SAN ANTONIO -- Five UTSA men's basketball standouts reached double figures and 11 scored in a balanced 101-48 win over Dallas Christian in the non-conference finale for the Roadrunners, on Monday night at the Convocation Center.
UTSA (7-7) cruised to the win in its non-conference finale, with five players reaching double figures, 11 scoring and eight knocking down 3-pointers. UTSA had a 25-2 run in the first half, held Dallas Christian to a program-record for fewest points in a half and built a 55-12 lead at halftime.
Dallas Christian played their 14th exhibition of the 2021-22 season and their fifth against a Division I foe, also falling in exhibitions at Texas A&M, Tarleton State, Northwestern State and UIW.
Lamin Sabally had a career-high 15 points with six rebounds and two assists.
Darius McNeill, a native of Houston, had a UTSA career-high 13 points with nine rebounds and three assists.
Jacob Germany, a native of Kingston, Okla., had 10 points and seven rebounds.
Jordan Ivy-Curry, a sophomore guard from La Marque, Texas, finished with 17 points, including five made 3-pointers.
Lachlan Bofinger had a team-leading 10 rebounds, adding six points. Christian Tucker finished with five rebounds, and career highs with nine rebounds and six assists. Artan Jabbar had seven points, Isaiah Addo-Ankrah had five points. Josh Farmer finished with seven points and nine rebounds.
The Roadrunners shot 49 percent and held DCC to 26 percent from the field. UTSA was 17 of 37 from 3-point range and 10 of 12 from the free-throw line. UTSA had 21 assists on 37 made baskets
UTSA held a 63-28 margin in rebounds, including 21-9 in offensive rebounds, a 36-12 mark in points in the paint and a 27-4 lead in second-chance points.
UTSA returns to action on Thursday, hosting Southern Miss at 7 p.m. on CUSA TV and Ticket 760 AM.
The Roadrunners scored the first 12 points of the game, getting consecutive 3-pointers from Aleu, a pair of baskets from Germany and a pair at the line from Ivy-Curry. McNeill cleaned up the offensive glass for a 14-2 lead and Ivy-Curry and McNeill each splashed a 3-pointer for a 20-2 lead to open the first four minutes.
Farmer sank a corner 3-pointer and after a DCC basket, Sabally drilled his first career 3-pointer. Aleu added one at the line and Lachlan Bofinger finished a transition basket for a 29-4 lead at the second media break of the first half, part of a 17-2 run over a five-minute stretch.
The run continued to 25-2, and 11-0, after 3-pointers from Erik Czumbel and Tucker, and a pair at the line from McNeill. After a basket from DCC snapped the streak, Addo-Ankrah hit his first 3-pointer of the year and Sabally sank triples on consecutive trips to build a 46-3 lead.
Germany gave UTSA a 40-point lead with his third paint bucket and Bofinger cleaned up the glass twice for a 52-12 lead with 36 seconds left in the first. Ivy-Curry drilled a 3-pointer to make the lead 55-12 at the half. UTSA shot 45 percent in the half and was 12 of 24 from deep, with DCC going 5 of 30 from the field. It marked the fewest points scored in a half by a UTSA opponent, equaling the record set by Ouachita Baptist in the first half in 1998.
The lead grew to 48 in the opening minutes of the second half, with Ivy-Curry sinking a 3-pointer off a baseline out-of-bounds play and Aleu finishing a tip-in in the paint. The lead grew to 65-17 after a fourth 3-pointer from Ivy-Curry and an offensive rebound put-back from Aleu. McNeill put the lead to 69-22 and Sabally stretched it to 72-27 with his fourth 3-pointer with 14 minutes left.
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