WICHITA – After falling behind by 15 in the first half, the Shockers battled back to tie it up in the fourth quarter, but the Lady Bears held them off to claim an 82-77 victory.
 
Four Shockers finished in double figures, led by sophomore Salese Blow with 17 points. Blow tied her career high for made threes, shooting 4-for-7 from behind the arc. Graduate transfer Taylor Jameson scored a season-high 16 points with a career-high seven assists, freshman KP Parr tallied a career-high 13 points, and redshirt-junior Jayla Murray scored 11 points.
 
Junior Bre'Yon White grabbed a game-high nine rebounds and scored eight points.
 
Six Shockers scored in the first quarter, led by Ornella Niankan with six as Wichita State led by as many as seven in the first, but second-quarter struggles put the Shockers in a 13-point deficit at halftime. The Lady Bears went on an 17-1 run in the second quarter, outscoring the Shockers 24-9, as the Shockers were unable to score for almost six minutes.
 
Wichita State came out in the third and hit four threes courtesy of Jameson and Blow, making it a four-point game with 6:13 remaining in the quarter. The Shockers battled back to tie it up at 66-66 with 5:35 remaining in the fourth and kept it a one-possession game until the 1:59 mark.
 
Missouri State shot 4-for10 from the line down the stretch, leaving an opening for the Shockers, but Wichita State couldn't capitalize.
 
Kyrah Daniels led the Lady Bears with 16 points, and Lacy Stokes recorded 12 points, seven rebounds and five assists.
 
Wichita State is back in Charles Koch Arena Saturday, Nov. 16 to take on St. Thomas at 2 p.m.