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68
William Jewell WJC 7-9 (3-5 GLVC)
93
Winner Truman TSU 13-5 (5-3 GLVC)
William Jewell WJC
7-9 (3-5 GLVC)
68
Final
93
Truman TSU
13-5 (5-3 GLVC)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
William Jewell WJC 39 29 68
Truman TSU 48 45 93

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

Men's Basketball Recap: Truman 93, William Jewell 68

KIRKSVILLE - - The Truman men's basketball team posted its highest point total against a Div. II team this season on Thursday night, shooting better than 51% in each half en route to a 93-68 win against William Jewell (Mo.) in Pershing Arena.
 
The Bulldogs (13-5, 5-3 GLVC) drained 13 three-pointers as a team and made 37 field goals on 71 attempts to pick up their second straight Great Lakes Valley Conference West division victory. Senior guard Seth Jackson topped the 20-point mark for the 10th time this year, finishing with 24 points and seven rebounds in just 24 minutes of work.
 
The Bulldogs led by as many as 30 in the second half and trailed for just three minutes of game time to send Jewell to 7-9 overall (3-5 GLVC). The Cardinals led by three with 12:03 to go in the first half before a 15-2 run opened up a 32-22 Truman lead with 6:48 to play.
 
Truman's lead was nine, 48-39, at the intermission, and after WJC held within a dozen at 58-46 with 16:52 on the clock, the Bulldogs hit the gas and pounded out a 24-6 run to push the lead to 82-52 with 7:36 to go.
 
Eleven different Bulldogs found the scoring column, with just Jackson and backcourt mate Reed Mells (14 points, six assists) reaching double-figures. Senior Isaac Gardner and junior Cole Myers added nine points each, while redshirt freshman Connor Lusso made the most of his five minutes off the bench by pouring in eight points and grabbing four rebounds. Redshirt sophomore Cory Myers scored seven points and added four assists, while both junior Andrew Vander Zwaag and sophomore Connor Erickson chipped in six points apiece.
 
The Bulldogs shot 52.1% for the game and connected on 13-of-32 three-point tries. The Bulldogs out-rebounded WJC 38-34 and dealt 16 assists to just nine turnovers. The league's second-ranked steals squad, Truman swiped 10 Cardinal passes and turned 15 Jewell mistakes into 20 points.
 
The score was tied four times and changed hands six times – all in the opening minutes of the contest.
 
Truman returns to action to close out a three-game home-stand this Saturday (Jan. 24) afternoon at 3 p.m., when the Bulldogs host Rockhurst. The Hawks were defeated 93-74 at Quincy on Thursday night to fall to 5-11 (1-7 GLVC) on the year.
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