Daniel Bryant and Brandon Reed scored 16 points apiece for Arkansas State (3-5), which erased a 14-point deficit to knot the score at intermission.

Missouri State, which made 18 of 20 free-throw attempts in the second half, has won consecutive road games for the first time since the 2006-07 season.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Kim English had a game-high 20 points to lead Missouri past Fairleigh Dickinson 87-36 Saturday night. Eleven of English's points came in the first 3½ minutes of the game. The victory pushes Missouri's home winning streak to 24 games.

Terence Grier led the Knights (1-10) with 12 points. It was Fairleigh Dickinson's lowest-scoring game this season.

The Tigers (6-3) burst out of the gates in the second half with a 20-0 run to pull away from the Knights, holding the Fairleigh Dickinson without a field goal for the first 8:53 of the half.

The stifling Missouri defense forced 26 Knight turnovers and held the visitors to just 21 percent from the floor, including a lackluster 3 of 22 from three-point range.

No. 11 Drury raced out to a 17-point halftime advantage and cruised past Saint Gregory's for a 101-74 victory in non-conference basketball action Saturday afternoon at Weiser Gym.

Freshman guard Alex Hall scored 18 points to lead four Panthers in double-figures as Drury moved to 7-1 on the season entering games next week in the High Desert Classic in Las Vegas against MIAA members Missouri Western on Friday (9 p.m. CST) and Northwest Missouri State (6:15 p.m. CST) on Saturday.

Junior guard Chase Elliott had 17 points, junior forward Sahlih Butts had 11 points and a team-high eight rebounds off the bench and sophomore guard Dennon Mitchell scored 10 points for the Panthers, who grabbed a 51-34 lead at halftime.

Drury outrebounded Saint Gregory's 43-42, getting a lift from Cable Hogue as well as the freshman forward had eight points and seven rebounds in his 17 minutes of work.

Drury committed a season-low 10 turnovers while forcing 23 by Saint Gregory's, which fell to 0-6 in the series with the Panthers. No DU player had more than two turnovers.
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The Drury Lady Panthers went cold in the second half and Northeastern State took advantage, rallying from a nine-point deficit at halftime to nip the Lady Panthers 53-49 in a non-conference women's basketball matchup here on Saturday afternoon.

The Lady Panthers (7-3) led 35-26 at halftime after hitting 13 of their 20 shots (65 percent), including 4 of 5 attempts from 3-point range. But the Riverhawks (8-3) charged back with an 11-2 run to start the second half and tie the game at 37-all with 12 minutes left, and it was nip and tuck from there.

It was tied at 46-all with just over three minutes left before the Riverhawks scored the game's next six points to grab some breathing room, the last on a backdoor bucket from Cristy Nitz with 1:35 left for the 52-46 advantage.

DU sophomore guard Katie Pritchard hit a 3-pointer with 1:20 to go to pull the Lady Panthers back within three, but the Lady Panthers were shut out from there to finish off a second half in which they were outscored 27-14 by NSU.
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Elsewhere Matt Rogers had 21 points to lead 13th ranked Southwest Baptist past Pittsburg State 79-75 as the Bearcat men improve to 10-2.

The SBU women fell to Pitt St. 77-68.

The Missouri S&T men topped Lincoln 88-77 while the Lady Miners defeated Westminster 64-49.