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Still perfect: Drake comes back to beat Valpo
No. 25 Drake improved to 18-0 with an 80-77 win. Share Updated: 4:38 PM CST Feb 6, 2021
No. 25 Drake improved to 18-0 with an 80-77 win. Share Updated: 4:38 PM CST Feb 6, 2021 Drake keeps getting tested, but the undefeated Bulldogs keep coming through at the end. Saturday, the No. 25 Bulldogs overcame an eight-point halftime deficit to beat Valpo 80-77 and move to 18-0 on the season. The win extends the best start in program history.Drake trailed 69-65 after Valpo s Sheldon Edwards sank a 3-pointer. The Bulldogs, however, responded with an 11-0 run, capped by a Roman Penn 3-pointer that put Drake up 76-69 with 1:02 left in the game.Tank Hemphill led the way for Drake with 18 points and 12 rebounds, Tremell Murphy added 11 points and 11 rebounds. Drake plays Valpo again at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
“I knew that we were going to go on a run,” Hemphill said. “Everybody knew that we were going to go on a run. It was only a matter of time.”
Drake trailed 69-65 with under five minutes remaining when Hemphill’s dunk cut the deficit to two points. Tremell Murphy, D.J. Wilkins and Roman Penn all added 3-pointers over the next three minutes to give the Bulldogs a 76-69 lead with one minute remaining.
What made the run sweeter for the Bulldogs is that all four players who scored grew up within a half hour from Valparaiso’s campus in an area of Northwest Indiana known as “The Region.”
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2021/01/11 05:54 VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) Isiaih Mosley tied his career high with 29 points scoring 26 after halftime and Missouri State defeated Valparaiso 78-68 on Sunday. Mosley has scored 29 in three straight games and is the first player in the Bears Division I era to score 20 points in seven straight games, and first in overall program history since Jimmie Dull in 1977. Gaige Prim had 16 points and 10 rebounds, his third double-double in four games, for Missouri State (8-1, 5-1 Missouri Valley Conference), which earned its fourth consecutive victory. Ja’Monta Black added 14 points. Keaton Hervey had eight rebounds. Jacob Ognacevic had 13 points for the Crusaders (3-7, 0-2). Eron Gordon added 13 points and seven rebounds. Ben Krikke had 12 points and Sheldon Edwards 10.