Game Thread: Ball State Cardinals at Toledo Rockets - 1/4/2019 7pm ET; CBSSN

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Friday Nights are fairly light on college basketball content between now and the start of the conference tournaments. Nonetheless, we have Basketball MACtion. BSU is 9-4 and UT is 12-1.

 

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BSU is in black and UT is in home white.

 

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16 minutes to go in the 1st Half and the Rockets are having a hard time scoring. 9-0 BSU.

 

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10:58 to go in the half and UT's finally on the board and trying to make a game out of this. 15-9 BSU.

 

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7:58 to go in the half and the Cardinals have the 22-16 lead.

 

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29-19 BSU with 5:02 to go in the half as timeout is called. The Rockets are having consistency issues.

 

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3:56 to go in the half and it's now 31-22 BSU.

 

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Halftime in Toledo and Ball State has the lead, 38-26.

 

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The 2nd Half is underway.

 

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15:27 left and it's 49-33 BSU. This is not what UT was hoping for when it came to opening up Mid-American play tonight.

 

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11:54 left and it's now 53-43 BSU with UT trying to mount a comeback.

 

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10:20 left and UT calls a timeout as the game starts to get out of hand. 60-43 BSU.

 

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7:38 left and BSU has the 68-46 lead. UT got punched in the mouth early and have not recovered.

 

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72-54 with less than 4 minutes remaining with the Cardinals having this one well in hand.

 

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This game is mercifully final in Toledo as Ball State came out swinging and didn't let up, getting the 79-64 win on the road over Toledo. The Cardinals improve to 10-4 and the Rockets are now 12-2.