SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The UIndy men's basketball team (12-2, 4-2 GLVC) used a balanced scoring attack on Saturday afternoon to defeat Drury (5-9, 1-5 GLVC) on the road by a final 89-76 to open the new year of play. With the win, the Hounds have now won six of the last seven games in the series against the Panthers.
 
A solid quartet of Hounds produced double-digit scoring games as Jesse Bingham led the way with his season-high of 23 points. Right behind, Bruno Williams notched his UIndy career-high of 22 points alongside a flawless 11-of-11 effort from the free throw line. Kendrick Tchoua added 17 points and five boards on a perfect 5-of-5 from the charity stripe while David Ejah tallied 11 points and four rebounds. In total, eight different players for UIndy scored two or more points.
 
The Hounds, who led by just four at the break, produced a solid 16-of-24 shooting effort from the field (66.7 percent) in the second half. Along with this, Drury was held to a 14-of-31 shooting mark in return in the final 20 minutes. Through the full length of the game, the Panthers allowed UIndy to dominate down low by allowing 40 points in the paint to the Greyhounds.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
The opening half moved along early as a back-and-forth battle with both teams knotted up at 24 a little past the midway point at the O'Reilly Family Event Center. Despite the Hounds gaining some breathing room with the help of a 9-2 scoring run, a pair of back-to-back 3-pointers by the Panthers kept UIndy only in front by four at the intermission.
 
With the game tied up at 42 just minutes out of the locker room, the Greyhounds used the help of a 14-4 scoring burst to race out to a double-digit lead over Drury. This proved to be the catalyst in the Hounds securing themselves in the driver's seat for the remainder of the game and locking up their fifth GLVC win of the season.

HOUND BYTES
Head coach Paul Corsaro's final thoughts on the win this afternoon...
"I thought it was a total team effort, we ended up playing 11 guys today and every person that got into the game contributed in a positive way. That's the unique thing about this team, we can wear teams down over the course of 40 minutes because of our depth and unselfishness."

Corsaro's thoughts on Williams and his UIndy career-high effort...
"It was really nice to see Bruno do what we knew he was capable of. He has been all about UIndy since he got here and he's waited his turn while not caring about individual accolades. He's been playing great ball but it was awesome to see the way he played today."

 INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
-UIndy went a strong 26-of-33 from the free throw line as a team on Saturday.
-The Hounds coughed up only eight turnovers in the game which marks the fifth time this season UIndy has been under 10.
-Julian Steinfeld grabbed a team-high eight boards off the bench.
 
UP NEXT
The Hounds are now set to host the next four games on the schedule at home. UIndy will welcome Missouri S&T to Nicoson Hall on Thursday, Jan. 12 with tipoff set for 7:30 p.m. ET.