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HOUSTON – Junior guard Ian DuBose hit the 1,000 career point milestone early in the second half but the HBU men's basketball team fell to visiting Samford by a score of 113-90 on Saturday evening inside Sharp Gym.
 
DuBose, who has started all 68 games the Huskies (0-7) have played since he joined the team, just missed out on a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds while also dishing out four assists and recording three steals. He made his way to the charity stripe at the 15:53 mark in the second half, making both, with the first giving him his 1,000^th career point.
 
HBU opened things up by taking a 7-3 lead with five of those points coming from Ty Dalton. Samford (6-5) responded with the next seven points and didn't trail the rest of the game. The Huskies kept things close with a DuBose layup pulling the score to within two, 21-19, but an 8-4 Bulldog run made it 29-23 a little over halfway into the first period.
 
HBU got to within three multiple times the rest of the half but an 11-0 run gave Samford a 55-37 lead with 2:46 on the clock. From there, HBU close the half by scoring the final eight points, including a Qon Murphy trey just before the buzzer, to trail 55-45 at the intermission.
 
In the second half the Huskies again opened things strong with a 10-4 run to trail by just four after back-to-back threes from Jalon Gates and Dalton. Gates sank a pair of buckets to twice make it a three-point deficit for the Huskies with the second of those coming with 14:29 on the clock.
 
From there, the HBU offense went cold for a six-minute stretch when Samford raced out to a 21-point lead, 91-70, thanks to a 24-6 run. The closest the Huskies would get the rest of the way was 18.
 
Gates led the Huskies in scoring for the third time this season, finishing with 20 points on 6-of-12 shooting, including 5-of-11 from deep. Dalton had a season-high 17 points, connecting on 7-of-11 from the field, to go with three assists.
 
Jackson Stent matched a career-best with 12 points and set a new career-high with four assists. The senior was 6-of-8 from the floor. Murphy added 13 points and five rebounds while freshman Myles Pierre also reached double-figures, scoring 10 while adding four assists without a turnover.
 
The Huskies shot 52.2 percent from the floor but were beat by a Samford team that shot 64.9 percent for the game and was 61.9 percent (13-of-21) from beyond the arc.
 
Samford was led by Josh Sharkey who finished with 18 points, 15 assists and five steals. Jalen Dupree added 23 for the Bulldogs while Brandon Austin scored 21.
 
The Huskies remain in Houston for their next game, traveling to the Texas Medical Center to face the Rice Owls inside Tudor Fieldhouse on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 7:00 p.m.