AKRON HANDS HIGHLANDERS CONVINCING ROAD DEFEAT

Sunday, November 20

Akron, OH

7PM

Radford University

1-2

Akron

2-1

Team	1	2	F
RADFORD	14	27	41
AKRON	29	59	88

Photo by: Red Rocket Productions & Photography

11/20/2016 10:26:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

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Box Score (PDF)

GAME INFORMATION

Score: Akron 88, Radford 41
Records: Radford (1-2) | Akron (2-1)
Location: Rhodes Arena | Akron, Ohio.

AKRON, Ohio. – The Radford men's basketball team got off to a rough start on its four-game road trip Sunday night, falling to perennial Mid-American Conference power Akron 88-41.

Playing in front of a hostile environment, the youthful Highlanders started the game with five missed shots and five turnovers before getting on the board on a jumper by Devin Cooper at the 13:38 mark of the half. By the point, Akron led 7-0 and the Zips steadily built on their advantage from there, led by 11 points from leading scorer Isaiah Johnson. Radford trailed 29-14 at halftime after connecting on just 5 of 23 field-goal attempts and committing 11 turnovers in the opening 20 minutes.

The second half also began poorly for Radford as Akron scored the first 10 points as part of a 17-3 run in the first six minutes for a 49-17 margin. The Zips went on to shoot 67 percent in the second half, including 8 of 15 3-pointers, en route to their second straight victory.

Radford will look to rebound as it heads south to Macon, Ga. for a Tuesday night game at Mercer. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. and the game will air on ASN.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

Caleb Tanner and Christian Bradford each scored eight points to lead Radford. Tanner had the team's only two 3-pointers, while Bradford made 4 of 10 shots.
Devonnte Holland, who entered the game 10 of 10 from the field on the season, was 3 of 4 in the game for seven points, to go along with six rebounds. He connected on a putback basket on his first attempt before his first miss in three games came late in the first half.
After missing one game, Ed Polite, Jr. returned to the lineup and totaled a team-high eight rebounds. He scored three points on 1 of 4 from the field.
The Highlanders' shooting improved to 40 percent in the second half to finish at 31 percent for the game.
The 41 points scored is the lowest for Radford since Clemson limited the 1998 team to 38.
Sterling Christy sat out for the second straight contest.
Johnson led four Akron players in double figures with 15 points.
The Zips shot 57 percent from the field overall, totaled 13 3-pointers and scored 24 points off of 22 Radford turnovers.

QUOTABLE

"I really thought our defense played well in the first half. The fact that we held that team to 29 points still gave us a chance, even though we couldn't get our offense going and make open shots. But this is only one game of a long season. We'll take away the things we need to learn from and then throw away the rest and look ahead to Mercer." ~ Radford head coach Mike Jones

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