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Cody Futrell
Issue date: 2/10/06 Section: Sports
ULM coach Orlando Early did not know how to explain his team's performance at Sam Houston State on Saturday.
The result of that game was a 71-54 victory for the home-standing Bearkats.
"Unlike a couple of other games this season, we were getting good looks tonight," Early said. "The shots weren't falling, and Sam Houston did a great job in the second half."
The Indians came into the game with a three-game winning streak on the line, a feat not accomplished by the men's basketball team in two years.
But after a night in which the Indians shot an ice-cold 23.2 percent from the field, the Bearkats sent the "sea of orange" in Johnson Coliseum home happy.
The Indians also were uncharacteristically inaccuarate from the free-throw line, missing 10 shots from the charity strip in the second half.
Trailing by a score of 26-21 at intermission, ULM seemed to go toe-to-toe with the Bearkats, until Chris Jordan, the Bearkats' leading scorer, began to get a rhythm from behind the arc.
Jordan connected on all four of his 3-point attempts to pace the Bearkats with 22 points.
John Gardiner and Ryan Bright also scored in double-figures for Sam Houston.
All was not a miss for ULM though.
Junior RoShon Jacobs continues to pace the Indians, as he did in Texas on Saturday with 11 points and three rebounds.
Jacobs has scored in double figures in nine of his last 12 outings this season and has brought an athletic intensity to the team since his duties as a wide receiver on the football team have ended.
"We just could not get the shots to fall tonight," Jacobs said. "That is life on the road, and we will learn from this and improve as a team."