2024-25 Red River Athletic Conference men's basketball standings
NEW ORLEANS —
Seviuhn Turner's 30 points led Xavier University of Louisiana Thursday in a 72-54 Red River Athletic Conference men's basketball victory against Texas A&M-Texarkana.
The Gold Rush (7-2 overall, 6-1 RRAC) won for the seventh consecutive time and remained in a loss-column tie for first place in the league with Our Lady of the Lake and LSU-Alexandria.
Turner — a 6-foot-5 junior guard/forward from Baton Rouge, La., and in his first XULA season — became the first Gold Rush player to reach 30 since teammate
Jathen Ross against Southwest (N.M.) in the 2023 RRAC Tournament quarterfinals. In 34 minutes Turner was 6-of-11 from the floor, 3-of-4 on 3-pointers and 15-of-17 from the line. In the first half Turner scored 19 points and made all nine of his free throws.
Turner also shut down the Eagles' Deovaunta Williams, who entered with a league-leading 60.9 percent on 3s (14-of-23) but was 1-of-7 against XULA. The Eagles entered with a league-leading 39.5-percent on 3s, but their 4-of-21 against the Gold Rush produced season lows for made 3s and accuracy.
Turner was XULA's only double-figure scorer.
Lance Williams had nine points, five rebounds and four steals, and
Omarion Bodrick and
James Weathers scored seven apiece. Cory Dunning grabbed a season-high 10 rebounds.
Daryl Houston, with 12 points, was the only double-figure scorer for the Eagles (6-4, 5-3), whose four-game win streak ended. The Eagles' points and 28.1 percent from the floor were season lows. They entered averaging 83 points.
TAMUT led 20-14 through 11 minutes, but the Gold Rush scored the next 15 points and never lost the lead thereafter. XULA led 36-29 at halftime, and the final margin was its largest of the game.
Turner joined Juan Mercier (1987), Jimmie Wilder (1991), Angelo Taylor (2002), Kelechi Okoroha (2009) and Anthony Goode (2015) on the list of Gold Rush players who made 15 free throws in a game. Taylor made a school-record 21 against Mobile at The Barn, XULA's previous home.
Elsewhere Thursday in the RRAC:
• LSUA won 99-68 at home against Huston-Tillotson.
• LSU-Shreveport won 101-71 at home against North American.
• Jarvis Christian won 82-70 at home against Louisiana Christian.
• Our Lady of the Lake won 100-72 at home against Texas A&M-San Antonio.
