The Mustangs captured their first road win of the 2009-2010 season Thursday night. They defeated Regis University, 83-73. The Mustangs improve to 3-8 overall and 3-1 in conference play.

Regis drops to .500 on the season (6-6) and 1-4 in the RMAC.

Head coach Mark Coleman decided to go with a smaller starting lineup in the opening game of the night, starting guards TJ Riley (Tyler, TX, Chapel Hill High School, Lamar University), Jeron McIntosh (Albuquerque, NM, La Cueva High School), Justin Williams (Phoenix, AZ, Paradise Valley High School, Phoenix College), and Stefan Mirabal (Albuquerque, NM, Sandia High School). It proved successful as they recorded the majority of the points. The guards combined for all but 15 of the team's 83 points.

Riley led the way for the Mustangs with 21 points followed by McIntosh with 19. Mirabal and Williams had 16 and 12 respectively.

Redshirt freshman Daryl Littleton (Tucson, AZ, Palo Verde High School) pitched in with 17 impressive minutes and posted five blocks, two steals, and four rebounds.

The Regis Rangers had a one-point lead, 6-5, after a Matt Rosinski jumper with 18:38 left in the first half, but that was the last lead the Rangers would see the rest of the game. The Mustangs went on a 14-2 run over the next seven minutes to jump ahead by 11.

WNMU had their lead dwindle to seven with 1:56 left in the first stanza. WNMU's Mirabal brought the lead back to double digits with a three pointer to close out the half. The Mustangs walked into the locker room with the 36-26 advantage.

The Mustangs got off to a slow start in the second half. The 10-point lead was cut to five in the first five minutes, forcing a WNMU timeout. The timeout brought the life back into the Mustangs. Eli Crevelone (Tucson, AZ, Canyon Del Oro High School) hit his only field goal of the game, a three, right after the minute break to give the Mustangs the momentum. WNMU jumped ahead 51-38 by the 12:53 mark.

The Rangers would not go away though. Coleman was forced to call another timeout at 9:41 when the Rangers cut the lead to three. It was free throws down the stretch that helped WNMU finish the game. The Mustangs shot 24 free throws in the second half and converted on 19 of them.

WNMU shot 46.9 percent from the floor. Regis had trouble finding bucket and hit only 37.3 percent of their shots. Regis did not, however, have difficulty grabbing rebounds. They outrebounded the Mustangs, 55-28. Over half of the Rangers rebounds came on the offensive end (28).

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