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Men?s Basketball Uses Huge First Half to Dominate #10 IU East

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RICHMOND, Ind. -- In a top-10 showdown in Richmond, Indiana the No. 2-ranked Indiana Wesleyan University men’s basketball team built a 32 point halftime advantage en route to a 91-60 win on the road at No. 10-ranked IU East.

 

Game Vitals

  • Score:  Indiana Wesleyan - 91   |   IU East - 60
  • Records:  Indiana Wesleyan 6-0   |   IU East 3-4
  • NAIA Top- 25 Rank:  Indiana Wesleyan - No. 2   |   IU East - No. 10  
  • Location:   Richmond High School   |   Richmond, Indiana 
  • Brief:  In a top-10 showdown in Richmond, Indiana the No. 2-ranked Indiana Wesleyan University men’s basketball team built a 32 point halftime advantage en route to a 91-60 win on the road at No. 10-ranked IU East.

 


What Went Down

  • Indiana Wesleyan opened the game on a 33-6 run in the first 11 minutes.
  • IWU had 35 point leads of 52-17 and 55-20 in the first half.
  • Indiana Wesleyan went into halftime up 32 points by a score of 56-24.
  • The largest lead of the game for the Wildcats was 41 points which they reached on three occasions, the last of them coming at 89-48 on a Jonny Marlin (SR/Greenwood, Ind.) 3-pointer with 7:37 remaining.
  • Josh Mawhorr (SR/Muncie, Ind.) had a double-double with game-highs of 19 points and 11 rebounds.
  • Eight Wildcats played 15 or more minutes in the victory.
  • Indiana Wesleyan hit 60.6-percent (20 of 33) during the first half and were at 66.7-percent (8 of 12) from beyond the arc. IWU was 14-of-27 (51.9-percent) overall from 3-point range.
  • Indiana Wesleyan outscored IU East 16-0 on fast-break points and 17-4 on second chance points.
  • The Wildcats dominated the Red Wolves on the boards by a 54-29 margin. Lane Mahurin (JR/Rockville, Ind.) added nine rebounds and Ben Carlson (SO/Palatine, Ill.) added eight boards in less than nine minutes.

 

Extra! Extra!

  • Indiana Wesleyan improves to 3-0 against NAIA Top-10 teams in 2015-16. IWU also defeated No. 1 Cornerstone (Mich.) and No. 7 Union (Ky.). Indiana Wesleyan has an average margin of victory of 17.0 points in the three games.

 

Next Time Out

  • Indiana Wesleyan opens Crossroads League play next Tuesday night at home against Marian (Ind.). Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Luckey Arena.
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