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85
Winner TRUMAN TRUMAN 15-5, 7-3 GLVC
81
Drury University Panthers DU 13-5, 7-3 GLVC
Winner
TRUMAN TRUMAN
15-5, 7-3 GLVC
85
Final
81
Drury University Panthers DU
13-5, 7-3 GLVC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
TRUMAN TRUMAN 46 39 85
Drury University Panthers DU 42 39 81

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Tyler Madsen, Athletics Communications

Men's Basketball Recap: Truman 85, Drury 81

The Basics:
Final Score: Truman 85, Drury 81
Records: Truman (15-5, 7-3 GLVC) || Drury (13-5, 7-3 GLVC)
Series: Drury leads all time-series, 8-5 || Truman has now won three of last five meetings.
Location: Springfield, Mo. (O'Reilly Family Events Center) | Springfield, Mo.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - - Senior Seth Jackson scored a career-high 42 points and moved past Jason Reinberg (1996-2000) into fifth-place on the Truman men's basketball career scoring chart, as the Bulldogs picked up a hard-fought 85-81 road victory at Drury (Mo.) University on Thursday night.
 
The Bulldogs (15-5, 7-3 GLVC) jumped into a three-way tie atop the Great Lakes Valley Conference West division standings with the road victory, which marked just the second home loss in the last 34 games for the host Panthers (13-5, 7-3 GLVC). Truman, Drury, and Missouri-St. Louis all now sit at 7-3 in league play with eight games left in the 2014-15 regular season.
 
The game started off slowly for the Bulldogs, but with Truman trailing 8-2, senior guard Reed Mells was fouled on a made three-pointer and converted an atypical four-point play.
 
After the Panthers built a 25-21 lead with 9:27 to go in the opening half, the Bulldogs blasted off – going on a 16-2 run during a 4:51 stretch of action to take a double-figure lead at 37-27 with 4:36 to play in the first. The lead would reach 11 at 45-34, before the Panthers closed the half on an 8-1 burst of their own – including a buzzer-beating triple – to send Truman into the intermission on top, 46-42.
 
The closing run of the first half added a 9-4 log to it to open the second, as Drury led 51-50 with 15:20 to play. But after Jackson scored 22 in the first half, he gave Truman the lead on a three-ball just 13 seconds later for a 53-51 edge.
 
After DU cut Truman's lead to 55-54, the Bulldogs got three-pointers on three straight possessions by junior Andrew Vander Zwaag and sophomore Cory Myers (two) to push the lead back to double-figures at 64-54.
 
Drury would again rally, cutting the lead to just one with three minutes and change to play, but Truman never relinquished the lead down the stretch. Both teams struggled at the line in the closing minutes – including Myers, who saw his school-record 48 straight free throw mark end with 43 seconds to play – but Truman hit enough in the final seconds to keep the Panthers at bay for the 85-81 victory.
 
Jackson's 42 points most astonishingly came on just 11 field goal attempts, as the St. Louis-native was 7-for-11 from the floor, including a 3-of-4 mark from three-point range. He did most of his damage by getting to the foul line – hitting 25 of 30 free throws to tie a school record for single-game makes at the charity stripe. The 25 made free throws matched Bill Ausmus' nearly 60-year record, set against Northwest Missouri on Dec. 12, 1955. Ausmus holds the single-game attempts record of 31, also coming in that contest.

Meanwhile, Jackson now sits with 1,428 career points, just 19 away from reaching David Winslow's (1977-81) fourth-place total on Truman's career scoring list. He passed Reinberg's total of 1,426 during the late game fouling stretch and also added seven rebounds, a block, a steal, and an assist in 35 minutes of action. The 42 points tied for third-most in Bulldog single-game history.
 
Meanwhile, Mells finished with 14 points, five assists, three rebounds and two steals, while Myers added 12 points and five rebounds. Only three other Bulldogs scored, including six apiece for Vander Zwaag and Connor Erickson and five for Cole Myers.
 
Truman shot 52.4% from the floor for the game, hitting 22-of-42 shots, including 9-of-21 (42.9%) from three-point range. The Bulldogs went a collective 32-of-41 (78.0%) from the free throw line, as those not named Jackson made 7-of-11 tries.
 
The Bulldogs were out-rebounded slightly at 31-29 and despite turning the ball over 15 times, both teams scored 12 points off the other's miscues.
 
The lead changed hands twice and was tied once. Four players finished in double-figures for Drury, with Cameron Adams' 21 points (5-7 FG, 11-13 FT) leading the way for the home squad.
 
Truman will look to run its win streak to five on Saturday afternoon, when the Bulldogs visit Missouri S&T at 3 p.m. in Rolla. The Miners fell at home to Quincy on Thursday night to move to 8-10 overall, 1-9 in the GLVC.
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