THE HILL | Jalen Carruth and Devin Brown each scored a career-high 17 points as the Alabama A&M University men's basketball team cruised to a 103-47 victory over Mississippi University for Women on Friday night at the AAMU Event Center.
 
The Bulldogs improved to 2-0, shooting 50.7 percent from the field and turning 29 MUW turnovers into 39 points. Alabama A&M received 61 points from its bench and finished with 29 assists on 38 made field goals.
 
Carruth connected on six field goals, including three 3-pointers, and added four rebounds. Brown recorded his second consecutive double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds, adding five steals, three assists and one block.
 
Sami Pissis contributed 16 points, going 4 of 5 from beyond the arc, with seven assists and two steals. Stephaun Walker registered a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.
 
Joe Haze Austin and Tyler Sheppard led the Owls with eight points apiece. Austin added nine rebounds, while Sheppard collected five steals.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
MUW scored first on an Austin layup, but Alabama A&M answered with eight consecutive points. Walker tied the game with a jumper before Pissis put the Bulldogs ahead for good at the 17:54 mark. Brown followed with dunks at 17:29 and 16:58 to make it 8-2.
 
After the Owls trimmed the margin to 10-8, Carruth ignited a 10-0 run. He knocked down back-to-back 3-pointers at 12:22 and 11:44 before a DeVontes Cobbs layup and another Carruth jumper pushed the advantage to 20-8 with 10:03 remaining.
 
MUW pulled within 22-14, but Pissis and Carruth answered with consecutive triples. Another Pissis 3-pointer extended the lead to 31-16 with 6:09 left.
 
The Bulldogs closed the half with nine unanswered points. Kevin Paul Jr. dunked, Brown added a layup and Bilal Abdur-Rahman sank two free throws before Pissis buried a 3-pointer with three seconds remaining to send AAMU into halftime ahead 46-23.
 
Carruth scored 13 first-half points, while Pissis added 11 as the Bulldogs shot 60 percent from 3-point range during the opening period.
 
Alabama A&M continued to build its lead after the break. Pissis connected from beyond the arc to make it 53-24 with 16:51 remaining, and Walker's transition triple pushed the margin past 30 points at 60-28 with 14:52 left.
 
David Meriwether scored twice inside, and Javante Edwards finished an alley-oop before Jayden Jackson's basket extended the advantage to 70-36 with 11:54 remaining.
 
Paul converted consecutive second-chance baskets to stretch the lead to 82-39. Carruth then established his career scoring high with a jumper at the 7:38 mark, giving the Bulldogs an 84-39 cushion.
 
AAMU later used a 14-0 run to take its largest lead. Edwards' free throw with 1:31 remaining pushed the Bulldogs to the century mark, and Brown capped the surge with an alley-oop from Edwards at 1:01 to make it 103-45.
 
UP NEXT
Alabama A&M will have its first road game of the season on Monday night as the Bulldogs visit DePaul. Tip-off against the Blue Demons is set for 8 p.m. from Wintrust Arena and streamed on Tru TV.
 
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