Quinton Day lit up the scoreboard with 26 points for UMKC, but it wasn’t enough for the ‘Roos, who lost to Oral Roberts 74-56. While Day’s point total was impressive, his overall shooting wasn’t that much better than the rest of the teams’, as UMKC’s winning streak stopped at four games.

Day was 8-of-26 from the field, which translated to a 30 percent shooting performance. UMKC, as a team, made 29.4 percent of its shots. Other than Day, no one scored more than eight points for UMKC.

In the first half, UMKC made just 8-of-34 shots and trailed 28-19 at half time. In the second half, Oral Roberts steadily added their lead and were up by as many as 22 points.

Perhaps the most glaring disparity in the game came on the glass, where Oral Roberts out-rebounded UMKC 50-29. Larry Owens and Mickey Michalec had 13 and 11 rebounds, respectively. Caleb Green led ORU in scoring with 15.

The ‘Roos dropped to 9-11 on the season and 6-4 in the Mid-Continent Conference, while ORU improved to 12-9 and 7-2.

Southeast Missouri State’s losing streak extended to six games with a 72-63 loss to Austin Peay on Monday in Clarksville, Tennessee.

SEMO was led in scoring by Roy Booker who had 22 points, while Maurice Hampton had 20 for Austin Peay. Zac Schlader added 19 for APU.

Eric Jones’ tip-in with 14:41 to go in the first half gave SEMO a 10-8 lead. It proved to be their final advantage of the game. Austin Peay responded with a 27-9 run to end the half and led 35-19.

In the second half, Austin Peay built the lead to as high as 23 points when Schlader’s lay up with 14:25 in the game made 48-25.

Despite the huge deficit, the Redhawks were able to cut the lead to five points, when Terrick Willoughby hit a three pointer to make it 65-60 with 25 seconds to go. But they scored just two points the rest of the way, Austin Peay went 8-for-8 from the free throw line the rest of the way to seal the game.

SEMO improved to 6-14 on the season and 3-11 in the Ohio Valley Conference, while APU improved to 12-10 and 7-6.