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Ellenwood 300 career wins MBB rotator
72
Winner Ashland AU 7-6,3-3 G-MAC
61
Malone MU 5-8,1-4 G-MAC
Winner
Ashland AU
7-6,3-3 G-MAC
72
Final
61
Malone MU
5-8,1-4 G-MAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Ashland AU 33 39 72
Malone MU 24 37 61

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Dusty Sloan, Ashland University Director of Athletic Communications

Ashland Men Earn Decision At Malone For Ellenwood’s 300th Career Win

On Saturday (Jan. 4) afternoon at Malone, Ashland University's men's basketball team moved back above .500 overall (7-6) and to even in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (3-3) following a 72-61 win.
 
The victory is the 300th in the head coaching career of Ashland's John Ellenwood – as he now is 300-216 (.581) in his 19th season between the Eagles and Thomas More. Of those 300 career wins, 267 have come guiding the Eagles.
 
An early 5-2 Pioneer (5-8, 1-4) lead turned into a 10-5 Eagle advantage. By the under-8 media timeout, the two teams were tied at 17.
 
Malone led 18-17 before Ashland ran off seven straight points into the under-4 media stoppage for its largest lead to date to 24-19. That lead moved to 33-24 by halftime, thanks in large part to an 11-point showing from junior point guard Jaron Crews.
 
The Eagles also kept the Pioneers to 8-of-32 shooting in the game's first 20 minutes.
 
Graduate guard Luke Metzger's 3-point field goal put AU up by double digits again at 41-31, then Metzger hit another triple outside of the 13-minute mark for another 11-point bulge at 44-33. When sophomore wing Cooper Davis hit two free throws and freshman forward Jason Moore added one and a layup, the Eagles had their biggest lead to that point at 50-35.
 
Junior forward Maceo Williams, who went past four players on the AU all-time scoring list on Saturday, made a layup for a 17-point lead at 60-43 at the under-8 media timeout in the second half.
 
WILLIAMS FROM 31ST TO 27TH…AND THE REST OF THE STORY
  • Williams finished the afternoon with 22 points and eight rebounds, and was 8-of-9 from the free-throw line. He has 1,075 career points, going from 31st to 27th on the program's all-time scoring list following his ninth 20-plus-point game of 2024-25.
  • Crews ended with 11 points, and senior guard Gbolahan Adio added 10 off the bench.
  • Ashland's 53.8-percent showing from 3-point range is a season best, and AU also was 23-of-28 (82.1 percent) from the foul line.
  • The Eagles out-rebounded the Pioneers, 41-28.
  • Ashland is 36-10 all-time vs. Malone.
UP NEXT
Black Out night on Thursday (Jan. 9) at 7:30 p.m. vs. Walsh (5-6, 1-4) at the Sherrill Hudson Court at Kates Gymnasium.
 
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