Millsaps Men Falter, Lose to Rose-Hulman 54-58

Jackson - Missed free throws down the stretch doomed the Millsaps men's basketball team as the Majors dropped a must-win game to the Rose-Hulman Fighting Engineers 54-58 on Sunday afternoon. The loss snaps Millsaps' 9-game home winning streak and all but dashes the team's hopes of capturing a second consecutive SCAC championship.

One bright spot for the Majors (14-6, 8-5) came midway through tthe second half as Senior guard Daniel Waguespack scored his 1, 528th point of his career and surpassed Billy Waits as the 2nd all-time leading scorer in Millsaps men's basketball history. Despite Waguespack's game high 27 points, his efforts were not enough to overcome the Majors' woeful 11-23 mark form the charity stripe. The Engineers, however, shot 23 of 28 from the line, which helped negate their 20 turnovers on the afternoon. Jason Ludwig led Rose-Hulman with 20 points as the Engineers improved to 12-8 overall and 10-3 in the SCAC.

Millsaps will try to get back on track Friday night, Feb. 8, 2002, as they travel to Danville, KY, to take on the Centre College Colonels. Tip-off is set for 8:00 p.m.EST.

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