OWENSBORO, KY. --- The Auburn Montgomery men's basketball team scored a season-high 99 points, while shooting a season-best 61 percent from the floor and seeing six different players score in double figures in a 99-85 victory over the Tiffin University Dragons in their first game of the Kentucky Wesleyan Thanksgiving Classic on Friday, Nov 29.

NOTEWORTHY
- With the win, AUM improves to 5-4 overall.
- Friday's contest against Tiffin marked for the first ever meeting between the schools, with AUM now holding a 1-0 all-time advantage. 
 
STANDOUT PERFORMERS
- Carlos Bell logged his first double-double of the 2019-20 season, with a 20-point, 11-rebound performance. Bell also recorded four assists and two steals on a 7-11 shooting night.
- Darrion Taylor led all scorers with a game-high 21 points, to go along with a game-high five assists. Taylor knocked down nine of 11 shots, including two of three from beyond the arc.
- Stanley Davis scored 14 for the Orange and Black, while also pulling down six rebounds, distributing four assists and grabbing a game-high three steals. 
- Maharrith Jackson and Joshua Moore both tallied 12 points, with Jackson hauling in seven rebounds and Moore with four.
- Jeremiah Bozeman notched double-digit points for the second time in his AUM career, with an 11-point performance. Bozeman also went for five rebounds and three assists. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Both teams scored eight points over the first five minutes, followed by a 10-0 run by the Warhawks over the next three minutes to lead 18-8 at the 12:57 mark in the first.
- The Warhawks would immediately follow up with another big scoring run, this time outscoring the Dragons 20-8 over the next five minutes, to lead 38-19 with 7:34 to play in the first. 
- Tiffin would score the next eight points unanswered, however, to trim AUM's lead to 38-27 at the 5:45 mark. AUM would score 12 more points, while Tiffin would score 11, to see the score read 50-38 at halftime.
- With the score reading 62-48 at the 15:58 mark in the second, the Warhawks would rattle off a 12-2 run over the next five minutes, highlighted by 10 unanswered points during a four-minute stretch to see their largest lead of the game at 74-50.
- AUM would flirt with a 20-point lead for the remainder of the game, until a 9-2 run by the Dragons over the final two minutes would take a tiny bite into the Warhawk's lead before giving way to the 99-85 final score.
 
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE
- The Warhawks shot the ball at an elite level all game, sinking 61 percent (22-36) of their shots from the field in half number one, and 62 percent (18-29) in the second. 
- AUM amassed a season-high 52 points in the paint, while winning the rebounding battle 39-27 and scoring 11 second-chance points. 
- The Warhawks shot 43 percent (7-16) on three-pointers, while holding the Dragons to just 30 percent from downtown (7-23). 
- AUM totaled 20 points both off of the bench and off Tiffin turnovers, in addition to getting 15 fast break points. 
 
UP NEXT
- The Warhawks face a quick turnaround, as they head back to the hardwood on Saturday, Nov. 30 for a 2:30 p.m. tipoff with host school Kentucky Wesleyan on the final day of the Kentucky Wesleyan Thanksgiving Classic. 

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