Jared Rhoden reacts throughout Seton Corridor's loss to DePaul.
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CHICAGO — Jalen Terry scored 28 factors, David Jones added 24 and DePaul surprised No. 20 Seton Corridor with a 96-92 victory on Thursday.
Javon Freeman-Liberty additionally scored 12 factors, giving the Blue Demons (10-6, 1-5 Huge East) simply their greatest win of the season. Freeman-Liberty, the convention’s main scorer, aggravated a groin damage he had been enjoying by early within the second half and limped off the courtroom. He returned shortly after, however performed sparingly down the stretch.
Regardless of dropping their greatest participant, the Blue Demons nonetheless held on to safe a much-needed signature win.
“I’m happy with the group and the resilience that they confirmed,” DePaul coach Tony Stubblefield mentioned. “Clearly, we’ve been hit with some adversity. Our guys have had the sticktoitiveness, the place they caught collectively as a group, stayed constructive and simply continued to attempt to get higher. That’s one thing we’ve been preaching to those younger males.”
The loss serves as a major setback for the Pirates (11-4, 2-3) as they try to achieve floor in convention standings. Jared Rhoden led Seton Corridor with 25 factors, with Bryce Aiken including 22 extra.
The Blue Demons had been upset-minded proper from the get-go. Freeman-Liberty scored six fast factors within the first 5 minutes, serving to DePaul open the half on an 18-6 scoring run. The Blue Demons additionally tallied seven first half steals.
“We got here out and reverted again to taking too many pull-up jumpers,” Seton Corridor coach Kevin Willard mentioned. “It’s thoughts boggling a number of the photographs that we take. This can be a good group, they usually have loads of coronary heart, however I simply don’t know if we had the extent of respect that we must always’ve had for an excellent DePaul group.”
Seton Corridor clawed again to inside six, however was unable to trim its deficit any additional. Jones scored two breakaway layups off a pair of steals within the remaining two minutes of the primary to spice up DePaul’s result in 16. Freeman-Liberty added two free throws to offer the Blue Demons a 52-35 benefit at halftime.
Freeman-Liberty’s damage initially threatened to derail DePaul’s momentum within the second half, as did a pair of early baskets from Rhoden and Tray Jackson. However Terry shortly hit back-to-back jumpers to offer DePaul respiration room.
Seton Corridor strung collectively a late rally to chop the deficit to 2 with 5.8 seconds left, however Terry iced the sport for DePaul with a pair of free throws. He attributed his potential to sink the clutch photographs to a current follow session.
“At follow, coach made us shoot 50 free throws,” Terry mentioned. “I shot 50 for 50. The best way you follow interprets to the sport.”
The Blue Demons led for all however 31 seconds of the sport and by no means trailed.
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