JOPLIN, Mo. – The Washburn Ichabods ending the regular season road slate with a 77-72 win over Missouri Southern on Wednesday night inside the Leggett & Platt Center. Washburn will wrap up the regular season hosting Emporia State on Senior Day in Lee Arena with
Zach Davidson and
Levi Braun who will be honored prior to the start of the game.
In a game that had 13 lead changes and 12 ties, the Ichabods (18-9, 14-7 MIAA) scored 10 of the final 14 points in the game. After trailing 68-67 with 3:22 to go,
Sam Ungashick hit a pair of free throws that put the Ichabods up 69-68 and neither team would score for nearly 90 seconds.
Andrew Orr's 15th and 16th points of the night pushed the Ichabod advantage to 71-68.
The Lions (13-14, 11-10 MIAA) pulled within one after Darius Dawson hit two free throws of his own with 1:26 remaining. A 3-pointer by
Brayden Shorter with 1:06 to go stretched the Ichabod lead to 74-70, but the Lions scored on their next possession with 38 seconds but as the clock ticked down, Ungashick hit a 3-pointer before the shot clock expired with 8.8 seconds to go to finish off the scoring. The Ichabods held the Lions to 1 of 6 shooting in the final 3:22 of the game and 0 of 4 from 3-point range.
Washburn led by three at the break at 39-36 after trailing by as many as seven midway through the first half.
Shorter and
Andrew Orr led the Ichabods with 16 points each. Shorter finished 4 of 8 from deep adding a team-high six rebounds and Orr was 6 of 12 from the field dishing out five assists. Also reaching double figures were
Michael Keegan with 12,
Jack Bachelor had 11 with a career-high nine assists and Ungashick had 10.
Martin Macenis had a game-high 23 points to lead the Lions.
After shooting 46 percent in the first half hitting 14 of 30 shots overall and 6 of 15 from deep, the Ichabods improved to 56 percent going 14 of 25 from the field. From the charity stripe the Ichabods were 12 of 13. The Lions shot 42 percent for the game cooling off to 41 percent in the second half dropping from of 6 of 11 from deep in the first half to 4 of 14 in the second half. The Lions matched the Ichabods from the free throw line hitting 12 of 13.
Washburn was down four in rebound margin in the first half and was plus four in the second half to tie the rebounding total at 30 each game. Washburn's bench also outscored the Lions' reserves 20 to 5 and the team also had a 36 to 24 advantage in points in the paint.
