Wabash senior guard Jack Davidson exploded for 27 first-half points on the way to a 37-point effort in the Little Giants' 101-79 win over Hiram Tuesday night in the quarterfinal round of the 2022 North  Coast Athletic Conference Tournament.
 
Davidson, who earlier in the day was named to the D3hoops.com Team of the Week, shot 9-of-12 from the field in the opening 20 minutes. He connected on 4-of-6 three-point shots and hit all five free throws. Davidson scored 10 points in the first 11 minutes of the second half before taking a seat for the evening with the 16^th-ranked Little Giants (22-3) well out in front.
 
Davidson finished the night with 37 points but also handed out six assists, grabbed five rebounds, and generated two steals and one blocked shot.
 
While Davidson was handling the scoring with outside shooting and driving baskets, fellow senior Kellen Schreiber dominated the paint. Schreiber matched his season-best scoring effort with 25 points. That equaled a 25-point performance earlier at home against the Terriers (9-17). The senior forward shot 9-of-11 from the field and grabbed six rebounds.
 
Wabash trailed early before Davidson hit an old-fashioned three-point play with 16:25 left to play in the first half to tie the score at 9-9. Davidson hit a three on the next trip down the floor to put the Little Giants in front 12-9. Wabash stretched the lead to 11 points at 22-11 on a Jesse Hall field goal with 12:25 left in the opening half. Hiram got as close as five points on two different occasions. But Wabash answered with a 12-7 run to go back in front by double digits in the final three minutes of the half before stretching the lead to 16 points at 49-33 at the break.
 
The Little Giants outscored Hiram 52-46 in the second half to extend their winning streak to 18 games. The victory also guaranteed Wabash home-court advantage throughout the remainder of the tournament for the first time since the Little Giants joined the NCAC in 1999. The Little Giants won the conference regular-season title and are the number-one seed in the tournament.
Hall came off the bench to score nine points for the Little Giants in the win. Tyler Watson gave out a game-high eight assists and led the team with nine rebounds. Wabash won the rebounding battle 38-29.
 
Brodgie Gordon led Hiram with 20 points. Spencer Willman added 15 points for the Terriers. Sherman Cox and Keven Beans, Jr. each scored 11 points.
Wabash will face Denison Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Chadwick Court in the second semifinal game of the NCAC Tournament. The fifth-seeded Big Red knocked off number-four seed Wittenberg University 62-58 in Springfield, Ohio, Tuesday evening. Second-seeded Wooster will play sixth-seeded DePauw at 5 p.m. on Friday. The two semifinal winners will play in the championship game on Saturday at 4 p.m.
 
Ticket information for the semifinal and championship games will be announced Wednesday morning on the Wabash sports site at https://sports.wabash.edu and on the NCAC Tournament website at https://northcoast.org/sports/mbkb/Tournament/2022.