Box Score

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – Everyone played and everyone scored for the Griffon Men's Basketball on the way to the team's first 40-point win since 2011. Missouri Western defeated Baptist Bible College (Mo.), 97-57 in a rare Sunday afternoon game in the MWSU Fieldhouse.

Baptist Bible scored the first points of the game but once the Griffons took the lead early in the first half, they never looked back. Missouri Western took a 22-point lead to halftime that quickly stretched even more after Ryan Devers scored 14 points in the first four minutes of the second half.

Devers went on to lead all scorers with 24 points on 9-13 shooting from the field. Devers was one of four Griffons in double-figures, including Cortrez Colbert with 15. Wes Mitter scored a career-high 11 and also set a new personal high with six assists off the bench. Dareon Jones also scored 11. Currie Byrd brought down 11 rebounds and Mason Hughes scored six with three blocked shots and three rebounds.

MWSU shot 53 percent from the field, 36 percent from three-point range and 57 percent from the free throw line. The Griffons scored 48 points in the paint to the Patriots 16.
The win moves Missouri Western to 4-4 on the season. Northeastern State comes to the fieldhouse Thursday night.