TUESDAY'S SCORES
@Winthrop 93,
SIUE 73
@#4 Ohio State 80,
Southeast Missouri 48
@Lipscomb 78,
Tennessee Tech 60
@Austin Peay 80, McKendree 61
WINTHROP 93, SIUE 73
ROCK HILL, S.C. - Winthrop's long-range shooting negated an impressive shooting day by SIUE as the Eagles soared to a 93-73 win over SIUE in men's basketball Tuesday at the Winthrop Coliseum.
SIUE has now lost seven straight and fell to 2-9. Winthrop snapped a four-game losing streak and improved to 5-7 with the win.
Winthrop connected on a season-high 15 three-pointers for the game, including seven in the first half.
For the second straight game, SIUE never led in the contest. Winthrop broke out to an 11-0 lead Tuesday and never looked back. The Eagles pushed the lead to 17-4 when SIUE made a push. The Cougars used an 8-0 run to pull within five points with 10:52 left before half. Back-to-back three-pointers by Jamal King made it 23-12 Winthrop with 8:36 left. Winthrop led 42-27 at the half.
The Cougars never close the gap to less than 14 points in the second period despite shooting 61.3 percent (19-31) during the half. The Cougars were 30-63 (47.6 percent) from the field for the game. It was their second-best shooting performance of the year.
The Eagles were 30-59 (50.8 percent) from the field. Winthrop finished the game 15-29 (51.7 percent) from long range.
Zeke Moore and Cam Williams each finished with 15 points to lead the Cougars. For Moore it was his fourth straight double-digit scoring effort and the sixth in his last seven games. He tied his SIUE career high with four three-pointers.
Tyresse Williford scored 12 points and added six assists. Brandon Jackson scored eight points and Treavon Martin added six points and two steals all in the second half.
D.J. Burns paced Winthrop with a career-high 19 points. Chandler Vaudrin scored 13 points and was 4-5 from three-point range. The Eagles outrebounded the Cougars 42-26.
#4 OHIO STATE 80, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 48
COLUMBUS, Ohio - outheast Missouri (3-8) shot a season-low 26.7 percent in an 80-48 loss to #4/5 Ohio State (10-1) Tuesday night at Value City Arena.
OSU, the highest ranked opponent SEMO has faced, limited the Redhawks to 16-of-60 field goals and 4-of-19 (.211) from 3-point range.
The Buckeyes lead the nation in scoring margin (+22.3) and rank sixth in the country in field goal percentage defense (.354), and the Redhawks simply ran into a buzz saw.
SEMO started the game strong by forcing 13 turnovers in the first half, including 11 in the opening nine minutes of the contest.
The Redhawks managed to get ahead of the Buckeyes, 16-12, when Ohio native Isaiah Gable buried a 3-pointer with 9:39 remaining.
After that, SEMO hit a cold spell and OSU took advantage.
The Redhawks went over eight minutes (8:06) without a field goal and OSU went on a 13-1 run to take a 25-17 lead. SEMO missed 11 of its last 13 field goals in the first half and trailed, 35-26, at the intermission.
The shooting woes continued for the Redhawks in the second half, where they missed 14 of their first 15 shots. OSU again capitalized, this time with a 24-4 run to blow the game open.
OSU turned the ball over 21 times, but SEMO scored just three points off those miscues.
Freshman DQ Nicholas and Gable each scored 10 points to lead the Redhawks.
SEMO also made 12-of-14 free throws for 85.7 percent.
Kaleb Wesson turned in a double-double 18 points and 10 rebounds. Wesson limped off the court after he was shaken up in the first half, but returned to lead the Buckeyes.
Andre Wesson followed with 14 points, while Kyle Young and D.J. Carton pitched in 10 apiece.
OSU drained 13 three-pointers and outrebounded SEMO 44-25.
LIPSCOMB 78, TENNESSEE TECH 60
NASHVILLE - A hot start wasn't enough to make up for a second half of offensive inconsistency as the Tennessee Tech men's basketball team fell to in-state rival Lipscomb in Nashville Tuesday evening, 78-60.
The Golden Eagles opened the contest on fire, putting together an early 11-0 run for a 14-4 lead that forced the Bisons to use a timeout. The offense was humming in the first stanza to the tune of 47.8 percent shooting from the field and a 7-for-12 showing from beyond the arc.
Forcing the home team into 11 miscues helped Tech take a 37-33 advantage into the locker room. The tables quickly turned when the two teams took to the floor, with the script flipping in several ways. Lipscomb found a rhythm on offense, firing at a 53 percent clip from the floor while forcing 10 Tech turnovers.
Tech opened the contest with a new starting lineup, featuring freshman Keishawn Davidson, sophomores Jr. Clay, Hunter Vick and Amadou Sylla, and senior Cade Crosland. The starting five accounted for over half of the team' scoring production and more than two thirds of the team's rebounding.
On the night, Clay led the Golden Eagle offense with 16 points on 6-for-11 shooting. Crosland added 11 points while Vick accounted for nine and four steals. Sylla snagged a team-high 11 rebounds and Davidson sported six points, three boards and a pair of assists.
Freshman Tujautae Williams established a season-high with 11 points off the bench, shooting 5-for-8 from the field while also corralling six rebounds.
AUSTIN PEAY 80, MCKENDREE 61
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. - Terry Taylor.
You could be forgiven for thinking the junior from Bowling Green was everywhere at once on Tuesday night. Public address voice Steve Williard went whole minutes without saying another name. Stats piled up next to No. 21 from Austin Peay as Taylor scored 39 points in an 80-61 win against McKendree to close out the non-conference home slate.
The points came in waves—like 18 of the Govs first 19, over the course of the game's first 10 minutes. From winning the opening tip to scoring nine seconds later, Taylor scored in a variety of ways both near and far from the basket as he single-handedly staked the Govs an early lead.
Strangely, it was on one of Taylor's brief offensive hiatuses that the Govs pushed the lead into double-digits and never looked back. Freshman Jordyn Adams to the ball to the rack for two and followed that one possession later with a three, with Sita Conteh following that two minutes later with a three of his own before Taylor ended the 12-4 run with another bucket at the 6:15 mark in the half.
That kicked off another round of Taylormania, with Terry scoring 11 of Austin Peay's final 21 points in the half. Conteh added the final five points himself to send the Govs into halftime with a 50-26 lead.
Taylor had 29 points in the first half, outscoring McKendree by himself. To the best of the collective knowledge of the Austin Peay Athletic Communications staff, no Gov has ever scored 30 in one half.
As can occasionally be the case with a large halftime lead, the second half had its frustrating moments for Governor fans. To McKendree's credit, the Bobcats hit shots from all over; shooting 54.5 percent from the floor and 44.4 percent from three against a Division I program has to count for something for a tiny Division II program with an enrollment of just 2,300. Knowing that the athletic advantages would certainly swing the Governors way, McKendree took advantage of any crack in the defense and were unafraid to fire away from deep.
But it all came back to one thing for the Govs: Terry Taylor. Terry Taylor. Terry Taylor. When the Bobcats started throwing double and triple teams at Taylor, the door was opened for Antwuan Butler (nine assists), Carlos Paez (10 points), Conteh (nine points in a career-high 31 minutes) and others to cash in. The Bobcats chipped away at the deficit, but at no point did the Govs feel truly threatened over the final 20 minutes.