Box Score

CHICAGO – Chicago State overcame nine-point deficits in each half to send the game into overtime and escape with a 98-95 victory in Great West Conference action Saturday afternoon at the Jones Convocation Center.
 
Senior forward Terry Bembry led six players in double figures for HBU (6-12, 0-2 GWC) with 20 points and eight rebounds. Junior guard Anthony Hill hit 4-of-7 from 3-point range to finish with 14 points, while junior forward Art Bernardi had 14 points and eight rebounds. Junior forward Marcus Davis had 12 points and led the Huskies with 13 rebounds, while freshman guards Tyler Russell and Marcel Smith had 10 points each.
 
Jeremy Robinson led Chicago State (2-17, 1-1) with 22 points and 13 rebounds, while Ardarius Simmons had 20 points. Aaron Williams scored 17 of his 19 points in first half and also grabbed 11 boards, while Clarke Rosenberg had 16 points and Lee Fisher had 12.
 
Chicago State shot 49 percent from the field for the game and made 4-of-6 shots in overtime, while HBU shot 43 percent for the game. The Cougars went 8-of-18 from behind the arc, while the Huskies shot 7-of-22. HBU made 20-of-22 from the free-throw line, while Chicago State hit just 24-of-38. The Huskies outrebounded the Cougars, 49-41, including 19 on the offensive end.
 
In overtime, Fisher made a pair of free throws to give Chicago State its first lead since there was 3:02 left in the first half, then Samuels hit a short jumper and Robinson hit a pair of free throws to put the Cougars up 87-81 with 3:29 remaining. Hill hit a jumper, but Robinson followed a miss with a putback dunk to push the lead back to six. Russell made a pair of free throws, but Robinson once again sank a pair of free throws to put Chicago State up, 91-85. Fisher made a layup with 1:07 and Simmons hit a free throw to put the Cougars up by nine, their largest lead of the game.
 
HBU freshman guard Marcel Smith nailed a three and was fouled, but missed the free throw, but the Huskies gained possession on a jump ball off the rebound and Bembry followed with a layup on the inbounds pass to cut the Cougars' lead to 97-95 with four seconds left. Samuels missed the first but made his second free throw for a three-point lead, and the Huskies' got a good look for the tie, but Hill's shot hit off the back iron.
 
Hill found Latas cutting for a layup to open the second-half scoring, but Simmons tied the game with a long jumper. Latas then converted a three-point play after a layup on a nice spin move underneath, but Robinson answered with a layup on the other end to cut the Huskies' to one. After Russell nailed a jumper, Simmons tied the game at 50 with a three. HBU went on an 8-0 run as Bernardi and Hill each hit threes and Evans knocked down a pair of free throws. After the Cougars broke the run with a jumper by Fisher, Hill hit another triple to tie HBU's largest lead of the game, 61-52, with 13:23 to go.
 
Samuels' three-point play, a pair of free throws by Simmons and an alley-oop dunk by Williams got the Cougars back to within two, but Hill drilled another trey as the Huskies led 64-59 with 12:10 left. Fisher's 3-pointer cut HBU's lead to one, but Russell answered with a jumper.
 
Latas was ejected after a flagrant foul on Robinson, who knocked down the free throws to cut the lead to 65-64 with 10:31 remaining. Bembry hit a free throw and Smith knocked down a couple to put the Huskies up by four, but Simmons hit a layup to get the Cougars back within two. After Bembry hit a jumper, Robinson drove in for a layup. Bembry hit another layup, Davis hit a pair from the line to extend the lead to six, but Rosenburg went inside for a bucket and Simmons hit a free throw to make the score 75-72 with 5:45 remaining.
 
Bernardi found Russell for a layup and a five-point lead, but Simmons and Fisher made a free throw apiece to cut it to three, before Davis made a pair from the line to give HBU a 79-74 lead with 3:11 to go. Fisher made another free throw, then Simmons hit a 3-pointer to make it a one-point game, 79-78, with 1:45 on the clock.
 
Smith missed a running jumper with the shot clock winding down, but Bernardi was fouled grabbing the rebound and made both free throws to put HBU up by three. Robinson backed down for a layup, was fouled, and completed the three-point play to tie the game, 81-81, with 58 seconds left. Each team had a possession to take the lead in the final minute, but couldn't convert as the game went into the extra period.
 
HBU opened the first-half scoring on a three by Hill and a layup by Evans, and Simmons got Chicago State on the board with a floater in the lane. Bernardi hit a turnaround jumper, Smith's made a short jumper and Russell knocked down a pair of free throws to put the Huskies up 11-2 with 15:15 to go in the first. The Cougars roared back, beginning with a three-point play by Samuels and 3-pointers on four-straight possessions by Williams to cut the Huskies' lead to 18-17. HBU maintained its lead by answering the Cougars' baskets with a dunk by Bernardi , a three by Smith and an easy layup by Bembry.
 
Rosenburg tied the game at 20 with a layup at the 9:58 mark, but Davis regained the lead for the Huskies with a baseline jumper, and Bembry followed with a jumper in the lane. Chicago State scored the next five to take its first lead of the game with 7:54 to go, then went up by three, before HBU got a layup from Latas and a jumper by Davis to retake a one-point advantage. Chicago State answered with a jumper and layup to lead 35-32.
 
Latas powered inside for a layup, and Davis cut inside for a layup as HBU led 36-35 at the 3:48 mark, but the Huskies were called for an intentional foul, and Williams tied it with a free throw. Bembry grabbed an offensive rebound and put it back in to put the Huskies ahead once again, but Anderson hit a three from the corner as Chicago State went back up by one. Bernardi's three-point play with 2:45 left gave HBU a 41-39 lead, then Davis hit another baseline jumper to extend it to four. Robinson got open for a dunk, then followed with a baseline jumper with seven seconds left to tie the game, 43-43, going into the break.
 
There were three ties and eight lead changes in the first half as HBU shot 45 percent from the field and Chicago State shot 46 percent. The Cougars hit 5-of-9 from behind the arc, while the Huskies hit only 2-of-11 in the opening frame.
 
The Huskies return to action when they host UT-Arlington in a non-conference game Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. at Sharp Gym, before hitting the road to continue Great West play against UT-Pan American Saturday at 7 p.m. in Edinburg, Texas.