier weekend series with Minnesota-Crookston and Bemidji State, opening the weekend with a 72-57 win over the Golden Eagles before falling to the Beavers by a final score of 91-82. Trevon Marshall (Evanston, Ill. / Evanston Township) and Anthony Roberts (Chicago, Ill. / Oak Park) were the top scorers for St. Cloud State that weekend, as Roberts led the way with 20 points and 13 rebounds against Minnesota-Crookston before Marshall put together a 34 point performance against Bemidji State.
1001 – Thanks to his 12 point performance against Northern State on Saturday, Marshall became the 43rd student-athlete in program history to score 1000 points in his Husky career. A four year contributor for St. Cloud State, Marshall saved the best for his final season, as he's set career highs in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks in 2019-20. It's his point total that's most impressive, though. Marshall scored just 449 points in his previous three seasons with the Huskies, averaging roughly 149.7 points per year while playing in roughly 30 games a season. At this point, Marshall has scored more points in a single-season than he had in the previous three, as his 547 single-season points as a senior is one of the most impressive scoring displays in history.
26.8 – For the last time ever, St. Cloud State is tasked with finding a way to stop Minnesota-Crookston's Harrison Cleary from scoring. The Huskies did a pretty good job of that back in January, as they held the NSIC's leading scorer to 20 points on 7-20 shooting from the floor, including a 3-10 average from beyond the arc. Cleary eventually passed former Husky Gage Davis as the NSIC all-time leading scorer and is currently averaging 26.8 points per game against conference opponents.
2 - The Beavers may be a bit harder to defend overall than Clearly, as the shortest players on their roster are 6-1. While St. Cloud State's players are not short by any means, Bemidji State's height and length gave them issues in the first two meeting, as three of the four Beavers to score in double-digits were over 6 feet, four inches tall. Bemidji State's leading scorer from that game, Derek Thompson, is one of two players listed at 6'8, while two more contributors are 6'4 or taller.
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