Box Score

DAYTON, Ohio – Wright State's Cory Cooperwood scored a game-high 19 points, and Norfolk State scored just 12 first-half points en route to its sixth straight loss, 66-43 on Wednesday night at the Nutter Center.

Despite holding the Raiders (3-7) without a point for the first five and a half minutes, the Spartans (1-6) posted season lows in first-half scoring (12 points) and total scoring (43) while shooting just 31.5 percent from the floor.

NSU led 5-0 after a jump hook by Joseph Dorsett-Jeffreys (Bronx, N.Y.) and a 3-pointer by Corey Lyons (Bronx, N.Y.), but things quickly went downhill. A 3-pointer by Todd Brown got the Raiders on the board with 14:30 left in the half, cutting NSU's advantage to 5-3. A short time later, John David Gardner scored five straight points to give WSU its first lead of the game at 11-9 with 9:30 left in the half.

Lyons hit his second 3-pointer of the half to get the Spartans within 15-12. But WSU scored the final 14 points of the half and held the Spartans without a point in the final 6:18 of the period to take a 29-12 lead into the break. The Spartans shot just 21 percent, connecting on 5-of-24 field goals in the opening stanza.

Lyons' fourth and final 3-pointer of the game brought NSU within 10, 34-24, with 14:06 remaining in the game, but NSU could get no closer.

Lyons scored 14 points to pace the Spartans. NSU guard Michael Deloach (Rocky Mount, N.C.), the MEAC's leading scorer at 22.2 points per game coming into Wednesday's game, was held to a season-low nine points on 3-of-12 shooting. He did not score a point in the first half.

Brown added 10 points and Cooperwood grabbed a game-high eight rebounds for WSU, which shot 41 percent from the floor and 79 percent (23-of-29) from the free-throw line.

NSU returns to action this Saturday through Monday in the Basketball Travelers Tip-Off Tournament hosted by Missouri State in Springfield, Mo. The Spartans begin play in the round-robin event at 9 p.m. ET Saturday against the host school.