CLEVELAND, Ohio – Demonte Flannigan posted his seventh career double-double with 22 points and 11 rebounds, but Wright State used 26 points from Grant Benzinger and 17 points by Steven Davis to earn a 74-68 win in double overtime over Cleveland State on Saturday afternoon in the Wolstein Center.

CSU fell to 8-20 overall and 4-12 in the Horizon League, while the Raiders moved to 19-9 overall (10-5 HL).

STAT LEADERS

• Flannigan hit 8-of-12 from the field, including all three of his three-pointers, for his 22 points. • He added 11 boards for his second double-double of the season. Both have come against Wright State.
• Flannigan played a career-high 44 minutes.
• Rob Edwards scored 17 points with eight rebounds in a career-high 41 minutes.
• Bobby Word played 49 minutes, the fifth most in a game in program history and the most by a CSU player since Trey Lewis played 53 in a triple overtime game at Drexel in 2013.
• Word finished with 16 points, five rebounds and two steals.
• Kasheem Thomas scored eight points, while Terrell Hales grabbed four rebounds in his first start of the season.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Rob Edwards missed a jumper from just inside the three-point line at the end of regulation and the teams headed to overtime tied at 53-53.
• Davis gave the Raiders a 60-58 lead with 43 seconds to play, but Flannigan's dunk along the baseline tied the game at 60-60 with 27 seconds to play.
• WSU had a chance to win the game in the first overtime, but Justin Mitchell lost control of the ball going up for a shot as time expired.
• Back-to-back jumpers from Benzinger and Davis gave the Raiders a 67-62 lead with 2:17 to play in the second overtime.
• Flannigan answered with a three-pointer to slice the lead to 67-65, but the Raiders scored the next six points until Thomas hit a three-pointer with seven seconds to play to make it 73-68.
• The Vikings built a 12 point lead (26-14) in the first half, but Wright State was able to cut it in half (28-22) at halftime.
• Wright State took its first lead (36-35) since early in the first half with 12:38 left in regulation and with the game tied at 44-44 with 8:48 left, the Vikings used a 7-2 run to open up a five point lead (51-46) with just under five minutes to play.
• The Raiders scored the next five points to tie the game at 51-51 with 3:38 to play and neither team would score again until Flannigan's hook shot in the lane with 23 seconds to play.
• Mark Alstork knocked down a pair of free throws with 15 seconds left to tie the contest at 53-53 and Edwards' long two-point attempt for the win was off.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

• CSU out-rebounded Wright State, 39-38, and had 11 offensive rebounds.
• Seven different players played at least 40 minutes, four for the Vikings and three for Wright State.
• Today was the third overtime game of the year for the Vikings (vs. Kent State, vs. Green Bay). • CSU fell to 0-3 in overtime games this year.
• Today's game was the first double overtime game at home for CSU since a 79-75 setback to Butler on Feb. 24, 2003.
• The Raiders shot 6-of-9 from the field in the overtime periods and hit 8-of-11 from the field.
• CSU held Wright State's leading scorer Mark Alstork to just seven points on 1-of-11 shooting from the field. He came into the game averaging 19.0 points.

UP NEXT

• The Vikings travel to Detroit Mercy on Tuesday (Feb. 21) for a 7:00 pm contest. It will be the final road game of the regular season.
• CSU concludes the regular season on Saturday (Feb. 25) when the Vikings host Youngstown State at 3:30 pm in the Wolstein Center.
• It will be a doubleheader with the CSU women hosting Oakland at 1:00 pm.