DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern put six players in double figures and turned in its best defensive effort of the season en route to a dominating 84-52 win over Southwestern Oklahoma State on Saturday afternoon in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.
The win is the ninth-straight for the Savage Storm and lifts them to 19-7 overall on the season and 15-3 in Great American Conference play, while the Bulldogs drop to 8-15 on the year and 8-10 in league play.
Brennen Burns led SE in scoring on the afternoon with 17 points, hitting his first seven shots of the game and finishing 8-of-11 while dishing out nine assists and pulling down five rebounds/
Kody Clouet was next in line with 13 points with a trio of threes, while also pulling down five rebounds and dishing out three assists.
Robert Briley came off the bench with 12 points on a perfect 6-of-6 performance while also hauling in a game-high eight rebounds and handing out four assists.
Chandler Dickinson would go 3-for-3 from beyond the arc and finish with 11 points while
Elijah Hughey would come off the bench to drop 11 points as well.
Landon Condiff would round out the double-digit scoring with 109 points, finishing 4-of-8 with a pair of threes.
SE would finish the game hitting 56.5 percent for the contest, thanks in large part to a 68.8 percent shooting effort in the first half, and would knock down 12 threes on the game.
The 52 points scored by SWOSU is the fewest points scored by a Storm opponent this season, with the defense holding the Bulldogs to 21.3 percent shooting overall and a 2-of-16 effort form beyond the arc.
Southeastern would also hold a 42-to-34 edge on the boards and dished out 22 assists as a team.
SWOSU would open with the first four points of the game ad would hold a 6-2 lead early before Southeastern mounted a 21-3 run that was caped by a Burns layup in transition with 13:19 to play in the first half to take a 23-9 lead.
After the Bulldogs answered that run with a layup, the Storm would then use a 13-0 run, holding SWOSU scoreless for 6:43 minutes to push the lead out to 36-11.
Southeastern would continue to push and a Condiff layup with 29 seconds to play in the half would extend the SE advantage to 54-20 at the halftime break.
The Storm would push their lead to 40 points by the 16:48 mark on a
Kyle Leslie three, and would twice top out at the game-high lead of 42 points, first on a Clouet three with 7:12 to play and again a possession later on a Briley layup with 6:26 remaining.
SWOSU would outscore SE 16-6 over the final six minutes to close the final tally to 84-52.
