Wolters reaches milestone in SDSU win

Tuesday, November 22

Macon, Ga.

3:30 PM

South Dakota State University

Sam Houston State

11/22/2011 8:47:00 PM | Men's Basketball

By: SDSU Sports Info

MACON, Ga. - Nate Wolters missed his first shot on Tuesday against Sam Houston State, but buried a three-pointer from the left wing on his second attempt, which gave him exactly 1,000 career points and made him the 42nd member of the SDSU 1,000-Point Club.

Wolters went on to score 15 more points for a total of 18 in a 77-60 win over Sam Houston State in the second of three games in as many days at the Progressive CBE Classic in Macon, Ga.

Griffan Callahan led the Jackrabbits with a career-high 21 points, which included a career-high six three-pointers. Callahan and Wolters also tied for team-high honors with six rebounds.

Konner Tucker led the Bearkats with 14 points, with Darius Gatson and Michael Holyfield both finishing with 12 points in a losing effort.

SHSU made its first four shots of the game and took an early 9-2 lead, but the Jackrabbits answered with a 10-2 run, capped by a pair of Taévaunn Prince free throws to take a lead that they would never give up..

SDSU pushed its lead to 33-26 at halftime, despite shooting just 32 percent (10-of-31), compared to 48 percent (11-of-23) by the Bearkats. The difference came from the free throw line, where the Jacks converted nine of their 12 attempts, while the Bearkats went just 1-for-2 from the stripe.

The Jacks used an 18-2 run in the second half to quickly increase the lead to 54-32 with 12 minutes to play, but SHSU would not go down without a fight, and cut the lead to 10 points at 60-50 with just under five minutes to play. Callahan came back with his fifth trey of the night to give the Jacks a 13-point cushion, and they never looked back.

After struggling in the first half, the Jacks bounced back to shoot 60 percent in the second half (12-of-20), and held the Bearkats to 34 percent (12-of-35).

The Jackrabbits wrap up the CBE Classic on Wednesday, when they take on the host Mercer Bears at 7 p.m. ET.

NOTES: Tuesday's game marked the first-ever meeting with Sam Houston State ... Wolters becomes the 42nd Jackrabbit to score at least 1,000 career points, the fifth player to score his 1,000th career point as a Division I player, joining Ben Beran (2003-06, 08), Kai Williams (2006-10), Garrett Callahan (2006-10) and Clint Sargent (2007-11), and the fourth player to score all of his points at the D-I level ... Wolters finished the game with 1,015 career points, which puts him at 37th all-time ... four shy of passing Jeff Booher (1,018 points from 1988-92) for 36th all-time ... Griffan Callahan scored a career-high 21 points in the win, topping his previous high of 20 points, which he set on Dec. 11, 2010 vs. Milwaukee and again on Jan. 13, 2011 at Western Illinois ... Callahan also set a new career-high with six three-point field goals ... topping his previous career-high of four, which he accomplished four other times ... the six three-pointers also ranks 10th all-time in SDSU single-game history, a feat accomplished seven other times ... Zach Monaghan scored five points in the win, his first-career points