TOPEKA, Kan. – The Washburn Ichabod basketball team fell in its calendar year finale in an 85-82 loss to Northeastern State on Monday afternoon in Lee Arena. The Ichabods will be off until they resume MIAA play at Central Missouri on Jan. 1, 2022 in Warrensburg.
 
The Ichabods (6-6, 3-3 MIAA) held a 51-50 lead with 10:32 to go in the game before the RiverHawks would outscore Washburn 22 to 12 over a 4:41 stretch of the second half building a nine-point lead at 72-63 with 5:33 to go in the game.
 
Washburn trimmed the lead back to five with 5:05 to go and eventually down to four at 76-72 with 2:28 remaining after a Jeremy Harrell jumper, but a 3-pointer on the RiverHawks' (7-4, 2-3 MIAA) possession pushed the margin back to seven with 2:15 left.
 
Again the Ichabods came back after a 3-pointer by Levi Braun and a layup by Tyler Geiman cut the lead to three with 38 seconds left at 82-79 but the Ichabods would not get any closer than three on three different occasions in the 3-point loss snapping an eight-game winning streak over Northeastern State.
 
The Ichabods led 37-32 at the half on the heels of hitting 7 of 15 3-pointers leading by as many as 11 midway through the opening half.
 
Geiman led the Ichabods with 22 points and 10 assists recording his 10th double double of his Ichabod career playing all 40 minutes. He finished 9 of 13 from the free throw line. Braun scored 17 points and Harrell had 13 points.
 
Christian Cook had 26 points to lead all scorers.
 
Washburn finished the game 25 of 60 from the field shooting 42 percent for the game and Northeastern State finished at 51 percent hitting 26 of 51 shots including a 57 percent clip in the second half after hitting 12 of 21 shots. In the first half the RiverHawks hit 1 of 4 free throws before going 26 of 30 in the second half from the free throw line. Washburn was 20 of 28 for the game from the free throw line.