Bartlesville,OK.-- Southwestern Christian(0-1) opens the season on Friday nigh taking a tough loss to Fourth Ranked OKWU, 99-92 in the OKWU Classic, which saw three SCU players end the game in double-digits. OKWU shot 36 of 75 from the field(48%). Dylan Phillip was the leading scorer for OKWU shooting 8-14 from the field and ending the game with 22 pts. The Eagles defensively ended the night with five steals and two blocks, Luiz Machado Jr. lead the Eagles with two steals and Shawn Hopkins and Jonathan Baruti had a block a piece.

Southwestern Christian ended the game shooting 28-69(40%) from the floor, while shooting 6 of 20(30%) from beyond the Arc, SCU shot 30-42(72%) from the Charity strike with a majority of the Free throw attempts and makes shot by Chapman, Hopkins, & Machado Jr. The Bench of SCU contributed 49 pts to the effort out performing the OKWU bench by +14 margin. Hopkins being the top scorer coming off the bench. Southwestern Christian out-rebounded OKWU by only a +2 advantage, (38-36 SCU), but OKWU had more second chance points over SCU (18-14 OKWU), while having less OREB (15-13 SCU). Machado Jr. and Janloo lead SCU with two assists a piece and SCU ended the night with six assist overall. The Big Stat for SCU was 40 pts in the paint.

Luiz Machado Jr. led the scoring for SCU with 38 pts, 10 Rebs, 2 Ast, & 2 Stls, he shot 8-15 from the floor, 4-6 from Three and 13-16 from the Charity strike. Shawn Hopkins finished the night with 29 pts, 8 Rebs, 1 Blk,& 1 Stls. Robert Chapman finished the night 14 pts, 3 Rebs,& 2 Ast.

Southwestern Christian returns to action on the Road in Bartlesville,OK in the OKWU Classic at 5:30 PM against Calvary Bible College for more SCU Men's Basketball action.