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Box Score

SAINT CHARLES, Mo. (Mar. 4, 2016)-- The 14th-ranked University of Wisconsin-Parkside men's basketball team punched its ticket to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament semifinals for the fourth consecutive season, overpowering Truman State University 77-62 on Friday night in a quarterfinal matchup inside Family Arena.
 
The third-seeded Rangers (23-4) owned a tenuous 52-49 lead with 10:16 left in the game before scoring the next eight points, opening up an 11-point gap with 7:21 remaining. Kyle Flanagan scored four of the eight points during the run, building a double-digit gap for the first time in the contest.
 
The sixth-seeded Bulldogs (21-9) knifed the lead to just five with 5:08 remaining but UW-Parkside quickly rebuilt an 11-point buffer with under two minutes to go and maintained at least a nine-point lead the rest of the way in the 15-point win.
 
The opening half featured five lead changes and five ties with neither team owning a lead greater than six points. Truman State enjoyed a 24-19 edge with 6:31 left in the first half before the Rangers closed the half on a 19-8 run to take a 38-32 advantage into the locker room. Andy Mazurczak sparked the run, hitting a three for his first points of the contest. Mazurczak buried another three with 2:12 left followed by a three from Jake Verhagen to open up a six point lead while Kyle Flanagan tallied a tip-in basket at the buzzer.
 
Flanagan led the Rangers with 18 points and nine rebounds, hitting nine of his 11 field goal attempts while Mazurczak tallied 16 points and five assists. Kendale McCullum added 14 points, five boards, and four assists while all 10 players to see the floor tallied at least a field goal.
 
Billy Daniel led Truman with 20 points and eight rebounds with Connor Erickson providing 10 points off the bench.
 
UW-Parkside owned an 18-5 edge in points off turnovers while dominating the boards with a 41-27 rebounding edge, including a 14-5 lead on the offensive glass. Truman entered the contest as the top three-point shooting team in the GLVC but the Ranger defense clamped down and forced the Bulldogs to shooting just 25.0 percent (three-for-12) from beyond the arc.
 
UW-Parkside will face seventh-seed Quincy University on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the GLVC Semifinals after the Hawks upset second-seeded Drury University in overtime.