DENVER (AP) - Chris Udofia scored 15 points and Denver won for the fifth time in its last seven games with a 64-53 victory over Texas State on Thursday night.
Brett Olson added 13 points and Chase Hallam had 11 for the Pioneers (6-7, 2-1 Western Athletic), who hit 9 of 18 3-point attempts and shot 55 percent overall from the floor.
Vonn Jones led Texas State (4-11, 0-3) with 16 points. Joel Wright added 12 and Reid Koenen had 10.
Denver led 37-34 early in the second half when Jalen Love hit a 3-pointer to start a 12-5 run and put the Pioneers ahead 49-39 with 11:35 remaining.
The Bobcats got within four points on a pair of free throws from Jones with 6:18 left, but then went 1 for 11 from the field the rest of the way.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Texas State-San Marcos (4-11) | 25 | 28 | 53 |
| Denver (6-7) « | 31 | 33 | 64 |
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| Texas State-San Marcos Bobcats | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| J. Wright, F | 30 | 2-7 | 8-9 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| N. Hinton, C | 4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W. Davis, G | 26 | 1-6 | 0-1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| P. Hawkins, G | 13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| D. Richardson, G | 3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| R. Koenen | 32 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| V. Jones | 26 | 5-10 | 4-5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 16 |
| C. Stern | 24 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| D. Jones | 17 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| M. Staff | 16 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| B. Brown II | 9 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Totals | 17-44 | 14-17 | 23 | 10 | 14 | 53 | |
| 38.6% | 82.4% | ||||||
| Denver Pioneers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Udofia, F | 33 | 6-10 | 3-3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| R. O'Neale, F | 30 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| B. Olson, G | 37 | 5-9 | 0-1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 13 |
| C. Hallam, G | 36 | 4-6 | 1-2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| J. Love, G | 18 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Griffin | 28 | 3-6 | 3-5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| M. Byrd | 7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| N. Engesser | 7 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| B. Foeman | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 23-42 | 9-15 | 28 | 20 | 16 | 64 | |
| 54.8% | 60% | ||||||
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