TUESDAY'S SCORES
SIUE 78, @Lindenwood 72
@UT Martin 55, Little Rock 52
SIUE 78, LINDENWOOD 72
ST. CHARLES, Mo. - SIUE men's basketball erased a 12-point second-half deficit on its way to a 78-72 win at Lindenwood Tuesday night at Hyland Arena.
The Cougars moved into a tie for fifth place in the Ohio Valley Conference at 8-5 and are just a game back of second place. SIUE improved to 15-9 overall. The Cougars have won five of their last six games and improved to 7-5 in true road games, tying the program record for road wins at the Division I level.
Lindenwood also is 8-5 in the OVC and 15-9 overall. With the win, the Cougars swept the season series from the Lions.
The win also marked the fourth time this season that SIUE has won after trailing at halftime.
Four Cougars scored in double figures led by Tyler King's 22 points. He was 7-15 from the field and 4-7 from three-point range. It is King's second 20-point game in his last three. He scored 16 of his points in the second half.
Arnas Sakenis recorded his second career double, with both coming in his last four games. He scored 12 points and grabbed 13 rebounds. Jack Campion scored a season-high 17 points while adding seven assists. CJ Hall scored 10 points and added six rebounds.
Both teams shot well in the first half, but two lengthy runs by Lindenwood had the Lions in front 41-37 at the break.
Tyler King cut the lead to one (41-40) with a three-pointer just 30 seconds into second half, before Lindenwood went on 9-0 run.
An Anias Futrell three-pointer gave Lindenwood its largest lead at 56-44, but a 10-2 SIUE run got the Cougars back to within two at 58-56.
Campion tied the game with a free throw with 5:12 to play. After a Kyle Thomas defensive rebound, SIUE called timeout. On the ensuing play, Campion found King on the left wing. King buried a three-pointer to move SIUE in front for the first time since it led 11-10 early in the first half. The Cougars never trailed again.
After a miss by Campion, Sakenis grabbed the offensive rebound and kicked out for another King three-pointer to give SIUE a 73-69 1:04 left.
The Cougars shot an even 50 percent (28-56) for the game and connected on 8-15 (53 percent three-pointers.
Jadis Jones led five Lindenwood players in double figures with 23 points. The Lions shot 40 percent (28-70) for the game.
UT MARTIN 55, LITTLE ROCK 52
MARTIN, Tenn. - The perfect home record for the University of Tennessee at Martin men’s basketball team remained intact this evening as the Skyhawks downed Little Rock by a 55-52 margin.
The victory improved UT Martin’s record to 10-0 inside the Kathleen and Tom Elam Center in 2025-26. The ending provided plenty of drama as the score was knotted at 46-all with 4:50 to go. The Skyhawks took a five-point advantage (55-50) with 31 seconds remaining but had to endure a potential game-tying three-point try with one second left, officially sealing the win after the Trojan attempt rimmed off.
Matas Deniusas scored a game-high 17 points – including five in a row late – to lead UT Martin, who improved to 18-5 (10-2 Ohio Valley Conference). Andrija Bukumirovic snapped the 46-46 tie with a big three-pointer, finishing the contest with 15 points plus team-highs of seven rebounds and three steals.
Little Rock (9-14, 6-6 OVC) was led by Braxton Bayless’ 13 points while Kachi Nzeh (11 points) also scored in double figures. The Trojans were held to 26.7 percent (4-of-15) shooting from three-point land and committed 17 turnovers.
Triples from Deniusas and Filip Petkovski opened the game’s scoring as UT Martin’s defense kept the Trojans scoreless five-plus minutes into the contest. Little Rock soon went on a 9-1 run to take its first lead of the evening, taking a 12-8 advantage with 9:46 to go in the first half.
The Skyhawks reeled off eight unanswered points in the waning stages of the opening half, ignited by two more treys by Petkovski and Deniusas. That surge was good enough to give UT Martin a 23-21 edge at the halftime break. Deniusas’ nine points paced all scorers while Nzeh and Johnathan Lawson had six points apiece for the Trojans in the first half.
A 7-0 Little Rock spurt nudged the Trojans ahead at the under-16-minute media timeout in the second half. A pair of AJ Hopkins three-pointers in a 1:51 stretch helped flip the Skyhawk deficit into a four-point lead (40-36) with 11 minutes remaining and UT Martin never trailed from there.
After Bukumirovic’s key trey at the 4:16 mark, Deniusas followed with a poster dunk and three-pointer from the right corner on back-to-back possessions. Little Rock rebounded a missed free throw with 12 seconds remaining to potentially send the game into overtime but the Skyhawk defense held strong.