Re: @ USF on ESPNU

by **PilotNut** on Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:34 am

Oregonian USF Preview Article: Portland basketball: Pilots making due without Nik Raivio entering games against San Francisco, Santa Clara

Game Day: Portland @ USF

Game Day: Portland at San Francisco
By Jim Beseda, The Oregonian
January 28, 2010, 6:30AM

When: 8 tonight

Where: War Memorial Gym (4,600), San Francisco, Calif.

Records: Portland (12-7, 3-2 West Coast Conference); San Francisco (7-13, 2-3)

On the air: Radio on KCMD (970) [edit to add game is also televised on ESPNU]

Probable starters: Portland -- F Ethan Niedermeyer (6.5 ppg), F Robin Smeulders (13.7 ppg, 6.7 rpg), C Kramer Knutson (5.1 ppg), G Jared Stohl (10.3 ppg), G T.J. Campbell (13.1 ppg, 5.7 apg); San Francisco -- F Dior Lowhorn (11.7 ppg, 6.3 rpg), F Angelo Caloiaro (8.3 ppg), Tomas Bruha (2.9 ppg), G Kwame Vaughn 14.1 ppg), G Dontae Bryant (3.98 ppg, 3.5 apg).

Briefly: Stohl, starting in place of injured senior Nik Raivio, made 6 of 12 three-pointers in Saturday's 80-64 victory over Pepperdine. In 19 games, Stohl has made 55 of 118 three-pointers and needs 10 more to break Casey Frandsen's school record of 202 career three-pointers set from 2000-04. ... The Pilots had lost 10 consecutive games against San Francisco before sweeping last season's two-game series with the Dons, including a 72-67 victory in San Francisco. ... The Dons, in their second season under former NBA guard Rex Walters, are 6-3 at home, including an 87-71 victory over San Diego three weeks ago.

by **PilotNut** on Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:06 pm

Pilots win 74-58 on the road... a good WCC road win.

Stohl shoots 6-12 from 3, needs only 3 more to tie Frandsen's record, 4 to surpass.

by ShipstadPilot11 on Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:21 am

ESPN Recap. This isn't as good as the one at portlandpilots.com but there should be video highlights forthcoming since the game was aired on ESPNU.

Also,

Jared Stohl tied his season high with 22 points

FALSE!!!! (See Idaho @ UP).

by Rochin54 on Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:29 am

Great win last night (or this morning for me...man I'm tired now). It's great to see us win without having Nik in the line-up. Hopefully it helps us play better with more confidence when we get him back. I thought it was an all around pretty good game for everyone. I was hoping we'd put them away sooner than we did, but they were able to stay in it for a bit with the 3 point shot. the effort from TJ, Jared, Ethan, and all the bigs was just great - love it!

by slick on Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:06 pm

I was at the game--what a night! Very solid all-around performance by the Pilots (coaches as well as players) preceded by a fine reception organized by local alums. The turnout of UP fans was largest I have witnessed in a bay area venue.

Go Pilots!

by mattywizz on Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:29 pm

I also had to watch the game this morning...no way I was gonna be able to stay up until midnight. That was a solid win for us, really any without Raivio is a big win. Stohl and TJ obviously had very good games. We were really able to shut down Lowhorn. When he came out with about 5 minutes left the announcers said something about him being tired for working so hard...at that time, I was thinking that he kind of disappeared. To me, that means our bigs did a solid job defensing (or defending, maybe) him.