Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com
YPSILANTI, Mich. – A four-point game at halftime turned into a nightmare in the second half for the Central Michigan men’s basketball team.
Eastern Michigan outscored the Chippewas, 51-33, over the final 20 minutes Tuesday in handing CMU an 85-63 loss in the Mid-American Conference opener.
The Chippewas entered as the nation’s sixth-highest scoring team at 91.2 points per game, but were held to their lowest output of the season by EMU’s stingy zone defense.
“When you try to win on the road, which is never easy to do, we need good things to happen and we didn’t make enough good things happen,” CMU coach Keno Davis said.