SEATTLE, Wash. – The Western Washington University men’s basketball team ran into a hot-shooting Seattle Pacific University team in a 97-86 loss Thursday evening in GNAC play inside Royal Brougham Pavilion.
The Vikings dropped their third consecutive game sixth in the last eight games to drop to 8-7 overall and 0-5 in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play. SPU improved to 6-9 overall and 2-2 in conference play with its second consecutive victory.
SPU shot a scorching-hot 70.5-percent for the game, connecting on 31-of-44 shots, falling just short of the conference record for single-game shooting percentage of 73.0 by Western Oregon in 2008. The Falcons were also 11-for-16 from three-point range (68.8%)…