Show BRUINS RUINS w w I m RANKED wm m ww N v S r The mens men's basketball basketball bas bas- ket all pull pulled d off the t Ups upset of th the year ear when they beat the sixth ranked k d' d team 1 ran e J s 1 I By Elliot Roper 1 Staff Writer I I r r i f Most people are are glued to their television set on Thursday night 47 watching If you had been at atthe atthe atthe the Lifetime Activities Center last Thursday you too were watching the College of Southern Idaho The TV show is supposedly s ly the 1 most mst watched show on m television the basketball team basketball t team am i is th the ranked team in th the nation One of them was bound to fall fallin in the rankings This is why games are played and new sitcoms are cre cre- I IOn I. I On Thursday the sixth-ranked sixth team in the thee nation marched into the Lifetime Activities Center expecting an easy win like in games past For much of the first half that might have seemed like J i- i ithe the case as they built a point 19 lead at one point But there are two halves to every game In the first half had a hard time trying to stop who scored 19 points and went 3 for 3 from behind the arc However was able to trim the lead to just 10 points h heading ading into the locker room with the halftime score 37 As the second half got und underway the bruins ruins would chop away atthe atthe at atthe the ten point lead and eventually ti tie the game at 69 With r leading scorer Ya houba on the bench freshman guard Tim Henry would take takeover takeover takeover over over- from there With back to back three point opportunities they stretched the bruin lead to On Thursday the sixth-ranked sixth team in inthe inthe inthe the nation marched into the Lifetime Activities Center expecting an ea easy y win like in games past six with four and a half minutes left in the game But the golden eagles would not go away that easily guard Jaison Williams hit three three-pointers three in a row to keep them as close lose as 82 80 s seconds left but down the stretch made their free throws when it counted cO and walked away with a huge 86 84 upset over over the College of Southern Idaho Tim Henry led ledall ledall ledall all scorers with 30 points Cameron Goettsche scored 17 points and Jeff Blackett added 14 points I Two nights later the mens men's team hosted Colorado Northwestern Community their second second second sec sec- ond conference game jumped out to toan an early 9 4 lead to begin the game It didn't take long for the bruins to come back and take control of the ball game They led 21 21 U U at th the minute 6 mark of the first half and would go into the locker room at halftime halftime halftime half- half time with a 36 20 lead To start the second half held scoreless for the first 3 31 2 2 1 minutes They would get gets get s close as ten points with 12 minutes minute t t remaining Then Coach arrish Sq turned to o his bench They built what would at one point be a point 30 lead at 76 The rest is history The bruins go on on to win big 83 50 and extend their overall record to 3 10 and 2 0 in the conference Four players fini finished hed i id in in d double uble figures including a double dou ble from sophomore forward Daniel who had 16 points and 12 rebounds Were still not playing as consistent consistent consistent con con- as we need to towe we cant can't rely on looking unbelievably great for five minutes minute at a time We got to put 40 minutes minute of just good solid basketball together and were we're not there yet But that's what were we're trying to get getto getto getto to said Head Coach Norm Parrish C O |