THE BASICS
Score: Oral Roberts 61 – No. 23 South Dakota State 73
Records: ORU (6-12, 4-6); SDSU (17-2, 10-0)
Location: Tulsa, Okla. – Mabee Center 
 
TULSA, Okla. – The Oral Roberts women's basketball team trailed by two points with three minutes to play in the team's 73-61 loss to No. 23 South Dakota State Sunday afternoon at the Mabee Center.

The No. 23 Jackrabbits came out of the gate with a 9-0 run. Tierney Coleman put ORU on the board with the team's first triple of the game almost four minutes in. The Golden Eagles came out and started 4-for-4 from three-point range, and after trailing by 10 in the first came to within two at the end of the first, 22-20, despite the Jackrabbits shooting 56 percent from the field.
 
Tierney Coleman tied the game at 22 with a bucket after a defensive stop to start the second. Ariel Walker gave the Golden Eagles their first lead of the game in the second with the team's fifth three-point bucket. South Dakota State took a 38-32 lead into halftime as both teams shot 40-plus percent from the field.
 
After back-to-back three-point buckets by Regan Schumacher and Ariel Walker, the Golden Eagles pulled to within two early in the third. ORU then took a two-point lead with 6:42 in the third with a fast-break layup by Walker. The No. 23 Jacks took an eight point lead before Tierney Coleman broke the run to pull within five with two minutes left in the third. At the end of the third, both teams continued to shoot 40-plus percent from the field as ORU trailed 56-51. The Golden Eagles out-scored the Jacks 19-18 in the third.
 
 
After trailing by as much as five in the fourth, Tierney Coleman recorded a career high 22 points with three minutes to play to pull the Golden Eagles to within two. Down the stretch, the Jacks closed out the game on a 10-0 run to claim the 73-61 victory.

THE LEADERS
Oral Roberts: Tierney Coleman recorded a career high 22 points and Regan Schumacher had nine rebounds.
South Dakota State: Myah Selland captured 30 points with eight rebounds.
                                                                                                                                                  
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- ORU shot 38.1 percent overall in tonight's game.
- ORU was out-rebounded by SDSU, 40-38.
- The Golden Eagles had a 37 percent three-point average.
- ORU turned the ball over 17 times, but forced the Jacks to turn the ball over 15 times
- Tierney Coleman scored a career high 22 points with three rebounds, five assists and one steal.
- Freshman Faith Paramore recorded 10 points with one assist.
- Ariel Walker had 11 points with three rebounds, one assist and three steals.
- ORU had 10 bench points in tonight's game. The team recorded 24 points in the paint.
- Golden Eagles capitalized with 11 points off of turnovers.
 
Up Next
The Golden Eagles will travel to Vermillion, South Dakota, to take on the South Dakota Coyotes for a two-game series February 20-21.
 
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