CLINTON, Miss. --- The Mississippi College men's basketball team scored their most points since February 9, 2014 as they downed Southern University at New Orleans, 107-89, on Monday night in A.E. Wood Coliseum.

The Choctaws won their second straight contest to improve to 2-2, while the Knights dropped to 1-4.
 

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TURNING POINT
- With 8:23 remaining in the game, SUNO cut what was once a 19-point lead down to just six as George Brock hit one of his eight three-pointers on the night. The Choctaws would answer with an 8-0 run and pull away with their second win of the season against the Knights after winning last Tuesday in New Orleans, 77-60.
 

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HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Choctaws never trailed in the contest, grabbing as much as a 19-point lead with 7:36 to go in the first half after a three-pointer by senior Antonio Johnson, making the score 35-16.
- The Knights would claw back into the game, converting a four-point play in the final seconds of the period to send the game into halftime with a score of 46-36.
- In the second half, SUNO, led by 47 points from Brock, would cut the score as few as four points at 64-60 with 13:41 remaining.
- After a 14-3 run by the Choctaws, the Knights would again cut into the lead and a three-pointer by Brock made the score 78-72 with 8:23 to go.
- The Choctaws would pull away down the stretch, and the punctuation mark came on an alley-oop with 3:04 remaining from junior Donovan Ham to senoir Stacey Mack, who scored a career-high 29 points. The three-point play gave the Choctaws their largest lead of the night at 100-80.
 

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KEY STATS
- The Choctaws were led by Mack's career-high 29 points, shooting 8-of-13 from the floor and 12-of-12 from the free throw line.
- Junior Isaiah Austin, who earned his first career start, put up a double-double with 20 points and 12 rebounds.
- Senior Antonio Johnson hit 6-of-11 three-pointers for the Choctaws, scoring 21 points with seven assists.
- Ham scored 19 points with nine rebounds and eight assists, shooting 7-of-1 from the field.
- The Choctaws shot 58% (35-of-60) from the floor and 46% (12-of-26) from the three-point line.
- They outrebounded the Knights 44-28, including pulling down 15 offensive boards for 18 second-chance points.
- The Choctaws had 23 assists on 35 buckets, while the Knights had nine assists on 30 field goals.
- Brock led all scorers with 47 points, going 15-of-21 from the field and 8-of-10 from the three-point line.
- Andre Funches was the only other Knight in double-figures with 10 points.
- SUNO shot 46% (30-of-65) from the floor and 54% (14-of-26) from long range.
 

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GAME NOTES
- The 107 points was the most for the Choctaws since scoring 110 against Sul Ross State on January 9, 2014.
- MC put up a season-high 106 points against West Georgia in a victory in Carrollton last season.
 

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NEXT UP
- The Choctaws will be off for Thanksgiving, coming back on the court Sunday when they travel to Birmingham to face UAB at 3:00 p.m.
 

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Mississippi College is a private Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi with an enrollment of over 5,000 students. MC is recently finished their transition process back to NCAA Division II and the Gulf South Conference and will be competing for conference and national championships in the 2016-17 academic year.
 
The athletic department sponsors 17 intercollegiate athletic programs: Baseball, Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Cross Country, Football, Golf, Men's and Women's Soccer, Softball, Men's and Women's Tennis, Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field, Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field and Volleyball.
 
For more information on Mississippi College athletics, please contact David Nichols at 601-925-3234 or nichols@mc.edu.