DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern got 63 points from its bench, led by a 20-point debut by Charlie King en route to an 85-54 win over Arlington Baptist on Monday night in Bloomer Sullivan Arena.
 
The win pushes the Savage Storm to 1-0 to open the season heading into a Nov. 13 matchup with Northern State in Bethany, Okla., at 3 p.m.
 
King finished the contest 6-of-12 overall and 4-of-8 from beyond the three-point line on his way to a game-high 20 points.
 
Saxon McWilliam was next in line with 15 points, while DJ Dill, seeing his first action since the 2024-25 season put up 14 points on 6-of-11 shooting.
 
Ethan Wilkerson and Santiago Camacho Gomez led the Storm starters with seven points each.
 
Jordan Hernandez led the way with four assists as SE had 18 as a team, while Gomez turned in a game-high 11 rebounds.
 
Pablo Jiminez, Dill, and McWilliam each snagged a pair of steals, while Wilkerson and Augusto Toledo had two blocked shots apiece.
 
Southeastern trailed in the early moments of the contest, but would regain the lead at 8-6 by the 12:39 mark despite seven turnovers through the first eight minutes.
 
That was a problem they would sort out as they would commit just seven more over the remainder of the game.
 
Southeastern would slowly edge its lead out to as many as six points over the first half, but would take a 31-27 lead into the halftime locker room.
 
The Storm quickly opened the second half by pushing its lead to double-digits at 37-27 on a pair of Wilkerson free throws.
 
ABU briefly trimmed the Storm lead back to seven points, but the SE offense would get moving at the 10:23 mark as a King layup kicked off a 14-4 run that pushed the lead all the way to 19 points on a Wamba Ngouateu layup at the 6:45 mark.
 
The Storm would continue to push away from that point, outscoring the Patriots 19-4 over the final 5:49 to make fashion the 85-54 final score.