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Men's basketball goes 1-3 over break - THANKSGIVING BREAK PHOTO SLIDESHOW
Miles: Rams are better off than last season
Matthew Pucak
Issue date: 12/1/08 Section: Sports
For the CSU Men's Basketball team the Thanksgiving holiday was anything but a break, as the Rams played four games in the week that students left campus, going 1-3.
Each game was unique for the Rams, as the team dropped one game to a Division II squad, lost two heartbreakers and pulled out one win in the eventful week, leaving them at 3-3 on the season.
On Nov. 22, as the football team paraded around with the Bronze Boot after taking down Wyoming, the Rams lost at the buzzer against Big Ten foe Minnesota 72-71, when CSU forward Andre McFarland's jumper rattled out.
The Rams played the game without guard Willis Gardner, while fellow senior guard Marcus Walker was not at full strength after being struck by a car in the Moby Arena parking lot the day before. Still, the Rams, behind 16 points from McFarland and Andy Odige and 15 points and eight rebounds by Dan Vandervieren, hung close to the Gophers, only losing by the slimmest of margins.
"I stood on the baseline and thought it was in," said head coach Tim Miles about McFarland's final attempt. "It was a good look, and the look we wanted, and it didn't go. That's just the difference in the night. I thought we had them."
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