TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Wichita State women's basketball team (10-13, 2-10) dropped its sixth-straight game at Indiana State (12-10, 8-3) as the Sycamores defeated the Shockers 71-50, Thursday evening inside the Hulman Center.

Val Siemens led the Shockers with 13 points on 3-of-8 shooting from three-point range. Ashley Gladden and Marcy Sudbeck both finished with 10 rebounds for the Shockers. Kara Schilli led all players with 16 points for the Sycamores.

The Shockers got off to a sluggish start offensively, connecting on just one of its first seven shots from the field in the first four-plus minutes of the contest. Wichita State then stopped the drought with a 5-0 run that pulled WSU to within 11-9 with just less than 13 minutes left in the first half.

WSU seemingly caught a break around the 12-minute mark when Indiana State's top scorer, Kelsey Luna, went down with injury, but the Sycamores were instead inspired, using an 13-4 run to extend its lead to 26-13 with eight minutes left in the opening frame.

The Shockers responded with a 7-1 run of its own, capped by a Daria Frazier layin with 5:49 left in the first that closed the deficit to 27-20. Indiana State answered with back-to-back baskets and WSU could get no closer than nine down the stretch before Kara Schilli's layin with 1:32 left fashioned the halftime score of 38-27.

Wichita State was outscored 13-1 at the free-throw line in the first frame, while the Sycamores shot 46-percent from the field overall. WSU stayed in the game on the stength of three three-pointers from Val Siemens in the first half and a 6-4 advantage on the offensive glass.

The Sycamores scored six of the first nine points of the second half before the Shockers began chipping into the deficit. WSU closed the gap to 44-38 following a Siemens putback with just less than 12-minutes left to play, capping an 8-4 run that brought WSU back into the contest.

As quickly as WSU got back into the game, Indiana State responded to stretch the lead yet again, using a 19-6 run with a flurry of transition baskets to take a 63-44 lead with four minutes left to play.

The Shockers could not respond, dropping their fifth-straight game. WSU is next in action at Illinois State on Saturday.