Hutchinson, KS- The Cloud County Thunderbird men went ice cold again Saturday night. The T-Birds dug themselves a 22-3 hole to start the game and could not recover, losing to the Blue Dragons 79-45.

Cloud missed their first eight attempts from the field allowing the Hutch men to get a huge lead out of the gate. They dug a 29 point first half hole before closing on an 8-2 run to go into half down 38-15.

The T-Birds did not hit a three point shot in the first half going 0-7 from deep.

Duby Maduegbunam nailed a three with 13:08 to play to get Cloud within 19 at 50-31. That was as close as they would get as Hutch ran away with it from there winning 79-45.

It was the T-Birds second lowest scoring performance of the year. 

Henry Cornelious had 9 points in the loss. Maduegbunam chipped in with 8 points. 

The loss comes after an emotional 76-74 win in Cloud's top performance of the season over Seward County last Saturday night in Concordia.

Cloud County will turn around and head back on the road on Wednesday in a matchup with Barton in Great Bend.