Riverside—The UC Riverside Men's Basketball Team (5-7) made it two wins in a row and three in the last four games with a 91-46 victory over visiting UC Merced Friday (4-7) evening.

KEY RUNS
The Highlanders scored the first three points, and 25 of the first 34 and never trailed in the win.

GAME NOTES
The Highlanders scored a season-high 91 points. The last time they score more than 91 was on November 19, 2016 in a 96-50 victory over Fresno Pacific.

The Highlanders have held five of their last six opponents under 38-percent shooting from the field.

Menno Dijkstra tied his season high with 12 points.

Alex Larsson dished out a career-high five assists.

Eric Rwahwire scored a career-high 10 points.

Idy Diallo grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds.

This marks the fourth time that Alex Larsson (14) and Menno DIjkstra (12) have scored in double figures in the same game (vs. Long Beach State February 9, 2017; vs. Cal Poly February 25, 2017; at CSUN, January 16, 2016).

UC Riverside had 13 players log 10 or minutes in the game, and just missed out on a 14th as Ryker Pierce logged nine .