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64
Iowa Wesleyan IWU 7-4
103
Winner Truman TSU 10-3
Iowa Wesleyan IWU
7-4
64
Final
103
Truman TSU
10-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Iowa Wesleyan IWU 30 34 64
Truman TSU 56 47 103

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

Bulldogs Open New Year by Trouncing Tigers

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KIRKSVILLE, Mo. - - All 11 Truman men's basketball players found the scorebook on Sunday afternoon, as the Bulldogs used a 37-9 run to close out the final nine minutes of the first half to rout Iowa Wesleyan 103-64 in the team's return from the holiday break.
 
The Bulldogs, now 10-3 on the season, played their final non-conference game on the season Sunday, with the purple and white jumping back into Great Lakes Valley Conference play for the duration beginning on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. against McKendree in Pershing Arena.
 
Truman trailed by as many as six in the opening minutes before tying the game at 19-all off three straight lay-ups. A lay-up by IWU's Steven Archibald gave the Tigers (7-4) a 21-19 lead with 8:45 to go in the opening frame; however, from there, the Bulldogs rattled off runs of 15-0, 10-0, and 8-0 as part of a 37-9 burst to head into the break with a 56-30 lead. The final 8-0 spurt came in the last 45 seconds of the half and was punctuated by freshman guard Jake Velky's fifth triple of the half that came at the buzzer.
 
After shooting 54% from the floor in the opening half, the Bulldogs hit 47% of its attempts in the second half – fueled predominantly by the bench – to out-score the Tigers by a 47-34 mark in the final 20 minutes. For the game, the Bulldogs hit 38-of-75 (50.7%) shots overall, including 13-of-30 (43.3%) from three-point range. Truman hit eight triples in the first half and five more in the second.
 
Velky finished with a game-high 19 points while sharing the team-high in assists with junior Dwight Sistrunk, Jr., with seven. Five other Bulldogs – Connor Erickson, Billy Daniel, Cory Myers, Kyle Kanaskie, and Zach Fischer – finished in double-figures, with Daniel pairing his with a career-high 10 rebounds for a double-double. Freshman Nikola Pesic notched new career-bests in both points (8) and rebounds (8) off the bench.
 
Truman out-scored the Tigers 46-22 in the paint, turning 11 offensive rebounds into 10 second chance points. The Bulldogs also out-rebounded IWU 49-29 overall, and held the Tigers' leading all-around threat, junior Chris Fowler, to just six points on 3-of-12 shooting with eight turnovers.
 
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