NWOSU vs TSU MBB
Emma Sporleder
63
Northwestern Okla. NWOSU 1-5,0-2 GAC
71
Winner Tarleton State TSU 4-3,0-1 Lone Sta
Northwestern Okla. NWOSU
1-5,0-2 GAC
63
Final
71
Tarleton State TSU
4-3,0-1 Lone Sta
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Northwestern Okla. NWOSU 31 32 63
Tarleton State TSU 34 37 71

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Madison Parrott, Athletic Communications

Rangers Drop Tough Match-Up Before the Break

STEPHENVILLE, Texas– Northwestern Oklahoma State University faced a tough out-of-conference match-up on the Wednesday before the Universities Thanksgiving break. Tarleton State University was a great opponent for the Rangers to face early in the season and the Black-and-Red kept up until the very end of the game. The Texans took the game with a score of 63-71 and improved their record to 4-3, 0-1 in the Lone Star conference. NWOSU dropped their record to 1-5, 0-2 in the Great American Conference.
 
The Ranger offense was led by two transfers in Nathan Bailey III and Clive Allen who both posted double digits in points with 15 and 12 respectively. Bailey continued to play well after he earned a season high 19 points in the last match. Bailey is now averaging 10 points a game with a field goal percentage of 40% for the season. He also led the team with six rebounds. Allen went 2-4 from beyond the arc with three rebounds of his own and a team high four assists.
 
The Rangers played well in the first half of the game with a 40% three-point percentage compared to Tarleton's 16%. Northwestern was able to tie the score 19-19 at the 11-minute mark, but the Texans answered with a 9-0 run and took their largest lead of the half. NWOSU came raging back with three pointers from Bailey and Cole Jones. 
 
With only a minute left in the half Jones hit a shot deep from beyond the arc to pull within one. Bailey earned 10 of his 16 points in the first half alone to keep the Rangers within three as they headed into the half with a score of 31-34.
 
Both the Rangers and the Texans started the half with their own double-digit runs. An immediate three from Bailey tied the score 34-34 and then Tarleton State went on a 12-0 run to take their biggest lead of the game 34-46. NWOSU answered with a 10-point run of their own which started with a rallying lay-up-and-one from Jack Peck. Returner Bryshon Bryant added two lay-ups and the score sat at 44-46 with 13 minutes left in the game.
 
Five straight lay-ups came from the Texans to push their lead to 57-44 with 10 minutes left in the half. A final run from the Rangers with back-to-back threes from Parrish Hewitt got the Black-and-Red to within one but that was all they could muster. Tarleton State pulled away in the final minutes to take the game 63-71.
 
The Ranger bench show great improvement with 21 points to Tarleton State's 12. Red-shirt junior Peck and sophomore Cole Jones had eight and nine points respectively. Tarleton took the cake in fast break points with 16 to the Ranger's six.
 
The Rangers are scheduled to play another out-of-conference game Saturday evening against Bethel College at 8:00 p.m. in Percefull Fieldhouse.

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