The Cardinals improve to 22-0 and keep their undefeated season alive with a 76-62 victory over Colorado Northwestern team Thursday night.
Brayon (BJ) Blake, led the Cardinals and packed the box-score with a game-high 27 points, seven rebounds, two assists, three blocked shots, and four steals.
Blake scored 19 of those 27 points in the first half, and during a two-minute stretch he scored on 5 straight Cardinal possessions.
Blake was diving on the hardwood the entire game; he even ended up in the stands after he dove over the Cardinals bench going for a loose-ball.
“I’m just hustling, throwing my body everywhere around there for the team, they know I have their Backs,” Blake said. “I’m just playing basketball, and just doing what I do, and I like to hustle so that’s what I do.”
Second leading scorer Braian Angola-Rodas also littered the box score. He added 24 points with eight rebounds, seven assists, one blocked shot, two steals, and a perfect 12 for 12 from the free-throw line to boot.
Rodas scored the first points of the game for the Cardinals with a three pointer so deep, that he might as well have shot it from Post Falls. He also had the team’s last bucket, and in the same thrilling fashion a two-handed 360 degree dunk.
“I just go out there to have fun, it doesn’t matter who scores, we just try to have fun,” Rodas said.
Coach Symons was also happy with the win and hopes to keep the team on their winning streak.
“You know, there is always added pressure when you’re dealing with an undefeated season,” Head Coach Corey Symons said. “But all season long we just go out there and take one game and one week at a time.”
Albeit the Cardinals controlled the entire game with a ten to 12 point lead, they only shot 12 percent (three for 25) from behind the three-point line.
“Whenever you can get a win shooting that poorly, you take it,” added Symons. “Our next opponents are in for something, because we are not going to shoot that bad twice in a row.”
