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Sather's Post-Game Comments

ABERDEEN, S.D. - No. 11 St. Cloud State held the Wolves to just 24 points in the second half, pulling away from a back-and-forth battle in the game's final six minutes to take a 73-54 win over Northern State Friday night in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference men's basketball action, snapping the Wolves' seven-game win streak in the process.

SCSU, which has moved up 11 spots in the top-25 in the last two weeks, improved to 7-0 on the season and 4-0 in NSIC play with Friday's win.  NSU is now 7-3 overall and 3-1 in the loop.

The two teams matched blow-for-blow throughout much of the first 30 minutes of play.  SCSU took a 6-0 lead to start the game and did not allow the Wolves to score until the 13:09 mark when Michael Emge hit one of his three treys of the night to cut the lead in half.  That sparked a 13-0 run for the Wolves over the next five and a half minutes and the battle was on.  

SCSU cut it to a one-possession game with 3:30 left in the half and the two teams traded buckets and leads for the final minutes of the half.  SCSU's Keven Levandoski pulled up for a long three-pointer at the buzzer to send the Huskies into the break leading by three, that after NSU senior Collin Pryor had tied the game up with an old-fashioned three-point play with four seconds left in the half.

The Huskies then used an 8-0 run to create some distance midway through the second half.  SCSU pushed the lead to 11 at 55-44 with 8:18 left to play before the Wolves cut it to six on a Seth Bachand bucket with 6:46 to go.

From that point on, however, points came hard for the Wolves, who were held without a basket or a free throw until the 57-second mark.  Skye Warwick also hit a three with seven seconds left to make it a 73-54 final.

Senior Dustin Tetzlaff had 12 points and six boards for the Wolves.  Emge finished with 11 points on 3-of-6 shooting from long range.  No player scored more than five points in the second period, as SCSU held the Wolves to 28 percent shooting in the second stanza and 32.7 percent for the game.

SCSU had five players in double figures, led by Levandowski's 19 points off the bench.  SCSU was 12-for-23 from long range on the night.

The Wolves are back at it tomorrow, taking on Minnesota-Duluth in the final NSIC contest of the 2012 calendar year.  Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. in Wachs Arena.