First place at stake Thursday night for Men’s Basketball
MEQUON, Wis.
- After a thrilling and hard-fought road victory Tuesday
night over Lakeland College, the Concordia University Wisconsin
men's basketball team must prepare for another first-place showdown
on Thursday evening. The Falcons will travel west to face Edgewood
College at 7 p.m.
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CUW needed an all-around effort from junior Brian Jackson (Carol
Stream, Ill.) on Tuesday night to defeat the Muskies, 70-69, in a
battle of Northern Athletics Conference North Division first place
teams. The 6-foot-5 forward scored a career-high-tying 15 points
and held the nation's fifth leading scorer, Jake Schwarz, to nine
points.
The victory was the fourth consecutive for the Falcons, their
longest of the season. Senior Luke Doedens (Cedarburg, Wis.) and
Mitchell Schneider (New Holstein, Wis.) continue to lead CUW in
scoring at 16.6 and 15.4 points per game, respectively. The offense
is directed by senior Matt Paluchniak (Oostburg, Wis.) who has
dished out 60 assists compared to just 26 turnovers.
Up front big men Erik Condia (senior, Orange, Calif.) and junior
Steve Zielinski (Brown Deer, Wis.) have hauled in a combined 113
rebounds and rejected 26 field goal attempts.
EC (13-3, 7-1 NAC) has won three straight games and began the
season with nine-consecutive wins. The Eagles received votes in the
D3Hoops.com top-25 poll for the majority of the season before
dropping 3-of-4 games to end and begin the respective calendar
years.
Kent Faurote and Ben Wisinewski pace the Eagles with a 15.5 and
15.4 points per game average, respectively. The two are also
stroking the ball from distance and are a combined 53-of-126 (42.1
percent).
Justin Williams leads the league in field goal percentage (69.2)
and is second on the team in rebounding 4.2 per contest behind
Faurote who leads EC with a 7.2 average per game.
CUW will wrapup its difficult three-game stretch on Saturday when
it travels south to Rockford College for a 4:15 p.m. game. The
contest is the second part of a doubleheader with the women's
program.