Austin Wright became the all-time leading three-point shooter and Taevaunn Prince scored 32 points on 18-19 from the free-throw line, but the Missouri Southern men's basketball team couldn't pull out the road win, falling 89-80 at Pittsburg State Saturday inside John Lance Arena.
Southern (10-7, 7-4 MIAA) was led by Prince's 32 points and eight rebounds. He went 18-19 from the free throw line and is 52-56 from the charity stripe over the last three games, giving him 175 on the season. Isaac Kreuer scored 13 points on 7-9 shooting, while Austin Wright scored 12 points on four three pointers. The four three's gave him 225 for his career, passing Skyler Bowlin for the all-time MSSU lead in made three's.
Pitt State (9-8, 4-7 MIAA) had five score in double-figures, led by 19 points from Trey Starks. Dakota Jones scored 16 points, while Josiah Gustafson had 14.
The Lions opened up the game on a 7-2 run, capped by a jumper from Kreuer, but Pitt came back and ran up a 17-4 run of its own to take a 19-11 lead before a turnaround jumper from Kreuer stopped the run and made the score 19-13 at the 13:10 mark. A dunk from Kreuer the next trip down cut the lead to four (19-15) with 12:44 left at the first media timeout.
A 20-13 run for the Gorillas opened up a 39-28 lead for Pitt with seven minutes to play, and PSU led by as many as 14, but a pair of free throws from Prince with six seconds left in the half made the halftime score 51-39, PSU.
Southern got to within seven points (55-48) after a layup fromDJ Feitl, but an 11-2 run for the Gorillas doubled that lead to 14 (64-50) with 12 minutes left. A three from Wright with 10:49 left got the Lions to within 11 (66-55) and tied Bowlin for the all-time career record and a three with 10:11 left gave Wright the record by himself and cut the lead to ten (68-58).
A layup from Brown with 4:43 to go made the score 77-68, and a pair of freebies from Prince with just under four to go cut the PSU lead to nine (79-70). After a steal from Prince on the defensive end, he calmly made another two free throws to make the score 79-72.
A three from Brown with 2:07 left made the score 84-77 and marked the third time in the half Southern had got to within seven. After a pair of defensive stops, the Lions had the ball with under a minute to go and Brown was fouled sending him to the line, shooting two. Brown made one-of-two and made the score 84-78 with 54.5 seconds left.
Pitt made five-of-six free throws in the final minute to seal the win.
Southern shot 46 percent from the field and 92 percent from the free-throw line. Rebounds were nearly even with Pitt holding a one-board advantage and the Lions had a 32-30 advantage in the paint. Southern had 17 turnovers and Pitt scored 23 points off of those miscues.
The Lions will be back in action next Thursday when Southern travels to Lincoln University. Tip off from Jason Gym is slated for 7:30 pm.
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