Tulsa's Travis Hyman swatted nine shots to lead the 66ers over the Armor.
Armor forward Willie Reed elevates on a jump shot Wednesday against Tulsa.
SPRINGFIELD - An absence of stops in the fourth quarter for the Springfield Armor equaled an end to their home win streak.
The Tulsa 66ers had the range in the fourth quarter and one big defensive presence to hold off the Armor, 107-100, and put the brakes on the Armor's win streak at the MassMutual Center at three.
The loss dropped the Armor to 8-17 at the midway point of the season while Tulsa (14-12) won for the fourth time in five games.
"I told the guys this is the halfway point for us now and we still have a whole second half to play," Armor coach Bob MacKinnon said. "We've got to see if we can get this thing turned around, and with everyone bunched up, no one is gonna run away right now and we still have a legitimate shot to turn this around."
It appeared as if the Armor had a shot at catching the 66ers in the fourth quarter, but every time they scored, the 66ers had an answer. They also had Travis Hyman, who only scored four points and had 2 rebounds in 18 minutes on the floor, but swatted a record nine shots against the Armor, five in the fourth quarter.
"Wow, he had nine, I didn't even know that," Armor guard Ramone Moore said. "That's 18 points right there that he negated for us so he was a big factor for them."
Hyman's exuberance following a putback dunk in the fourth led to a heated exchange with Armor forward Willie Reed. The players had to be separated and both were hit with technical fouls.
The anger continued to simmer after the final horn, with Reed's teammates carrying him away from a confrontation and off the floor.
The frustration for Reed and the Armor was obvious. They played a decent first half and trailed by just two, but in the second half, very little went their way.
"I thought we lost some of our focus and togetherness in the third quarter," MacKinnon said. "Right now we're struggling to find that and I thought we had it going pretty good but we kind of lost it in the third quarter. We got it back some in the fourth but they made some tough shots. They're pros and you've got to respond."
Springfield made just six of 22 field goals in the third quarter as they watched a two-point halftime deficit grow to 15 by the end of the quarter, the largest deficit of the game.
"Those guys went on a nice run in the third quarter and that was one of the things coach talked about, how we just put our heads down and let those guys get ahead," said Moore, who scored a season-high 22 points. "There were a lot of things this team has to work on and that's one of them, coming out in the third quarter."
Eleven-year NBA veteran Rasual Butler scored nine of his game-high 24 points in the third quarter, but it was his teammates who carried the load in the fourth.
Dominique Sutton (19 points, 13 rebounds), Hollis Thompson, Tony Taylor (13 points), Chris Quinn (15 points) and Hyman all played exceptional in the fourth for the 66ers.
Moore scored 12 of his points in the fourth, but Springfield was unable to make more than a 4-0 run on Tulsa.
James Mays had another double-double with 16 points and 14 rebounds and Dennis Horner had 17 points and 11 boards. Ben Uzoh added 10 points with 10 assists and had just one turnover.