MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Southern Arkansas men's basketball team left little doubt in their home game against Williams Baptist College on Saturday as the Muleriders led wire-to-wire en route to a 41-point victory, 79-38.
 
RECORDS
Williams Baptist Eagles (3-5)
Southern Arkansas Muleriders (4-2)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Snyder Cenecharles scored the game's first five points as SAU grabbed a quick 5-0 lead over the Eagles. Minutes later, SAU held a 9-3 lead, but a 6-0 run by the Eagles knotted the game at 9-all with 14:22 left in the first half.
• That tie score would not last long as on the Muleriders' ensuing possession, Cenecharles made good on a layup to put SAU back on top of the scoreboard.
• The Muleriders went on to score the next 10 points of the game as they began to separate themselves. During that run, CJ Elkins buried a pair of trifectas while DeSean Dockery and Tony Aska each added layups as well.
• The Muleriders would lead the Eagles by double-digits the remainder of the half with their largest advantage being 19 points, 34-15, thanks to a made three-pointer by Keeton Tennison with 4:35 remaining. SAU took a 15-point lead in the locker room.
• In the second half, SAU went from being in control to totally dominating the Eagles. By the first media timeout, the Muleriders had grown their lead out to over 20 points, and as the half wore on, SAU was able to continue to pad their lead with little resistance from Williams Baptist.
• Defensively in the second half, SAU was stifling, eventually holding the Eagles to just 12 points on four made field goals and four made free throws in the entire half.

 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• For the game, SAU shot 42% (32-of-76) overall from the floor with a 32% (7-of-22) success rate from long range
• All 10 Muleriders to log action in the contest scored in the game with Snyder Cenecharles, CJ Elkins, and Keeton Tennison reaching double-figures, respectively. Tennison, from the bench, was the game's leading scoring with 15 points.
• In terms of specialty stats, the Muleriders held a significant advantage in nearly all of the categories. The largest discrepancies came in Points in the Paint (34-14) and Bench Points (39-8)
• The Muleriders had fewer turnovers (19-12) and out-rebounded the Eagles (55-38). Over half of those rebounds came in the second half for SAU as they cleaned the glass an incredible 36 times over the final 20 minutes.
• As a team, SAU dished out a season-high 18 assists. A total of nine Muleriders recorded an assist with De'Vonte Thornton collecting the most at four.

 
UP NEXT
The Muleriders will now prepare to jump back into conference action this coming week as SAU is set to make its longest Oklahoma swing of the year with stops at Northwestern Oklahoma and Southwestern Oklahoma. The first of those will be at Northwestern Oklahoma on Thursday, December 1. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Alva.