KEARNEY, Neb. – In the second game of Newman's road trip, they traveled north to take on the Nebraska-Kearney Lopers. The Lopers would take down the Jets 85-72 behind their hot shooting.

For most of the first half, it was a back and forth game with neither team gaining much of an advantage.  Newman would score the first basket of the game as Kaleb Allison made a  layup. With the score 21-20 in favor of Newman, Nebraska-Kearney (14-8,8-5) would outscore the Jets 20-13 in the final eight minutes of the first half to take a 40-34 lead going into halftime.   

In the second half, Nebraska-Kearney would catch fire from 3 point range as they would go 7-13 from three to help them to their largest lead of the game at 16 points with 12:26 left.  Newman wouldn't go away as they would cut the Lopers lead to single digits with a couple Juwan Davenport free throws with 5:38 left.  The Jets would get the deficit as low as 7 on a couple of occasions in the half.  With the score 73-65 with 3:35 left, Nebraska-Kearney would eventually pull away from the Jets outscoring Newman 12-7 in the final minutes to hang on to the 85-72 win over the Jets.

Newman (8-16, 2-13) shot 27-of-55 from the floor for 49.1 percent, 2-of-13 from three for 15.4 percent and 16-of-26 from the free throw line for 61.5 percent. While Nebraska-Kearney shot 33-of-59 for 55.9 percent, and 11-of-20 from 3 for 55 percent. The Jets were out-rebounded by the Lopers by 4, 33-29.

The Jets had four players in double digits with Marshawn Blackmon leading the way. Blackmon had 21 points and 10 rebounds for another double-double. Juwan Davenport added 18 points and 7 rebounds.  Kaleb Allison added 14 points and Kalin Johnson added 11 points in the Jets loss.

Newman will return to action Saturday, Feb. 15^th as they travel to Edmond, Okla. to take on Central Oklahoma with tip-off slated for 3:30 P.M.