WICHITA, Kan. – Jaime Echenique and Ricky Torres both scored career highs as the Wichita State University men's basketball team defeated the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles, 84-63, Wednesday evening, Dec. 19, at Charles Koch Arena.

Wichita State (7-4) is scheduled to travel to VCU to conclude non-conference play on Saturday, Dec. 22. Tip-off is slated for 4 p.m. ET in Richmond, Va.

Senior Markis McDuffie led all scorers with 25 points on 6-for-13 shooting and went a perfect 10-of-10 at the free-throw line, while Echenique surpassed his career-best for the second straight game with 19 points, and Torres added a career-high 13 points. Samajae Haynes-Jones also reached double figures for the Shockers, netting 13 points, respectively.

Erik Stevenson and Jamarius Burton paced WSU on the glass with eight rebounds each.

After the Golden Eagles (4-10) jumped out to a 15-13 lead in the opening eight minutes of the game, the Shockers caught fire offensively, scoring 12 straight points to burst out to a 25-15 advantage after Echenique converted a jumper with just under seven minutes remaining in the first-half. Echenique scored seven of the 12 points in the almost five-minute spurt, with Burton and Haynes-Jones providing the other five points.

Oral Roberts answered though, and was able to trim the deficit to 36-33 going into halftime after a 9-2 run over the final three minutes of the stanza.

Echenique led Wichita State at the half, tallying 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting from the field.

The Shockers scored the first five points of the second-half and built its lead to 41-33 after an Echenique layup and McDuffie three-pointer less than one minute into the period.

ORU cut the advantage to 41-35 after a Chris Miller jump shot, but McDuffie extended the Shocker lead over the next minute, going a perfect 6-for-6 at the free-throw line to build the advantage to 47-36.

Wichita State didn't let up, and utilized a 14-2 run from 6:38 to 1:17 to balloon its lead to 82-59 after a Burton layup.
 
For the game, the Shockers shot 44 percent from the field and 42 percent from three-point range, and went 16-of-22 at the foul line for 73 percent.
 
WSU outrebounded ORU, 41-31, and outscored the Golden Eagles in the paint, 32-26, and off turnovers, 19-6.
 
Emmanuel Nzekwesi netted 17 points and pulled down six boards, leading Oral Roberts.
 

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Postgame Notes:
***WSU (7-4) has its first three-game winning streak of the year. The Shockers are 4-1 in December and have won five of their last six games.
***The victory guarantees a winning non-conference record for the 21^st consecutive season.
***WSU leads the all-time series with ORU, 7-5 (4-3 in Wichita).
***WSU has won five-straight home games and improved to 76-4 at Charles Koch Arena over the last six seasons.
***WSU is 80-8 in home non-conference games under Gregg Marshall.
***Marshall (487-185 in 21 seasons) moves to within 13 wins of 500. He needs just seven more to reach 300 as Shocker head coach (293-102 in 12 seasons)
***WSU held a 24-14 rebounding edge in the second-half.
***For the game, the Shockers were +10 on the boards and +7 on turnovers.
***Echenique (19 points) and Torres (13) set new career scoring highs.
***Burton's eight rebounds were a new personal-best. He snagged six in the Southern Miss game.
***McDuffie scored 19 of his game-high 25 points in the second half.
***McDuffie's 10-for-10 free throw performance was the best by a Shocker this year. He went 11-for-11 against Illinois State in the 2017 MVC Tournament Championship.
***McDuffie has posted 10-straight double-figure scoring games. He's the 10^th Marshall Era Shocker to do it.
***McDuffie moved up three spots to No. 39 on WSU's career scoring list, passing Jamie Arnold, Tekele Cotton and Ernie Moore. McDuffie (1,061 points) is 45 away from No. 38 Garrett Stutz.
***McDuffie went 3-of-7 from three. He had hit just two on 19 attempts in the team's first five Charles Koch Arena games this year.
***The Shockers outscored an opponent in the second half for the first time since Nov. 25 (vs. Rice) and for just the third time this season. Through 10 games, opponents had outscored them by an average of 5.5 points after halftime.
***Echenique failed to block a shot for the first time this year. His streak of 10-straight games with a block was tied for the third-longest since 1986 (when the block became an official NCAA statistic).