Box Score NEW ORLEANS — Jeremy Price scored seven of his
23 points in the final four minutes Thursday to help Spring Hill rally for a
75-67 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference men's basketball victory over Xavier
University of Louisiana.
The Badgers (16-10 overall, 10-7 GCAC) snapped the
three-game winning streak of the Gold Rush (19-10, 11-6) and spoiled
Xavier's Senior Night, which included a pregame ceremony for Kelechi
Okoroha and
Shaun Dumas.
Okoroha scored 18 points to reach 1,002 for his
three-year career, and Dumas scored 17 to reach 1,407 in four years.
Michael Harvey added 10 points for Xavier.
Marcus Coleman scored 19 points — including a 3-pointer
which put Spring Hill ahead to stay at 66-64 with 2:15 remaining — and
Nick Brown added 11.
Spring Hill trailed 12-0 through four minutes,
18-4 through 6½ minutes and 44-34 with 15:45 remaining before rallying to
complete its first two-game regular-season sweep of Xavier since 2001-02.
Xavier dropped into a three-way tie for second
place in the GCAC with Loyola and LSU-Shreveport with one regular-season
game remaining. Tougaloo has clinched the regular-season championship
and the first of the GCAC's two automatic bids to the Buffalo
Funds-NAIA Division I National Championship.
The Rush will play longtime rival Dillard at
7 p.m. Saturday in the Bleu Devil Classic at the University of New Orleans'
Lakefront Arena.