EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.
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The University of Missouri-St. Louis is the 2022 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) men’s basketball champion. The No. 4 seed Tritons came away with a 10-point win over the sixth-seeded University of Indianapolis in the title game Sunday afternoon at the First Community Arena at the Vadalabene Center on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. This is the first time a 4-seed has won the postseason tournament.
UMSL has earned the league’s automatic-qualifying bid to the 2022 NCAA Midwest Regional as they await the
NCAA Selection Show tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
It was a game of runs Sunday afternoon, as UIndy began the game on an 18-0 run before the Tritons got on the board with nearly seven minutes of game time passed by. UMSL went on to outscore the Greyhounds 36-10, as they led by eight heading into the locker room. The runs continued, as UIndy began the second half shooting like it did to open the contest and quickly brought the game back down to just one possession. But, every time the Greyhounds made it close, the Tritons had an answer before sealing the game in the final minute to clinch their first men’s basketball Conference crown.
The Tritons had four players finish in double figures, led by Shane Wissink to lead all scorers with 19 points. The senior guard sank 5-of-7 from three to become the school’s all-time leader in three’s made in a career. All-GLVC selections Steve Webb and Marty Jackson both chipped in with a dozen points each, while Isaiah Fuller came off the bench to score 15 points, draining seven of his eight attempts from the free throw line.
Wissink was named to the All-Tournament team as the Most Valuable Player after his weekend for the Tritons, while teammates Jackson and Webb were also recognized. UIndy’s Cory Miller Jr. and Lewis University’s Connor Niego rounded out the five-player squad.