[Box Score]
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Yante Maten from Georgia was named the Reese’s Most Outstanding Player from the West as he finished with a team-high 17 points to go with nine rebounds leading the West All-Stars to a 98-94 win over the East All-Stars in the Reese’s College All-Star Game at the Alamodome.
Colorado’s George King earned Reese’s Most Outstanding Player honors from the East as he had a game-high 21 points and team-high nine rebounds.
Seton Hall’s Desi Rodriguez (16), Vermont’s Trae Bell-Haynes (13), Fairfield’s Tyler Nelson (11), Eastern Washington’s Bogdan Bliznyuk (11) and Hofstra’s Rokas Gustys (10) also scored in double figures for the West. Bell-Haynes had a game-high eight assists while Gustys had a game-high 11 rebounds
Jordan Howard (Central Arkansas) finished with 17 points while Creighton’s Marcus Foster (13) and UCLA’s Thomas Welsh (10) all scored in double figures for the East.
The West would miss its first eight field goal attempts of the game and the East led 7-0.
The teams combined to miss their first 19 three-point field goal attempts before the West would make three straight from behind the arc in just 48 seconds.
Bell-Haynes made the first trey of the game with 5:48 left in the first half to start a 9-0 run and give the West a 31-28 lead. Nelson would then knock down back-to-back three-pointers giving the West a 37-28 with five minutes left in the half.
The West led 49-44 at halftime with Maten leading the way with 10 points, the only double-figure scorer in the first half for either team.
The West shot 47.4 percent in the win (37-68) and made 6 of 25 from behind the arc while the East was 36 of 85 from the floor (42.4 percent) while connecting on 8 of 39 from three-point range.
James Jones, head coach at Yale, was the head coach of the East while his brother Joe, head coach at Boston University, was head coach of the West.
