ABILENE, Texas — The Abilene Christian men's basketball team put on another defensive show Monday night in a dominant 88-47 win over Schreiner. The Wildcats opened the game on a 19-0 run and never looked back. Each of the 13 players who saw the floor put up points and six different players scored seven or more.
Logan McLaughlin put up 13 points off the bench to lead all scorers and the Wildcats defense forced a season-high 34 turnovers.
Key Plays
- Mahki Morris got the scoring started for the Wildcats with a fastbreak layup while drawing a foul to complete the three-point play.
- The Wildcats pushed their lead to 7-0 behind back-to-back steals from Reggie Miller leading to layups on the other end.
- Airion Simmons scored on consecutive possessions, both on feeds from Cameron Steele that put ACU up 17-0.
- ACU pushed their lead to 20-plus with back-to-back threes from Immanuel Allen and Damien Daniels with just over nine minutes left in the first half.
- Tobias Cameron grabbed a long rebound and went the length of the floor for a monster dunk while drawing the foul to push ACU's lead to 30 with just under two minutes left in the first half.
- Morris got back-to-back steals early in the second half leading to a layup for Miller and an open three for Logan McLaughlin, pushing the Wildcats lead to 39.
- McLaughlin put an exclamation point on the night with a steal and dunk late in the second half.
Stat Pack
- Thirteen Wildcats saw the floor tonight with each player logging at least 12 minutes of action and no one playing more than 19.
- Reggie Miller and Ja'Sean Jackson each registered career-high steals with five and three, respectively.
- Airion Simmons also notched a career-high with four assists on the night. He also scored 12 points with five rebounds, a block and a steal.
- McLaughlin led the team in scoring with 13 and was one of three players to register a season-high scoring effort. Tobias Cameron (12) and Yuot Gai (7) also had season highs.
- The team forced a season-high 34 turnovers and had a season-high 18 steals. The 18 steals is tied for fourth-most in ACU's DI era.
- ACU shot over 50 percent from the field for the second-straight game.
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Up Next
The Wildcats announced earlier today that they added a game on Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. The team will host the University of Dallas as a last-minute tune-up before facing UIW on Saturday afternoon.
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