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LUKE HAASL
74
Mary UMARY 1-3,0-0 NSIC
90
Winner Central Okla. CentOK 1-0,0-0 Mid-America Intercollegiate
Mary UMARY
1-3,0-0 NSIC
74
Final
90
Central Okla. CentOK
1-0,0-0 Mid-America Intercollegiate
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Mary UMARY 43 31 74
Central Okla. CentOK 48 42 90

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Chris Brannick

Bronchos Run Away With Season-Opening Win

All Five Starters Score In Double Figures As UCO Beats Mary

EDMOND – Central Oklahoma used a 16-0 run in the second half to pull away from the University of Mary in the 2024-25 season opener Friday night at Hamilton Field House.
 
UCO 90, Mary 74.
 
A 3-point field goal by the guests from Bismarck, North Dakota cut the UCO lead to one point, 67-66, with 9:26 left in the game. The Bronchos followed with a blistering 16-0 run over the next 5:21. After Mary finally got a pair of free-throws to fall, UCO still had four more in a row for to make it 20-2 over a six-minute stretch.
 
"Overall, we did a good job of getting a lot of guys involved," UCO head men's basketball coach Bob Hoffman said. "The run in the second half was great, the guys got really hot and played so well. That put the game away and it was a big run."
 
Central Oklahoma (1-0) is hosting the Central Region Challenge and will play Northwestern Oklahoma State (1-0) Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Northeastern State, which lost to NWOSU earlier Friday, will take on Mary at 2:30 p.m.
 
All five starters – including four newcomers – scored in double figures for the Bronchos on Friday night.
 
Israel Hart led the way with 21 points, Jacobi Sebock scored 17, Luke Haasl and Jordan Thompson both scored 15, and JV Seat added 11 points.
 
The Bronchos got 11 points off the bench. Jarreth Ingram scored six, Matthew Willenborg and Ben Averitt scored two each, and Jack Robinson had one.
 
Hart finished with 21 in his Broncho debut. The senior who sat out last season at UCO was 5-for-13 from the floor and 11-for-13 from the free-throw line. He added five assists and four rebounds, and three steals.
 
Sebock, a senior transfer from Queens (N.C.) scored 17 points on 7 of 9 shooting. He was 3-for-4 at the line and added five rebounds, one block and one steal.
 
Haasl, who moved into fifth-place on UCO's career blocks list (94), had a career-high six on Friday night. He scored 15 points on 7 of 8 shooting. All of his field goals were dunks. He also had five rebounds and three steals to go with the six rejections.
 
Thompson, a transfer from UMass Lowell, scored 15 points on 6 of 11 shooting. He filled out the state sheet with eight assists, five steals, and four rebounds.
 
Seat, who is from Edmond, transferred from Abilene Christian. He scored 11 points on 4 of 7 shooting Friday night, adding five rebounds and a steal. Seat hit two of Central's three 3-pointers on the night.
 
Mary held early leads of 2-0 and 4-2 before Seat's and-1 play gave the Bronchos a 5-4 lead. UCO didn't trail again in the first half. The Bronchos led by as much as nine points in the first half. Mary tied the game, 36-36, but Central finished the first half on a 12-7 run to take a 48-43 lead into halftime.
 
Almost all of the game's five lead changes came in the first 10 minutes of the second half. The Bronchos erased Mary's final lead of 58-57 with a pair of free-throws by Ingram. That came with 12:34 to play. Shortly after, Central Oklahoma put its foot on the accelerator with the 16-0 run to put the game away.
 
UCO will take on Northwestern Oklahoma State Saturday at 4:30 p.m. The Bronchos are back home again next week with a huge early season non-conference matchup against preseason No. 3 West Texas A&M.
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