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72
Winner CSU Bakersfield CSUB 6-8,0-0 WAC
50
Cal Poly CPO 2-10,0-0 Big West
Winner
CSU Bakersfield CSUB
6-8,0-0 WAC
72
Final
50
Cal Poly CPO
2-10,0-0 Big West
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
CSU Bakersfield CSUB 31 41 72
Cal Poly CPO 20 30 50

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Roadrunners Breeze Past Cal Poly



San Luis Obispo, Calif. –  The CSU Bakersfield men's basketball team raced out to an early 8-0 lead and never looked back, cruising to a 72-50 win at Cal Poly on Saturday night. Taze Moore scored 15 points and the Roadrunner bench added 36, as a relentless and balanced offensive attack and a consistent defensive effort paved the way to victory. The win was the second in as many games for the Roadrunners and their first on the road this season.
 
"I thought our team played extremely well and set the tone early," said CSUB head coach Rod Barnes. "We had great effort on both ends. That's the type of team we want to be and we're getting closer to being that team consistently."
 
Moore was the lone Roadrunner to reach double digits, but all 11 players connected for at least one field goal as CSUB shot 48.2% from the field and 43.8% from behind the arc. In addition to Moore, eight 'Runners finished with between five and eight points scored.
 
The `Runners shot the ball extremely well in the early going. With eight minutes to play in the first half CSUB was shooting 50% from the field and had buried five of its first nine three point attempts. 

Two of those three point field goals came off the hand of redshirt junior Greg Lee, who led the `Runners with six first-half points.  
 
The Mustangs, meanwhile, shot just 6-of-24 in the opening period, as CSUB regularly forced them into low percentage shots and held them without a made field goal over the final four minutes of the period.
 
"Our first half defense was exceptional," Barnes explained. "Holding them to 25% shooting gave us a lot of confidence and momentum. We were hard to play against and it was the result of great commitment on that end of the floor."
 
Bakersfield led by as many as 16 in the opening frame, but the Mustangs clawed back to within 11 at the break.
 
The `Runners stretched the lead back to 17, early in the second half, before an 18-11 Cal Poly run cut the lead to just seven with 10:05 remaining.

The rest of the night belonged to Bakersfield. A 17-2 stretch gave the `Runners a 20-point lead and salted the game away with more than three minutes remaining in the contest.
 
Ten of Moore's 15 points came in the second half as he sparked CSUB to a 41-point period. The redshirt junior was a catalyst all night for the `Runners and added five rebounds and five assists to his game high scoring total.
 
Justin McCall finished with eight points on 3-of-5 shooting for Bakersfield, while Jack Schoemann and De'Monte Buckingham each poured in seven. Buckingham paced the `Runners with eight boards.
 
CSUB dominated the glass all night. The Roadrunners out-rebounded Cal Poly, 42-28, including sixteen offensive rebounds that led to 13 second-chance points and 26 points in the paint. The Mustangs managed just 15 defensive rebounds of their own.  
 
Guard Kyle Colvin led Cal Poly with eight points, while three other Mustangs managed seven.

The `Runners are back in action on Dec. 29 when they head to Lubbock, Tex., to face No. 24 Texas Tech in the final non-conference match-up of the season. Bakersfield then returns home to kick off Western Athletic Conference action on Jan. 4, welcoming Grand Canyon to the Icardo Center.
 
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