PORTALES, N.M. – Greyhound Arena was the place to be in Portales, Thursday night, as Eastern New Mexico men's basketball dominated a tough Angelo State program, 100-79. Tonight marked a program record eighth 100+ point contest for the Greyhounds this season. 

It was a "get back" mentality that helped ENMU to the win according to head coach Brent Owen.

Four weeks ago, Angelo State earned easy scoring chances and crashed the glass for an 88-85 win over the Hounds in San Angelo.

This time, ASU struggled with setting screens and outplaying the Eastern New Mexico big-men.

The trio of Jose Murillo, Jaxon Koroll, and Conrad Luczynski made it a difficult game for the visitor's.

"That's the best thing," said sophomore Jose Murillo when asked about playing with multiple teammates taller than 7-feet. "It's really fun and not a lot of teams have big players. We have a big advantage."

The "big" advantage assisted the Greyhounds in outrebounding Angelo State, 46-32.

"I thought our guys dominated," said Owen after the win. "We moved the ball, everyone took good shots, and I am proud of the way we played."

Ten different Hounds appeared in the game for five or more minutes. All ten scored and most importantly all ten recorded at least one rebound.

A whopping 21 of the program's 46 rebounds came on the offensive glass. One player that Rio Rancho, N.M. native Junior Hodnett credited with having a solid performance was Mario Whitley. The Saginaw, Mich. junior grabbed six offensive rebounds which was a key contributor to Eastern' 35 second chance points. For comparison, Angelo State only had six second chance points.

According to Hodnett, head coach Brent Owen calls those "backbreakers."

Tonight, Hodnett led the team with 24 points off the bench. ENMU scored 42 points courtesy of bench players.

Starters Greg Johnson (16), Jose Murillo (13), and Mario Whitley (12) also posted double figure scoring for the Hounds.

Eastern New Mexico stayed hot from behind-the-arc. The nation's second best three-point shooting team connected on 14-of-26 (53.8%) from deep range. Hodnett hit six of those for ENMU.

"This week the team took ownership," said Owen after the game. Ownership is an accurate word to describe the style of play at Greyhound Arena Thursday night as the ball was shared fairly among the group and continued to challenge ASU to find better ways to overcome such a large deficit.

However, it was not Rams with the initial deficit as they held the edge, 17-9, six minutes into the game.

A 22-0 run by Eastern over the middle portion of the first half reversed the course of the game greatly for the home team. Two key substitutes who played during the run included Jaxon Koroll and Tre'Von Love. Four three-point makes came during the rally and inked the advantage for the Greyhounds.

ENMU's lead never got within ten points from that moment on. Eastern New Mexico pulled through behind an energetic Greyhound Arena crowd and split the regular season series with the LSC west division foe.

The Hounds will be back in action Saturday at 3 p.m. against UT Permian Basin.