Thursday, January 16
Kansas City, MO
7:00 PM
Kansas City
9-10,2-3WAC
64
vs
74
CSU Bakersfield
8-10,2-1WAC
1
2
OT 1
F
CSU Bakersfield
33
23
18
74
Kansas City
26
30
8
64
Men's Basketball Falters at Home for First Time This Year
1/16/2020 9:38:00 PM | Men's Basketball
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City (9-10, 2-3) lost for the first time all year at home, falling to CSU Bakersfield (8-10, 2-1), 74-64, in overtime tonight in men's basketball conference action. The 'Runners out-scored the hosts 18-8 in overtime and Kansas City dropped to 6-1 at Swinney Center. The Roos needed one more home victory to tie the 2010-11 program for the best home start in school history at 7-0.
Senior Jordan Giles finished with a team-high 19 points, while junior Brandon McKissic notched 15 points and freshman Josiah Allick netted 10 and corralled eight rebounds.
The Roos came all the way back from 14 points down to lead much of the second half. The effort was there all night, in spite of their leading scorer out with an injury for the second-straight game (Javan White) and a guy that was averaging nearly 19 points in conference (Jahshire Hardnett) recording three points.
CSU Bakersfield put on a clinic in the first 11 minutes of the game hitting its first nine shots from the field en route to a 23-11 lead. The 'Runners went up by their largest advantage of 14 points on two occasions, the last at 31-17 at the 4:52 mark. The Roos closed out the half putting in nine of the final 11 points to get within 33-26.
Freshman Maks Klanjscek was the first-half spark for Kansas City swishing a trio of three-pointers. His third bomb at 2:32 whittled the deficit to 31-25 and capped an 8-0 run.
CSU Bakersfield cooled down to 66.7 percent (12-for-18) shooting in the first 20 minutes.
The start of the second half was a polar opposite of the first. CSU Bakersfield missed on its first five shots at the same time the Roos scored 11-straight points. Under the 16-minute media timeout, Kansas City held its first lead of the game at 37-33.
The Roos' margin got as large as six points at the 6:50 mark, but the 'Runners tied it up at 51-51 after a free throw. After a Marvin Nesbitt Jr. lay-up put Kansas City up by two points, a pair of free throws by Shawn Stith with 52-seconds remaining forced the game into overtime.
CSU Bakersfield opened the overtime frame with five-straight points and the Roos could never recover.
Klanjscek finished with nine points in a career-high 34 minutes. Nesbitt tied Allick for the team lead with eight rebounds.
CSU Bakersfield's Justin Edler-Davis had a game-high 25 points, De'Monte Buckingham added 16 points and Justin McCall snatched 12 rebounds to go along with eight points.
Kansas City shot a season-high 31 times from the free throw line connecting on 20 for a 65 percent clip. CSU Bakersfield went 22-of-33 (.667) from the charity stripe.
The Roos next host Grand Canyon Saturday at 7 p.m.
Quick Hitters
•   The 31 free throw attempts are the most this year and the highest amount since taking 32 attempts against Chicago State in the WAC opener last year on Jan. 5, 2019.
•   Kansas City came into the game holding opponents to 33 percent shooting at Swinney Center. Tonight, the 'Runners were 40 percent overall
•   Overall, the Roos fall to 4-9 in the all-time series with the 'Runners
•   With 19 points tonight, Jordan Giles netted his fifth double-digit scoring effort in his last six outings.
•   Giles now has 809 career points becoming the 19th Kansas City player with at least 800 points in his career.
•   CSU Bakersfield becomes the 10th-straight opponent to attempt more free throws than Kansas City with a 33-31 advantage tonight.
•   The first miss of the game for CSU Bakersfield came at the 8:54 mark of the first half.
•   The Roos had a season-low two steals
More information to come shortly...
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Senior Jordan Giles finished with a team-high 19 points, while junior Brandon McKissic notched 15 points and freshman Josiah Allick netted 10 and corralled eight rebounds.
The Roos came all the way back from 14 points down to lead much of the second half. The effort was there all night, in spite of their leading scorer out with an injury for the second-straight game (Javan White) and a guy that was averaging nearly 19 points in conference (Jahshire Hardnett) recording three points.
CSU Bakersfield put on a clinic in the first 11 minutes of the game hitting its first nine shots from the field en route to a 23-11 lead. The 'Runners went up by their largest advantage of 14 points on two occasions, the last at 31-17 at the 4:52 mark. The Roos closed out the half putting in nine of the final 11 points to get within 33-26.
Freshman Maks Klanjscek was the first-half spark for Kansas City swishing a trio of three-pointers. His third bomb at 2:32 whittled the deficit to 31-25 and capped an 8-0 run.
CSU Bakersfield cooled down to 66.7 percent (12-for-18) shooting in the first 20 minutes.
The start of the second half was a polar opposite of the first. CSU Bakersfield missed on its first five shots at the same time the Roos scored 11-straight points. Under the 16-minute media timeout, Kansas City held its first lead of the game at 37-33.
The Roos' margin got as large as six points at the 6:50 mark, but the 'Runners tied it up at 51-51 after a free throw. After a Marvin Nesbitt Jr. lay-up put Kansas City up by two points, a pair of free throws by Shawn Stith with 52-seconds remaining forced the game into overtime.
CSU Bakersfield opened the overtime frame with five-straight points and the Roos could never recover.
Klanjscek finished with nine points in a career-high 34 minutes. Nesbitt tied Allick for the team lead with eight rebounds.
CSU Bakersfield's Justin Edler-Davis had a game-high 25 points, De'Monte Buckingham added 16 points and Justin McCall snatched 12 rebounds to go along with eight points.
Kansas City shot a season-high 31 times from the free throw line connecting on 20 for a 65 percent clip. CSU Bakersfield went 22-of-33 (.667) from the charity stripe.
The Roos next host Grand Canyon Saturday at 7 p.m.
Quick Hitters
•   The 31 free throw attempts are the most this year and the highest amount since taking 32 attempts against Chicago State in the WAC opener last year on Jan. 5, 2019.
•   Kansas City came into the game holding opponents to 33 percent shooting at Swinney Center. Tonight, the 'Runners were 40 percent overall
•   Overall, the Roos fall to 4-9 in the all-time series with the 'Runners
•   With 19 points tonight, Jordan Giles netted his fifth double-digit scoring effort in his last six outings.
•   Giles now has 809 career points becoming the 19th Kansas City player with at least 800 points in his career.
•   CSU Bakersfield becomes the 10th-straight opponent to attempt more free throws than Kansas City with a 33-31 advantage tonight.
•   The first miss of the game for CSU Bakersfield came at the 8:54 mark of the first half.
•   The Roos had a season-low two steals
More information to come shortly...
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Team Stats
CSUB
KC
FG%
.400
.352
3FG%
.444
.240
FT%
.667
.645
RB
45
35
TO
15
16
STL
11
2
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
19
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
11
Pts
15
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
5
Pts
10
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
4
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
3
FTM
0
Players Mentioned
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