INDIANAPOLIS - The IU Indianapolis men's basketball team's typical high octane, free wheeling offense flatlined on Saturday (Dec. 6) as the Jaguars fell at home to Youngstown State, 78-55. The Jaguars tallied a season-low 55 points and shot just 33 percent from the floor and 4-of-25 (16 percent) from three. 

Youngstown State (6-4, 2-0 HL) finished at 54 percent shooting and outrebounded the smaller Jaguars 44-29. Rich Rolf paced four Penguins in double-digits with 20 points on 9-of-12 shooting and Cris Carroll added 17 points and six rebounds. 

"Right now, we're going through it as a team," head coach Ben Howlett said. "We're trying to figure things out. We have a bunch of new players who have never played, not only in this league, but in Division I basketball. We're in a rut right now, but we'll get through it, we'll stay the course and get things done.

"We need to continue to practice the right way. We can't have days where we don't do things right in practice. Everything matters, from what time you go to bed to what you eat. Everything matters in winning and losing. It's tough, but we'll figure out a way."

IU Indy (3-8, 0-2 HL) put just one player in double-digits as junior Kyler D'Augustino finished with 19 points, including going 11-of-12 from the foul line. Kameron Tinsley finished with eight points, including a pair of threes, and Micah Davis added seven points, five rebounds and three assists. 

The Jaguars fell behind by 12 midway through the first half, but retaliated with a 10-0 run in just more than a minute to get within 28-26 at the 5:17 mark. Davis contributed to the first six points of the run, assisting on Maguire Mitchell and Jaxon Edwards buckets sandwiched around a basket of his own. Trailing 32-30, the Jaguars missed the frontend of a one-and-one and didn't score again before intermission as YSU built a 42-30 halftime advantage. 

YSU then began the second half by scoring the first 11 points, capped by a Bryson Dawkins three, to build a 23-point lead. Later in the half, the Jaguars held YSU scoreless for nearly six minutes, but mustered just a 9-0 run in the process to trim the lead back to 14. 

The Jaguars hit just 1-of-11 from three in the opening half and never truly warmed up, making 3-of-14 after the break. 

"We've still got guys trying to figure it out," D'Augustino said. "We've got a whole new group of guys figuring out a whole new system, so it's going to take time. We've just got to stay collective as a whole, keep being a family and keep getting better day by day and eventually it'll all click."

IU Indy will return to action on Thursday (Dec. 11) when it hosts Green Bay at 6:30 p.m. inside the Jungle. Thursday's game will be broadcast on MyINDY as Greg Rakestraw (pxp) and Kristin Haseley (analyst) call the action.