Ricky Council IV scored all 11 of his points in the second half to help Wichita State put away Tulsa, 58-48, Tuesday night at Charles Koch Arena.
 
Tied at 37 with 11:02 to play, the Shockers (11-8, 2-5 American Athletic Conference) outscored the Golden Hurricane 21-4 over the next 10 minutes, helped by nine points from Council.
 
Sam Griffin scored a game-high 17 points to lead Tulsa (7-13, 1-8), which managed just 18 second-half points and lost for the 10^th-straight time in Wichita.
 
Neither side shot the ball well. Tulsa finished at 32.6 percent to WSU's 32.2, however the Shockers won the turnover battle, 17-10, and knocked down eight three-pointers to Tulsa's four.
 
Morris Udeze accounted for four of WSU's nine blocks along with nine points and eight rebounds.
 
Tyson Etienne scored all 10 of his points in the first 10 minutes of the first half to help the Shockers to a fast start.
 
WSU made five of its first nine three-point tries (three of them by Etienne) to take a 21-11 lead with 10:18 to play in the opening half.
 
Tulsa responded with a 12-0 run. Griffin sparked it with a three-point play and a three-pointer. Darien Jackson ended it with a driving layup to give the Hurricane their first lead of the night, 23-21, with 6:05 remaining in the period.
 
The teams traded blows over the remainder of the half. Griffin made a tough jumper with 4 seconds on the clock to send the visitors into the locker room with a 30-29 advantage.
 
Griffin had 14 points at the intermission but just three more the rest of the way.
 
Helped by a standout defensive effort from Dexter Dennis, the Shockers also succeeded in quieting the other half of Tulsa's high-scoring tandem, limiting the senior forward Jeriah Horne to two points on 1-for-11 shooting in 35 minutes.
 
Aside from its early success from three-point range, WSU struggled to find much traction against Tulsa's defense until midway through the second half when it inserted Council into the center of the zone.
 
The 6-6 guard scored seven of WSU's eight points over a two-minute stretch that pushed a three-point lead to 11 with 6:45 to go.
 
The Shockers led by as many as 17 points near the 2:00-mark.
 
The Golden Hurricane managed just 12 points on three field goals before hitting back-to-back threes in the final 34 seconds to cut the final margin to 10.
 

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NOTABLE:
WSU extended its series lead over Tulsa to 73-62.
The Shockers have won four-straight and 16 of the last 18 meetings.
WSU is 8-1 against the Golden Hurricane since joining the AAC.
 
UP NEXT:
The Shockers have little time to enjoy this one. They're on the road Thursday at SMU (6 p.m. CT, ESPN+) and will face the Mustangs again on Saturday in Wichita (5 p.m. CT, ESPN2).