Spruill staying hot and gets UNCW's first points on a floater in the paint.

Our pressure trap works well, but it always seems that once the opposition breaks our pressure we really struggle to get back. Again, it led to an easy bucket and a foul on us on the poor help defense attempt. This has got to stop. Silly fouls like that in the last few games have killed us.

Spruill is still playing really well on offense. Good hustle on the break led to a bucket and a foul. Spruill to the line for a third.

How about that behind the back save by Gettys to get it going the other way? Good stuff.

Converts at the line and it's 9-7 Hofstra.

Ponder just had a beautiful dribble drive to the bucket there, but didn't finish. It was a great play though. Well done Craig. Keep that driving up.

12-11 Hofstra at the 12:20 mark in the first half. Played well so far. Hofstra is 1 of 7 from deep.

UNCW had a brief lead but Hofstra worked the ball inside and CJ Gettys committed ANOTHER stupid, stupid, stupid foul on the easy Hofstra layup. Hofstra will be at the line after the break to convert on the 3 pt play. Hofstra currently up 14-13.

Gettys HAS to stop committing stupid fouls. It's ridiculous.

Spruill gives us the lead again with a beautiful drive to the basket!

Chuck needs to get the ball out on the break faster after rebounds. We play well on the break, and he slows us down on his defensive rebounds. If you watch CJ, he outlets quickly and up the court.

Sherwood enters the game early. I like this. Spread it out and see if Dylan can get going early.

Just don't like Freddie shooting 3's at all. Not his game. Leave those duties to Spruill or Sherwood.

Hofstra gets it back and up 20-17. Our guys have played well so far, and the only criticism is the fouls. We've committed some dumb ones but the game is still close. The problem will be how the foul trouble affects us in the 2nd half.

I agree. I don't care how wide open that shot was. He had plenty of room in front of him to put the ball on the deck and get a better percentage shot up.

Or maybe just Spruill. lol.

We need to go zone. This is how we got beat by Hofstra last time. We get in foul trouble, have to sit players, then there is a FT parade. For whatever reason, we are not good at man to man defense.

We have 8 team fouls with over 8 minutes still left in the first... sigh.

And ANOTHER stupid foul 90 ft from the basket with Hofstra in the bonus. HOLY CRAP. DONT REACH IN AFTER HOFSTRA GRABS A DEFENSIVE REBOUND!!!

Talley with an AND 1 on the drive to the bucket. Exactly the type of play we need. Shooting a cluster of 3s put us down 7 and now we need to claw back again by getting to the bucket and drawing fouls if we can.

Nice steal by Ced and calling timeout before Hofstra could tie him up.