LOUISVILLE, Ky.—It was supposed to have been a showdown between two of the top teams in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, but it turned into the most lopsided victory in the 98-game series history between Bellarmine and Indianapolis. 

Both teams came in with 9-1 conference records, but the home standing Knights smothered the Greyhounds for the entire 40 minutes and rolled to a 101-65 victory on Saturday night in Knights Hall.

The previous widest margin in the series was 34 points when Bellarmine took a 97-63 win 24 years ago. 

On Saturday, Bellarmine—ranked No. 10 in the National Media Poll and No. 11 by the NABC—simply continued its torrid shooting from Thursday's game when they hit 66.7 percent of its shots.  The Knights actually improved on that by making 35 of 52 shots for 67.3 percent against UIndy. 

As good as the offensive effort was tonight, Bellarmine may have also had their best defensive game. The Knights held the Greyhounds to just 35.8 percent shooting and limited Jordan Loyd, the league's second leading scorer, to just four points. 

Bellarmine Coach Scott Davenport was pleased with the overall team effort—on both ends of the floor.  "I'm most proud that we held them to 35 percent and 26 (percent) from the three," he said.  "That's team defense, and we kept them out of transition. We are really learning to play team defense.  That means five guys talk, five guys take accountability, five guys want to play defense for 40 minutes."

About BU's offense, Davenport said, "We scored 101 points against a great basketball team, and we only had one guy take nine shots.  Nobody on the team took eight.  That is amazing balanced basketball."

The Greyhounds, who came in ranked No. 22 in the National Media Poll, held just one lead at 3-2.  However, it didn't take the Knights long to assert their dominance.  After missing three of their first six shots, the Knights nailed eight of their next nine to take a 24-12 lead, and the Greyhounds never trimmed the margin back to single digits. 

By halftime Bellarmine had increased the margin to 20 at 54-34. In the second half, Indianapolis never made a serious run.  In fact, Bellarmine just kept widening the gap and ran out to their biggest lead, 82-44, at the 9:45 mark.

As testament to Coach Davenport's comment about balance, five different Knights scored in double figures.  Yasin Kolo led the way with 21 points, falling just one shy of his career high.  The big man also grabbed a game-high nine rebounds as Bellarmine won the battle of the backboards 37-28.

Other top scorers for the Knights included Rusty Troutman with 20, Michael Parrish with 12, and George Suggs and Josh Derksen with 11 apiece.

After setting a new program record for assists on Thursday, Bellarmine totaled 22 in tonight's game with Adam Eberhard and Parrish each dishing out five.

The only negative for the Knights was turnovers, where they had a season high 21 compared to 17 for the Hounds. Despite the disparity, Bellarmine actually owned a 21-19 advantage in points off turnovers.

Indianapolis, which fell to 15-4 (9-2 GLVC), was led by senior Joe Retic who scored 18 points—16 in the second half.

The Knights, who improved their home court winning streak to 23 games, upped their season mark to 17-3 with a 10-1 record in league play

Bellarmine now hits the road for conference games at Missouri S&T on Thursday and at Drury on Saturday.

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