National Basketball Association
Lehigh 86, DePaul 74
When: 8:00 PM ET, Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Where: Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Illinois
Officials:
# Terry Oglesby, # Alfred Smith, # Earl Walton
Attendance:
5785
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Lehigh 86, DePaul 74: Corey Schaefer put up 17 points, five rebounds and five assists to propel the visiting Mountain Hawks over the Blue Demons.
Schaefer made 6-of-9 from the floor and nailed three 3-pointers and Tim Kempton notched 16 points and 11 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season for Lehigh (1-4), which defeated a Big East team for the first time since 2008. Austin Price had 14 points and Justin Goldsborough and Miles Simelton had 10 and nine points, respectively, for the Mountain Hawks.
Myke Henry poured in 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead DePaul (2-1), which was in search of its first 3-0 start under Oliver Purnell. Billy Garrett Jr. added 15 points, Jamee Crockett had 13 and Tommy Hamilton IV chipped in with 12 and six rebounds for the Blue Demons.
Henry single-handedly kept DePaul in the game in the first half, going 6-of-9 from the field and scoring 15 points as the rest of the Blue Demons scored the same amount on 4-of-24 shooting. A 3-pointer by Schaefer staked Lehigh to a 19-7 lead with 11:24 left and the senior would go on to hit two more treys before Lehigh went to the break with a 41-30 advantage.
The Blue Demons tried to cut into the lead in the second half, once getting to within nine points on a 3-pointer by Crockett, but each time the Mountain Hawks had an answer. Goldsborough dunked to make it a 15-point spread with 8:37 remaining and DePaul got no closer than seven points the rest of the way in suffering its first defeat.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Lehigh nailed 7-of-11 3-point attempts in the first half compared to just 2-of-12 for DePaul, which shot 33.3 percent overall. ... Kempton, whose father Tim played at Notre Dame from 1982 to 1986 and later in the NBA, has scored in double figures in 16 of the last 18 games and 30 of 37 overall for the Mountain Hawks. ... The teams combined to go 41-of-47 from the foul line.
Top Game Performances
| Lehigh |
|
DePaul |
|
Corey Schaefer 17 |
Scoring |
Myke Henry 24 |
|
Corey Schaefer 5 |
Assists |
Billy Garrett Jr. 4 |
|
Tim Kempton 11 |
Rebounds |
Myke Henry 10 |
|
Tim Kempton 6 |
Free Throws Made |
Billy Garrett Jr. 9 |
|
Brandon Alston 1 |
Steals |
Durrell McDonald 4 |
|
Jesse Chuku 2 |
Blocks |
Forrest Robinson 2 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| Lehigh
|
86 |
56.9 |
9-18 |
19-21 |
16 |
31 |
4 |
5 |
17 |
| DePaul
|
74 |
36.7 |
8-24 |
22-26 |
10 |
31 |
3 |
9 |
13 |
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