It was an outcome all too familiar for the NIU men’s basketball team.

The Huskies road losing streak hit eight games as they fell 74-58 Saturday at Toledo.

After Bryson McKenzie tied the game at 14 with a layup and 11:30 left in the first half, the Rockets (12-10 overall, 8-5 MAC) held the Huskies scoreless for eight minutes.

“Toledo is playing their best basketball of the year right now,” NIU coach Rob Judson said.

The Huskies (9-13, 5-9) turned the ball over 10 times and trailed by as many as 22 points in the first half. The Rockets, who are 6-1 at home in the MAC, scored 20 points off turnovers for the game.

NIU shot 39.4 percent from the field in the first half compared to Toledo’s 58.8 percent.

Mike McKinney scored 10 of his team-high 15 points in the first half to pull the Huskies within 16 points at halftime.

Cory Sims began the second-half with a jump shot that would narrow the deficit to 14, but Toledo followed with a 9-0 run.

“Right at the end of the first half, Mike McKinney and Cory Sims really competed,” Judson said. “They enabled us to cut into the lead.”

The Huskies couldn’t find their usual mainstay in three-point shooting. The nation’s ninth-best three-point shooting team coming into the game (41.1 percent) made two of its 16 shots from behind the three-point arc.

Sims contributed 10 points and five assists for the Huskies while James Hughes punched in 12 points and seven rebounds off the bench.