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FARGO, N.D. – The North Dakota State men's basketball team scored the first 11 points against the University of North Dakota and never looked back on Saturday night, posting an emphatic 71-42 victory in the in-state rivalry game that was played at Scheels Arena for the first time.
 
NDSU junior Kory Brown scored a career-high 18 points and sophomore Dexter Werner added a career-best 17 points off the Bison bench. Both also pulled down six rebounds.
 
NDSU (5-4 overall) locked down on North Dakota defensively, holding UND to 19 points in the first half and 33.3 percent shooting for the game. NDSU took a 3-2 lead in Division I meetings between the two schools and extended its overall home winning streak to 15 games.
 
Bison senior Lawrence Alexander tallied 14 points, and freshman guard Paul Miller added 10 points and a season-high nine rebounds to lead all players on the glass. NDSU posted a 38-26 rebounding advantage and committed only nine turnovers in the game.
 
NDSU opened up an 11-0 lead over the first six minutes before UND got on the scoreboard for the first time with a Chad Calcaterra layup with 13:37 left in the first half. The Bison expanded their lead steadily, going into halftime with a 43-19 advantage after a bucket at the buzzer by Alexander.
 
NDSU shot a sizzling 16-for-22 (72.7 percent) in the first half.
 
The Bison led by as many as 37 points at 65-28 with 3:10 remaining in the contest.
 
UND (3-6 overall) was led by nine points from Lenny Antwi.
 
The Bison shot just 5-of-17 from three-point range but made 20-of-33 shots inside the arc for 50 percent overall in the contest.
 
NDSU hosts Akron on Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m. at Scheels Arena.