On a historically bad shooting night for the Akron Zips, the BGSU Falcons were able to overcome Loren Cristian-Jackson’s 35-point outburst with a 78-60 win to take first place outright in the MAC.
It was Justin Turner’s 19 points that led the Falcons to the victory, combined with some stifling perimeter defense that held Akron to just 14% shooting from beyond the arc. For Daeqwon Plowden, he believes that getting pressure on the Akron shooters was key to the victory.
“Just continuously being up in the guy, applying a lot of pressure to each and every guy on the floor, making him feel us.