Feb. 12, 2009
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D'Aundray Brown
Celebrated playing his first home game since Dec. 27 by scoring 13 points, 11 coming in the first half.
Added 6 rebounds, 4 steals and 2 assists in 34 minutes.
Steal total (4) matched his career high set in the season opener vs. Oakland.
J'Nathan Bullock
The second leading scorer in the Horizon League (15.3 ppg), he scored 16 points.
Added 10 rebounds for his 16th career double-double. He now has 738 career rebounds, needing 12 more to become first CSU player with 1,500 points and 750 rebounds in a career.
Cedric Jackson
Flirted with recording the first triple-double in CSU history, scoring 11 points with 9 rebounds and 9 assists.
Ranking fifth nationally in steals (3.0 spg), he made 4 to raise his season total to 78, the sixth-highest single season total in CSU history.
Norris Cole
Scored in double figures for the 16th time this season, finishing with 14 points.
Added Added five rebounds and three assists and did not turn the ball over.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
This was the 31st series meeting between CSU and Milwaukee with the Panthers entering the game with an 18-12 series edge (7-7 in Cleveland).
There five lead changes in the first half, the last coming at the 15:19 mark when CSU began an 8-0 run that turned an 11-10 deficit into an 18-11 lead (12:16). CSU would go on to lead by as many as 19 points (38-19, 2:20 & 39-20, 1:10) before UWM ran off five straight points to trail, 39-25 at halftime.
Milwaukee closed to within 3 (49-46, 11:17), but nine straight VIking points pushed the lead back into double figures. The Panthers would come no closer than 10 the rest of the way.
After shooting .571 in the first half (16-28), the Vikings cooled after the break, going 9-for-27 (.333) to shoot .455 for the game (25-55).
Milwaukee was the opposite, shooting .333 in the first half (10-30) and 14-for-31 (.452( in the second half to shoot .393 for the game. They are the 16th CSU opponent held under 40-percent for a game this year.