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Red-Hot Pioneers
Shoot Down Pointers
Box Score
UW-Platteville used a blistering shooting night
from the field to pull away from UW-Stevens Point in the second half for a
73-58 victory on Wednesday at Williams Fieldhouse in Platteville.
The Pioneers shot 66.7 percent from the field for
the game, hitting 26 of 39 shots against a UW-Stevens Point defense that
entered the night as the top-ranked field goal percentage defense in the
NCAA Division III at 34.5 percent. It was the first time a team shot higher
than 43.1 percent against UW-Stevens Point this season. By contrast, the
Pioneers shot just 32.7 percent for the game and 21.7 percent in the first
half of a 55-44 loss to the Pointers earlier this season.
The Pointers also surrendered
a season-high amount of points after entering the game as the nation�s top
scoring defense at 51.6 points per game.
UW-Stevens Point had its six-game winning streak
snapped and fell into a three-way tie for first place in the Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with the Pioneers and UW-Stout at 8-2.
The Pointers, ranked No. 1 nationally by D3hoops.com, are now 16-2 overall
and will play at co-leader and 20th-ranked UW-Stout on Saturday.
Pioneers� guard Brad Reitzner scored a career-high
31 points on five-for-eight shooting from three-point range to lead the
UW-Platteville attack. Reitzner had scored a total of 73 points in nine
previous games against the Pointers.
The first half was back and forth as neither team
held bigger than a three-point lead and UW-Platteville owned a 30-29
halftime lead on two free throws by Reitzner with one second left, despite
shooting 72.2 percent before halftime.
The Pioneers pulled away early in the second half
as the teams traded baskets in the first minute before UW-Platteville scored
11 straight points to take a 43-31 lead. UW-Stevens Point cut the lead to
52-43 with 8:44 left and had the lead down to nine points three more times,
but came no closer.
Jason Kalsow and Nick Bennett each scored 17
points for the Pointers and Brandon Temperly added 13 points for the
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