Season Comes to Close for Taylor in CL Quarterfinals
MARION, Ind. – Taylor’s 2021-2022 campaign came to its end on Wednesday night with an 84-66 loss at No. 7 and top-seeded Indiana Wesleyan in the first round of the Crossroads League Tournament.
Taylor shot the ball well throughout the contest, hitting at a 46.4-percent rate and burying 12-of-26 tries from three-point range for a 46.2-percent clip from deep. Taylor also only turned the ball over 10 times but had no answer to IWU (26-5) in the post.
Indiana Wesleyan shot 60.4 percent in the game thanks to a 72.2-percent rate from two-point range, where it outscored TU by a 46-24 margin in the paint. The hosts also beat Taylor on the glass by a 33-18 gap, holding the Trojans to just five rebounds in the second half.
Another slow start in Luckey Arena also hurt Taylor, as IWU bolted to a 20-4 lead in the first seven minutes of the night. Taylor got back to within eight points on multiple possessions but trailed by 10 at the half and never drew closer than nine in the final stanza, before the Wildcats used a 10-0 burst late in the game to pull away.
Kaden Fuhrmann closed his sophomore season in style, netting 25 points on 10-of-14 shooting, and finishing with a sixth-straight game with at least three connections from deep.
Jason Hubbard followed with his 10th outing of at least 20 points scored in his last 11 games played, posting 21 points, seven rebounds and two steals to end the season at 11th all-time in Taylor men’s basketball program history with 1,770 points.
Jackson Lewis followed Fuhrmann and Hubbard in the scoring column with eight points and added a team-high five assists.
The game ends Taylor’s season with an overall mark of 9-21.