Former Lake basketball player Jake Maranville wins national title with Nova Southeastern
EVANSVILLE, IND. — The NCAA Division II men's basketball national championship game ended in joy for former Lake High School player Jake Maranville.
Marnaville's Nova Southeastern Sharks held off West Liberty 111-101 on Saturday to win their first national title. The redshirt sophomore guard scored six points in 18 minutes off the bench for the Sharks, who finish 36-0. Their 111 points are the most scored in any NCAA men's or women's basketball championship game.
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The national championship comes after two tough seasons for Maranville. He saw his team's 2020-21 season canceled because of COVID-19. He also missed the entire 2021-22 season because of an injury.
Maranville made 18 starts and appeared 28 games for the Sharks in 2019-20. Nova Southeastern qualified for the NCAA Tournament that year, but the tournament was canceled because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Former Walsh University Christian Montague scored 19 points for West Liberty, which finishes at 33-4. Montague was a two-time All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference point guard at Walsh before he transferred to West Liberty prior to the 2021-22 season.
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