CHICAGO - Graduate transfer
Chris Osten notched a career-high 15 points and 12 boards and
Jlynn Counter scored a team-high 17 points, but the IUPUI basketball team dropped a 68-58 decision on the road at Chicago State on Monday night (Nov. 14). Elijah Weaver led Chicago State (1-2) with 15 points and Jahsean Corbett and Kedrick Green added 12 apiece in the win.
Chicago State shot 61 percent from the floor and connected on 7-of-11 threes in the second half to race past the Jaguars for the win. IUPUI shot just 38 percent for the game and was just 3-of-12 from three-point range with all three treys coming from
Vincent Brady II.
IUPUI (0-3) led 36-34 with 12:58 to play when
Jonah Carrasco putback a
Daylan Hamilton miss, but CSU responded with an 8-0 run, powered by two Weaver threes. The Vikings lead later grew to 48-39 when Green splashed a three in front of his own bench with 9:22 left and IUPUI never got closer than two possessions.
Counter pulled the Jags within four with 7:45 left when he scored on a runner, but Bryce Johnson retaliated with an open three 11 seconds later. The Jags crept within four again with 5:07 left when Osten putback a miss, but IUPUI proceeded to miss its next eight field goal attempts as the hosts seized control. By the time Brady drilled a wing three, CSU had built a nine-point lead with under a minute to play.
Osten scored IUPUI's first nine points of the game, making his first four field goal attempts, to stake the Jaguars to an early 9-4 lead. The Jaguars led for much of the first half and took a 26-24 lead to intermission as Counter scored on a floater as time expired.
And while IUPUI cured its turnover woes for a night, depth was an issue as
Bryce Monroe missed his third straight game to start the season and the Jags were also without freshman
DJ Jackson.
Brady finished with nine points and
Amhad Jarrard closed with eight points before fouling out. Carrasco tallied five off the IUPUI bench.
IUPUI will return to Indianapolis and host Franklin College in its home opener on Saturday (Nov. 19) inside Indiana Farmers Coliseum.
Tickets are available online by clicking here and Saturday's game will be Military Appreciation Day and IUPUI Faculty/Staff Appreciation Day at the Coliseum.
