INDIANAPOLIS - The IU Indianapolis men's basketball team raced past Cleveland State on Saturday in front of a roaring Jungle, 82-74, snapping the longest current winning streak in the Horizon League at five games. Kyler D'Augustino returned from a two-game absence to score a team-high 16 points while sophomore Micah Davis added 15 points off the bench on 6-of-8 shooting. Senior Jaxon Edwards recorded his third double-double of the season with 13 points and 11 rebounds and freshman Maguire Mitchell finished with 11 points. 

Senior Finley Woodward added 10 points, eight assists and five rebounds, including the 1,000th point of his collegiate career. 

Dayan Nessah led Cleveland State (10-15, 6-8 HL) with a game-high 24 points and Jaidon Lipscomb finished with 14 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. 

The Jaguars rocketed out to a 22-4 lead in the opening eight minutes, including 17 straight points after CSU scored on the game's first possession. The Jags then got stuck on 22 for more than seven minutes as CSU reeled off a 13-0 run to cut the lead back to five. However, the Jags regained their footing and ultimately built a 39-24 halftime advantage, largely by limiting the Vikings to just 32 percent from the field and 3-of-15 (20 percent) from deep. 

The lead grew to 19 early in the second half on a pair of Edwards buckets, the second of which saw the athletic wingman rise to the rafters for a two-handed dunk along the baseline.

CSU fired back with a quick 8-0 run, punctuated by back-to-back threes, prompting an IU Indy timeout with  15:49 remaining. 

As they did all day, the Jaguars counterpunched and rebuilt a 21-point lead midway through the half before outlasting the guests down the stretch. 

The lead was whittled down to 81-74 with 1:33 to play when Lipscomb hit an open three, but sophomore Aiden Miller split a pair of free throws with 1:11 remaining and CSU missed two three-point attempts on the ensuing possession before allowing the Jaguars to bleed out the final minute of the contest. 

IU Indy shot 49 percent from the floor and 10-of-23 (43.5 percent) from three while limiting CSU to 42 percent overall and under 23 percent from three. The Jags won the glass by a 37-35 margin and forced 15 CSU turnovers, leading to 20 points. 

Beyond the five in double-digits, freshman Reece Hagy contributed eight points and four rebounds and Kameron Tinsley hit a pair of timely threes off the bench. 

The win snapped a 14-game losing streak to the Vikings as IU Indy defeated Cleveland State for the first time since 2019. 

The Jags will continue the three-game homestand on Tuesday night (Feb. 10) when they host Milwaukee at 6:30 p.m. inside the Jungle.