FORT WORTH - A magical night at the Sid Richardson Center Thursday saw a freshman not only break a record - but obliterate it. That was the bonus to the 90-55 victory for Texas Wesleyan Men's Basketball (12-13, 7-10 SAC) over Southwestern Christian University (13-12, 8-9 SAC) earning a sweep against SCU as the race for SAC tournament seeding heats up.

Freshman Peyton Sallee was hot from the start, hitting his first four threes in the first four minutes. After 21 points in the first half and topping his season high 24 points from Tuesday at Southwest Assemblies of God early in the first half, he finally achieved his remarkable feat with 12:12 to play. 

Off a pass from Rob Thomas, Sallee drained his 10th long-range bucket of the night, breaking the record of nine threes held by Robert Allen against Southwestern Oklahoma State from the 2000-01 season and Jeremy Crane's game against Bethal on New Years Eve, 2016. 

Sallee wasn't done. He hit an 11th three for good measure with 3:09 left for his 35th point. 

Some records you break in high school can't be broken in the upper levels of college and professional basketball, but Sallee even managed to out-do those old memories. At Chisholm Trail High School, Sallee set program records for points in a game (29) and for three-pointers made in a game (eight), records as of December 2017. In his last two games, Sallee has scored 59 points, hitting 15-of-24 from downtown.

As a whole, TXWES nailed 19 shots from beyond the arc, one away from tying the record 20 threes made in a game which has happened twice - once in the 1992-93 stretch and again in the 2004-05 run. Sallee may have literally been the difference in a 35-point victory, but plenty of his teammates had strong outings too.

Sam Lorenzen scored 16 points on 6-of-12 shooting in 22 minutes. Joe Cook-Green added 11 points, many of which came on difficult angles to the basket.Justin Flakes sprouted off the bench for 11 points and four assists and Rob Thomas filled the stat sheet with eight points and team highs in rebounds (eight) and assists (five).

The Rams led 47-20 at the break and went on a 20-4 run after Sallee's first two made shots put the Rams up 6-4. The Eagles had just eight points 13:22 into the game.

RAMBLINGS
It was the largest conference win since the first Thursday of February 2018, when the Rams whalloped Oklahoma Panhandle State by 41 points, 112-71.

Sallee's 35-point performance was 10 short of Irvin Lue's 45-point game, which has been in the program's record books since the 1964-65 campaign.

Southwestern Christian missed more shots in the first half (27) then the Rams missed in the entire game (24).

WHAT'S NEXT
The Rams head to Oklahoma City Saturday for a test with the Stars, one game back of a cluster at seventh place (currrently a three-way tie between Mid-America Christian, SAGU and SCU. 

OCU has been hot lately too, winners of their last five now third in the conference standings with an 11-6 reocrd against SAC opponents. The Stars were one of the team's that snuck one over on TXWES earlier this season - 72-70 - but anything is possible if the Rams can find the hot shooting they did on Thursday at the Sid.