Milwaukee Panthers lose to Indiana State; top scorer is out for season

To look up and down and back and forth across the box score, and this surely must have been a Milwaukee Panthers win.

Shots. Rebounds. Turnovers. Free throws. You name it, UWM led Indiana State across the box except two key lines: shooting percentage and total points.

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With its top scorer out for the season, one of its hottest shooters on the bench with cramps and another suddenly cold, the Panthers fell to the Sycamores 70-68 in a Sunday matinee Dec. 12 at the UWM Panther Arena.

Box score: Indiana State 70, Milwaukee 68

UWM, which went the final 3:09 without a basket, missed an opportunity to reach the .500 mark and sits at 4-6 with another nonconference game next on the schedule Dec. 19 against South Dakota State at Fiserv Forum.

Indiana State managed just its second road victory of the season in reaching 7-4. The game was the first between the teams since 2009 and ninth overall. The Sycamores have won seven.

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“It’s hard to see this one slip away because that’s a tough a Missouri Valley team in our place, and you want to get that one,” Panthers coach Bart Lundy said. “We let it slip away, a very, very good opportunity slip away. We’ve got to move on, get better.”

UW-Milwaukee forward Danilo Jovanovich (3) looks for a way around the defense of Indiana State guard Jo Van Buggenhout (6) in a game Sunday, December 14, 2025, at the UWM Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Seth Hubbard’s injury and cramps for Stevie Elam vex the Panthers

Senior transfer guard Seth Hubbard, who averaged 16.6 points a game over the first nine games, is lost for the season, Lundy said after the game.

Hubbard suffered an injury to his right shoulder early in the seasons and tried to play through it, but results of recent imaging indicated surgery was necessary.

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Freshman guard Stevie Elam connected on 4 of 8 3-point attempts and had 13 points in the first half. That’s how he finished, though, after being forced out of the game midway through the second…

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