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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The HBU men's basketball team erased a 21-point second half deficit but lost, 79-69, in overtime to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi inside the American Bank Center on Saturday night.
 
A Jalon Gates three staked HBU (5-17, 1-8 SLC) to an early 5-4 lead but the Islanders' Kareem South answered with a pair of jumpers and the Islanders led the rest of the half. The TAMUCC (6-12, 3-5 SLC) lead reached 12 at the 10:21 mark after a Joseph Kilgore layup and ensuing foul shot before a seven-point run by the Huskies cut their deficit to five with the score 25-20 with 7:51 left in the half. From that point on, the Huskies were held without a field goal and their only points of the final 7:50 coming on a pair of Gates free throws as HBU went into the half trailing 41-22.
 
In the second half, with the Islanders leading 45-24, HBU embarked on a 14-0 run to bring the score to 45-38 with 14:45 on the clock. A Braxton Bonds layup with 10:35 left in the half got the Huskies to within five but TAMUCC again pushed its lead back to double-digits on an Elijah Schmidt layup a little over two minutes later. HBU got to within five multiple times again but it wasn't until David Caraher drained a three at the 3:21 mark that the Huskies got within four. Oliver Lynch-Daniels then made it a 63-61 ballgame with a pair of free throws with 2:38 to go.
 
After the Islanders got a basket from Kareem South to go back up by four, Caraher made one of two from the charity stripe. HBU then forced a turnover and an Ian DuBose layup got the Huskies within one with 1:43 to go. TAMUCC's Deion Rhea made a layup on the ensuing possession before Caraher knocked down his third three of the game to tie it up at 67-67. After the Huskies got a defensive stop on the next Islander possession, they came out of a timeout with 7.3 seconds left and a Bonds jumper at the buzzer was no good.
 
The Islanders scored the first four points of the overtime period and the Huskies didn't get on the board in the extra period until a pair of Caraher free throws at the 2:24 mark. Of the 14 points scored in the overtime period, 12 of them came on free throws with the Islanders attempting 11 to the Huskies' two.
 
Caraher led HBU with 24 points on 9-of-20 shooting, hitting 3-of-10 from deep. The freshman also added seven rebounds. Bonds finished with 13 points, six rebounds, six assists and a pair of steals while DuBose had 10 points, seven rebounds and four assists.
 
Lynch-Daniels and Gates both ended the night with seven points while Philip McKenzie had seven boards and five points. Will Gates Jr. added three points for the Huskies.
 
Kilgore led the Islanders with the program's first-ever triple-double, consisting of 24 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists. Both teams committed 13 turnovers and TAMUCC held a 42-37 advantage on the boards.
 
The Huskies shot 39.1 percent (25-of-64) for the night and were 9-of-28 (32.1 percent) from three-point range.
 
The Huskies remain on the road for their next matchup, a Wednesday, Jan. 31, date with Stephen F. Austin at Johnson Coliseum in Nacogdoches, Texas with a 7:00 p.m. tip time.