Black Hills State men's basketball used a 53-point second half to defeat Regis by a score of 84-74 Sunday night at the Young Center.

The Yellow Jackets (2-1, 2-1 RMAC) had five in double-figure scoring and shot 61.5 percent from the field as a team in the second half.

Joel Scott led the way with 18 points to go along with five rebounds.

Sindou Cisse scored 15 in his Yellow Jackets debut, going 6-of-9 from the field and grabbing four boards.

Trey Whitley scored 12 while Kevin Senghore-Peterson, also in his first game as a Yellow Jacket, and Adam Moussa each tallied 10. Senghore-Peterson and Ryder Kirsch both paced the team with seven rebounds, and Moussa led the way with six assists.

"I thought Regis had a great defensive game plan," said head coach Ryan Thompson. "Then in the second half I really felt it was our defense. Our intensity to start that second half was really good, and then that got us out in transition and we kind of got into a good rhythm there."

After Senghore-Peterson quickly opened the scoring with a dunk nine seconds into the game, Regis rattled off a 9-2 scoring run to go ahead 11-4 with 14:10 left in the first.

The Rangers would reach their biggest lead of the game (20-9) with a layup midway through the half. Both teams traded baskets until key shots from Senghore-Peterson, PJ Hayes, and Moussa helped BHSU chip away at the deficit, sending them into the half down 37-31.

The Yellow Jackets came out of the locker room hot, using a 16-1 run out of the break highlighted by a pair of Whitley three's to take a 47-38 lead with 15:49 left in the game.

Regis kept battling, using six unanswered points midway through the second half to cut the BHSU lead to 58-55. But that would be the closest they came, as a Ryder Kirsch three and 12 free throws down the stretch would put the game out of reach.