LIVINGSTON, Ala. --- The Mississippi College men's basketball team closed out the 2016-17 season with their second straight road victory in a 74-71 win over West Alabama at Pruitt Hall on Saturday afternoon.

HOW IT HAPPENED
- Junior Otis Harvey put the first points of the game on the board with a three-pointer just over a minute into the contest. Senior DeOndre Haynes assisted on the bucket that gave the Choctaws (7-19, 4-18 GSC) a 3-0 lead.
- The Tigers (10-18, 5-17 GSC) would go on a 10-0 run in the first 10 minutes of the game to grab a 15-7 lead, the largest advantage of the contest.
- MC would respond with an 18-2 run over seven minutes that gave the Choctaws their largest lead of the night at 25-17.
- Freshman Brandon Boston would knock down two free throws with 1:32 for the final points of the half as the Choctaws took a 31-25 lead into the break.
- In the second half, the Choctaws would keep the lead until Gavin Robinson hit a jumper for UWA that tied the score at 42-42 with 12:46 left in the game.
- The lead would change hands several times over the next six minutes, but the Tigers grabbed a 57-53 lead with 6:25 remaining.
- The Choctaws used a 7-0 run to grab the lead back and the contest would teeter down the stretch.
- Junior Stacey Mack hit a couple free throws with 39 seconds remaining to give the Choctaws a 70-64 lead.
- The Tigers would not go away however, cutting the lead down to 71-69 in the final 10 seconds, but Haynes would put the game away at the free throw line, going 3-of-4 in the final seconds of his Choctaw career.

KEY STATS
- Haynes, who scored 18 or more points in each of his last six contests, put up a game-high 25 with five assists, closing out his career with 499 points.
- The Calera, Ala. native finished the season as the team's leading scorer (14.7 ppg), shooting 49% from the field with a team-high 98 assists.
- Sophomore Xavion Dillon scored 20 points, hitting 10 free throws for the second consecutive game.
- Junior Stacey Mack scored 11 points with a team-high seven rebounds. The McComb native scored in double-figures in each of the last 18 games of the 2016-17 season.
- The Choctaws went 28-of-38 (74%) from the free throw line, while the Tigers were 19-of-22 (86%).
- Five Tigers scored in double-figures, led by 15 from Johnny Stallworth and 13 off the bench from Robinson.
- Domonique Alexander tallied a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds to go along with four blocked shots.

NEXT UP
- The Choctaws closed out the 2016-17 season with the win on Saturday, going 3-2 in their last five games. The 2017-18 season schedule has yet to be finalized and released.
 

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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.