Conway, Ark. - Hendrix suffered its eighth-consecutive defeat to start the season on Thursday afternoon with a 68-61 loss to the Mississippi University for Women.

The Warriors kept the contest close for all but the final two minutes despite being dominated in the paint and on the boards.

MUW started the game on a 6-0 run before Ty Jones got Hendrix on the board with an early triple. The lead changed hands at the 10:50 mark when Tyler Jackson knocked down his first three-ball to give Hendrix an 11-10 advantage. MUW retook the lead forty seconds later, and they would hold onto that lead for the rest of the afternoon. The two sides traded buckets down the stretch in the first half, with Jaxon Herrera knocking down back-to-back jumpers, before Kyle Roach hit back-to-back jumpers of his own to keep MUW within two points. The Owls took a 7-point lead with 3:22 remaining in the first half -- their largest lead of the afternoon to that point -- but a 6-2 Warrior run was capped by Joseph Dockett's fastbreak layup to send Hendrix trailing 33-30 into halftime.

Eli Lovelady buried a couple of triples on either end of the first media timeout of the half, and Ty Jones hit his second three of the contest to bring the Owls to within one at 13:53. With MUW leading by 6 midway through the half, Lovelady sank another three to halve the deficit.

MUW regained their 6-point advantage at the 7:29 mark and extended that lead to 8 with 3:10 remaining. Dockett then went on a personal 4-0 scoring run with a couple of free throws and a fastbreak layup to bring Hendrix back to within four points of the visitors. But the Warriors went cold from that point on, and MUW was able to keep Hendrix at arm's length at the free throw line down the stretch to secure the win.

Dockett led the Warriors with 15 points. Lovelady finished 3-of-5 from behind the arc, but Hendrix as a team shot just 26.9% from distance. The Warriors were outrebounded 42-27 on the glass, but picked up the slack defensively by turning MUW over 19 times, an early season-high for Anthony Boone's squad. In the paint, Hendrix scored 28 points to 48 from the Owls.

Hendrix (0-8) will now have time off during the holiday break before heading to Memphis on December 30 for a neutral site contest versus Westminster (Mo.). The Warriors will start league play just a few days later when they head to Clarksville to take on the University of the Ozarks to ring in the new year.