TULSA, Okla. – Conner Frankamp and Landry Shamet scored 16 points each to help No. 5/5 Wichita State turn back Tulsa, 72-69, Saturday evening at the Donald W. Reynolds Center.
 
The Shockers (15-2, 5-0 American Athletic Conference) extended the nation's longest true road winning streak to 11 – one shy of the school record set by the 2013-14 team.
 
WSU hit 10 three-pointers on 29 attempts. Frankamp and Shamet made four-each. Markis McDuffie joined them in double-figures with 10 points and nine rebounds.
 
Sterling Taplin (6-of-10 from three) scored a game-high 26 points for Tulsa and handed out seven assists with one turnover. Former Shocker Corey Henderson Jr. finished with 14 points on 4-of-9 three-point shooting.
 
Tulsa (10-8, 3-3) hit 12 threes but missed two big ones in the final 20 seconds that would have turned the game.
 
With WSU leading 71-69, Henderson's three-pointer for the lead spun in-and-out with 11 seconds to play, and the Shockers cleared the rebound.
 
Shamet converted the front-end of a one-and-one to give the Shockers a 72-69 advantage, but his second free throw missed the mark.
 
WSU fouled Taplin near midcourt to prevent a potential game-tying three.
 
Taplin – faced with a one-and-one of his own – missed short, but Tulsa's Martins Igbanu snuck in for an offensive rebound and kicked out to Taplin for another three-point try. That heave beat the buzzer but bounced harmlessly off the iron.
 
The Shockers trailed 30-20 but ended the first-half on a 16-2 run.
 
Tulsa ran hot-and-cold most of the night. Over a 10-minute stretch spanning halftime, the Hurricane missed 12-of-13 shots from the field. They followed it with a 15-of-23 shooting stretch to get back into the ballgame.
 
Up 36-32 at halftime, WSU opened the second half on a 9-2 run to push the lead to double-digits.
 
The Shockers mustered just enough offense to stay in front. Frankamp twice nailed threes in the final three minutes to keep Tulsa at arm's length.
 
NOTABLE:
*WSU is on a season-best seven-game winning streak with wins in 11 of its last 12.
*The Shockers (5-0) maintained their half-game lead over Cincinnati (4-0) in the conference standings.
*WSU becomes the fifth team in The American's five seasons to open with a 5-0 conference record. Notably, none the of four previous teams to do it won an outright title. Cincinnati (11-0 in 2014) was regular season co-champion. 2015 Tulsa (10-0), 2016 SMU (7-0) and 2017 Cincinnati (11-0) were all runners-up.
*WSU now leads the all-time series with Tulsa, 66-61, with wins in nine of the last 10 meetings.
*The Shockers are 28-35 now against the Hurricane in Tulsa and are 4-3 at the Reynolds Center.
*WSU outrebounded its 15^th opponent in 17 games this year, besting Tulsa on the glass 42-30.
 
UP NEXT:
The Shockers return home for three of their next four beginning Wednesday evening against SMU. The 6 p.m. CT tip airs on ESPNU.