TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Basketball runs are not always born on the offensive end, although buckets obviously have to be shot to string together points. But it was the Sycamores who embraced the grind on the defensive end -- including drawing a trio of charges inside of the final two minutes -- to gut out a big 63-54 non-conference victory over Western Kentucky inside Hulman Center on Saturday afternoon.
Emotions ran high as the Sycamores won their third consecutive game to improve to 3-1 on the season while Western Kentucky fell to 3-3. It snapped a three-game losing skid to the Hilltoppers and was the Sycamores' first win against WKU since 2009 and its first in Terre Haute since 1941.