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INDIANAPOLIS - Sophomore guard Jordan Shanklin scored a career-high 19 points on 7-of-10 shooting off the IUPUI bench, but the visiting Indiana State Sycamores got 18 points from both Manny Arop and Jake Odum en route to a 75-61 win in front of a sellout crowd inside The Jungle on Saturday (Dec. 15) night.

ISU (5-3) shot 50 percent from the floor and outrebounded the Jaguars 40-25, thanks to nine caroms from Arop and eight from Odum. Juniors Donovan Gibbs and Mitchell Patton scored 12 apiece for IUPUI (4-9), but the hosts were held below 40 percent shooting in the defeat.

Despite jumping in front 5-2 in the opening 90 seconds, IUPUI faced an uphill battle seemingly the entire night as ISU answered with a 13-0 run to take a 15-5 lead before the first media timeout.

IUPUI crept back within one at 23-22 when Gibbs blew by Justin Gant for an easy reverse layup, prompting an ISU timeout. Out of the timeout, Arop responded with a right-handed hook shot an hit a three from the corner to push the lead back out to six. Ultimately, the Sycamores took a 36-30 lead into the lockerroom.

ISU scored the first six points of the second half, the final two coming on an alley-oop from Odum to Arop, only Arop hung on the rim and was immediately whistled for a technical foul. Hart hit both freebies and then earned a trip to the line on the Jaguars' next possession and hit both, making it an eight-point game.

Later, ISU regained an 11-point lead when R.J. Mahurin swished an open three from the left wing, but IUPUI scored five straight to get back within six. The first two came when Patton rebounded an Ian Chiles miss and later scored on the blocks, but was unable to complete the three-point play as he was hacked by Mahurin on the play.

After a defensive stop, Shanklin swished a three off a kickout pass from Patton, making it a two possession game with 9:02 left. However, ISU threw the final haymaker of the night, scoring the game's next 12 points over more than five minutes, ballooning the lead out to 18 before Gibbs stopped the bleeding with a 16-footer with 4:01 to play.

By then, the outcome was in hand.

Indianapolis-native Khristian Smith sparked the run with back-to-back buckets and a pair of free throws along the way. Odum then scored four straight before Mahurin recorded the capper with an easy layup off one of Dawon Cummings' seven assists.

Arop was 8-of-17 from the floor, including 2-of-3 from three-point range while Odum was an efficient 7-of-10 overall. Odum had made just two threes in the season's first seven games before hitting both of his long-range attempts on Saturday night. ISU hit 6-of-13 three-point attempts, but did the bulk of its damage inside, outscoring IUPUI 36-18 in the paint.

IUPUI's starting backcourt triumvirate of Chiles, John Hart and Greg Rice combined to hit just 2-of-23 from the floor and 1-of-8 from three-point range. Chiles made his first start of the season and was held to just three points and three assists in 32 minutes work. Hart, wearing an unfamiliar No 32 jersey instead of his typical No. 25 as IUPUI debuted its home gold uniforms, was just 1-of-11 overall and closed with seven points.

With the starters struggling, Shanklin became the Jaguars' go-to guy in the second half, scoring 15 of his 19 after the break. The Bowling Green, Ky.-native's previous career-high was 13 which came a week ago at Western Kentucky. On Saturday, the 6-foot guard hit shots from all over the floor, including an array of tough turnaround jumpers when the team was desperately seeking offense.

Patton, who had missed the past two games to injury, hit 6-of-9 shots on the interior in just 20 minutes work and grabbed five boards (three offensive). Gibbs, the team's leading rebounder coming in, collected seven rebounds in a team-high 34 minutes.

With the win, Indiana State improved to 3-2 all-time against IUPUI and gained the program's first-ever win over the Jaguars in Indianapolis. Coming into play, both schools had enjoyed a pair of home wins in the all-time series, dating back to 2000.

IUPUI will continue its stretch of five straight games against in-state opponents when it travels up I-65 to take on Horizon League foe Valparaiso at the Athletics Recreation Center on Thursday, Dec. 20. That contest is scheduled for an 8:05 p.m. Eastern tip-off and can be heard on WNDE 1260 AM, WNDE.com and through the free iHeartRadio app available on smartphones. Scott McCauley (pxp) will call the action from courtside with pregame coverage beginning around 7:45 p.m.