Box Score

The WVSU men's basketball team kicked off its holiday break on a high note Monday with a 91-75 win over visiting Washington Adventist University Monday afternoon.

DeQuan Doyle hit a 3-pointer 30 second into the game to get things started for the Yellow Jackets as the squads traded buckets during the opening minutes.

That lasted until the 13:35 mark of the first half when an Ernest Jenkins jumper knotted the score at 15-15, the fifth tie of the contest.

WVSU went on to score nine more unanswered points to surge to a 24-15 advantage. The Yellow Jackets never looked back after that.

"I thought we had a nice balanced attack offensively," WVSU Head Coach Bryan Poore said. "We had 19 assists on 31 field goals."

Several of those assists came on some sharp interior passing as the Yellow Jackets outscored the taller Shock 38-26 in the paint.

They also hit 47.4 percent of their shots from 3-point range and 54.4 percent overall. Defensively the Jackets held the visitors to 33.3 percent shooting.

The teams played almost dead even statistically in every other category.

Jenkins led WVSU with 25 points, Brent Bauer and Jayson Hankins each added 16 and Mohammed Camara 10. Hankins led the Jackets with 11 rebounds.

"We needed a win for morale going into the break," Poore said.

The Yellow Jackets do not play again until Tuesday, January 3, when they host #5 West Liberty.