Wabash committed 21 turnovers and struggled to keep Wooster from scoring inside in a 90-66 road loss to the Scots Saturday afternoon.
 
Wooster (14-5, 10-2 NCAC) turned the Little Giants' turnovers into 24 points. The Scots scored 48 total points in the paint.
 
Wooster took the early lead, jumping out to a 6-0 advantage over the first two minutes of the contest before Daniel Purvlicis put Wabash on the scoreboard with a jump hook in the lane for two of his 14 points. The Scots stretched their lead to 14-6 before Ben Stachowski came off the bench to draw Wabash to within five at 14-9. Wooster outscored the Little Giants 9-0 over the next two minutes to go up 23-9. Wabash could never get closer than 11 points before trailing 48-32 at halftime.
 
The Scots led by as many as 26 points in the second half before finishing the game with the 24-point victory margin.
 
The loss came three days after Wabash controlled its game at Wittenberg University to produce a 69-54 win Wednesday night. The Little Giants have had back-to-back weeks with big wins in mid-week games followed by difficult losses on Saturday.
 
"Someone has to step up early in the game," Wabash head coach Kyle Brumett said. "We had scoring opportunities in the first three possessions. Somebody's got to get one of those to go in the basket. It's that, or you've got to be better on the defensive backboards. The two Wednesday night games we've won recently against DePauw and at Wittenberg, we didn't necessarily get off to a fast offensive start. But neither did our opponent. The hard thing about having a young team is that you do have the ups and downs of inconsistency."
 
Stachowkski led the Little Giants with 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting. The freshman recorded a double-double by adding 11 rebounds to his line in the box score. Purvlicis connected on six of his eight shots from the field to go with a 2-for-2 effort from the free throw line.
 
"Ben is a good offensive player," Brumett said. "In his eight conference games he's averaging 10 points per game. He's a really high-percentage two-point finisher. And as he's played well his confidence has continued to grow, and our other players' confidence in him has grown, as well.
 
"Some other guys need to play well to not put so much pressure on him so he can just freely play. I think that's one of the things that has kind of worn on Johnny Jager and Evan Frank. When they played well early in the season and in the middle of the season, instead of someone else stepping up as a scorer in the next game, we've just continued to ride them. Both of those guys are struggling like most freshmen would in a long season.  Hopefully both of those guys catch a second wind as we come down the stretch."
 
Dan Fanelly came off the bench for the Scots to lead them in scoring with 18 points. Spencer Williams tallied 17, while Josh Kipfer and Reece Dupler added 12 points apiece.
 
Wabash (10-9, 4-8 NCAC) falls to eighth place in the North Coast Athletic Conference standings. The Little Giant host an NCAC doubleheader next weekend, starting with a 7 p.m. contest Friday against Hiram College (13-6, 7-5 NCAC) prior to a 3 p.m. tip against Allegheny (2-17, 2-10 NCAC) Saturday.