While going back-and-forth with a 2-8 Oral Roberts, Missouri State was looking for something to give them a spark.
Little did they know that the spark would come from the shortest guy on the team.
All 5-foot-11 of junior guard Ronnie Rousseau III wouldn’t back down from Oral Roberts’ 6-foot-8 freshman forward Chris Martin after Martin gave MSU senior forward Jordan Martin a shove.
Rousseau and Martin each received a technical, but the technical gave the Bears the edge they needed on their way to a 86-76 win.
“We were already on a little run and that play really did it,” senior guard Dequon Miller said.