Box Score BETHANY, Okla. — Despite having four players in double figures, No. 14 Southern Nazarene dropped its second straight meeting with Science & Arts as USAO picked up a 77-73 win over SNU inside the Sawyer Center.
 
The Crimson Storm (15-5, 8-4) couldn't hold off Phillip Harris and Kyle Hunt who combined for 47 points as Harris scored 25, with 15 coming from five 3-pointers, and Hunt had 22 and nine rebounds.
 
The Storm nearly match USAO bucket for bucket in the first half as the Drovers were 17-for-32 while SNU was 15-for-30. Neither team missed much as the two exchanged four leads and tied for times in the first half. The Storm even held an 8-point lead early in the first half at 24-16, but the Drovers charged back with a 15-6 run to take the lead at 31-30. Neither team led by more than four the rest of the half as USAO took a 42-40 lead into the break.
 
The Drovers held a 48-47 lead early in the second half when they went on a 20-6 run to take their biggest lead of the half at 68-53 with 10:37 left to play.
 
The Storm began to chip away from there. Aaron Jones buried a long jumper before Horace McGloster and Daniel White each hit a pair of free throws to cut the lead back to single digits. Hunt made it a 70-59 game, but McGloster got a huge put back slack and Jon West scored on back-to-back layups as SNU was within five at 70-65 with two minutes left.
 
SNU cut it to three on two different occasions with 32 seconds left at 73-69 and with 24 seconds left at 74-71, but USAO sank free throws done the stretch to secure the win. The Drovers were 17-for-23 at the line and now own a possibly tiebreaker with the season sweep of the Storm.
 
Southern Nazarene will now make the longest trips of the year as it heads out to the Texas panhandle for the last time in the Sooner Athletic Conference. SNU will play at Wayland, Thursday, at 6 p.m. before heading to Lubbock, Saturday.