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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Army embarrassed at home
Ouch! This one hurts. Unless the pundits around the Northeast Conference are very wrong about Long Island being the worst team in that league, Army's 64-54 home loss to the Blackbirds raises real questions about the Black Knights.

The biggest question is who is going to carry the scoring load if Jarell Brown has an off night. Josh Miller taking 15 shots to score 14 points is probably not the answer. But that was the alternative for Army against LIU when Brown went 1 for 8, 0 for 4 from the arc and scored just 4 points. Brown, the second leading returning scorer in the Patriot League, has now been held in single digits two of Army's first three games. The Black Knights (1-2) two losses both came in those games.

Kenny Brewer added 14 points off the bench, all in the second half, but it was not enough to get the Black Knights over the hump after they scored only 22 points in the first half and trailed 32-22 at the break. Neither was missing almost half of their free throws (10 for 19, all in the second half).

The Black Knights did manage to claw their way back into the game in the second half, using a 14-1 run to tie it at 44-44 with 7:44 to go. But LIU outscored Army 20-10 the rest of the way.

For the game, Army shot 21 of 55 (38.2 percent) and made just 2 of 13 three-point attempts. LIU was 18 for 55 from the field (32.7 percent), but over half of their buckets were threes (10 for 25 from the arc). LIU also got to the line more often and shot better when they got there, going 18 for 26.

It would be easy to say Army should be better when Doug Williams gets back from his injury. But Williams is not much of an offensive threat and Army did get decent production from its other big man, sophomore Chris Walker. Walker had three blocks, three steals and scored 7 points in 22 minutes. Army might have tried to get the ball to him more (he was 3-4 from the field), but he was only on the floor 22 minutes due to foul trouble.

Box score | Times Herald-Record

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