ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – The UIndy men's basketball team led wire-to-wire Saturday afternoon on the way to a 78-86 win at Lewis University. Paced by a career-high 23 points from redshirt-freshman Jesse Bingham, the Greyhounds have now won three of their last four contests to move to 3-8 both overall and in GLVC play.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Playing their seventh road in the last eight contests, the Hounds managed to lead the entire game, starting with an early triple from Bingham that opened the scoring.
 
The key run came with eight minutes left in the game when UIndy clung to a tenuous 56-53 advantage. From that point, the Hounds held the host Flyers (6-6, 6-6) without a field goal for nearly three minutes, orchestrating an 11-2 run that ballooned the margin to double digits. The rally was capped by a deep 3 from senior Dee Montgomery, who finished with four triples on the day and 17 points.
 
But the exclamation point came with 1:10 to go when UIndy broke the Lewis press with a two-handed flush from Bingham, upping the lead to a game-high 13 points.
 

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Senior Mikail Simmons was the third and final Greyhound in double figures, as he finished with 10 points and six boards.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
-The Greyhounds scored 46 points in the second half on 62-percent shooting.
-Senior Cory Miller Jr. set a personal best with eight assists, leading the Hounds to a season-high 15 dimes overall.
-Redshirt-freshman Aaron Etherington went 2 of 3 from behind the arc to up his season 3-point percentage to .524, leading all Greyhound regulars.
-UIndy committed less than 10 turnovers (8) for the second straight game.
-Bingham scored each of the team's first eight points. He added a team-high seven rebounds on the afternoon while hitting all seven free throw attempts
 
HOUND BYTES
Head Coach Paul Corsaro on seniors Montgomery and Miller and their poise late in the game…
"Those guys have done everything that myself and the rest of our staff have asked of them since we got hired back in April. You saw down the stretch there that Lewis tried to turn the pressure up, and in pressure situations late in games, young guys are going to make some mistakes and get a little rattled, and thought Cory and Dee did a nice job of calming our guys down and just letting them know that 'Hey, we're in control of this game. We don't have to panic.' So they did a very nice job in timeouts of calming some of those younger guys down."

Corsaro on keys moving into next week…
"We just need to continue to improve. We're starting to reap the benefits of our hard work, but as good as it's been these last couple weeks, we have not accomplished what we set out to do this season. We have to keep our focus and maintain the right mentally so we can continue to improve on a daily basis.
 
"If we have that mentality, I'm confident good things will happen to us."
 
MORE NOTES
Saturday's result avenges a 77-64 home loss to Lewis back on Dec. 15 … the Flyers came into the day ranked third in the league in scoring defense, allowing less than 68 points per game. UIndy's point total of 78 was two points shy of the season high for a Lewis opponent.
 
UP NEXT
The Hounds return to the comforts of Nicoson Hall next week to host a pair of GLVC opponents, starting with Illinois Springfield Thursday night, Jan. 28.