Box Score HAMMOND – #Kevyn Green and Chris Cyprian# each set career-highs in combining for 46 points and Southeastern Louisiana went on a 20-4 run early in the first half and cruised to a 99-59 win over NAIA Dillard University Saturday afternoon at the University Center.
Green led Southeastern (2-3) with a career-high 30 points, going 11-for-16 from the floor and 5 of 6 from behind the 3-point line as the Lions posted the 9th-largest margin of victory in school history. Cyprian, whose previous high was 13 set against Miles College on Nov. 17, scored all his points in the first half before sitting out the final 20 minutes.
“Tonight was a stat-stuffer type of game,” Southeastern head coach
Jim Yarbrough said. “Sometimes you get in these games and you muddle through or you're flat and we were not that tonight. After starting out 1-3 and playing pretty well on the road, it was important for us to get back the friendly confines and play well and I thought our guys did that.”
A jumper in the lane by
Warrell Span put Southeastern ahead for good, 4-2, before Cyprian followed with a 3-pointer with 17:13 remaining in the first half. The Lions pushed their lead to 11-4 after Cyprian made a pair of free throws before Green hit three consecutive 3-pointers to give Southeastern a 20-4 lead.
Green, who eclipsed his previous high of 29 set last season at McNeese State, scored 16 points in the final 20 minutes after the Lions built a 56-27 lead on 19-for-28 (68 percent) aim in the first half.
“Everybody got out and ran hard in transition which led to a lot of easy baskets,” Green said. “I didn't even know (about the career high), I just tried to continue to play hard and stay aggressive and bounce back from the last game.”
Southeastern led by as many as 29 three times in the opening half and extended its lead to 74-33 on a layup by
Patrick Sullivan with 13:33 left. Dillard (2-3) got as close as 82-50 on Christopher Brock's layup with 5:50 remaining.
All thirteen players who dressed for the Lions saw action with Green playing a team-high 26 minutes. Twelve players entered the scoring column for the Lions, including freshman
Cory Richard who finished 4-for-4 from the free throw line, and
Daren Hankins who drained a 3-pointer that closed out the scoring for Southeastern.
Sullivan added 13 points and two blocks to increase his total to 124 in his career, seven shy of tying Thelander Tillman for the Southeastern record.
Robert Tibbs, who added eight points, led the Lions with 11 rebounds while freshman
Brandon Fortenberry dished out a season-high nine assists.
Southeastern finished 35-for-57 (61 percent) from the floor and 20-for-23 from the free throw line. The Lions drained nine 3-pointers while holding Dillard to 25-for-67 (37 percent) from the floor and 3-of-14 from behind the 3-point arc.
David Manning led the Blue Devils with 16 points with Michael Bridges adding 15 and nine rebounds.
Southeastern returns to action on Tuesday when it travels to Baton Rouge to face Southern University in a 7 p.m. contest at the F.G. Clark Activity Center.
DILLARD (2-3)
D. Manning 6-14 3-4 16; Bridges 7-20 1-5 15; A. Manning 3-6 0-2 6; Brock 3-5 0-0 6; Williams 2-5 0-0 6; Mitchell 2-6 0-0 4; Wallace 1-2 0-0 2; Bell 1-2 0-0 2; Wingate 0-4 2-2 2; Harper 0-3 0-2 0. Totals 25-67 6-15 59.
SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA (2-3)
Green 11-16 3-5 30; Cyprian 3-4 8-8 16; Sullivan 5-6 3-4 13; Tibbs 4-6 0-0 8; Pope 3-3 0-0 6; Fortenberry 2-5 2-2 6; Span 3-6 0-0 6; Richard 0-1 4-4 4; Hankins 1-1 0-0 3; Dunbar 1-6 0-0 3; Patterson 1-2 0-0 2; Ndoumba 1-1 0-0 2; Burches 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-57 20-23 99.
Halftime – SLU 56, Dillard 27. 3-point goals - Dillard 3-14 (Williams 2-4; D. Manning 1-4; Mitchell 0-1; Wallace 0-1; Wingate 0-2; Bridges 0-2), SLU 9-19 (Green 5-6; Cyprian 2-3; Dunbar 1-5; Hankins 1-1; Fortenberry 0-2; Richard 0-1; Tibbs 0-1). Fouled out - None. Rebounds - Dillard 24 (Bridges 9), SLU 44 (Tibbs 11). Assists - Dillard 8 (D. Manning, Wingate 2), SLU 25 (Fortenberry 9). Total fouls - Dillard 16, SLU 16. Technical fouls - None. A – 731.
