St. Ambrose ran into a hot-shooting Indiana South Bend team Saturday in a 100-78 loss in South Bend, Ind.

The Titans knocked down 14-of-25 3-point attempts in handing the No. 16-ranked Bees their third straight loss.

Three of those threes keyed a first-half-ending run that turned the game. The score was tied at 33-33 with four minutes left in the half following a Michael Williams 3-pointer. But over those next four minutes, IU-South Bend (10-5, 5-3 CCAC) hit three triples as part of a 15-2 run to build a 48-35 lead at the break.

SAU (10-5, 6-2 CCAC) never recovered.

Dylan Kaczmarek opened the scoring in the second half with a jumper to trim the deficit to 11 points, but that would prove to be the closest the Bees would get the rest of the way.

The Titans hit 7-of-13 from beyond the arc in the opening half and actually improved on that in the second half, connecting on 7-of-12 3-point attempts to never give the Bees a chance to get back into the game. Four different Titans hit multiple threes in the win.

The Bees, meanwhile, struggled from long distance, connecting on just 7-of-26 tries.

Williams led St. Ambrose with 23 points. He also grabbed eight rebounds. John Kerr scored 16 points to go along with a game-high nine boards.

Kaczmarek and Tom Kazanecki each finished with nine points. Warren Allen came off the bench to score eight points.

SAU will return home to host Clarke on Jan. 2.