NBL1 Wildcard Recap | Saturday July 16

The Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence Men's team continued to impress on Saturday night heading to South Australia to defeat the Norwood Flames 100-77.

At the same time that fellow Centre of Excellence attendee Tyrese Proctor was shining for the Boomers at the FIBA Asia Cup, the rest of the Basketball Australia team took on the Norwood Flames at The ARC Campbelltown on Saturday night.

The Centre of Excellence team defeated the Flames on their home floor by 23 points on Saturday night which improves them to an 11-3 record against NBL1 teams so far in 2022.

The only losses for the Men's Centre of Excellence team have come against the Perry Lakes Hawks, Forestville Eagles and Logan Thunder.

They have now defeated Norwood along with the Townsville Heat, Mackay Meteors, North Adelaide Rockets, Hobart Chargers, North West Tasmania Thunder, Canberra Gunners, Gold Coast Rollers, Rockingham Flames, Willetton Tigers and Lakeside Lightning.

The CoE team will now take on the Sturt Sabres at Springbank Secondary College on Sunday afternoon.

NBL1 WILDCARD – 2022 SEASON
SATURDAY NIGHT

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NORWOOD FLAMES 77 lost to BASKETBALL AUSTRALIA CENTRE of EXCELLENCE 100
There was plenty to like once again from the Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence team up against the Norwood Flames on Saturday night.

The CoE team took on the Flames at The ARC Campbelltown on Saturday night with Norwood getting on top early scoring 31 points to 24 in the opening quarter.

However, the touring young guns worked right back into the contest with 21 points to 15 in the second term which saw Norwood only lead 46-45 by the half-time break.

It was then a dominant second half showing from the CoE stars of the future as they went on a 10-0 run during the third quarter to take the lead and to be on top 70-62 by three quarter-time.

The Basketball Australia team went on with the job from there with another 30 points to 15 in the fourth quarter to end up winning 100-77.

There was a lot to like in the performance from the CoE performance and as a team they shot a phenomenal 60.7 per cent from the field while going 14/22 from downtown at 63.6 per cent.

Evan Kilminster had a standout evening with 26 points and 10 rebounds while knocking down 6/7 from three-point territory.

Rory Hawke added 19 points and five assists as well while knocking down 3/5 from three-point land with Ben Henshall contributing 15 points and two steals while draining both his three-point attempts.

Alex Toohey also finished with nine points and two assists for the CoE team, Luca Yates eight points and four rebounds, Jack McWilliams seven points and six boards, Bowyn Beatty seven points and six rebounds, and Alex Condon six points and seven boards.

Luca Barei ended up top-scoring for Norwood with 16 points to go with five rebounds, four assists and two steals.

Daniel Webber added 12 points and four rebounds, Anthony Green nine points, Ben Janssan nine points, three boards and two assists, and Aydan Janssan eight points and two assists.