Box Score
BETHANY, Okla. — If Southern Nazarene continues to spread the scoring like it has the past two games, then it could be a chess match for opposing coaches on who to stop. The Crimson Storm won their second in a row and moved to 5-1 with a 79-70 in the championship game of the Thanksgiving Nazarene Classic.
Five Storm scored in double figures with four being starters and SNU shot over 75 percent from the free-throw line for the second time this season.
#C.J. Henry lit up the nets early in the first half with four 3-pointers as he had 16 points in the first half and finished with a game-high 19 points. Xavier Alexander# posted the first double-double of the season for SNU as he scored 17 points and added 12 boards. He also totaled six assists, three blocks and three steals. Horace McGloster was in double figures for the second straight night with 12 points and added five boards. #A.J. Thomas# was perfect at the line, hitting all six attempts while scoring 11 points. He also added five assists. Milos Milosevic also chipped in with 11 points.
Both teams withstood significant runs throughout the game as the lead changed eight times with seven ties.
ONU held its biggest lead of the game at 19-13, but the Storm responded with a 24-6 run capped by a Henry trey to give SNU its biggest lead of the game at 37-25 with 1:33 left in the first half. Henry hit all four, first-half treys in a span of just over three minutes. He scored 14 of his 16 first-half points in the final five minutes of the half.
SNU led 41-30 with 30 seconds left in the first when ONU's Matt Funkhouser buried a last-second trey to make it 41-33 at the half.
The Tigers carried the momentum into the second half and completed a 27-11 run to take a 57-52 lead with 10:46 left to play. Jon West then sparked a 12-0 run by the Storm with a jumper as SNU led 64-57 and never trailed again.
Henry finished 7-for-11 from the field and 5-for-8 from beyond the arc. Alexander and Thomas hit five free throws down the stretch as the Crimson Storm went 20-for-26 from the charity stripe.
Now SNU gets set to tip-off Sooner Athletic Conference play when they host defending national champion and No. 8-ranked Oklahoma Baptist , Thursday, at 8 p.m.
