Preseason summer exhibition games

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More scorers Saturday night

Xavier completes their tour 4-0 by beating Flamengo 91-68
Remy Abell had 13 pts, 5 asst, 2 reb in just 20 minutes
Larry Austin, Jr. 5 pts, 5 asst, 4 steals
Matt Stainbrook made his debut - played 16 minutes off the bench - went 1-5, 2 pts, 9 rebounds
Sean O'Mara 9 pts, 6 rebs


Morehead State just starting vs. Grand Bahamas All Stars in the Bahamas - already up 17-3
IPFW leads McMaster 18-17 after 1st qtr, McMaster is ranked #5 among Canadian Colleges



edit - Morehead State game now at halftime in Bahamas ...very fast paced - Morehead State 59 - All Stars 42 - tons of fouls & turnovers
six different Morehead players have 3 fouls at halftime!

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Final - Morehead State 115 - Bahama All Stars 69

McMaster leads IPFW 32-25 at half in Canada

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Kennesaw State just defeated Vicenza in Italy 70-53 - but just before they left on their 4-game exhibition tour, they had a
Preseason Awards Presentation event - something to drum up early season fan interest...

http://www.ksuowls.com/news/2014/8/1/MBB_0801144614.aspx?path=mbball

US teams now go to 12-2

Hey, that's a good idea. How come Bradley never did anything like that? Oh right, we used to have events to drum up fan interest even though there was plenty of fan interest to begin with. Made too much sense.

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IPFW beats McMaster 80-69, but they had to rally and outscore McMaster 31-13 in the 4th quarter.
Steve Forbes had 19 for IPFW.

Vermont 95 - Queens College (Canada) 53

Georgia State 52 - Puntarenas (Costa Rica) 42 - Louisville transfer Kevin Ware had 8pts, 3 reb, 3 asst, 5 steals
Kentucky transfer Ryan Harrow had 10, ex-Bradley recruit Markus Crider had 5 rebs.

Kennesaw State played an exhibition game against an Army base team in Vicenza, Italy. A final score was not reported but a mentions said the guys from the army base won! (US teams 24-3)

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Kennesaw State played game 2 in Italy - cruising to a 30 pt win - stats n/a



Eastern Kentucky is getting really tough competition...playing in Australia...
They lost their 2nd game as well, 106-99 in OT...I'm sure the coach unhappy about giving up so many points...

UNI's David Gruber plays for the Wollongong Hawks and he had 12 pts/10 reb - five of the Hawks were in double figures
For Eastern Kentucky - they had 6 players in double figures with Corey Walden getting 28
EKU forced an enormous 34 turnovers, with Walden getting 8 steals - but again was terribly outrebounded 48-22! They also launched 40 3-pt attempts making only 11.



Later today in the Bahamas - University of Kentucky plays the first of SIX games there - with John Calipari working his political skills
by saying he thinks his team should lose all six!!

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In an early Sunday game South Dakota State finished their Brazil tour with a
win over Botafogo, 114-63 - they return with a 3-1 exhibition record....
US D-I teams are now 24-4 overall

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In Bahamas:
Kentucky 74 - Puerto Rico 49 (a "national" team but noted to be reserves)
..balanced scoring - none of the PR team were even notable college players..


Indiana tied at half with Canadian opponent Ottawa, 52-52 - Nick Zeisloft is 2-2 from the arc

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Indiana held a 59-54 lead early in the 2nd half and was still tied 88-88 late but now
the Hoosiers look defeated - they are down 104-95 with less than a minute to go...


edit - Indiana loses to Ottawa 109-101

looks like those who doubted ISU's Nick Zeisloft when he left ISU and transferred to Indiana might have been wrong...
it appears that despite all those 4-Star blue chippers & Top-10 recruiting classes Indiana has Zeisloft is actually one of Indiana's
better players, better shooters, and he plays a ton for them as he apparently has the experience and maturity most college coaches covet.

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Vermont 85 - Laval (Canada) 67 (US teams go to 26-5 but nobody's lost in Bahamas yet)

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a lot of ISU fans didn't think Zeisloft would play starter-minutes for Tom Crean and be their best 3-pt shooter...
..they thought the same thing about Ekey

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More exhibition scores -

Morehead State 103 - Real Deal Shockers 57 in Bahamas
IPFW 86 - York (Canada) 74 - IPFW's Steve Forbes 27 pts
Georgia State goes 3-0 in Costa Rica with a 71-41 win over Juegos Nacionales IUPUI transfer RJ Hunter with 19 - Louisville transfer Kevin Ware 7 pts, 7 rebs, 4 steals
and ex-BU recruit Markus Crider 7 pts & 9 rebounds
Wofford beats Jeugos Nacionales in Costa Rica - score n/a

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Eastern Kentucky win in Australia to go 1-2
they beat Suncoast Clippers 125-91, with all nine of their players scoring double figures

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Kentucky playing some off-season B-team from France in Bahamas - it's on ESPNU - amazing that UK even gets their summer exhibition games on TV

anyway - Chalon led or played close the entire 1st half, with UK leading by 5 at half...
then UK pulling away in 2nd half...

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Final Kentucky 84-Chalon 58

some of the reports tout how powerful this French team was but none of the players' names are very recognizable despite claims that half a dozen or so of them played D-I basketball.
..but one fairly obscure guy from Butler, a guy from UC-Davis, and the rest really obscure still doesn't differentiate that much from the other foreign teams everyone's playing.

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Hoosiers playing better defense - up 23-7 over Carleton in Canada

edit - Nick Zeisloft started but was scoreless for IU in 1st half - IU now up in 3rd qtr by 18


edit again - Crean must be wondering...his lead - once 18pts, has shrunk to 7 and IU/Zeisloft chucking airballs...