OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University walloped Central Christian (Kan.) 74-64 on Saturday at Abe Lemons Arena.  

Avery Jackson topped the Stars with 19 points. Oklahoma City went to 4-6, 2-2 in Sooner Athletic Conference men's basketball. 

OCU stormed to a 19-0 onslaught to build a 35-11 advantage at the 8:23 mark of the first half. The Stars held Central Christian without a point for 5:55 of the period. Jackson and Dadrian Hoambrecker sparked OCU with seven points each during the run. Hoambrecker buried a trey that put the Stars ahead by 24 points.   

Oklahoma City hit 16 of its first 22 shots and shot 72.7 percent from the field after Nick Bonifay nailed a 3-pointer to give the Stars a 38-13 lead. OCU put together its widest margin at 39-13 when Parker Jones sank a free throw with 5:17 remaining in the first half. 

OCU held an opponent under a 40 percent field-goal percentage for the third time this season (38 percent). Central Christian scuffled to 23.5 percent shooting from the floor in the first half. 

"The defense, our communication, the ball movement was spectacular," OCU coach Mark Berokoff said. "The assists were really high at halftime. We just locked in defensively. You go into halftime, and you're like, I hope we can keep this going because you don't ever want that halftime to hit. If we could have just go into the second half ... that 10-, 15-minute break probably hurt us. 

"We jumped on them really quick and got a really big lead. That's tough for a young team to try to sustain and keep that energy." 

In the second half, Central Christian reeled off a 9-0 run to cut OCU's lead to 68-54 when Andre Shelby hit a layup with 3:54 left in the game. 

Jackson, a freshman political science major from Frisco, Texas, shot 8-for-10 from the free-throw line and hauled in five rebounds. Jack McWilliams, the 7-foot-1 freshman computer science major from Sydney, Australia, supplied OCU with 13 points and five rebounds. 

Brandon Jackson, a junior human performance major from Westmont, Calif., turned in 12 points and five rebounds. Dadrian Hoambrecker, a senior marketing major from Burlington, Iowa, added 10 points off the bench for the Stars. 

OCU continues a four-game home set against John Brown (Ark.) at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday at Abe Lemons Arena.