Central Michigan beats Alma 93-50, Raymoan McAfee’s first win

MOUNT PLEASANT — Central Michigan beat Alma 93-50 on Friday at McGuirk Arena, and interim coach Raymoan McAfee got his first win. Thursday’s news that Andy Bronkema is on leave is the reason McAfee was the head coach.

The athletics recap said an 11-0 run in the first half broke the game open. Alma led nowhere that mattered after that. Halftime was 43-23. The final was 93-50. Central Michigan is 2-0 for the first time since 2019-20. Alma, a Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association team, is 0-0 in that league’s accounting on the scoreboard header because the game was a non-conference opener for the visitors. The Chippewas shot 51.5 percent, 34 for 66, and assisted on 19 of those baskets. They outrebounded Alma 47-27, scored 44 points in the paint, 27 off turnovers, and 46 off the bench.

Phat Phat Brooks scored a career-high 21 points on 7-for-10 shooting with four assists and five rebounds in 22 minutes. Jake Bascom had a career-high 15 on 6-for-7 shooting and five rebounds. Uchenna Amene scored a career-high nine off the bench. Jalen Kampen also had nine. Conrad Luczynski grabbed 10 rebounds. The recap said players doused McAfee with water in the postgame huddle.

What McAfee said

McAfee told the athletics site the game plan did not change. “Nothing was different, I just had to speak a little bit more,” he said. He said the players are mature and “helped me out through the tough time that we’re going through now.” Brooks said he was proud of how “Coach Moan” had handled things and that Brooks, Keenan, and Jaxson had talked to the team after Thursday’s news. “This really doesn’t change a” is where the published quote on the athletics page breaks off in the text that was read, so this story does not finish the sentence for him. The page does say Brooks gave the credit for his 21 points to his teammates and that McAfee was “trying to stack days” and keep the team on the next win. That is the part of the quote that is complete. Youngstown State is the next team on the schedule, Tuesday at 7 p.m. at McGuirk, and it is not Alma.

Tuesday

Central Michigan hosts Youngstown State at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at McGuirk. The photograph is the building, or a file frame of it. It does not show Friday’s score or the water bucket.

Sources:
Central Michigan athletics, “Men’s Basketball Improves to 2-0 With 93-50 Win Over Alma,” Nov. 6, 2026, https://cmuchippewas.com/news/2026/11/6/mens-basketball-improves-to-2-0-with-93-50-win-over-alma
Photo: cjh1452000, “CMU Towers.JPG”, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACMU_Towers.JPG

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