TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Douglas Wilson tied a season-high 23 points and Baylor Scheierman scored 22 and South Dakota State topped Oral Roberts 95-80.
Scheierman finished with a double-double collecting 11 rebounds whiled distributing seven assists. Alex Arians scored 15 with 10 rebounds for South Dakota State and Charlie Easley scored 12.
The 95 points were a season high for South Dakota State. Max Abmas scored 30 points for the Golden Eagles.
Meanwhile, in the SDSU women’s game:
Myah Selland scored a career-high 30 points and No. 23 South Dakota State scored the last 10 points of the game to hold off Oral Roberts 73-61 for the Jackrabbits’ 14th-straight win. Compared with Saturday’s 82-60 win over the Golden Eagles, the Jackrabbits had to work much harder but made all the plays down the stretch. Oral Roberts pulled within 63-61 on a Tierney Coleman basket with 3:06 to go. Paiton Burckhard answered with a layup and then Oral Roberts missed its last five shots and had three turnovers. Coleman had a career-high 22 points for the Golden Eagles.
In other basketball action:
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Bentiu Panoam had 22 points as North Dakota narrowly beat South Dakota 85-81. A.J. Plitzuweit led the Coyotes with 34 points.
