The Raiders\u2019 dandy shooting in the morning carried over in a 94-84 road win at Oakland. They built a 27-point lead in the first 15 minutes and easily won their sixth-straight game to move into first in the Horizon League at 6-1 with 13 games to go.<\/p>\n
They shot nearly 60% and went 9 of 18 on 3\u2019s, giving them the top percentage from the arc in the league at 36.9.<\/p>\n
They also have the best 3-point defense in the HL at 30.8%.<\/p>\n
That combo will win a lot of games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pleased with our overall shot quality, just the understanding of good shot, bad shot, timely shot. I think that\u2019s getting better. That\u2019s a big part of it \u2014 and having the right people take the right ones,\u201d Sargent said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefensively, that\u2019s a really good stat. That\u2019s something that \u2014 in this era of college basketball \u2014 if you can guard the 3-point line and shoot a good percentage from 3, that\u2019s going to (bring) some healthy traits to your team.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Raiders \u2014 who are 11-7 overall and host the only league team to beat them in Youngstown State on Thursday \u2014 also were first in 3-point shooting the last two years at 38.4% and 38.3. But, defensively, they were much slower afoot.<\/p>\n
They were 11th and ninth in the league in opponent percentage at 36.6 and 36.1.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat wasn\u2019t necessarily anything that we set out to do,\u201d Sargent said of cleaning up their 3-point D. \u201cI just think because of how we guard the ball and the intelligence of our team, we\u2019re able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Raiders\u2019 ever-improving 3-point shooting has coincided with Solomon Callaghan\u2019s breakout from an early-season funk.<\/p>\n
He went 6 of 9 on 3\u2019s against Oakland and has hit 19 of 33 in the last five games.<\/p>\n
He was 20 of 71 before that.<\/p>\n
But, according to Sargent, the third-year sophomore never let the slump consume him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just makes joyful choices every day \u2014 enjoys the choice. He\u2019s not caught up in feelings and circumstantial things. He chooses joy every single day,\u201d Sargent said.<\/p>\n
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Credit: Bryant Billing<\/p>\n
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Credit: Bryant Billing<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of that, he has very consistent habits. Stuff like this (hot streak) doesn\u2019t surprise me because of his habits.\u201d<\/p>\n
Callaghan became the first Raider to win the Horizon League player of the week award Monday, while Kellen Pickett won his second freshman of the week honor.<\/p>\n
Leading scorer Michael Cooper, who has missed the last four games, is expected back for YSU.<\/p>\n
But while the Raiders seemed to be coming off an almost perfect performance, Sargent chafed at the 18 turnovers and some late-game lethargy.<\/p>\n
Still, the coach said: \u201cThat consistency is taking shape, and it gives me great confidence that we can take the win and just wash it away and move on to the next practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is only going to get better. We have a long way to go. And I\u2019m excited to get there with these guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next game<\/p>\n
Who: Youngstown State at Wright State<\/p>\n
When: 7 p.m. Thursday<\/p>\n
Streaming: ESPN+<\/p>\n
Radio: 1410-AM, 101.5-FM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe focus from our team \u2014 we cut it short because I could tell how dialed in they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[68102,2043,2044,143,145,144,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-133081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-brookville-blue-devils","9":"tag-high-school-football","10":"tag-high-school-sports","11":"tag-oakland","12":"tag-oakland-headlines","13":"tag-oakland-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}