The Golden Eagles (3-3) dominated the Rattlers (0-6) from start to finish in a wire-to-wire victory. Warren Niles and Kevin Ford joined Morrison in double figures by scoring 15 and 11, respectively.

ORU scored the game's first six points, and owned a 19-8 lead after a jumper by Ford with 11:30 left before halftime.

 FAMU used an 8-0 run to close within 19-16 with 7:36 left in the half, but ORU responded by outscoring the Rattlers 17-4 to end the half. The Golden Eagles led 36-20 at halftime.

The Golden Eagles slowly put the game out of reach early in the second half. After the Rattlers closed to within 39-25, ORU went on a 10-0 run over the next four minutes for a 49-25 lead with 14:38 remaining.

A three-pointer by Niles with 11:03 left gave ORU its first 30-point lead at 59-29, and a Ford dunk gave the Golden Eagles a 33-point cushion (64-31) with 7:20 left.

ORU dominated the game statistically, shooting 49.1 percent from the field while holding FAMU to 28.2 percent shooting. The Golden Eagles also out-rebounded the Rattlers, 50-37.

Morrison finished the game 6-of-11 from the field with one trey. The sophomore was also perfect on six free throws, while adding three assists, three rebounds and two steals.

Niles came off the bench and turned in a 6-of-8 effort which included three 3-pointers. He also added six rebounds and four assists. Ford added a game-high 12 points and two blocked shots to his point total.

David Buchanon led the Rattlers with 14 points.

#1 Kansas 89, Oakland 59
LAWRENCE, Kan. (ougrizzlies.com)  - Senior Derick Nelson set a career-high with a 4-for-5 performance from beyond the arc and finished with 19 points, while junior Keith Benson scored a game-high 20 points and blocked four shots, but the top-ranked Kansas Jayhawks (4-0) proved to be too much for the Golden Grizzlies (2-3), winning 89-59, to extend the nation's top home court winning streak to 44 at Allen Fieldhouse in front of a sellout crowd (16,230) on Wednesday night.

"I liked the way we played," said OU coach Greg Kampe. "We controlled the tempo in the first half, had the game where we wanted it, and then a freshman made a freshman mistake and raced up the floor and we shot a three. We missed and they raced up the floor and got a dunk, steal, then dunk and the lead went from seven to 14 points."

Senior point guard Johnathon Jones dished out seven assists to tie The Summit League's all-time assists record with 626 in his career, matching Valparaiso's Bryce Drew. Benson moved into fifth all-time in league history pushing his blocks total to 146.

The Golden Grizzlies played solid defense through the first 13 minutes as Oakland trailed by just seven points, 23-16, with 7:12 left until halftime. KU then used a 14-5 run over a five-minute span to take a commanding 35-19 lead with just under three minutes to go.

Junior Will Hudson missed a pair of front-end one-and-one free throws to try and slice into the lead and KU scored nine straight points, before Benson's offensive rebound and dunk stropped the run, as the Golden Grizzlies trailed 37-22 at the half. Benson and Nelson scored 17 of Oakland's 22 points in the first half.

Nelson began the second half with a 3-pointer from the wing and Wright drained one from the corner as the Golden Grizzlies cut the lead to 11 points, 39-28, with 17:22 left in the game. The Jayhawks responded by outscoring OU 20-11 over the next five-plus minutes and continued to lead by 20-plus points for the remainder of the game.

IUPUI 98, IU East 67
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (iupuijags.com) - The IUPUI basketball team began celebrating Thanksgiving early on Wednesday night, feasting on the IU East Red Wolves in its 2009 home opener en route to an easy 98-67 win inside The Jungle. Junior Leroy Nobles led five Jaguars in double-digits with 23 points and redshirt freshman Sean Esposito tallied 18 points on 6-of-8 threes off the bench.

After a sluggish start, IUPUI (5-1) finished the night hitting 67.3 percent from the floor and 64.7 percent from three while handing out 25 assists on 37 field goals. IUPUI's 67.3 percent was just percentage points away from setting a new single-game mark at the Division I level, set earlier this year against Drake.

"We came out flat, but we played through it. I was a little disappointed with how we played the first eight to 10 minutes, but games like this are tough," IUPUI Head Coach Ron Hunter said. "We just got back off the road and it's right before the (Thanksgiving) holiday, so the guys lost a little focus early."

The lack of focus saw the Jags trailing 11-6 at the 16:05 mark of the first half, but hot shooting and timely defense propelled IUPUI on a 12-0 run to take the lead for good midway through the stanza. Junior John Ashworth hit a 16-footer to tie the score at 16 all at the 13:07 mark and sophomore Alex Young followed with a layup setup by Billy Pettiford's steal and assist.

Esposito capped the run with a three from the left side, making it 26-16 with 8:48 left in the first half. IUPUI took a 42-28 advantage to halftime and scored the first seven points of the second half to put the game away. Esposito was the story of the final frame, hitting four threes in six IUPUI possessions at one point, however IU East (4-5) matched three of the longballs to keep the score respectable.

"(Esposito) was huge tonight. He can really shoot the ball and to get 18 off the bench is a huge lift to our team," Hunter said. "The thing I didn't like is that we were just trading baskets during that stretch in the second half, but again, part of that was just us losing focus and not getting stops."

The IUPUI bench outscored IUE's 37-24 as Jon Avery finished with 11 points and a career-high four blocked shots and sophomore Christian Siakam scored a career-high eight points in 15 minutes.

"The bench really lifted us tonight. Jon Avery gave us some really good minutes and I thought Christian Siakam played really well," Hunter said. "The thing about him is that he has some bulk and can score inside. He's still having a hard time understanding our system, but he's going to be a really good player for us."

Young scored 16, Robert Glenn added 11 and Ashworth chipped in nine points and eight assists in 35 minutes.

"Ashworth keeps doing his thing," Hunter said. "He's playing some major minutes, but you look up and he's got some assists, he's hitting some shots and he's playing defense. I want to give him a rest, but he's playing so well that it's hard to keep him off the floor."

Nobles grabbed a game-high seven boards as IUPUI outrebounded the Red Wolves 35-30.

IU East was led by Tyler Rigby's 23 points on 5-of-9 from downtown and Noah Douglas added 11 from the interior. The Red Wolves shot just 32.5 percent in the second half while IUPUI missed just seven field goal attempts in a 74 percent effort over the final 20 minutes.

Tennessee Tech 72, Southern Utah 65
CEDAR CITY, Utah (suutbirds.com) - Tennessee Tech held Southern Utah to its second-lowest field goal percentage of the season while shooting the ball far better than any Thunderbird opponent had this year in claiming a 72-65 road win in the Centrum Thursday night.

Tech held the Thunderbirds to .423 shooting (22-of-52), second only to the 39.1 percent (18-of-46) SUU shot at Hawai'i, and picked off 15 steals. Meanwhile, the Golden Eagles shot .481 from the field (26-of-54) to better Northern Colorado's .429 - the previous best night against the Thunderbirds this season - by 5.2 percentage points. Thursday's game was just the second this season that an opponent has out-shot SUU, with the Hawai'i game the other.

"I didn't really like our effort tonight," SUU Coach Roger Reid said after the game. "We were at home but they were the aggressors tonight. Give them credit, they got after us defensively, they played very hard at the defensive end and we weren't able to match that intensity tonight."

Southern Utah led 4-0 early and held a 9-6 lead after a 3-pointer by Davis Baker with 13:02 to go in the first half, but Elijah Muhammad tied it at 9-9 with another three and Riley Hunley staked the visitors to a 12-9 lead with a traditional three-point play at the 10:45 mark for Tech's first lead of the game.

The Golden Eagles went up by five but SUU got back-to-back 3-pointers from Ryan Brimley to get within 16-15, and after the teams exchanged baskets Scott Friel scored on an in-bounds play to give SUU a 19-18 lead with seven minutes to go.

That was the last lead SUU would have, however, as Tech sandwiched a pair of 3-pointers around two Jake Nielson free throws to grab a three-point lead, then put together a rally in the final two minutes, out-scoring the Thunderbirds 9-3 to lead 36-28 at the break.

Tennessee Tech wasn't able to build a double-digit lead in the second half , but SUU was also never able to regain the advantage. Although the Thunderbirds did get within two points on several occasions, and had opportunities to tie or re-take the lead, they missed shots each time and TTU was able to get the rebounds.

Baker scored a season-high 25 points to lead all scorers, while Nielson had 12 and Brimley 11 before those two fouled out in the closing minutes. Baker and Matt Massey each had seven rebounds to lead the T-Birds, who won the battle of the boards, 35-34. Friel dished out a career-best seven assists and Nielson had six dimes to go with three steals and a block.

Davis scored 19 points, while Muhammad chipped in 12 and Jones had 11 points and nine rebounds to lead Tech. Muhammad also had a team-high five assists.