SOSU VSNWOSU
75
Winner Northwestern Okla. NW 3-10,1-10 GAC
72
Southeastern Okla. SE 7-9,7-9 GAC
Winner
Northwestern Okla. NW
3-10,1-10 GAC
75
Final
72
Southeastern Okla. SE
7-9,7-9 GAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Northwestern Okla. NW 45 30 75
Southeastern Okla. SE 36 36 72

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Hewitt Ties Career High to Lead the Rangers to Victory Thursday Night

 Durant, Okla.- Northwestern Oklahoma State snapped their losing streak Thursday evening from a stellar shooting performance. The Rangers used a 55% first-half shooting mark to build a nine-point halftime lead the Rangers would never lose. The Rangers took the lead with six minutes left in the first half and would never trail again. 

"I am proud of our team for getting over the hump and finally tasting success.  Coach Green and his team are very hard to guard, and really make you adjust things offensively.  Our guys did a much better job of executing our sets on the offensive end, and we've finally started seeing the ball go in the hole the last couple of games" head coach Vinay Patel on the Ranger win.

The Rangers move to 3-10 on the season and 1-10 record in the Great American Conference while Southeastern falls to 7-9 on the season and in the conference. The win comes after the men's game getting moved to 6:30 and the Lady Rangers moved to the second game of the night. 

"I'm not sure people understand the adversity our program has faced this semester.  Even today, both the women and our team had travel issues on the way to Durant.  It took longer to get down here than it normally does, and we had to play the first game of night.  We had some guys really step up and play big minutes for us to help close this game out.  We are going to keep pushing our guys to become better each day and prepare for our next game Saturday" stated head coach Vinay Patel.


The Red-and-Black led by Parrish Hewitt finishing the game-tying his Ranger career-high at 31 points on 10-15 shooting, including five three-pointers. Deon Barrett added 24 points on the night for his Ranger career-high on 9-16 shooting, including five threes. Bubba Furlong finished with the game-high 11 rebounds and added six points and two blocks. Arturro Bingham finished with seven points, five rebounds, and a game-high two steals on the evening. Barrett finished the game with a team-high four assists in the game.

Southeastern led by Jaedaun Slack and Vadim Clanet scoring the team-high 13 points apiece. Kellen Manek finished with a double-double for Southeastern with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Adam Dworsky finished with the game-high eight assists.

The Thursday matchup between NWOSU and SOSU opened with Furlong scoring the first basket of the game, off the opening tip-off closing the possession out with a layup. The defensive intensity picked up some at that point going the next two minutes without scoring before Southeastern evened the game at two. Since that opening sequence, however, an offensive battle was created. Hewitt and Barrett hitting back-to-back shots opened a 9-7 Northwestern lead at the first media timeout. 

Out of the first media timeout, Northwestern continued their scoring run opening a 17-9 lead from a 7-0 run from once again Hewitt and Barrett creating shots scoring all seven of those points between the two players. Manek found his rhythm from there though helping create a 9-0 run and a 17-2 run overall to open a 26-19 lead with eight minutes left in the game. Manek with six points and two assists on that run. 

After the second media timeout out from the under eight mark Blunt started the comeback with a dunk. Barrett hit back-to-back threes for the Rangers putting them back in front with a 27-26 lead with five minutes left in the half. Clanet would bring the Savage Strom back within two but would be as close as they would get the rest of the opening half. Rangers would close the half on a 13-5 run. Hewitt and Barrett continued to lead the charge for the Rangers in the opening half on the run hitting back-to-back threes. 

Hewitt finished the first half with 18 first-half points for the Rangers, with Barrett close behind at 16 points combining for 34 of the first 45 points of the half for the Rangers. The Red-and-Black would shoot 55% from the field and 58% from three in the first half. Rangers led 45-36 at the break.

The second half opened with a Savage Storm quick 5-0 run out of the break led by Manek hitting at three. Bingham opened the Rangers scoring in the second half with a layup. Southeastern got within three at 50-47, but Barrett put an end to the run with a three-point play, putting the Rangers in front by six. Hewitt would score seven straight for the Rangers opened a 58-49 lead heading into the under 12-minute media timeout of the game. 

Matej Drgon would put the Rangers up their largest margin at 11 with a hook shot at 60-49. Southeastern would counter, out of the break with a 7-0 run led by Clanet and Bobby Johnson. They would hold the Rangers scoreless for just over four minutes into the under eight media timeout. 

The Savage Storm would dive deeper into the deficit getting as close as three at 60-57 before a Hewitt corner three put an end to that Savage Storm run. Cole Jones would follow, with a three bringing the Ranger to lead back to seven at 66-59. Johnson and Adam Dworsky would help bring the Savage Storm back within three into the final media timeout with the Rangers in front 69-66. 

Barrett continued his success, draining yet another three to give the Rangers a 72-67 lead for his fifth of the game. Clanet would counter off a fast break corner three to bring the Savage Storm back within two at 72-70. 

Hewitt would seal the win with his foul shot following his layup capped off a 31 point night tying his career-high. Hewitt would give the Rangers a 75-70 lead. Southeastern would score one more time to move the score to 75-72 on a Clanet layup. Northwestern's defense helped the Rangers prevail in the final minute to hold onto that three-point lead forcing three Savage Storm misses to hold on for the win. 

The Red-and-Black will return to action Saturday afternoon hosting the Tigers of East Central at 4PM to close out their regular season schedule following the Lady Rangers game at 2PM, before the Great American Conference playoffs start Monday night. 
 
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