bruxvoort
Nicholas Kedzuch
70
Quincy QU 11-12, 5-8 GLVC
91
Winner Bellarmine BU 20-2, 12-1 GLVC
Quincy QU
11-12, 5-8 GLVC
70
Final
91
Bellarmine BU
20-2, 12-1 GLVC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Quincy QU 44 26 70
Bellarmine BU 42 49 91

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Brendan Bittner

#5 Bellarmine's Late Run Pushes Knights Past Hawks

QUINCY, Ill. – The Quincy University men's basketball team outplayed No. 5 Bellarmine for the first 30 minutes of Saturday's (Feb. 7) Great Lakes Valley Conference contest in Louisville, Ky. It was the final 10 minutes that doomed the Hawks as the Knights closed the game on a 37-11 run to pull away with a 91-70 win at Knights Hall.
 
Quincy (11-12, 5-8 GLVC) dropped its third straight game to close a season-long four-game road trip. Meanwhile, the Knights (20-2, 12-1 GLVC) won their eighth straight game.
 
The Hawks led by as many as six points in the second half as they pounded the glass against the Knights and ultimately attempted 13 more field goals than the hosts.
 
QU still led, 59-54, with 10 minutes to go after a layup by junior forward Dalton Hoover (Pittsfield, Ill.) off a feed from redshirt-sophomore forward Scottie Bruxvoort (Mitchellville, Iowa/Prairie City Monroe).

The Knights then scored the next seven points to take a 62-59 lead. Junior wing Godson Eneogwe (Chicago, Ill./Illinois Central) scored on a put-back to cut it to 62-61 and Hoover's layin with 7:59 remaining tied the game at 63-63. That's when the lights went out offensively for the Hawks.
 
Quincy was held without a field goal over the next seven minutes and by that point the Hawks trailed 90-68. QU was 0-for-7 from the field in that stretch with three turnovers and missed three front-ends of one-and-one opportunities at the line.
 
The Knights were scorching in the second half, shooting 51.7 percent (15-for-29) from the field. Five players scored in double figures for Bellarmine, led by Chris Whitehead's 22. Jake Thelen scored 13 of his 19 points in the second half and collected 13 rebounds.
 
The game started precariously for the Hawks, who were assessed a technical foul before tip-off for dunking during the pre-game warm-up. The Knights led 1-0 at the opening tip-off and two 3-pointers later, led 7-0.
 
The Hawks trailed by four with 6:44 left in the first half, but they went on a 7-0 run, spurred by back-to-back field goals, including a 3-pointer from senior forward Scott Hahn (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa). After a basket by Whitehead, senior guard Ja'mil Jones (Blythewood, S.C./Pasco Hernando CC) hit a floater and Eneogwe buried a trey following a Bellarmine turnover to give the Hawks a six-point cushion, 37-31.
 
Eneogwe hit another three later in the half and the Hawks took a 44-42 lead into the intermission.
 
It was Bruxvoort's effort that kept the Hawks in the game in the first half. The Mitchellville, Iowa native scored 10 straight for Quincy at one point and 14 of 17 during a seven-minute stretch in the middle of the first half. Sixteen of his team-leading 21 points came in the first half.
 
The Knights briefly took a one-point lead early in the second half after a Thelen three-point play, but the Hawks pushed the lead back to six before the Knights' final rally.
 
Hoover scored 14 points (on 7-for-7 shooting) to go with four rebounds and three blocks as the only other QU player to join Bruxvoort in double figures. The Hawks shot 40.8 percent (29-for-71) from the field and hit just five 3-pointers. QU shot 7-for-14 (50 percent) from the line.
 
The Hawks will look to bounce back on Thursday (Feb. 12) night at Pepsi Arena, but they will have a tall task against No. 9 Indianapolis (19-2, 11-2 GLVC). Tip-off is slated for 7:30 p.m.
 
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