San Diego State's experience played a pivotal factor, Sean McNeil broke out in a big way and more from Ohio State's first game in Maui.
It also demonstrated what proved to be the separator between the two teams at this point in the season.
“All the ways you look at it: ability to play longer harder,” he said. “You can do that when you’re a little older. They’ve got strong, physical bodies. You could tell they were able to play through contact better than we were at times. They have a better just collective feel for each other than we do right now, which is a little bit to be expected given where we’re at.”
West Virginia transfer guard Sean McNeil, who led all scorers with 22 points, pointed out that this was the fourth game of the season for a team with four freshmen and three transfers in their first years with the program all playing significant minutes. . It dropped him to 6.3 points per game on 4-of-10 shooting from 3-point range, and through 20 minutes against the Aztecs McNeil had 2 points on 1-of-4 shooting including two missed 3-pointers.
That certainly applied in the second half. McNeil was 3 for 5 from 3-point range and perfect on five shots inside the arc, doing his damage by getting to the rim and also knocking down contested jumpers.
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