SALT LAKE CITY--It was a game of two halves for men's basketball as they fell to Colorado Mesa, 56-71.

The Griffins had a slow start going 0-4 from the field.  Jacob McCord's layup got the Griffins started followed by a Jake Connor three.  Joonas Tahvanainan scored his first bucket of the game and Brandon Warr's three pointer finished a 10-0 run for its largest lead of the game, 10-7.  After 10 lead changes and two ties, the half ended, 36-30, in favor of the Mavericks.

Second half shooting troubles put the game out of reach as the Griffins went 11-31 from the field, 1-7 from three-point range and 3-6 from the charity stripe.

Alec Monson and Brandon Warr each scored 13 points to lead the Grifins' offense.  Jake Connor and Jacob McCord scored eight and Joonas Tahvanainen put up six points.  Roudning off the scoring was James Walljasper and Brandon Willardson with three and Jai Jai Ely with two.

Westminster returns to action Saturday night against Western Colorado.