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INDIANAPOLIS - IUPUI's 19-game home winning streak came to crashing close on Saturday night as Western Illinois silenced The Jungle, 58-48. The defeat also ended IUPUI's 19-game winning streak against the Leathernecks, dating back to the 1999-00 season.

The game was The Summit League opener for both schools.

Western's David Nurse led all players with a season-high 21 points and David DuBois tossed in 18. Junior Robert Glenn paced IUPUI (5-3, 0-1 Summit) with 17 points and rookie Alex Young added 12 on 6-of-13 shooting. 

Western Illinois's (3-5, 1-0 Summit) tough halfcourt defense harassed the Jaguars into 17 turnovers and limited the hosts to just 36 percent shooting from the field. In addition, the WIU backcourt held Gary Patterson scoreless for just the second time in his IUPUI career and shot 40 percent (8-of-20) from beyond the arc at the other end. 

IUPUI trailed by as many as 14 in the first half, but used a 13-0 run to cut the WIU lead to 23-22 with 1:12 remaining before halftime. Sophomore John Ashworth opened the run with a three from the corner and Glenn finished it with six straight points. 

WIU pushed the lead back to four by halftime at 26-22. 

The Jaguars took a brief 28-27 lead when Billy Pettiford swished a three from the right wing, but DuBois answered with a traditional three-point play and WIU never trailed the rest of the way. The WIU lead swelled to 13 with under eight minutes left when Nurse hit his fifth three of the game, but Glenn and Young refused to allow the hosts go away easily. 

The duo combined to score all 13 points in a 13-0 run, tying the score with 3:38 left. However DuBois temporarily stopped the bleeding with another three-point play with 3:10 to play. 

Young missed a triple that would have tied the game with just under three minutes left and DuBois landed the final dagger by drilling a wide open three from the corner in front of his team's bench with 1:48 to play. 

DuBois hit 7-of-13 shots and added three steals. Nurse's five treys were a career-high and the guard added a team-high six rebounds and three assists in 37 minutes work. 

Glenn went 5-of-11 from the field and added five rebounds and three blocked shots in 28 minutes. Pettiford and Leroy Nobles each snagged 10 rebounds, but combined to score just 12 points. The Jags hit just 27 percent from three-point range and 65 percent from the foul line. 

IUPUI's 48 points were the team's fewest since a 53-45 loss at Vanderbilt on Dec. 22, 2005.  

The Jaguars return to action next Saturday when they take part in the Desert Classic in Phoenix, Ariz.. Head Coach Ron Hunter's team will take on Arizona State and will be followed by Arizona/Gonzaga inside US Airways Center. Tipoff is slated for 1:15 p.m. MT with pregame coverage beginning 30 minutes prior on XL 950. The game will mark just IUPUI's second-ever against a Pac-10 foe.