Boxscore
Michigan St 74, Gonzaga 67
Saturday, December 10, 2011 9:00 PM
Location - McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane, Washington
Officials - Buddy Mayborg, Lamont Simpson, Scott Thornley
Attendance - 6000

Final Scoring Summary

Final 1 2 T
Michigan St 35 39 74
Gonzaga 34 33 67

Recap


Draymond Green scored a career-high 34 points to help visiting Michigan State win a 74-67 showdown against No. 22 Gonzaga on Saturday.

Green made 11-of-13 shots and surpassed his former high output of 26 points as the Spartans (8-2) won their eighth straight game.

David Stockton scored 19 points and Robert Sacre had 16 points for Gonzaga (5-2), which fell to 92-7 since moving into the McCarthey Athletic Center in 2004.

The loss was Gonzaga’s second straight - both coming to Big Ten programs. The Zags lost at Illinois seven days earlier.

Michigan State looked on its way to an easy victory when Derrick Nix scored back-to-back baskets to give the Spartans a 59-45 lead with 8:24 to play before Stockton hit two 3-pointers while scoring eight consecutive Gonzaga points to cut the Michigan State advantage to 62-56 with 4:10 remaining.

Green answered with a 3-pointer one minute later and the Spartans held off the Zags.

Gonzaga led 38-37 early in the second half before Green hit 3-point baskets to start and end a 14-3 run. Green had 10 points during the spurt as the Spartans took a 51-41 lead with 13:48 remaining.

Green had 14 first-half points as Michigan State led 35-34 at intermission. Gonzaga’s Gary Bell scored 11 of his 13 points in the opening half.

Michigan St Spartans

  REBOUNDS  
PLAYER MIN FGM-A 3GM-A FTM-A OFF DEF TOT A PF STL TO BLK PTS
Brandon Wood 33:00 2-6 1-3 0-0 0 1 1 3 1 0 2 0 5
Draymond Green 33:00 11-13 4-5 8-9 0 2 2 3 4 3 2 0 34
Adreian Payne 24:00 4-6 0-0 1-2 1 2 3 1 3 0 0 2 9
Keith Appling 33:00 1-6 0-2 6-8 1 1 2 7 3 2 2 0 8
Branden Dawson 10:00 1-4 0-1 0-0 1 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 2
Derrick Nix 18:00 4-4 0-0 0-2 1 5 6 1 3 2 1 1 8
Travis Trice 20:00 1-6 1-2 1-4 0 1 1 3 1 1 4 0 4
Brandan Kearney 11:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2
Alex Gauna 3:00 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Austin Thornton 13:00 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 0 0 1 2 0 0
Russell Byrd 2:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 200 26-48 6-13 16-25 5 15 20 18 20 10 15 3 74
  54.2% 46.2% 64.0% Team Rebs: 5   Total TO: 15

Gonzaga Bulldogs

  REBOUNDS  
PLAYER MIN FGM-A 3GM-A FTM-A OFF DEF TOT A PF STL TO BLK PTS
Gary Bell Jr. 37:00 4-6 2-3 3-4 0 2 2 3 3 0 1 0 13
Elias Harris 32:00 2-11 0-2 2-2 1 4 5 1 2 1 2 0 6
Mike Hart 18:00 0-0 0-0 2-2 3 4 7 2 4 0 2 0 2
Kevin Pangos 32:00 3-8 1-3 0-0 0 1 1 2 4 3 4 1 7
Robert Sacre 34:00 4-6 0-0 8-9 3 4 7 0 4 1 3 1 16
Sam Dower 15:00 1-3 0-0 0-0 1 3 4 1 1 0 3 0 2
Marquise Carter 10:00 0-0 0-0 2-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 2
David Stockton 22:00 5-10 4-6 5-9 0 1 1 0 4 0 1 0 19
Mathis Monninghoff 0:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mathis Keita 0:00 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 200 19-44 7-14 22-28 8 19 27 9 22 6 19 2 67
  43.2% 50.0% 78.6% Team Rebs: 1   Total TO: 19
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