CEU Men's Basketball earn a bid to National Tournament
The CEU Men's Basketball team have earned the right to go to the NJCAA National Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas. Games will be streamed live over the Internet at:

http://www.njcaabbtrny.org/home/homepage.htm

The Tournament brackets can be viewed at:

http://www.njcaabbtrny.org/pdfs/bracket_2010.pdf

CEU Mens Basketball defeat Mesa Community College
Tonight the College of Eastern Utah will face off against Mesa Community College Thunderbirds for the right to go to the NJCAA national championship tournament in Hutchinson Kan.

There’s a good amount of CEU students that made the trip up to Salt Lake tonight to support the Eagles in their bid to make it to the tourney. CEU has been designated the home team for tonight’s game. Eric Hunt gets the first points of the game for MCC hitting a mid-range jumper. Michael Glover answers right back with a nice play in the paint. MCC has jumped out to an early four point lead, 8-4 with 17:00 minutes left in the half. Isaiah Williams nails a three to get the Eagles within one point. Despite their smaller numbers the Scream Team is loud tonight. Jonathan Mills just checked into the game for the Eagles, and quickly draws a foul. Mills goes to the line and hits both shots to make it a 10-9 MCC lead with 14:50 left. Tony Dalton drains a three giving CEU their first lead of the game its 12-10, at the 14:15 mark. At the first media timeout CEU has the two point lead. CEU is playing a full-court press tonight. The Eagles complete a nice play working the ball around the outside before Cliff Colimon fed it to Mills for the easy lay-up. Stephen Rogers hits a shot to pull the Thunderbirds within two but Dalton answers back for the Eagles extending the Eagle lead to four. MCC looks lost on the court tonight. Jorquim goes to the line at 10 minutes and misses them both its 16-12 CEU. Alex Rudd of MCC just gave his coach a look that is usually reserved for when two people don’t speak the same language. The Thunderbirds hit a shot to pull within two with eight minutes in the half. Colimon just drained a three from way down town giving the Eagles a five-point lead. At the second media timeout CEU has a 19-14 five point lead. With 6:45 to go MCC has 6 fouls. CEU has 3 fouls. Glover extends the Eagle lead to 6 and hears his name chanted by the Scream Team. Hunt hits a three to pull the T-birds within three points. CEU has led for most of this half, but MCC is threatening their lead. With 4:40 CEU has a one point 20-19 lead. Dalton draws a foul and will try to give CEU a bit more of a cushion. Dalton converts on both free throws and gives the Eagles a three point lead. Despite MCC’s early troubles they’ve stayed in the game and kept it close. It seems the two teams have fallen into a routine MCC cuts the Eagle lead to one, and CEU promptly scores again to bump the lead back to three. Jorquim gets called for three-in-the-key giving MCC a chance to take the lead. Rogers goes to the line for MCC and ties the game at 26. MCC has not led since the 14:50 mark in the half. Williams hits two foul shots and gives the Eagles a two-point advantage with 1:30 to go. Tola Akomolafe hits a shot and draws the foul for MCC. Akomolafe has a chance to give the T-birds the lead, but misses the shot. It’s tied at 28 with 30 seconds left. CEU gets a rebound and is able to make one last push down the court in the half but can’t score. Going into halftime it’s tied at 28. In the first half of play CEU was led by Dalton with seven points, and Rogers led the Thunderbirds with 10 points. HALFTIME CEU 28 MCC 28

Glover gives CEU a three-point lead with a beautiful cutting play to the hoop. Thompson makes a great defensive play interrupting an MCC pass. Glover goes to the line and takes the lead back for CEU with 15:45 to go it’s CEU 35 MCC 34. MCC hits a three to take the lead back making it 37-35. CEU is looking sloppy turning the ball over on offence. MCC appears to have built up some momentum extending their lead to four points. Aaron Hawk-Harris gets a steal, and then draws a foul. Mills drives the court and gets a lay-up to cut the MCC lead to two. There’s 12 minutes to go and MCC is leading 41-37. In a big play for CEU Hawk-Harris takes a charge to prevent MCC from scoring on a fast break. Mills comes up with another huge play drawing a foul and hitting his shot to give the eagles an and one opportunity. He misses his foul shot but CEU gets the ball back. Dalton is wide open for a three and drains it, giving CEU a 42-41 lead. The Scream Team is deafening as they bellow out “CEU CEU” urging their team along. Dalton is side open on the wing again but can’t hit the three. There’s just under 10 minutes left and the Eagles have a one point lead. MCC turns the ball over on a bad pas s and Mills draws another foul MCC has eight fouls, compared to CEU’s two fouls. Glover is at the line, and misses the first, but hits his second making it a two-point CEU lead. Once again the Eagles go to the foul line, fouls are killing MCC. Glover once again at the line but can’t convert on his shots. MCC ties it up at 43 with 8:23 to go. Williams nails a three almost on cue giving CEU the three-point lead. For the third time in two minutes Glover is once again at the line for CEU, he nails both making it 48-43 CEU. With seven minutes to go EU has a three point lead, but small leads in crunch time is nothing new for the Eagles this season. MCC has turned the ball over on terrible passes multiple times tonight. The Eagles are once again at the foul line, this time it’s Hawk-Harris, who hits one shot to make it 49-45 with 6:20 left. MCC’s coach is irate as MCC commits their 12th foul of the half. Mills goes to the line but can’t make either foul shot leaving the Eagles with a two-point lead. With five minutes to go CEU is clinging to a 49-47 lead, it’s gut check time for the Eagles. MCC ties it up with 4:20 to go we’re tied at 49. The T-birds take the lead with 3:53 in the game its 52-49, the Eagles need a big play here. And big plays are right down Michael Glover’s alley. He hits a shot and draws a foul. Going to the line Glover can tie it up with this shot and he does. The atmosphere is tense with just over three minutes we’re tied at 52. MCC takes the lead but CEU answers right back. Thompson gets a bucket and draws a foul. Apparently the SLCC scoreboard can’t count fouls past 10, but I’m pretty sure that was MCC’s 14th foul of the half. Thompson hits his shot and gives CEU a one-point lead. The Eagles need a big defensive stop now with only two minutes to play its CEU 55 MCC 54. On a fast break Thompson misses his shot but Mills is there for the put back CEU now has a three point lead as MCC calls a time out with 1:27 left in the game. There’s one minute to go and CEU has the three point lead. Glover checks back into the game for CEU. The Eagles are running as much time as possible off the clock, but commit a foul with 37 seconds left. Glover just went down hard and had to leave the court. MCC has the ball, with 30 seconds to go they work the ball around the arc, but then decide to call a time out. There’s 17.9 seconds in the game, and 16 seconds on the shot clock. MCC needs a three on this possession or the game is likely over. MCC inbounds the ball, and the Eagles play man defense. With six seconds left MCC takes another timeout. The T-birds inbound the ball again with six seconds in the game, and four on the shot clock. You could cut the tension with a knife as MCC passes the ball in after a CEU timeout. MCC hits a three with one second on the clock to tie the game, and this one’s going into extra time. END OF REGULATION CEU 57 MCC 57

at the start of the overtime period Glover wins the jump ball giving CEU control. On the Eagles first possesion Mills hits a shot to give the Eagles the lead. MCC misses a three and CEU capitalizes when Mills scores again in the paint its 61-57 with 3:45 to go. Rogers goes to the line for MCC and gets three shots from the charity strip. He hits all three and brings MCC within one point. With two minutes to go CEU is clinging to a oen point lead. MCC takes the lead with 1:40 to go, MCC 62 CEU 61. Glover comes back into the game and gets a huge dunk to put CEU in the lead with 1:11 left. MCC retakes the lead with 30 seconds left in the game the Eagles are down by one. Hawk-Harris throws an alley-oop to Thompson giving CEU the 65-64 lead. CEU needs to hang on for 16 seconds and they will be heading to Hutchinson Kansas. MCC inbounds the ball and pushes it down the court and quickly calls a time out with 13.6 to go. CEU’s season hangs in the balance as they try to prevent CNN from taking a shot. With only a one point difference the Eagles can’t allow a MCC bucket. Rogers inbounds the ball for the T-birds and MCC can’t convert! The CEU Eagles are headed to Hutchinson Kansas! They are the Region 18 champions! They will now head to the NJCC championship from March 16th to the 20th.

CEU Men's Basketball are Region 18 Champs!
CEU Golden Eagles men's basketball team won the Region 18 tournament championship game against North Idaho College, 88 to 80. CEU will now move on to the District 1 play in game against the Region 1 winner Mesa Community College from Arizona. This game will be played at Salt Lake Community College, Tuesday, tip off at 7:30 p.m. Listen live on at http://www.castlecountryradio.com or watch streaming video at http://www.yomansports.com. The winner will be joined by 15 other district champions at the NJCAA MEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS DIVISION I – located in Hutchinson, KS http://www.njcaabbtrny.org/home/homepage.htm

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NJCAA Division I Men's Basketball Top 25 Rankings
CEU - currently ranked 25th – February 23, 2010.

EU's highest ranking: January 5, 2010 at #22

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