January 30, 2016

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois – The Windy City Groove used a balanced scoring attack to weather the hot outside shooting from the Champaign Swarm to move to 5-0 on the Midwest Professional Basketball Season, with a 129-106 win Saturday at Parkland College.

The two teams played the first quarter to a 19-19 tie before the Groove ended the frame on a 13-0 run to finish ahead 32-19 after one.

Windy City swelled the lead to 23 early in the second, but then Michael Rogers and Oliver McGlade shot the Swarm back into the game from outside, hitting six three-pointers between them in the midst of an 18-3 Champaign run to get the lead down to seven at 50-43 with 1:49 to play in the half.  The Groove closed out the second quarter up 57-46.

The Groove took control immediately back in the third quarter, getting the lead back to 19 with 6:10 to play in the period on a C.J. Hampton tip-in.  Another three by Rogers with 4:01 left cut the lead to 76-66, but the Swarm would get no closer the rest of the game, as the Groove led after the third quarter 89-73.

Windy City again got the lead to 20 points at 101-81 in the fourth, until McGlade and Silas Mills for Champaign whittled the lead down to eleven at 103-92 at the six-and-a-half-minute mark.  That burst would be the final one of the game for the Swarm, as the Groove built the lead back to twenty over the next four minutes.

Hampton led the Groove with 23 points, as eight Windy City players scored in double figures.  Isiah Martin finished with 13 points and 13 rebounds.

Michael Rogers scored 31 for Champaign (1-5) on 6-of-10 shooting from beyond the arc.  Oliver McGlade scored 18 on 6-of-13 shooting from three-point range.  Adrien Coleman, Jordan Walker and Silas Mills all scored in double figures for the Swarm.