St. Bonifacius, Minn. - Crown College played another home game against the University of Wisconsin Superior.  Coming off a tough loss to St. Scholastica, Crown played some much better defense against UW - Superior.  Crown held the Yellowjackets to 35.5% shooting in the second half cutting an 18 point lead for the Yellowjackets to eight multiple times.  However, Crown could not get any closer and wound up losing by a final score of 85-66.

Crown was only outscored 33-32 in the second half, but that 18 point first half deficit was difficult to overcome.  Crown shot 34.5% from the floor and hit 18-21 free throws.  However, Crown gave up 18 offensive rebounds to the taller Yellowjackets leading to 17 second chance points for Superior.  The Yellowjackets outrebounded the Storm 46-30 for the game.

Crown was led by James Brown with 16 points as he hit 4-8 from beyond the arc.  Austin VanDerHeyden and Josh Volness joined Brown in double figures with 11 and 10 respectively.

Crown's next games will be next weekend at home versus Northland and Finlandia.