Cleveland State Pulls Off 71-58 Upset of Vanderbilt

Filed under Game Recap on November 13th, 2011

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Cleveland State has already started living up to monumental expectations with a win. On November 13th in Nashville the Vikings shocked the 7th ranked Commodores, 71-58.

This was an unexpected win for the Vikings over a very good team.

Cleveland State got the win while beating Vanderbilt big in assists and less so in shooting.

Shooting 50% from the floor, the Vikings easily outpaced the Commodores who struggled with 35%. The 13 assists from Cleveland State outpaced the six by Vanderbilt.

D`Aundray Brown led the Vikings against the Commodores with 18 points on 60% shooting in 29 minutes. Brown also had a game-high seven steals to lend a hand in the victory.

Grade Player Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO A+ D`Aundray Brown 29 18 8 0 7 0 3 A Trevon Harmon 33 11 4 4 2 0 2 B+ Anton Gandy 22 7 4 2 1 4 2 B+ S. Douglas 15 7 3 1 2 0 2 B+ Devon Long 14 5 3 0 1 0 0 B Aaron Pogue 22 8 5 0 0 0 1 C+ Tim Kamczyc 17 2 2 3 0 0 1 C+ J. Montgomery 29 10 1 3 1 0 4 C Charles Lee 14 3 3 0 1 0 1 - Ludovic Ndaye 5 0 0 0 0 0 0	Grade Player Mins Pts Reb Ast Stl Blk TO B L. Goulbourne 34 11 8 1 3 1 2 B S. Tchiengang 25 5 10 2 2 1 1 C+ John Jenkins 33 17 1 0 1 0 3 C+ Brad Tinsley 21 7 2 2 2 0 3 C Jeffery Taylor 34 9 4 1 1 0 6 D+ Rod Odom 16 3 1 0 0 0 1 - Kedren Johnson 10 3 0 0 0 0 1 D Kyle Fuller 17 3 1 0 0 0 3 - Dai-Jon Parker 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 - Josh Henderson 3 0 4 0 1 0 0

All in all, this was a good early win for Cleveland State. If they're looking to outperform preseason expectations, this game is a good start.

The next match is against Rio Grande at home on November 15th.

• D`Aundray Brown set a career high with 18 points and 7 steals.
• CSU beat the spread by 28.5 points.
• The top two scorers (D`Aundray Brown and Trevon Harmon) accounted for 40.8% of the points.
• Cleveland State started 1-0 during the 2010, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2004, 2003, 2000, and 1998 seasons (since 1996).
• Prior to this game, CSU played 15 Top 25 opponents in the last 5 seasons with a record of 4-11.

• Vanderbilt lost and did not cover the spread.
• The top two scorers (John Jenkins and Lance Goulbourne) accounted for 48.2% of the points.
• The top two rebounders (Steve Tchiengang and Lance Goulbourne) accounted for 51.4% of the rebounds.
• Steve Tchiengang set a career high with 10 rebounds and 6 offensive rebounds.

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