DENVER (AP) - Chris Udofia scored 17 points and Denver beat Texas A&M-CC 68-51 on Wednesday night in their home opener.
Udofia was 5 of 7 from the field and had seven rebounds. Brett Olson scored 11 points, including three 3-pointers, for the Pioneers. Royce O'Neale finished with 5 points, seven rebounds and five assists.
Denver (1-1) led 31-23 at halftime.
Hameed Ali led the Islanders with 15 points and William Nelson scored 12. Johnathan Jordan added 10 points for the Islanders (1-1). Nate Maxey and Joy Williamson had 6 rebounds each.
The Pioneers won a team-record 22 Division 1 games last season.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (1-1) | 23 | 28 | 51 |
| Denver (1-1) « | 31 | 37 | 68 |
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| Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| W. Nelson, F | 30 | 3-10 | 5-6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| N. Maxey, F | 20 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| J. Jordan, G | 34 | 5-9 | 0-1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| H. Ali, G | 33 | 6-15 | 2-4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| K. Dvorak, G | 12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Williamson | 24 | 1-6 | 2-2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| B. Pye | 16 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| D. Francis | 13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Z. Knowles | 8 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| C. Martinez | 5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Currie | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Wang | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 19-49 | 10-15 | 31 | 8 | 20 | 51 | |
| 38.8% | 66.7% | ||||||
| Denver Pioneers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Udofia, F | 29 | 5-7 | 6-10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 17 |
| R. O'Neale, F | 26 | 1-3 | 3-5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| B. Foeman, F | 15 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| B. Olson, G | 39 | 3-9 | 2-2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| C. Hallam, G | 33 | 2-8 | 2-4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Griffin | 23 | 2-4 | 2-2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| J. Love | 16 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| N. Engesser | 9 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| M. Byrd | 7 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| J. Logan | 2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. Rucker | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 20-43 | 17-25 | 33 | 17 | 17 | 68 | |
| 46.5% | 68% | ||||||
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