LUBBOCK, Texas — The road can be a lonely place in the Sooner Athletic Conference and from the start of the season this stretch of games over this week can make you tired just thinking about the miles and time on the bus.

After falling at Northwestern Oklahoma State, Monday, Southern Nazarene bounced back with a big win Thursday night in the Rip Griffin Center with a 67-61 win over Lubbock Christian. The Crimson Storm (11-3, 4-2 SAC) have now won six of their last seven and are halfway through the longest road stretch of the season at 1-1.

Xavier Alexander made his return back to the lineup for Southern Nazarene after being hampered the past two games with an injury, but came off the bench to score 10 points and had five rebounds and four assists in 25 minutes. SNU got a combined 24 points out of C.J. Henry and Horace McGloster as each scored 12 points while Jon West chipped in with 11. Henry and West went a combined 9-for-9 from the free throw line as Henry hit four and West hit five. Southern Nazarene shot its highest percentage from the free throw line all season going 18-for-20 (.900).

As a team SNU shot 23-for-53 (.442) from the floor and outrebounded the Chaps 37-27. SNU held LCU to just 35.3 percent shooting from the floor and 35 percent from beyond the arc.

Southern Nazarene led by as much as 11 two different times in the first half with the second coming at 31-20 with 1:09 left in the first. The Chaps hit four straight free throws to make it 31-24 at intermission, but the Storm again pushed the lead back out to double digits and took its biggest lead of the game twice at 42-30 and 44-32 early in the second.

Kenny Hewitt brought Lubbock Christian back into the game with a pair of free throws and then hit a jumper that followed a Douglas Williams trey as LCU got within five. Williams drained another 3-pointer before Matt Read hit back-to-back jumpers to give LCU its first lead of the night at 46-44 with 10:57 remaining.

The lead didn't last long though as the Chaps took its biggest lead at 48-44 with 9:34 to play before a 15-3 run, ignited by West, put SNU up 59-51 with less than two minutes left. West gave SNU the lead for good at 53-51with a traditional 3-point play followed by a thunderous dunk by McGloster and buckets by Alexander and A.J. Thomas.

SNU didn't miss a free throw in the final minute as the Storm drained all eight attempts to ice the game.

The Storm now get set for a 3 p.m. game Saturday at Wayland Baptist before a concluding the marathon road trip Thursday at Oklahoma City.