MARYVILLE, Mo. - The No. 24-ranked Northwest Missouri State University men's basketball team benefited from a 25-point effort from Wes Dreamer in a 76-47 home win over the Newman University Jets.

Northwest recorded its seventh straight home win and moved its overall season mark to 13-4. The Bearcats lead the MIAA standings at 9-2 with a one game lead over Missouri Western, Fort Hays State and Washburn. Newman dropped to 6-11 overall and 3-9 in league action.

Northwest used a 27-1 run and held Newman to no made field goals over an 11-minute span in the second half. The Jets pulled to within seven on four occasions early in the second half before the Bearcats put the game away. Northwest tied a season-high with 12 made three-pointers. 

Dreamer came to life in the second-half spurt after being held to four points in the first half. Dreamer buried 8-of-11 second-half shots and was perfect from beyond in the arc in three attempts. Dreamer accounted for 21 second-half points, while the Jets posted 23 as a team.

Junior Mitch Mascari buried four three-pointers for the second straight game. Mascari's 12-point night was his sixth double-figure scoring effort of the season.

Junior Isaiah Jackson stuffed his stat sheet with 10 points, eight assists, seven rebounds, two steals and a block. Jackson knocked in both of his three-point field goal attempts. Both of his triples came in the first three-plus minutes of the contest as Northwest broke out to a 12-0 lead.

Northwest came out firing by hitting on five of its first six three-point attempts. Northwest had an 18-4 lead with 14:31 to play in the first half. 

The Bearcats will return to action Thursday at Central Missouri and Saturday at Lincoln.

NOTES: Northwest has won 22 of its last 23 home games ... Northwest is 5-1 all-time vs. Newman and 5-0 since the Jets joined the MIAA ... Northwest has won 25 of its last 27 matchups with MIAA opponents ... Newman is the fifth opponent Northwest has held under 50 points this season ... Northwest is 178-6 when holding the opposition to less than 60 points under the direction of head coach Ben McCollum ... under McCollum, Northwest is 151-3 in games decided by 20 or more points ... Northwest has won 149 consecutive games when the final scoring margin is 20 or more points ... Northwest is 46-2 when holding its opponent to less than 50 points under McCollum ... McCollum has won 378 career games and has pulled to within one of Truman State's Boyd King for the fifth-most wins in MIAA men's basketball history ... Boyd captured 379 wins for the Bulldogs ... only Washburn's Bob Chipman (569), UCM/MWSU's Tom Smith (516), Missouri Southern's Robert Corn (413), Northwest's Steve Tappmeyer (408 and King (379) have won more games in league history than McCollum ... over the last 11 seasons, Northwest has compiled a league mark of 189-24 ... over the last eight seasons, Northwest is 139-14 in MIAA play ... Dreamer went 4-of-6 at the free throw line and is the only Bearcat to have shot and made a free throw in every game this season ... Dreamer has accumulated 24 career 20-point scoring games ... Dreamer leads the MIAA in scoring at 19.4 points per game.