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INDIANAPOLIS- Fourteenth-ranked Drury defeated host Indianapolis 84-73 at Nicoson Hall in Great Lakes Valley Conference play Saturday afternoon. The win came after a furious rally in the final minutes that saw the Hounds trim a 19-point deficit down to ten, but the first-place Panthers hung-on to post the win.
DU (18-4, 11-2), who was without leading scorer Alex Hall due to a one-game suspension following his ejection on Thursday at Northern Kentucky, got a huge contribution from its bench. In particular, Chase Elliott's 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting, one of five DU players in double figures.
Drury took its largest lead of the first half, 23-14, with eight minutes left. UIndy (12-11, 6-8) would score the next dozen points to take a three-point lead, the final trey coming from
Sergey Struck (Wabash, Ind./Southwood / Danville Area C.C.), his third of four triples in the game. The Hounds led 32-28 with two-and-a-half to play in the half but the Panthers closed the stanza with the final six points to take a 34-32 advantage into the locker room.
The Panthers never gave the lead back, but it was a one-point game with 13:25 left after a
Nate Blank (Terre Haute, Ind./Terre Haute North / Gardner-Webb) triple made it 45-44. DU proceeded to run the margin back to a dozen, then Struck hit a three and
Darius Adams (Decatur, Ill./MacArthur / Lincoln College) drove the lane for a 62-55 score and 7:42 on the clock. A 16-4 Drury run would stretch the margin all the way to 19, putting the game seemingly out of reach with under four minutes to go.
The Hounds would not relent and chopped the lead nearly in half at 81-71 with 1:27 remaining. It wouldn't be enough, however, and Indianapolis fell to 9-5 at home this season.
Adams led the Greyhound attack, recording game-highs in points (18) and rebounds (8). Struck added 16,
DeWann Squires (Indianapolis, Ind./Arlington / Lincoln Trail College) 15 and Ryan Sims 12 for Indianapolis.
UIndy will take to the road, playing a pair of tough contests-- at No. 16 Kentucky Wesleyan Thursday and second-ranked Southern Indiana on Saturday. The Hounds will return home Monday for a third game in five nights, hosting Bellarmine in the regular season home finale.