TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Six players scored in double-figures Monday morning for Indiana State, leading a balanced Sycamore attack to a wire-to-wire 102-50 win over Saint Mary-of-the-Woods inside Hulman Center.
 
Tierney Kelsey and Jayci Allen each poured in a game-high 17 points, with Clemisha Pracket adding an 11-point, 11-rebound double-double. Samiyah Briggs finished with a season-high 15 points, with Amerie Flowers and Da'Naria Washington tacking on 13 and 10, respectively. Washington and Kennedy Claybrooks tallied six assists each.
 
Indiana State opened with back-to-back threes from Briggs and Kayla Smith, and the Sycamores never looked back. Briggs and Kelsey both had 10-plus points in the opening quarter, with the Trees building a 16-point lead in the first 10 minutes. A slow second quarter for the Sycamores gave way to a 30-point outburst in the third, as Allen and Prackett came alive for 18 between the pair in the frame. Flowers added 11 in the fourth, as the Sycamores opened their three-game homestand victorious on Education Day.
 
First Half
The 3-point shot was working early for the Blue and White, with Briggs and Smith hitting from distance on the Trees' first two possessions. Another three from Briggs, along with Smith's second triple of the quarter, kept the Sycamores' lead at six with just over three minutes left in the quarter. Indiana State went on the attack from there, with Kelsey hitting a trey and Smith adding a three-point play to start a 15-2 run to close the quarter. Two more threes for the Trees, coming from Briggs and Kelsey, saw the Sycamores ahead 32-16 after one.
 
Briggs opened the second quarter with a three-point play, while Prackett tacked on a layup down low as the Sycamores pushed their lead to 37-16 two minutes into the second. Allen and Flowers added layups for the Trees, while Kennedi Ard knocked down her first basket as a Sycamore to extend the lead to 45-21 just past the midway point of the period. Allen and Washington hit late baskets for the Blue and White, as Indiana State took a 49-27 lead into the intermission.
 
Second Half
Prackett opened the third quarter scoring for the Sycamores with a layup, with Kelsey tacking on a three moments later to extend the lead. Baskets from Allen and Washington pushed the Sycamore advantage to 60-34 at the midway point of the quarter, while Allen and Prackett capitalized on turnovers for easy baskets out of the media timeout. Two straight layups from Washington pushed the lead to 68-37, and Allen hit a pair of late threes to keep the scoring going. Prackett added a late basket just before the horn, pushing the Sycamores' lead to 79-40 heading to the fourth.
 
Flowers and Allen went to work early in the fourth, with the duo combining to score Indiana State's first nine points of the frame. Claybrooks and Flowers added layups near the midway point of the period, with the former also knocking down a three. Layups from Washington and Flowers, along with Ruth Sodipe's first points as a Sycamore from the charity stripe, pushed the Trees' total over the century mark with just over two minutes remaining. A late basket from Claybrooks closed the scoring, as Indiana State took home a 102-50 win.
 
News and Notes

• Monday's game was Education Day presented by RJL Solutions, with more than 1,300 sixth-grade students from Vigo and Clay County Schools in attendance. Total attendance was 2,309, the most for an Indiana State game this season.
• Indiana State hit the 100-point mark in a game for the first time since Nov. 28, 2006 against Loyola Chicago. The Sycamores scored 100-plus points on three occasions during the 2006-07 non-conference slate, but went 511 games without hitting the century mark prior to Monday.
• Indiana State had a season-high six players in double-figures, marking the first time since Dec. 5, 2020 against Murray State that six Sycamores had 10-plus points in a game.
• Bench production continued to be a key factor for the Trees, as Indiana State finished with 43 bench points in Monday's game. Three Sycamores scored in double-figures off the bench.
• Samiyah Briggs (15), Amerie Flowers (13) and Da'Naria Washington (10) all had season highs in scoring in Monday's game.
• Indiana State's 39 field goals, 75 attempts and .520 shooting percentage were all season highs, with the Sycamores also tying their season high of 11 3-pointers.
• Indiana State's defense limited Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to a .302 shooting percentage in Monday's game.
• After going more than 200 games without a 50-point half dating back to 2017, the Sycamores recorded 50-point second halves in each of the last two games. Indiana State had 50 in the second half at SIUE and tallied 53 in the second half of Monday's game.
• Indiana State finished the game with 28 assists compared to just six turnovers. The 28 assists were three off a program single-game record, with Indiana State's last game with 25 or more assists being the 2021-22 season opener against Stephens College (Mo.).
• Indiana State's 52-point margin of victory was its largest since the 2021-22 season opener against Stephens College (88-33).
• The Sycamores took full advantage of turnovers, as the Trees had 36 points off 27 SMWC giveaways.
• Indiana State finished with the advantage in points off turnovers (36-3), points in the paint (48-16), fastbreak points (21-3) and bench points (43-12).
• Monday's game marked the first change to the Sycamores' starting lineup of the season, as Tierney Kelsey and Clemisha Prackett made their first starts for the Trees.

 
Up Next
Indiana State's three-game homestand resumes after the Thanksgiving break, as the Sycamores welcome Eureka to Hulman Center Saturday afternoon for a 2 p.m. tip.
 
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