DENVER (AP) - Chris Udofia scored a career-high 27 points and had four blocked shots as Denver dealt Middle Tennessee its first Sun Belt Conference loss with a 75-60 win Saturday.
Rob Lewis added 17 points and Royce O'Neale had 14 for the Pioneers (17-7, 7-4), who snapped a two-game losing streak.
LaRon Dendy had 15 points and Marcos Knight scored 14 for the Blue Raiders (21-4, 10-1), who have lost two of their last three games overall.
Denver led 54-51 before pulling away down the stretch. Udofia had a layup and a three-point play and O'Neale added another three-point play to make it 64-55 with 4:29 remaining.
Udofia sealed the game with a block on one end, and a dunk on the other with 1:44 left that made it 71-56.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Middle Tennessee (21-4) | 31 | 29 | 60 |
| Denver (17-7) « | 34 | 41 | 75 |
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| Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Sulton, F | 27 | 3-5 | 4-4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| L. Dendy, F | 24 | 5-8 | 5-7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| B. Massey, G | 34 | 2-6 | 2-2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| M. Knight, G | 32 | 5-13 | 4-6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| R. Cintron, G | 30 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| K. Hammonds | 16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| J. Jones | 16 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| S. Jones | 9 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| J. Oden | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Gallman | 5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Walker | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 20-43 | 17-21 | 28 | 9 | 24 | 60 | |
| 46.5% | 81% | ||||||
| Denver Pioneers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Udofia, F | 33 | 10-14 | 5-5 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 27 |
| R. Lewis, F | 24 | 6-9 | 5-5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 |
| B. Olson, G | 36 | 1-6 | 2-2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| B. Stafford, G | 29 | 1-6 | 4-6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| C. Hallam, G | 26 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| R. O'Neale | 30 | 4-6 | 6-6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| B. Foeman | 8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| J. Coughlin | 7 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| T. Hallam | 6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| A. Pickert | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 25-50 | 22-25 | 25 | 12 | 18 | 75 | |
| 50% | 88% | ||||||
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