BOONE, N.C. -- The frontcourt tandem of Donte Minter and Jeremy Clayton combined for 27 points and 13 rebounds but it wasn't enough for Appalachian State University men's basketball to overcome Wichita State's second-half surge in a 62-53 setback on Thursday evening at the Holmes Center.

Appalachian (3-4) led by 11 points with in the final minute of the first half and took a seven-point lead into the break, but Wichita State (4-2) opened the second period with a 12-0 run to take a 37-32 lead. The Mountaineers battled back and led by a point with under six minutes to go, but the Shockers scored 15 of the game's final 20 points to avenge the Apps' 60-58 triumph in Wichita last February.

In addition to Minter's 16 points and six rebounds and Clayton's 11 points and seven boards, Eduardo Bermudez scored 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting to pace Appalachian. Wichita State's Matt Braeuer drained 5-of-8 shots from three-point range en route to a game-high 17 points. P.J. Couisnard and Phillip Thomasson added 16 points apiece for WSU. ASU opened the game with a 5-2 lead but quickly stumbled at Wichita State went on a 9-2 run to take a four-point lead.

However, the Apps answered by holding the Shockers scoreless for the next 6:18 and rattling off 12 unanswered points, six of them from Bermudez to hold an eight-point, 19-11 lead with 8:16 left in the half. WSU drew within two over the next four minutes before three-consecutive buckets from Minter gave ASU's its largest lead of the evening at 32-21 with one-minute left in the half. Minter's basket at the 1:06 mark in the first half would be ASU's last until he scored again at the 15:58 mark in the second half, a 5:08 ASU dry spell in which the Shockers amassed their 12-0 run to take command of the contest.

The Apps missed 10 straight shots during that span The Mountaineers took their last lead of the evening with 6:25 remaining in the contest off a putback off the offensive glass from Bermudez. Two possessions later, Couisnard hit a jumper that gave WSU the lead for good, ending a 10-minute span that saw six lead changes and two ties.

With ASU pressing in the final minute, Wichita State successfully broke the press and round Ramon Clemente streaking down the court for a breakaway dunk that gave the Shockers a 58-53 lead with 43 seconds remaining. The Apps missed three-point attempts on their next two possessions and WSU got a got a critical steal with 15 seconds left to seal the victory in Boone.

ASU will return to the road and Southern Conference play this weekend when it travels to Statesboro, Ga. for a 3 p.m. matchup with Georgia Southern on Saturday afternoon. The game will be broadcast across the Southeast on SportSouth.