LOS ANGELES – One big run and a tough shooting night from LMU paired together to put LMU in a double-digit hole for the final 32 minutes of the game. The Anteaters handed the its first loss of the season, 66-51, while holding LMU to 33 percent shooting (20-for-60) and 27 percent (7-for-26) from three.
 
Jevon Porter made his season debut for the Lions and hit his first shot of the season on what turned into a big night for the junior transfer. He scored LMU's first points by knocking down a top of the key three and finishing with game-high numbers with 19 points and 12 rebounds.
 
UC Irvine went up by six three minutes into the game before back-to-back runners in the lane by Jan Vide brought the score down to one-possession, 9-7. Vide finished with a career-high 13 points.
 
The Anteaters answered with 12 points and expanded their lead with a 17-2 run. That fifteen point swing would be the same margin as the final score differential. Porter scored in the middle and end of the run to end it.
 
The Lions kept UC Irvine off the scoreboard over the final five minutes of the half and used an 8-0 run to cut the deficit to 13 at intermission, 36-23.
 
LMU started the game 1-for-10 for three until Will Johnston knocked down a three off a Caleb Stone-Carrawell assist. Stone-Carrawell made it a 6-0 run with a follow-up three of his own to bring a 19-point game back down to 13.
 
The closest the Lions came to single digits was when Johnston and Porter hit consecutive threes to bring the score to 49-39 with 8:57 to play. The Lions hit of six of the team's seven threes in the second half. Johnston went 4-for-6 from long range to score a dozen and also lead the team in assists for a second game in a row.
 
UC Irvine started the game shooting 52 percent (13-for-25) in the first half, but LMU's second half defense limited the Anteaters to 36 percent (9-for-25) after the break.
 
The Lions will face a road opponent for the first time next week when the team travels to Saint Louis to face the Bilikens. LMU returns home on Nov. 22 to host North Dakota.
 
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