Daum's 32 not enough as Jacks fall at ORU

Thursday, January 12

Tulsa, Okla.

7 p.m.

South Dakota State University

Oral Roberts

Photo by: Inertia Sports Media/Dave Eggen

1/12/2017 9:20:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

TULSA, Oklahoma -- South Dakota State men's basketball saw it comeback efforts fall short as the Jacks dropped a 94-88 contest at Oral Roberts Thursday evening despite a 32-point effort from Mike Daum.

SDSU (8-12, 1-4 Summit League) shot 52.3 percent from the field and hit 12 3-pointers on the night, but Oral Roberts used a 23 of 24 effort at the charity stripe alongside a 50 percent mark on field goals and seven 3-pointers to secure the win.

Daum Daum led all scorers, attempting a career-high 25 field goals with a career-high 14 made. Reed Tellinghuisen (14 points), A.J. Hess (12 points) and Chris Howell (11 points) joined Daum in double figures as Howell snagged a team-high sevn boards.

All five starters for the Golden Eagles reached double figures in the scoring column, led by Albert Owens' 24 points.

An early 8-0 run for the Jacks with 3-pointers from Tellinghuisen and Hess carried SDSU to an 10-4 lead in the first three minutes, but ORU responded with seven consecutive points of their own to take an 11-10 lead at 16:08.

After a swing of five quick lead changes saw the Jacks take control, 17-16, off an Andre Wallace jumper, SDSU held the advantage for the next five minutes, but couldn't pull away as ORU found an answer for the Jacks hot shooting.

With 3:52 to go in the half, Hess sunk his third 3-pointer of the night to move the Jacks' edge to four once again, but the Eagles used a 7-2 run over the next 90 seconds to take back the lead before neither scored over the final two minutes of the half.

All told, 16 lead changes, six ties and 20 field goals for both teams over a fast-paced, high-efficiency first half sent the Jacks to the locker room down one, 50-49.

SDSU hit 64.5 percent of its field goals with nine 3-pointers in the opening 20 minutes while Oral Roberts was 20 of 37 (54.1 percent) on field goals in the first half with five 3s.

Daum paced the squad with 13 points and four rebounds in the half, matching Hess (nine points) with three 3-pointers. Ian Theisen had nine points as well for the Jacks in the first.

ORU picked up where it left off in the second, moving out to a 63-54 lead before the under-16 media before SDSU cut it to five (63-58) behind a Daum dunk and Howell 3-pointer. The Jackrabbits continued to rally and drew within one, 68-67, moments later, with another Daum slam off Howell's assist at 9:35 to close a run of seven straight for SDSU.

After Golden Eagles pulled away to lead by 11 (81-70) with less than six to play, and the Jacks started a climb back over the next four minutes that saw them cut the lead to two, 81-79, behind a pair of Tellinghuisen free throws with 3:01 on the clock.

The Jackrabbit run was ended on the next ORU possession, but SDSU continued to push and tied it, 83-all, with 1:04 to play on a second chance layup by Daum.

That was all for the Jacks, however, as ORU's free throw shooting prowess helped the Golden Eagles hold on down the stretch.

Head Coach T.J. Otzelberger
On tonight's game ...
"I think tonight's game obviously both teams scored the ball fairly easily, especially in that first half. I think for us we weren't able to be successful because stretches in that second half we had some costly turnovers and some shots we wish we had back. We need to really make sure we have a great shot every time. I thought when we did that we scored and I thought when we got stops we ran and did a great job.

"For us to win, we've talked about playing for 40 minutes, we have to value every possession and for some stretches it didn't feel like we did that tonight."

On Chris Howell and Lane Severyn stepping up ...
"Ian was off to a great start and it really hurt us when he went down, having nine points in five minutes and he was going well. That hurt our physical presence and interior presence in the paint with Mike being the only real one to play there.

"I was really happy with Lane Severyn's energy. I thought he really played hard, had three steals and shook it up on the glass and had some tough offensive rebounds for us. Chris Howell had some really good energy too and got us going. That's been a struggle for us, finding consistent guys that can bring energy. I was happy with those guys tonight and we need that from everybody every night."

Game Notes

Mike Daum entered the game with 937 career points. He is now 31 points away from joining the SDSU 1,000 point club with 969 points.
Daum has now reached double figures 48 times in 54 career games, 20 points on 21 occasions and 30 points in five contests.
SDSU did not attempt a free throw in the first half for the second time this season, with the previous occurrence coming Nov. 19, 2016 at Wyoming.
SDSU's 49 first half points was the most in the opening period for the Jacks this season. The previous high was 48, set Nov. 30, 2016 against Minnesota Crookston.
SDSU had four players in double figures six times this season.

What's Next
South Dakota State is idle the remainder of the week and returns to action next Wednesday, Jan. 18 at IUPUI.

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