Central Michigan Game Thread

[Chicagojayfan]

Hard to find much to complain about. Central MI was in for a long day pretty much no matter what, but offensively we really played sharp.

Mostly good stuff though:

- Definition of unselfish: 28 assists, Two highest scorers on the team end up with 9 and 8 assists, Bello gets 5 off the bench even
- The 4 Position! Wow, insane day for Miller and Traudt -- they had 25 pts in the first half alone! When was the last time that happened, if ever? I have to think Doug did it once at least
- liked seeing us make a concerted effort to go to Kalkbrenner after the half.
- Even the bench did nice work with some extended minutes. King keeps improving and will be a load for the league next year. Bello's been great all year. Traudt is great (although he and Miller are co-starters, IMO), Loved seeing Dotzler, Green, and Lawson get some minutes also

Yep probably Doug.

I was thinkin' my boy Dane Watts, in checking: he only had 1 game in the high 20s (Dec 9th 2007-CHICO vs St Joes). 8 of his 29 pts. came in the OT period, so not even close to saturday's totals.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... =273430156
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... /273430156
https://gocreighton.com/sports/mens-bas ... watts/2865
https://whiteandbluereview.com/number-50-dane-watts/

Helluva player...always underrated, as he played with some of the CU Greats Motz, Funk, AT, Dotzler, McKinney, Bookwood, Porter, Miliner, also Jeff Day, Dusty, Johnny Mathies, Justin Carter, Bahe, Steve Smith, Hibma, Gakou, Ningsu,and later Kenny Lawson, P'Allen. Some heady days/seasons during that period (2004-2007)

Watts was great! Really enjoyed the game he had back then, but to get 25 pts in a half for a single position is crazy to do in 20 minutes. If not Doug, I'm guessing back to Portman, and maybe Benoit who had a 45 pt game. Portman's way before my time, but I do remember listening to those Benoit games on the radio

[Outlaw_Wales]

Ballock had to have been close in one of the halves of his 11 three pointer game against DePaul. Might not have quite gotten to 25 — but he had 39 total I think, so maybe close?

[RyanHolmgren]

Watched from home on Saturday, but circled back after volleyball to put together my takes on the game.

https://hurrdatsports.com/creighton-men ... -michigan/

Great write-up as usual, but no sense in making demons stronger by exercising them; much better to exorcise them.

+1

[Django]

Traudt said he’d never played “free basketball” before last summer at Creighton… so how much was was that scheister Bennett charging his redshirts to play with the Cavs’ starters, anyway?