Oklahoma Baptist University News
Sat, Jan 10, 2009 - [Men's Basketball]
There are no more undefeated teams in NAIA Men's Division I basketball this season.

Oklahoma Baptist ended third-ranked Rogers State's season-long win streak with an 85-75 victory in the Noble Complex Saturday.

"That was a high-intensity-level game," said OBU coach Doug Tolin. "Both teams competed at a high level. There's a reason they were undefeated."

Sylvester Spicer went for 25 points to lead Rogers State, but No. 18 OBU countered with a pair of 24-point games by Brent Jones and Nate Brumfield. That pair scored a combined 21 points at the free throw line.

"It was a big game," Jones said. "They made it tough on us and made us make free throws."

OBU shot 30 of 38 from the line for the night for 79 percent.

After five lead changes in the first five minutes, OBU took the lead for good on a Jones three-pointer with 14:59 left in the first half. That jumper triggered a personal 6-0 Jones run.

After a three-pointer by Chris Frances for RSU, the Bison scored four consecutive layups - two by Brumfield and one each by Emmanuel Wilson and Jones - to take a 19-9 lead with 11:19 to play.

OBU took off on an 8-0 run to snag a 33-15 lead with 5:20 left in the first half. Rogers State closed to within 10 by the 1:19 mark of the half, but Brumfield hit three of four free throw tries in the final 46 seconds to give the Bison a  41-28 halftime edge.

Rogers State chipped away at the lead in the second half and got with seven with 1:18 to play, but got just one more three-pointer from there while OBU added six points at the free throw line for the final 85-75 margin.

Brumfield and Jones led with 24 points each, followed by Garrett Steinmetz with 15 and Al Moore with 11.

The Bison out-rebounded RSU 39-29 with Brumfield reeling in 11 caroms.

Rogers State falls to 13-1 overall and still leads the SAC by half a game at 7-1. OBU is alone in second place at 6-1 and improved to 13-2 with its eighth consecutive win.

The Bison host Lubbock Christian Thursday at 8 p.m.

Photos by Bill Pope