Big Ten All-Stars Open Tour With 108-52 victory – Ohio State Buckeyes
8/12/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Aug. 12, 2002
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TREIS-KARDEN, GERMANY–The Big Ten Men’s Basketball Foreign Tour All-Star team opened play tonight with a convincing 108-52 victory over Tus Treis-Karden. Iowa’s Jared Reiner led all scorers with 14 points while pulling down 11 rebounds. In all, six Big Ten players scored at least 10 points, with Wisconsin’s Dave Mader tying Reiner with a game-high 11 rebounds.
“I thought we played hard, and pretty well considering the traveling we did yesterday,” said Illinois coach Bill Self, who is leading the sqaud. “From the second quarter on we played pretty well. We were a balanced team and played unselfishly, for the most part making the extra pass to get an open shot. We could have five different guys lead us in scoring on this trip.”
The Big Ten squad, made up of players from each Big Ten institution, led just 24-18 at the end of the first quarter, but went on to outscore Tus 60-25 in the middle two stanzas.
Joining Reiner in double figures was Illinois’ Roger Powell with 13 points, Northwestern’s Winston Blake with 11, Indiana’s Tom Coverdale with 11, and Ohio State’s Velimir Radinovic and Michigan State’s Chris Hill with 10 each. Illini guard Sean Harrington made his first three three point attempts to end with nine, while Penn State’s Jason McDougald scored eight points in just eight minutes of action. McDougald twisted his knee earlier in the week while practicing in Illinois and was limited in playing time tonight. The Big Ten squad held a huge size advantage with four players taller than 6-foot-10-inches, while Treis-Karden’s tallest player was 6-8. The Big Ten team used their height advantage to win the battle of the boards by a 70-29 count.
“We had a size advantage and we were able to control the boards,” Mader said. “They were a bit undersized, more like a Div. III team. We started out slow, but got better in the second quarter. Once we started going, we had a lot of fun.
Reimer agreed with Mader’s assessment.
“We played hard, it just took us a little time to get our legs underneath us,” Reimer said. “We played well together considering it was our first game. Guys were looking to get the open shot.”
