GARY , Ind. – The Roosevelt men's basketball rallied back from a late double-digit deficit to tie its road game at Indiana Northwest with a little more than two minutes remaining in regulation, but the host RedHawks closed the contest on a 10-0 run to send the young Lakers to an 81-71 loss at the Savannah Center on Wednesday.

Josh Redic led the Lakers (7-20, 7-12 CCAC) with 13 points, while Brian Kern added 11 points and Ben Storm scored 10 off the bench.

Matt Myers had nine points and a team-high eight rebounds, and Quin Riggins matched Myers with nine points in reserve.

Rashad Richardson led all players with a double-double of 20 points and 12 boards, while Martellian Gibson tallied 20 as well for the RedHawks (15-12, 11-8 CCAC).

IUN started off strong from the field, shooting 57 percent in the first half to go ahead by 11 and eventually take a six-point lead into the break.

The hosts led by as many as 12 in the second half and held a 10-point lead with five and a half minutes left in regulation when the Lakers roared back. Roosevelt used a 10-0 burst, started and ended by buckets from Kern and featuring a three-pointer and a jumper off the fingertips of Storm, to get the game deadlocked with 2:22 on the clock.

However, Jamisen Smith made back-to-back buckets to ignite the game-ending 10-0 run by the RedHawks that was a replicating response to Roosevelt's previous game-tying stretch.

"We couldn't get it going in any phase tonight," Roosevelt head coach Joe Griffin said. "We tried to limit their big three, but they kicked our butts. We gave it away too much yet again, and we had a mediocre shooting night."

Roosevelt hosts fourth-ranked Olivet Nazarene inside the Goodman Center this Saturday at 3 p.m.