INDIANAPOLIS - The IU Indianapolis men's basketball team dropped an 92-88 heartbreaker inside the Jungle to Milwaukee on Tuesday night (Feb. 10), despite a career-high 23 points from rookie Maguire Mitchell. Junior Kyler D'Augustino chimed in 22 points and senior Finley Woodward tied the program's single-game record with 14 assists against just two turnovers. Senior Jaxon Edwards added 17 points on 7-of-13 shooting to round out the double-digit scorers. 

Indianapolis-native Chandler Jackson led Milwaukee (10-17, 6-10 HL) with 25 points and eight rebounds, including a critical putback of a missed free throw with 6.1 seconds remaining to seal the win. Amar Augillard added 17 points and Stevie Elam finished with 14 points off the Milwaukee bench. Aaron Franklin just missed a double-double with nine points and a game-high 11 rebounds.  

The Jaguars (7-19, 3-12 HL) led the majority of the game, but yielded an 11-0 run early in the second half to see its 55-47 lead evaporate into a 58-55 deficit. Things stayed tight throughout the second half with the Jags regaining a 71-70 advantage with 5:29 to play on a pair of Jaxon Edwards free throws. However, Milwaukee got a four-point possession on a free throw and an Elam three after an offensive rebound to take the lead for good. 

Sophomore Kameron Tinsley tried to single-handedly shoot the Jags back into the game in the closing minute, making a three with 33 seconds to play to make it a one-possession game. After Milwaukee's Esyah Pippa-White made two free throws, Mitchell scored on a drive with 15.5 seconds left to again make it a one-possession game. Elam drilled a pair of foul shots with 14.7 seconds left before Tinsley struck again, cutting the lead to two. 

Pippa-White missed a pair of free throws with 7.4 seconds to play, but Jackson collected the rebound and scored in close to cap the night's scoring. 

The Jaguars finished the game at 44 percent from the floor while Milwaukee shot 59 percent in the second half to close at 48 percent. 

"As a team I feel like we got stagnant a lot of times which caused us to try and attack a set defense, and we're not very good at that," D'Augustino said. "We got to get into action. We are a lot better when we get into actions, move the ball from one side to the other. Then I feel like when we did that, we got a lot of wide open layups or wide open in threes."

Milwaukee finished with a decisive 46-32 rebound margin, including 14 offensive rebounds to outscore the Jaguars 22-11 in second chance points. The Panthers also paraded to the free throw line, hitting 31-of-41 (75.6 percent) attempts while IU Indy attempted just 20, making 15. 

The Jags finished with a 20-12 margin in points off turnovers by forcing 13 Milwaukee miscues and committing just seven. 

IU Indy led by as many as nine in the first half at 34-25 and 36-27, but led by just four at the break 43-39 after Augillard hit a tough contested three in the corner in front of the Jaguars' bench on the half's final possession. 

IU Indy hit 9-of-29 (31 percent) from three with three makes each from Mitchell and Tinsley. Mitchell also grabbed a career-high eight rebounds and did the bulk of his damage inside the arc. 

"I thought about getting to the rim a little more in this game would help our team and put us in a good position," Mitchell said. "I did a lot in high school and I haven't really found that groove yet. I think I'm getting better each and every game, getting to the rim."

The Jaguars will cap the current three-game homestand on Thursday night (Feb. 12) when they host Northern Kentucky at 6:30 p.m. inside the Jungle.