{"id":276938,"date":"2023-10-27T08:39:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=276938"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:19:19","slug":"vcsu-viking-mens-basketball-win-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=276938","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Viking Men’s Basketball Win Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VCSU – Four Vikings scored in double figures Thursday night as the VCSU men’s basketball team opened its season with a 90-80 win over Brandon University.
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Hunter Lyman’s<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0monster double-double of 15 points and 19 rebounds highlighted a balanced Viking attack that shot 52 percent on the night.
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Cayden Rickard<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0made four 3-pointers and poured in 18 points to lead VCSU’s scoring attack. Rickard also dished out a team-high four assists.\u00a0Lamar Grayson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0had 17 points and three assists off the bench, and\u00a0Odier Olange<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0went 7-for-11 shooting as he finished with 17 points and eight rebounds.
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“I thought it was brand new, that would be the best way to describe tonight,” said VCSU head coach\u00a0Ryan Montgomery<\/a><\/dfn>, whose team has just 4 returners from last year’s squad. “We have a lot of new players with a lot of good talent, but we have to clean up some things.”
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The Vikings led 48-41 after a back-and-forth first half that featured 14 lead changes. VCSU led by as many as 12 points early in the second half, but Brandon University would close the deficit to 73-71 with 8:17 remaining. VCSU responded and regained control with an 8-0 run that featured a 3-point play by\u00a0Brandon Macharia<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and a 3-pointer from Rickard.
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The Bobcats cut the Vikings lead to 84-80 with 2 minutes left, but the Viking defense did not allow a basket the rest of the way and VCSU made enough free throws to ice the victory.
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VCSU shot 54 percent in the first half and 52 percent overall in the game (35-67). The Vikings were 7-for-21 on 3-pointers and shot 59 percent on free throws (13-22).\u00a0Caden Grinde<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0added nine points in his Vikings debut, and\u00a0Brandon Macharia<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0finished with seven points and six rebounds.
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Brandon finished the game at 40 percent shooting overall (30-76), 35 percent on 3’s (13-37) and 70 percent at the line (7-10).
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VCSU finished with 56 points in the paint and won the rebounding battle, highlighted by Lyman’s 19 boards.
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“I don’t know if we can expect 19 all the time, but he’s just one of those guys that’s capable of doing that a lot of nights,” Montgomery said of Lyman. “This team is just a different build than the last few years. We’re going to have to continue to learn our strengths.”
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Valley City State moves to 1-0 on the season. The Vikings and Bobcats will rematch Friday at 3 p.m. inside VCSU’s W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VCSU – Four Vikings scored in double figures Thursday night as the VCSU men’s basketball team opened its season with a 90-80 win over Brandon University.\u00a0Hunter Lyman’s\u00a0monster double-double of 15 points and 19 rebounds highlighted a balanced Viking attack that shot 52 percent on the night.\u00a0Cayden Rickard\u00a0made four 3-pointers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276965,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276938\/revisions\/276965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}