Men's Basketball falls at SEMO despite Wolfe's career night

Monday, December 7

Cape Girardeau, MO

6:30 PM

Lipscomb University

1-3

SEMO

1-1

Team	1	2	F
Lipscomb	37	40	77
Southeast Missouri	39	43	82

Men's Basketball falls at SEMO despite Wolfe's career night

12/7/2020 10:41:00 PM | Men's Basketball

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By: Kirk Downs

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Despite a career-high from Jake Wolfe and a hot stroke from the Bisons outside, the Lipscomb men's basketball team dropped its fourth-straight game Monday, falling 82-77 to Southeast Missouri at the Show Me Center. It was the front end of a home-and-home series in three days.

Wolfe finished the night with 22 points, three assists and two rebounds. He was 7-of-10 from the field and also drained a career-high four triples.

Our @TarkHarwell Player of the Game was @wakejolfe. He scored a career-high 2?2? points after knocking down 4-of-5 from deep! #HornsUp pic.twitter.com/qiPSOQsXUG
— LipscombMBB (@LipscombMBB) December 8, 2020

HOW IT HAPPENED
Behind the team's leading deep threat Greg Jones, the Bisons (1-4) got hot early connecting on six of the first seven three-point attempts. Jones hit three of those triples and scored 11 quick points to help the Bisons to a 22-13 lead just over six minutes into the game.

Count 'em! That's 1...2...3...4...5 threes to open the game! WE. ARE. ON. ??????

Bisons 22, Redhawks 18 | 1H - 11:50#HornsUp pic.twitter.com/24ZVIpyYD5
— LipscombMBB (@LipscombMBB) December 8, 2020

The Redhawks answered with a 13-2 run to grab its first lead when leading-scorer Chris Harris buried a three with 10 minutes to play in the first half. Lipscomb would end up trailing for the remainder of the half, despite six three-pointers and a 50-percent clip from the floor. Ahsan Asadullah scored the final three points of the half for the Bisons and SEMO took a 39-37 lead into intermission.

Asadullah and Wolfe combined to score the first 11 points for Lipscomb out of the break, including a pair of triples from latter, but the Redhawks continued to lead. With SEMO stretching it out to its largest lead of the night at 67-61 with 8:13 on the clock, Wolfe put the Bisons on his back and began going to work.

The junior scored nine of the team's next 11 points and had an answer every time SEMO struck. The Bisons would get to within a single point on three occasions late in the half, but could never get that crucial stop.

Down six, Jones nailed a deep three off an inbounds with 1:24 to play to make it a one-possession game, but SEMO connected on 4-of-5 free throws down the stretch to put the game away, despite being the worst free-throw shooting team in the Ohio Valley Conference.

THREE BUCKETS @greg_jones3

SEMO 80, Lipscomb 77 | 2H - .15 seconds #HornsUp pic.twitter.com/IKgnoNIBGP
— LipscombMBB (@LipscombMBB) December 8, 2020

Lipscomb shot 60.9 percent in the second half, making 14-of-23 shots, but it wasn't enough as its seven turnovers in the half were turned into 12 points for SEMO.

NOTES

The Bisons shot 54.9 percent overall (28-of-51), 45.5 percent from deep (10-of-22) and 78.6 percent off the stripe (11-of-14).
Lipscomb dished out 22 assists and scored 32 points in the paint.
SEMO won the rebounding battle, 31-25, and grabbed 11 offensive boards.
The Bisons managed just one second-chance points, while the Redhawks had 12.
Lipscomb's 10 threes match a season high (Lamar).
For the second time this season, the purple and gold put four Bisons in double figures (Wolfe, G. Jones, Asadullah, Ferguson).
Greg Jones matched his season high with 18 points and four threes made. He shot 7-of-13 from the floor.
Asadullah recorded his first double-double of the year with 16 points and a career-high 10 assists. He also added seven rebounds, two blocks and shot 6-of-8 overall.
Ferguson finished with 10 points, five rebounds and three assists.
Parker Hazen added five points and five boards, while Miles Miller and Kaleb Coleman each scored three.