Box Score The Fighting Scots stayed close, but No. 3 UW-Whitewater pulled away in the second half to down the Scots 74-54.
Monmouth came out firing in the first half, taking an 11-2 lead when
Jon Calhoun drained a 3-pointer,
Reed Goodbred added a pair of free throws and
Andrew Mathison threw down a dunk and scored six points in the game's first four minutes. Whitewater then inched back, using a 13-2 run late in the first half to climb to a 31-24 halftime lead.
Whitewater then slowly pulled away in the second half as Mathison finished with 10 points and WIll Jones dumped in a team-high 15.
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