Central Michigan University Athletics
Tuesday, January 19
Toledo, Ohio
7 p.m.
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Photo by: Keara Chaperon '22
CMU Men Head To Toledo For First Of 4 Straight Road Games
1/18/2021 3:43:00 PM | Men's Basketball
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – The Central Michigan men's basketball team will play the first of four-consecutive away games on Tuesday when the Chippewas go to Toledo for a Mid-American Conference game.
The Chippewas are 6-7, 2-4 MAC after their 75-64 home victory over Eastern Michigan on Saturday. The win ended a three-game losing streak.
Toledo is 11-4, 6-1 and shares first place in the league with Bowling Green.
Leaders
Travon Broadway Jr. scored a career-high 25 points and matched his career best with five steals in leading CMU past Eastern on Saturday. Broadway, a senior guard, leads the Chippewas in scoring at 16.8 points per game.
Junior Meikkel Murray ranks second on the team in scoring at 13.1 points per game, and junior Caleb Huffman, CMU's sixth man, averages 11.5.
Junior Malik Muhammad, a 6-foot-9 transfer from East Los Angeles College, is averaging a team-best 7.1 rebounds per game.
First of Four
Tuesday's game is the first of four in a row on the road for the Chippewas. They are scheduled to go to Akron on Thursday, Jan. 21 (6 p.m.) and then next week to Buffalo and to Kent State.
The Zips are 5-3, 3-2 and feature MAC scoring leader Loren Cristian Jackson, who is averaging 22.6 points per game.
When the Chippewas finish this stretch of four road games, they will be one-half of the way through the 20-game MAC slate. Seven of those games will have been on the road, and two of those games were against Bowling Green, the team that finished first in the preseason poll.
"I think all of that that we are facing can only make us a better team for the second half of the conference season," coach Keno Davis said. "Our guys are looking forward to an opportunity to play and enjoying every minute that they get an opportunity to do so. We're looking forward to facing some of the top teams in this league on the road and to getting a chance to measure ourselves as to where we are in the conference moving forward."
Scouting
Toledo saw it's win streak end at eight games on Saturday when the Rockets fell in overtime at Akron, 95-94.
Toledo, which is 6-0 at home this season, leads the MAC in 3-point field goal percentage (.399) and has made 166 triples on the season, ranking third nationally in that category.
Marreon Jackson, a 6-1 senior guard, leads the Rockets in scoring at 16.7 points per game and combined with Spencer Littleson to form a dangerous one-two punch from long range. The two are combining to make 41.5 percent of their 3-point attempts (98 of 236) on the season.
Littleson, a 6-4 senior guard who hails from Rochester, leads the MAC and ranks 13th nationally in 3-point field goal percentage (.477).
The Chippewas are 6-7, 2-4 MAC after their 75-64 home victory over Eastern Michigan on Saturday. The win ended a three-game losing streak.
Toledo is 11-4, 6-1 and shares first place in the league with Bowling Green.
Leaders
Travon Broadway Jr. scored a career-high 25 points and matched his career best with five steals in leading CMU past Eastern on Saturday. Broadway, a senior guard, leads the Chippewas in scoring at 16.8 points per game.
Junior Meikkel Murray ranks second on the team in scoring at 13.1 points per game, and junior Caleb Huffman, CMU's sixth man, averages 11.5.
Junior Malik Muhammad, a 6-foot-9 transfer from East Los Angeles College, is averaging a team-best 7.1 rebounds per game.
First of Four
Tuesday's game is the first of four in a row on the road for the Chippewas. They are scheduled to go to Akron on Thursday, Jan. 21 (6 p.m.) and then next week to Buffalo and to Kent State.
The Zips are 5-3, 3-2 and feature MAC scoring leader Loren Cristian Jackson, who is averaging 22.6 points per game.
When the Chippewas finish this stretch of four road games, they will be one-half of the way through the 20-game MAC slate. Seven of those games will have been on the road, and two of those games were against Bowling Green, the team that finished first in the preseason poll.
"I think all of that that we are facing can only make us a better team for the second half of the conference season," coach Keno Davis said. "Our guys are looking forward to an opportunity to play and enjoying every minute that they get an opportunity to do so. We're looking forward to facing some of the top teams in this league on the road and to getting a chance to measure ourselves as to where we are in the conference moving forward."
Scouting
Toledo saw it's win streak end at eight games on Saturday when the Rockets fell in overtime at Akron, 95-94.
Toledo, which is 6-0 at home this season, leads the MAC in 3-point field goal percentage (.399) and has made 166 triples on the season, ranking third nationally in that category.
Marreon Jackson, a 6-1 senior guard, leads the Rockets in scoring at 16.7 points per game and combined with Spencer Littleson to form a dangerous one-two punch from long range. The two are combining to make 41.5 percent of their 3-point attempts (98 of 236) on the season.
Littleson, a 6-4 senior guard who hails from Rochester, leads the MAC and ranks 13th nationally in 3-point field goal percentage (.477).
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