Box Score

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Eastern Kentucky University made just two 3-pointers in the first 37 minutes of the game and lost 75-62 at Lipscomb in Nashville on Thursday.
 
The Bisons (12-8, 4-3 ASUN) hit 10 three-pointers, out-scoring the Colonels by 18 from behind the arc.  EKU finished 4-for-28 from deep for just 14 percent.  The Colonels shot 36 percent from the field for the game.
 
Leland Walker led the Colonels (12-8, 5-2 ASUN) with 17 points.  Devontae Blanton added 14 points and seven rebounds.  Michael Moreno finished with eight points, 12 rebounds and three steals.
 
The Colonels held Lipscomb scoreless for the first four minutes of the game and went in front by seven, 13-6, on a 3-pointer from the left wing by Cooper Robb.  Derrin Boyd gave the Bisons their first lead of the game, 23-21, with a 3-pointer at the 6:40 mark.  Blanton tied it, 27-27, on a lay-up with 2:56 to go before the break.  Lipscomb hit two 3-pointers and out-scored EKU 8-2 to close the half and take a 35-29 edge into the locker room at the break.
 
The Bisons scored the first five points of the second half to go up 11, 40-29.  Boyd's 3-pointer with 12:28 to go made it a 12-point game, 50-38.  The Colonels cut that deficit in half, 53-47, on a pair of jumpers from Walker, but AJ McGinnis answered for Lipscomb with a 3-pointer and Jacob Ognacevic added a dunk to push it back to 11, 58-47.
 
EKU never got closer than nine the rest of the way.
 
Ognacevic contributed 19 points for Lipscomb.  Boyd had 18 points.
 
The Colonels will close out its two-game road trip to Tennessee with a contest at Austin Peay on Saturday.  The game is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. ET.