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Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | Chris Brannick

Central Oklahoma Turns Back Texarkana In Home Opener

Bronchos Win 88-65, Earn Bob Hoffman 650th Career Win

EDMOND – Central Oklahoma fought off a pesky Texas A&M Texarkana squad and pulled away with an 88-65 victory Monday in Hamilton Field House.
 
UCO is 1-3 on the season after garnering its first win. The win was the 650th of head coach Bob Hoffman's career as a men's head coach.
 
"That team is really good and they're going to do really well this season," Hoffman said of the future Division II member Texarkana. "We did a good job of weathering the storm early when they came out and kind of jumped on us. The guys were patient and stuck with the game plan and it paid off eventually. It was good to be home and play in front of our crowd and it was good to get a win."
 
Central Oklahoma will be home this weekend. The Bronchos are hosting the Central Region Challenge at Hamilton Field House. UCO plays Minnesota Crookston on Friday, Nov. 13 and Oklahoma Christian on Saturday, Nov. 14. Northwestern Oklahoma State will also be in Edmond and plays OC and Crookston opposite the Bronchos.
 
Monday night, Texarkana held the early lead 4-0 after one minute and upped it to 10-5 after five minutes of play. The Eagles led 22-14 with 10:24 to play in the first half. But that was the largest lead of the night. UCO answered with a 8-0 run to tie the game.
 
TAMUT scored again to go ahead 24-22, but the Bronchos then went on a 12-2 run to start cushioning the lead for the rest of the evening. Jarreth Ingram's step-back 3-pointer with just under a minute to go made it an 11-point game, 39-28. Texarkana got one more bucket to go to the locker room down 39-30.
 
The Bronchos were in control through the early part of the second half, but when Ingram hit another 3-pointer with 16:16 remaining, it sparked a 13-0 run. Brady Hancuff made a free-throw to put the lead over 20 points. UCO led by as many as 28 points down the stretch.
 
Central Oklahoma shot 48.1 percent from the floor in the game, making 26 of 54 shots. The Bronchos were 5-for-18 from behind the 3-point line and 31-for-41 from the free-throw line. UCO forced 16 turnovers and outrebounded TAMUT 42-29.
 
Jacobi Sebock led the Bronchos in scoring with 23 points. The forward from Midwest City, Oklahoma was 8-for-12 from the floor and 7-for-8 from the free-throw line. He had three steals and two blocks on the defensive end of the floor and also dished out a pair of assists.
 
Ingram scored 18 points in a big spark for the Bronchos. He was 5-for-10 from the floor, 4-for-8 behind the arc, and 4-for-4 at the line. The forward from Tulsa had seven boards, two steals, one block, and one assist.
 
Donovan Lovelace has been Central's leading scorer through the first three games of the season. He had a big double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds. Lovelace was just 3-for-11 from the floor but went 8-for-8 at the line.
 
Hancuff finished with eight points. He was 1-for-1 from the floor and 6-for-8 at the free-throw line. Pavel Ivanov added seven points, Carter Roman Nose scored six, and Braden Buckingham had five points and five assists. Trey Tuck, who also had five assists, scored two points. Caison Robinson and Jayden Garces also scored two and Sebastian Perry scored one point.
 
Central Oklahoma will be home for most of November. The Bronchos host the Central Region Challenge this weekend, then will host Hesston College next Wednesday night. After a trip to Southwestern Oklahoma State on Nov. 21, the Bronchos have three more home games on the final week of November.
 
 
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