SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist travels to Durant Saturday for a must-win men's basketball game against Southeastern Oklahoma State at 3 p.m.
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OBU is two games behind Great American Conference No. 8 Ouachita with four games left, but since Ouachita has the tiebreaker, the Bison need three more wins than the Tigers.
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Oklahoma Baptist successfully executed a purposely missed free throw and put-back to tie the game late but lost on a buzzer-beater from just inside half court, 89-86, in the previous game against Southeastern.
Chandler Rickey had 27 points,
Travon Moore added 21 and
Brantly Thompson tallied 14 for OBU. Markell Henderson scored 22 points and A'torey Everett added 19 for SOSU.
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Rickey leads the Bison at 18.1 points per game with a GAC-leading 62 blocked shots. Moore averages 11.5 points and
Vladimir Nemcok is getting 11.4 points and a GAC-best 6.3 assists per game.
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Southeastern, which has already locked up a place in the postseason, is led by Markell Henderson at 15 points and Kevin Buckingham at 14.4 points per game. Buckingham leads the team with 6.6 rebounds per game.
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Todd Miller and
Casady Fletcher will cover the contest live on the web at
www.obubison.com/watch and in Shawnee on KGFF AM-1450 and FM-100.9. Pregame starts at approximately 2:35 p.m.
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