CHICAGO (AP) - Devon Turk scored a career-high 21 points as Loyola of Chicago beat Mississippi State 59-51 Saturday night.
Christian Thomas added 16 points for the Ramblers (7-3), who have won five of their last six games and equaled their win total from last season. Loyola put the game out of reach with a 17-3 run to close the first half and take a 34-20 lead.
Fred Thomas had 14 points for Mississippi State (3-6), which shot just 37.5 percent from the field.
The game marked the first meeting between the teams since they played a historic game in the 1963 NCAA tournament that helped change race relations on the basketball court. The all-white Bulldogs had to sneak out of Mississippi to avoid an injunction in order to play Loyola, which had four African-American starters, in the NCAA Regional in East Lansing, Mich.
Players from the 1963 teams were honored at halftime.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Mississippi State (3-6) | 20 | 31 | 51 |
| Loyola-Chicago (7-3) « | 34 | 25 | 59 |
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| Mississippi State Bulldogs | |||||||
| M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS | |
| G. Ware, F | 31 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| R. Johnson, F | 25 | 3-9 | 7-8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| F. Thomas, G | 35 | 5-14 | 1-2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| T. Bloodman, G | 34 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| C. Sword, G | 30 | 1-6 | 1-4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| C. Borchert, F | 22 | 3-8 | 1-1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| T. Cunningham, G | 22 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| B. Price, G | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 18-48 | 10-16 | 28 | 7 | 20 | 51 | |
| 37.5% | 62.5% | ||||||
| Loyola-Chicago Ramblers | |||||||
| M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS | |
| B. Averkamp, F | 32 | 1-9 | 3-4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| C. Thomas, G-F | 25 | 6-8 | 4-5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 16 |
| C. Payne, G | 29 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| J. Hicks, G-F | 25 | 0-6 | 0-1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Crisman, G | 17 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| J. White, G | 26 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| D. Turk, G | 24 | 7-12 | 2-2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 21 |
| M. O'Leary, F | 16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| N. Osborne, F | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 21-51 | 9-14 | 40 | 13 | 15 | 59 | |
| 41.2% | 64.3% | ||||||
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