McMurry's Travis Tennison tied the ASC single-game record with 24 rebounds, a NCAA all-divisions season high as well as personal best. Tennison, who completed his league-leading eighth double-double by scoring 15 points, came a rebound short of tying Keith Whitaker's school record set against Texas A&M-Kingsville in 1973. John Laramore of Texas Lutheran also pulled down 24 boards on Feb. 1, 2001 against--the Indians.
The Indians led wire-to-wire (except for a 2-2 tie) and built a 39-31 halftime lead, making 47.1 percent of their field goals compared to 35.3 by the Lobos.
Justin Steward and Sidney Hooper had 14 points each for the Lobos, who converted only 24 of 66 field goals for a 36.4 clip. Larry Reese added 12 points and eight rebounds off the bench.
The game often didn't have a lot of flow as the teams combined to miss 32 free throws (SRSU had 20 alone), record 93 rebounds (McM 51-42) and commit 41 turnovers.
But that didn't matter to host McMurry which exacted some measure of revenge since SRSU ended the Indians' four-year ASC-West dominance in 2003 and clinched its second straight division title last season on the Kimbrell Arena floor. The Lobos had won the three previous meetings by an average of 14.7 points.