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Ian DuBose
72
Winner Nicholls NICH 9-8, 3-1 SLC
71
HBU HBU 4-12, 0-3 SLC
Winner
Nicholls NICH
9-8, 3-1 SLC
72
Final
71
HBU HBU
4-12, 0-3 SLC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Nicholls NICH 40 32 72
HBU HBU 39 32 71

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

MBB: HBU Drops a Barn Burner to Nicholls

Saturday night’s game saw 15 lead changes and 14 ties

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HOUSTON – Four freshmen combined to score 59 points for HBU in a nail-biter inside Sharp Gym on Saturday evening but Nicholls escaped with a 72-71 Southland Conference win over the Huskies.
 
David Caraher led all players with 26 points, connecting on 7-of-14 from the floor and 12-of-15 at the free throw line while Ian DuBose recorded the second double-double of his career, adding 19 points and a game-high 10 rebounds. Philip McKenzie scored a career-best 10 points while fellow freshman Oliver Lynch-Daniels had four, giving that group 59 of the Huskies' 71 points.
 
The game remained tight in the early-going with a Jalon Gates jumper at the 11:51 mark tying things at 11-11 before Nicholls (9-8, 3-1 SLC) made the next five points for the largest lead of the game to that point, 16-11. HBU (4-12, 0-3 SLC) came right back and got the next six points, capped by a DuBose layup to go ahead by one. The Colonels got out to the largest lead either team would enjoy in the game with 5:03 left in the half when a Legend Robertin jumper put them ahead 33-27. Back-to-back bucket from DuBose cut the HBU deficit to one and the Huskies tied it 35-35 on an Edward Hardt free throw before going into the locker room at the half trailing 40-39.
 
Nicholls' Roddy Peters hit a jumper just over two minutes into the second half for the first basket of the half before back-to-back three-point plays from Caraher put HBU ahead 45-42 less than a minute later with 17:00 on the clock. Peters knocked down a pair of free throws to make it 47-46 with 15:31 on the clock but a quick 8-2 run left the Huskies up 54-49 with 12:45 to play.
 
The Colonels then went on a nine-point run of their own for a four-point lead and got their lead back to six with 8:56 to go. 1:12 later, a Lynch-Daniels jumper pulled HBU back to within one. The Huskies would regain the lead on a Caraher jumper in the paint with 4:27 on the clock and then, with 1:54 left, DuBose buried a three to make it a 69-66 ballgame. With 59 seconds remaining, both teams traded free throws awarded on technical fouls leaving HBU leading 71-70. Peters then made a pair at the charity stripe with 21 seconds left, leaving HBU with the last shot. Hardt's hook shot in the paint at the buzzer hit the back of the rim and bounced out, ending the game at 72-71.
 
Peters, who finished with 24 points, scored 18 of those in the second half as he was 6-of-10 from the field and 6-of-9 at the free throw line in the half. He led the Colonels in scoring and added eight boards along with four assists.
 
As a team, HBU shot 35.6 percent (21-of-59) for the game while Nicholls connected at a 51.1 percent (24-of-47) clip. The Huskies won the rebounding battle, 38-32, with 22 of those coming on the offensive glass.
 
The Huskies will close out their current three-game homestand on Wednesday, Jan. 10, when they host Abilene Christian in Sharp Gym at 7:00 p.m.
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