FAYETTE, Iowa – The Winona State men's basketball team ran into a hot-shooting Upper Iowa squad, falling 90-76 Saturday evening in Fayette.

Upper Iowa turned the tables on the Warriors from their first matchup, a game the Warriors won 89-70. The Peacocks hit 14 of 31 3-pointers while the Warriors made just 3 of 20 attempts from long range. The
Peacocks also outrebounded WSU 45-34 after the Warriors outrebounded the Peacocks by 30 – 57-27 – in the first meeting.

The Warriors jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead – what would prove to be its largest of the night – to start the game but UIU quickly pulled even at 8-8. The opening 10 minutes was tightly contested with neither team opening up more than a four-point lead and a Conrad Masberg jumper – two of his 10 first-half points – brought a Warrior deficit to just 18-16 with just 10:50 to play.

From that point, the Peacocks went on 13-2 run in a span of four minutes to jump out to a 31-18 advantage with 6:49 to play. A pair of Masberg free throws got the Warriors back within four points at 36-32 with 1:57 to play before going into the locker room down 40-34.

UIU's Jarrod Gamble hit a 3-pointer early in the second half to put the Peacocks back up double digits, 48-38 and after back-to-back triples a few minutes later, UIU had staked itself to a 59-43 lead. The Warriors came back with an ensuing 6-0 run to get it back to a 10-point deficit, but WSU could not get closer than seven points the rest of the way.

Three Warriors reached double figures in the game, led by Riley Bambenek's game-high 19 on 7-of-17 shooting. Conrad Masberg contributed a season-high 15 points on 6-of-15 shooting while Isaiah Gray added 13 points.

Winona State (5-5, 2-4 NSIC) will take advantage of the holiday break before returning to action in 2015 when it travels to Northern State and MSU Moorhead on January 2 and January 3.