SPRINGFIELD — The Wittenberg men's basketball team will head into next week's North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament on a high note after getting a 75-55 win over Kenyon in Saturday afternoon's Senior Day game to close the regular season. The Tigers enter the tournament as the No. 3 seed.

The Basics

• Records: Wittenberg (17-8 overall, 11-5 NCAC), Kenyon (5-20 overall, 3-13 NCAC)
• Venue: Pam Evans Smith Arena - Springfield, Ohio
• Prior to the game, the Tigers honored seniors Daniel Asher (Indianapolis, Ind./Roncalli), Tanner Cooley (Bluffton, Ind./Bluffton), Jayvin Landers (Antwerp, Ohio/Antwerp), Brody Ley (Granville, Ohio/Granville) and Jeff Queen (Cincinnati, Ohio/LaSalle) and graduate student Dean Tate (Indianapolis, Ind./Warren Central) as part of the Senior Day festivities.

Stat Leaders

• Sophomore Dawson Scott (New Castle, Ind./New Castle) led the Tigers with 18 points and eight rebounds.
• Queen added 13 points, five steals, three rebounds and three assists.
• Junior Trey Killens (Cincinnati, Ohio/Mason) chipped in 11 points, and sophomore Eddie Brown (Lewis Center, Ohio/Olentangy Orange) added eight points and six rebounds.
• Gefen Bar-Cohen led the Owls with 11 points.

The Game

• The teams played to an 11-all tie early on before the Tigers put together a 10-0 run via four points from Brown and two each from Scott, Queen and freshman Tyler Galluch (Springfield, Ohio/Catholic Central) for a 21-11 edge with 9:18 left in the first half.
• Wittenberg extended the lead to 32-18 on a layup from Killens with 1:37 left in the half and went into halftime up 32-20.
• The Tigers extended their lead to 20, 58-38, on a 3-pointer from Queen with 8:49 left in the game and cruised to the victory.
• Wittenberg shot 53.3% from the floor, 31.3% from 3-point range and 60% from the foul line.
• Kenyon shot 46.5% from the floor, 46.7% from 3-point range and 50% from the foul line.
• The Tigers out-rebounded the Owls by a 32-24 margin and scored 18 points off 19 Kenyon turnovers.
• Wittenberg finished with a 12-0 edge in second-chance points and 34-26 advantage in points in the paint.

Post-Game Interview - Seniors Tanner Cooley and Jayvin Landers

Records & Milestones

• Wittenberg is now 107-12 all-time against Kenyon.
• Eighth-year head coach Matt Croci is now 141-59 all-time at Wittenberg.
• Killens has 948 career points, making him just 52 shy of 1,000. He has 480 points this season, which is 58 shy of breaking into the program's all-time top 10 for points in a season.

Up Next

• The Tigers return to action on Tuesday hosting Ohio Wesleyan in the NCAC Tournament quarterfinals at 6 p.m.