JACKSON, Miss. – Shooting an American Southwest Conference record 75.8 percent from the field, the LeTourneau University men's basketball team scored a season-high 115 points en route to a 115-88 road victory over Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi on Thursday, January 18th.
 
LeTourneau bounces back with the victory to improve to 13-3 overall and 7-2 in the ASC while the Blazers slipped to 3-12 overall and 2-7 in conference.
 
"Our guys did a good job of moving the basketball tonight and looking inside-out" said head coach Dan Miller in a post-game interview. "We challenged our posts to be high percentage finishers and they responded." "I was very pleased to see everyone be a willing passer and the energy and enthusiasm we played with on the road tonight."
 
The 75.8 percent shooting percentage came on a 47-for-62 performance from the field and eclipsed the old record of 34-of-48 (70.8 percent) set by former ASC member Mississippi College on February 2nd, 2002. LETU was able to set the record despite shooting just 27.3 percent (3-11) from beyond the arc, but made their living in the paint by scoring 78 points while leading by as many as 28 in the game.
 
Junior Caleb Loggins went nearly perfect from the field, finishing 10-of-11 while scoring a game-high 24 points which is just one shy of a career-high and dished out four assists while defensively recording one steal and one block. Christian Seidl had 18 points off the bench to go along with three assists while freshman Justin Moore netted 14 points. Senior Caylab Herrera also reached double-figures for the YellowJackets after scoring 12 points and grabbing five rebounds while being limited to just 20 minutes on the night. Belhaven was led by Isiah Brown who had 23 points.
 
An up-tempo pace early on would favor LETU, as the YellowJackets would find themselves able to jump out to a 10-5 lead at the first media timeout of the game with 15:50 left in the first half. LeTourneau would be able to extend their lead to a three-possession margin multiple times throughout the opening 10 minutes of the game, but a tough-minded Belhaven team managed to stick around and claim their first lead since the opening minute of the game at 29-26 with 7:30 left in the period. Another three for the Blazers with 4:29 left in the first half allowed BU to take their final lead of the game at 34-33 before LETU would go on a 9-0 run giving LeTourneau a 42-34 lead going into the final two minutes of the half. Belhaven closed out the half with the final four points of the period to cut the gap to six at 46-40 at the break.
 
Out of the intermission, LETU would expand their six-point halftime lead to take a 57-43 lead on a jumper by sophomore Nate West with 17:12 remaining in the game as the YellowJackets finally started to take the game over. The lead would continually grow for LeTourneau reaching the 20-point mark on a Javaughn Dantzler jumper with just over 10 minutes in the game as LETU would keep things rolling all the way through the final horn. In total, 13 players for the YellowJackets wound up in the scoring column with all 14 players who suited up getting on the floor.
 
LETU will begin a three-game home stand on Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. by playing host to Louisiana College. The Wildcats are 3-11 overall and 1-8 in the ASC following a 79-91 loss at East Texas Baptist on Thursday night.