KINGSVILLE, Texas – The Cameron men's basketball team trailed No. 22 Texas A&M-Kingsville by just three points at halftime, but a slow start to the second half was costly in a 77-63 loss for CU on Saturday.

Just a day after trailing by 21 points though one half in Kingsville, the Aggie men proved more of a test for the 22nd ranked Javelinas on Saturday afternoon thanks to strong performances from Kino Thompson and Brock Schreiner.

Thompson, a freshman from San Antonio, Texas, scored a career-best 19 points on 6-8 shooting. He made a pair of key triples during CU's first half run and was 4-6 from the charity stripe. Thompson had not scored more than nine points during his first seven collegiate games.

Schreiner, the squad's leading scorer, also had 19 points after being held to just four during Friday's game against the Javs. Schreiner was 7-18 from the field, with four of those shots coming from behind the three-point arc, where he has knocked down a total of 25 this season.

Cameron took just over seven minutes to get going in the first half as they trailed 16-5 at the 12:39 mark, but a 13-2 quickly turned the tune of the game as the score was tied at 18 with 9:11 left in the period.

The two teams battled back and forth for the next few minutes until a 7-0 run put the Javelinas back on top by five with 1:22 left till the break. A crafty layup by Andrew Nguyen with 13 seconds left in the half cut it back down to three, 32-29, which is where the score sat at halftime.

In the first 20 minutes of action, the Black and Gold were 10-24 from the field and 6-11 from long range. Schreiner led all scorers with 12 points on 4-9 shooting at the break, while the freshman Thompson had 10 on 4-5 from the field.

Texas A&M-Kingsville came out in the second half and proved why they are a top-25 ranked team, jumping out to a 15-point advantage less than five minutes into the period.They slowly stretched their lead out to at most 25 points with 5:51 to play. The Aggies didn't go quietly, cutting the deficit back down to 12 on a layup by Thompson with 1:04 to play, but the rally was little too late.

Cameron shot 36.4 percent from the field as a team, going 8-23 from three and 15-22 from the free throw line. They were out-rebounded 42-33 and lost the turnover battle by two, 16-14.

With their fourth straight loss, the Aggies are now 1-10 to start the 2020-21 season. They will look to change the narrative of the season when they host UT Tyler next weekend for two more non-divisional Lone Star Conference games in the Aggie Gym.