INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - A strong first-half gave the Truman State Men's basketball team an 85-76 win over Indianapolis for their fourth-straight victory.

The Bulldogs dominated the first-half, going into the break up 52-32. The game was tight for the first four minutes, where the UINDY Greyhounds would hold their last lead of the game up 11-10 at the 16:28 mark. The Bulldogs quickly took the lead back and ran, going up 20. Truman State shot 19-31 (61.3%) from the field and a remarkable 12-17 (70.6%) from deep in the first-half.

UINDY outscored Truman 44-33 in the second-half, but it was not enough to complete the comeback. The Bulldogs cooled off shooting, going 8-20 (40%) from the field and 1-7 (14.3%) from three. 

Truman State held UINDY to just 26-63 (41.3%) shooting and 5-22 (22.7%) from deep.

Trey Shearer and Kobi Williams both scored 20+ in the game, with Shearer dropping 22 and Williams having 20. Shearer also added two rebounds three assists, and two blocks to his totals. Williams had two boards, a block, and a steal as well.

Xavier Hall nearly was third in scoring with 19 on 7-13 shooting. Hall once again led in assists with five while also grabbing five rebounds and a team-high five assists.

Casen Lawrence scored an easy 13 points, going 3-4 from three and 4-4 from the free throw line.

Matt Haefner had eight points on 3-3 shooting and Landon Eiland had three with a team-high seven rebounds.

The Bulldogs are now back up to .500 overall with an 11-11 record, and are 8-6 in GLVC play.

Truman hosts Maryville next on Thursday, February 15th, at 7:30 p.m. in Pershing Arena.