Ottumwa, IA – No. 5 Indian Hills Men's Basketball put an exclamation point on its regular season campaign as the Warriors closed out the 2024-25 slate with an emphatic 85-72 victory over No. 3 ranked Triton College (IL) at the Hellyer Center Saturday night.

The Warriors closed out the regular season with a win over a No. 3 ranked Triton team for the second consecutive season. The victory avenged a defeat to the Trojans just over two weeks ago as Indian Hills closed out its regular season with an overall record of 24-5. The Warriors move to 9-2 all-time vs. the Trojans, including a 6-0 all-time mark at the Hellyer Cetner.

Five different players scored in double-figures on Saturday as the offense fired on all cylinders. Just one game removed from the team's most efficient shooting night of the year at Marshalltown Community College on February 25, the Warriors posted a 61.9 percent clip from the floor against Triton, including a 57.1 percent mark from three-point range.

Sophomore Amonte Allen-Johnson (Flint, MI/Texas A&M-Corpus Christi) led the Warriors with 16 points on 4-7 shooting while adding a team-high four assists. Sophomore Joao Das Chagas (Niquelândia, Brazil/Arizona Western) tallied 14 points and a team-high seven rebounds while Tayshawn Bridges (Milwaukee, WI/Milwaukee Academy of Science) and Trenton Walters (Frisco, TX/Radford) each added 11. Sophomore Jamal Entezami (Berlin, Germany/Hermann-Ehlers Gymnasium) chipped in 10 for the offense.

In a game that saw the Warriors lead for the final 35:03 of the contest, Indian Hills used an efficient shooting performance to score its seventh win over a team that has appeared in the national rankings this year. Saturday's win snapped a 20-game winning streak for the Trojans.

Trailing 5-4 in the opening minutes of the contest, the Warriors went to work inside the paint to spark a 9-0 run. Freshman Mason Costello (Waukee, IA/Waukee) capped the run with his first three-point shot of the night to make it 13-5 in favor of the Warriors. Indian Hills applied the pressure throughout the rest of the first half, building a lead by as many as 15 as Triton shot just 26.7 percent from the floor through the first 20 minutes. Bridges tallied eight of the final 10 points of the first half to push Indian Hills to a 37-26 halftime lead.

The Trojans stayed within striking distance through the early goings of the first half, but an efficient effort at the free throw line aided the Warriors over the final 20 minutes. After shooting just 6-17 in the first frame, Indian Hills closed out the night going 22-27 (81.5 percent) from the line in the second half alone. Triton cut the deficit to single digits with under four to play, but a tough lay-in from Allen-Johnson and a three-point play from Das Chagas sparked the crowd and closed out the victory.

Indian Hills will now head into postseason play with the upcoming National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region 11 Championship game March 8 at the Hellyer Center. The Warriors will take on the winner of Southeastern Community College and Marshalltown who will match up in Burlington on March 5.

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