{"id":34824,"date":"2022-11-19T00:13:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T05:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=34824"},"modified":"2022-11-19T00:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T05:13:16","slug":"mens-basketball-terriers-put-up-102-in-dominant-win-over-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2022\/11\/19\/mens-basketball-terriers-put-up-102-in-dominant-win-over-hartford\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Basketball: Terriers put up 102 in dominant win over Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charlie DeMatteo<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Boston University Men\u2019s Basketball (3-1) dominated the Hartford Hawks (1-3) in an emphatic 102-66 victory on Thursday night at Case Gymnasium.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Terriers and Hawks exchanged blows early, but ultimately the Terriers’ depth led to them running away with an easy victory against the independent Division I team.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe shot the ball well and made 14 threes, anytime you make 14 threes that\u2019s gonna give you a chance to win,\u201d BU Head Coach Joe Jones said.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Jones was not totally satisfied with his team\u2019s effort though.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think if we want to be the team that we want to become we are going to have to be better than this defensively,\u201d Jones said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both teams started the game quickly, with each side demonstrating their ability to shoot the three ball. Michael Dunne (14 points) and Kurtis Henderson\u2019s (11 points, 1 assist) threes gave Hartford an early 7-4 lead before senior guard Ethan Brittain-Watts (10 points, 2 assists) responded with a pair of threes himself to give the Terriers a 12-9 lead with 14:46 left in the first half.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Brittain-Watts] is a good offensive player and he\u2019s definitely capable of scoring the ball,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWe need him to be able to lead us as a point guard when things aren\u2019t going well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hartford continued to keep it close as Henderson and Dunne each added another three to make it a one-point game with 11:04 remaining in the first half as the Terriers led 21-20. A Brittain-Watts layup made it 33-28 with 6:17 remaining though, which started a 17-0 run as the Terriers stretched it to a 50-28 lead with 1:16 to go in the first half.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Terriers used the three ball to their advantage against the Hawks, and their ability to shoot from beyond the arc sparked their run to end the first half.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a good shooting team and we have a lot of guys that can make threes,\u201d Jones said, \u201cTwo of our best 3-point shooters are Walt [Whyte] and Daman [Tate], and they made one between the two of them, we made 14. That\u2019s how good of a shooting team we are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

BU out-offensive rebounded Hartford 16-5 thanks to the likes of forwards Nevin Zink (6 rebounds) and Malcolm Chimezie (3 rebounds), but Jones still thinks the offensive production out of the forward pair has room for improvement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have to do a better job developing those guys [Zink and Chimezie] as scorers,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWhen we start playing through the schedule we are going to need to develop our post-game more than what it is right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

BU started the second half quickly, with graduate guard Jonas Harper (18 points, 1 assist) scoring with a layup followed by a three to make it 62-34 BU 1:46 seconds into the second half.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Harper] played so well in our preseason and plays so well in practice, it\u2019s not surprising tonight that he played as well as he did because he\u2019s been doing it a lot, it was just a matter of time before he got going.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Junior forward Anthony Morales led all scorers on Thursday with 19, his career-high.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnt [Morales] is a really talented kid, he is a big part of what we do because he can change the game in so many different ways,\u201d Jones said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Morales was one of three Terriers in double-digits, and one of 14 who scored against Hartford on Thursday, demonstrating the depth of the Terriers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think if we\u2019re going to have great success it\u2019s gonna be because we can play nine to 10 guys,\u201d Jones said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With a healthy lead, freshmen Otto Landrum (4 points), Ben Roy (4 points), and Nic Nobili (2 points) all got game time in the second half.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Terriers will look to continue their strong start to the season when they travel to the University of New Hampshire on Saturday, Nov. 20 to play the Wildcats at 1 p.m. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charlie DeMatteo Boston University Men\u2019s Basketball (3-1) dominated the Hartford Hawks (1-3) in an emphatic 102-66 victory on Thursday night at Case Gymnasium. The Terriers and Hawks exchanged blows early, but ultimately the Terriers’ depth led to them running away with an easy victory against the independent Division I team. \u201cWe shot the ball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19881,"featured_media":34826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1027,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34828,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34824\/revisions\/34828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}