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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Kennesaw State men's basketball team lit it up from three-point range Wednesday night, but could not find its groove beyond that, falling to a hot-shooting Yale 92-65.
 
The Owls finished the game 8-of-15 from three-point range, tying their season-high for made three-pointers, but shot 33.3 percent from the floor compared to 54.1 percent from the Bulldogs. 
 
Senior Kosta Jankovic was responsible for six of the Owls treys, netting a career-high 22 points.
 
How it happened: Yale (8-3) gained the early advantage over the Owls (3-12) following a 10-2 run to take a 12-5 lead. Jankovic responded ending the Bulldogs' run with his first three-pointer of the night to spark a 9-0 run for KSU, three straight three-pointers, giving the Owls their only lead of the night, 14-12, at the 14:33 mark.
 
After a trey from Jordan Bruner pulled the Yale back in front, the Bulldogs proceeded to go on a 9-0 run to gain a 24-16 cushion. Another 7-0 run pushed Yale's lead into double-figures, 38-24, with just over five minutes to play. 
 
The Bulldogs built their lead to as high as 21 points, 50-29, before KSU closed out the first half on an 8-0 run, capped off by a half-court buzzer-beater from Jankovic, to head into the locker room trailing 50-37. Both Jankovic and Ugo Obineke netted 11 points throughout the opening period.
 
Jankovic opened the second half with yet another three-pointer to make it 56-44 at the 17:43 mark as KSU attempted to pull it within single-digits. Yale had an answer for every Owl bucket though as the two teams proceeded to trade points until a 14-2 run gave the Bulldogs a 78-53 lead with 7:34 to play.
 
The Bulldogs kept KSU at bay, pushing their lead to as high as 33 points, shooting 57.1 percent in the second half compared to 26.7 percent for the Owls.
 
Notes: Kosta Jankovic set a career-high with 22 points, going 6-of-8 from three-point range, both career-high marks … This is the seventh time this season, third time in the last four games, Jankovic has scored 10 or more points … Ugo Obineke got back into double-figures for the sixth time this year with 15 points while recording a career-high seven rebounds … Tyler Hooker was the third Owl in double-figures, his 13th straight game, with 12 points to go along with five rebounds and four assists … The Owls 33.3 percent shooting snaps a five-game stretch of shooting 40 percent or better.
 
Up next: The real season begins Saturday as KSU opens ASUN play at NJIT at 4 p.m.