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HOUSTON – Five different players reached double-digits in scoring and HBU scored the most points in a Southland Conference game in program history in the Huskies' 102-86 win over Incarnate Word inside Sharp Gym on Wednesday evening.
 
David Caraher knocked down a pair of threes early to give HBU (5-16, 1-7 SLC) a 6-3 lead and a minute and a half later, Jalon Gates buried his first three of the game to make it 9-5 in the Huskies' favor with 15:13 on the clock. Incarnate Word (5-13, 0-8 SLC) answered with a 12-3 run to take a five-point lead just over two minutes later.
 
UIW held its lead until Gates hit a three with 8:40 on the clock to even things up at 20-20. The Cardinals' Sam Burmeister made a pair of free throws to put UIW back ahead by two but an 11-point run by the Huskies, capped by an Ian DuBose layup, gave HBU a lead it wouldn't relinquish. A Will Gates Jr. trey put the Huskies ahead 42-30 with 2:05 left in the half but UIW closed the gap to six before an Edward Hardt put-back dunk just before the buzzer sent HBU into the locker up 44-36 at the half.
 
The Cardinals came out in the second period and cut the HBU lead to three less than a minute in. At the 15:44 mark, another Gates three pushed HBU's lead back to 10. UIW brought the score to 71-64 with 8:43 to go in the game but the Huskies again had an answer with a Gates four-point play capping an 11-2 run and making it 82-66 with 7:25 on the clock. The closest Incarnate Word got the rest of the way was 11 with HBU's lead getting as high as 19.
 
As a team, HBU was 12-of-25 (12-of-25) from three-point range and 38-of-80 (47.5 percent) from the floor. The Huskies out-rebounded Incarnate Word 43-38 with 19 of those boards coming on the offensive end and leading to 27 second chance points. HBU also forced the Cardinals into 14 turnovers and turning those UIW miscues into 20 points while committing just eight turnovers.
 
Jalon Gates, a sophomore, led all players with 23 points coming off a career-high 26 in the Huskies' last game. Gates was 7-of-19 from the field and 6-of-13 from deep. Junior Braxton Bonds matched a career-best with 22 points to go along with six rebounds, four assists and a pair of steals. Bonds was 8-of-14 from the floor and 6-of-9 from the charity stripe.
 
Caraher also added 22 for HBU, finishing the game 9-of-16 overall and 3-of-4 from beyond the arc. Oliver Lynch-Daniels was 5-of-9, including a perfect 2-of-2 from three, for 13 points with five rebounds, three assists, a blocked shot and a steal off the bench. Will Gates Jr. was the fifth Husky to reach double-figures, ending the night 5-of-10 from the floor for 11 points and dishing out four assists. Dubose led the Huskies with nine rebounds while adding five points and four assists. Hardt had six rebounds and four points off the bench while Philip McKenzie gave the Huskies three boards and two points.

The win snapped a nine-game losing streak for the Huskies.
 
HBU hits the road for its next matchup, a Saturday, Jan. 27, evening meeting with the Islanders of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at 7:30 p.m. in Corpus Christi, Texas.