CLEVELAND - The IU Indianapolis men's basketball team saw its 2025-26 campaign come to a close on Monday night (Mar. 2) as the Jaguars lost in the play-in game of the Horizon League Tournament at No. 10 Cleveland State, 101-93. 

Kyler D'Augustino, Jaxon Edwards and Maguire Mitchell all scored a team-high 23 points in the loss while three CSU (11-21) players also scored a game-high 23 points. Preist Ryan, Jaidon Lipscomb and Chevalier Emery all finished with 23 apiece as Cleveland State shot a blistering 63 percent from the floor and 11-of-20 (55 percent) from three. 

The Jaguars shot 48 percent overall and 9-of-24 (37.5 percent) from deep while forcing 17 CSU miscues. However, the inability to get stops when CSU did break the full-court press proved to be the difference in the game. 

The game was a back-and-forth affair with teams trading runs throughout the evening. After leading by nine at intermission, CSU built a 14-point second half lead with 16:59 to play when Lipscomb swished a three. Using the press to continually force turnovers, the Jaguars melted the lead back to 73-71 with 8:04 to play when Edwards rattled in a wing three off a Finley Woodward find. CSU responded with a critical 7-1 burst to regain a three possession lead. The Vikings were later able to rebuild a double-digit lead before the Jags closed within five in the game's final minute, fueled by back-to-back Mitchell buckets. 

After a pair of made free throws, Mitchell misfired on a pair of threes that would've cut the lead back to four in the closing seconds before the hosts iced the game at the line. 

IU Indy (7-25) threw a haymaker out of the gates, scoring the game's opening nine points and forcing a pair of early turnovers. The lead was 12-3 when Mitchell drained his second three of the opening three-plus minutes before Cleveland State responded with a 9-0 run of its own. The first half featured nine lead changes, the final of which came on an Emery layup at the 8:15 mark that ignited a 12-2 CSU run. Cleveland State proceeded to make its final eight field goal attempts of the first half to build the 45-36 halftime advantage. 

Head coach Ben Howlett tightened up the rotations with the season on the line as the team's top four scorers all played 31-plus minutes. Edwards recorded his fifth double-double of the season with 23 points and 10 rebounds and Woodward also had a double-double of 10 points, 10 assists and five rebounds. Woodward took over as the program's single-season assist record holder in the first half of Monday's game, ultimately finishing the season with 201 assists, eclipsing the prior mark by seven. 

Mitchell hit for 20-plus for a third straight game to close the season, including drilling five treys. D'Augustino scored 18 of his 23 after halftime and was 8-of-16 from the field. Sophomore Kameron Tinsley contributed seven points and three rebounds off the bench while Micah Davis had six points, three rebounds and three assists. 

Ryan had a double-double for the Vikings with 23 points and 12 rebounds while Lipscomb had eight assists to go along with his 23 points. 

CSU won the glass by a 37-30 margin and scored 35 fast break points in beating the Jags for a second time in three meetings this season.