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53
Maryville MU 9-6 (4-2 GLVC)
74
Winner Truman TSU 12-5 (4-3 GLVC)
Maryville MU
9-6 (4-2 GLVC)
53
Final
74
Truman TSU
12-5 (4-3 GLVC)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Maryville MU 25 28 53
Truman TSU 40 34 74

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Tyler Madsen, Athletics Communications

Men's Basketball Recap: Truman 74, Maryville 53

KIRKSVILLE - - The Truman men's basketball team blitzed Maryville with 10 first-half three-pointers, then opened the second half on an 11-0 run to cruise to a 74-53 victory against the Saints on Saturday afternoon in Pershing Arena.
 
The Bulldogs (12-5, 4-3 GLVC) handled Maryville (9-6, 4-2 GLVC) in two different ways – punishing the MU zone defense in the first half with 10 triples on 11 total made baskets before shooting 13-for-23 from inside the arc against MU's man-to-man in the second stanza. Truman hit 10-of-19 from three-point land in the opening 20 minutes, as senior guards Isaac Gardner and Reed Mells led the way with three apiece.
 
Meanwhile, after scoring 11 in the first half, the GLVC's leading scorer, Seth Jackson, added 10 more in the second half to pace the Bulldogs' inside attack, with sophomore Connor Erickson scoring all six of his points in the game during eight second half minutes.
 
The score changed hands just four times, all in the early going before a Mells bucket at the 14:47 mark of the first half gave Truman the lead for good at 10-8. From there, the lead extended to 18-8 and dropped into single-digits just once more on an MU free throw to make the score 18-9.
 
Jackson's ninth 20+ point outing of the season came on 5-of-15 shooting overall (1-for-4 from three-point range) and 10-of-12 free throws, as the St. Louis-native grabbed a team-high seven rebounds. He also handed out a career-high six assists in 28 minutes of work.
 
Melsl added 15 points, six rebounds and two assists in 24 minutes, with Gardner coming off the bench  to pour in 14 points behind a team-best four triples. Junior Cole Myers had three assists and three steals off the bench, as nine Bulldogs got into the scoring column on the afternoon.
 
Truman shot 42.4% from the floor for the game and connected on 11-of-28 three-point attempts (39.3%). The 'Dogs also hit 13-of-17 from the foul line (76.5%) in front of a season-high crowd of 1,385.
 
Maryville was led by Forrester Sims' 13 points, with the Saints shooting 40.0% from the floor overall. MU hit 7-of-17 three-pointers (41.2%) and went 10-for-15 (66.7%) from the charity stripe.
 
The Bulldogs – now one game back in the GLVC West standings – welcome William Jewell (7-8, 3-4 GLVC) on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m.
 
Additional Notes:
  • Truman has now won three straight against the Saints, including two in a row in Pershing by an average of 23.5 ppg.
  • Seth Jackson passed both Mike Carlson (2010-14) and Larry Swift (1958-61) on Truman's career scoring chart today, with the senior now sitting in seventh-place all-time with 1,346 points. He is 36 away from matching Terry Bussard's sixth-place total of 1,382, set from 1975-79.
  • Truman is now 7-2 at home this season, including 2-2 in GLVC contests.
  • The Bulldogs improved to 11-2 this year when they lead at the half. Truman also is now 10-0 this season when they make more free throws than their opponents.
  • Truman entered the game with the GLVC's No. 1 and the NCAA's No. 9 assist-to-turnover ratio – improving that number today with 18 assists to just nine turnovers.
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