UIW’S losing streak reaches six games
Josh Morgan and Josiah Hammons each scored 17 points, but it wasn’t enough to prevent Incarnate Word from losing to Southeastern Louisiana 73-56 on Monday night in the Cardinals’ home finale at Mcdermott Center.
UIW (8-22, 3-14 Southland) has lost six in a row. The Cardinals close out their season on Wednesday night at Texas A&mcorpus Christi.
Southeastern Louisiana (15-15, 10-7) led only 31-30 at halftime before pulling away as UIW went cold from the field.
Brody Rowbury had 20 points to lead the Lions.
Roach leads Duke past N.C. State
Jeremy Roach had 21 points and freshman Jared Mccain scored 14 of his 16 after halftime to help No. 9 Duke pull away and beat North Carolina State 79-64 on Monday night at Raleigh, N.C.
Mccain shot 5 of 7 after the break for the Blue Devils (24-6, 15-4 Atlantic Coast Conference), who went from battling through a cold-shooting first half that put them in a 9-0 hole to riding a hot-shooting tear after the break. Two of Mccain’s 3-pointers came during a blistering run of eight straight made shots, turning a one-point deficit into a 64-52 lead on Roach’s layup at the 7:46 mark.
Duke star big man Kyle Filipowski had just nine points while being limited by first-half foul trouble. But the Blue Devils offset that with a big performance from 6-foot-9 freshman reserve Sean Stewart, who had 12 points, five rebounds, three blocks and two steals in 26 minutes.
Duke shot 62.5% (20 of 32) after halftime.
Burly big man DJ Burns Jr. had a seasonhigh 27 points on 12-for-19 shooting to lead the Wolfpack (17-13, 9-10), but leading scorer DJ Horne (17.6 points per game) had just eight points.
It was the Wolfpack’s third consecutive loss and fourth in five games.
Odds and ends
Pepperdine is moving on from coach Lorenzo Romar after six seasons. The Waves are 12-19 this season and 117-156 in nine seasons under Romar, three before he left to coach at Saint Louis University and Washington and six in this stint in which he is 75-111. … Marquette coach Shaka Smart is optimistic that Tyler Kolek’s oblique injury won’t knock the 2022-23 Big East player of the year out for the remainder of the season. “Barring a miracle,” Smart said Kolek won’t play in the last two regular-season games — Wednesday against Connecticut and Saturday at Xavier. He will be re-evaluated before next week’s Big East tournament in New York.