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INDIANAPOLIS-  The UIndy men's basketball team outscored visiting Missouri-St. Louis 13-7 in the overtime session to notch a 76-70 Great Lakes Valley Conference win at Nicoson Hall Thursday night.  The victory was the first in league play for UIndy this season.

Senior Keith Radcliff scored 18 of his game-high 24 points after halftime, including a huge putback at the end of regulation to tie the score in the closing seconds.  UIndy (6-8, 1-4 GLVC) had to stage a furious comeback in the final minute of regulation after watching a 14-point lead disappear in the second half following a 19-5 UMSL (10-5, 2-3) run.

That 14-point lead was built on the strength of the Hounds' solid first-half defensive effort  UIndy held the Tritons without a field goal for a nearly five-minute stretch in the early going to help mount a 12-8 lead.  Then, with the score 23-16 in favor of UIndy, the Hounds scored seven straight points, putting the margin at 14 with just under six minutes to play.

The first half ended with a bang when UIndy recovered from a sloppy in-bounds pass as Tristan Rogers found a wide open Donald Cloutier for a one-handed jam just before the buzzer sounded giving UIndy a 34-20 advantage at the break.

Braxton Mills got the crowd energized in the second half, mopping up a missed shot with a two-handed dunk, then doing it again a few possessions later as the Hounds maintained a 13-point edge.  But, the visitors chipped away at the lead and then took a lead when the Hounds struggled to generate a consistent offense and could not capitalize from the free throw line.  The Hounds were just 6-of-16 from the charity stripe in the second half to exaserbate the dryspell.

His team trailing by five with under a minute to play in regulation, Mills converted a layup then scored a turnaround bucket seconds later after a Triton turnover for a 62-61 score with 35.2 seconds remaining.  UMSL's Ryan Lawrence made only his first of two free throws to keep the Hounds hopes alive with a two-point deficit and 16 seconds to play.

On the final possession, Radcliff made his heroic shot, scooping up a Rogers miss and hitting a leaning shot off the glass underneath with three seconds left.  UMSL's last-second heave was off the mark and the game headed to overtime.

The Greyhounds made seven of their first eight free throw tosses in overtime, but missed on six straight attempts in the final 1:09 to keep faint hope alive for the visitors.  Radcliff converted a fastbreak layup with under 20 seconds left to ice the game and give UIndy arguably its biggest win of the season.

Mills and Cockerham each had 13 points to aid in the balanced scoring attack.  Mills added nine rebounds and four blocks in the win.

Notes: Paul Corsaro played in his first game in a Greyhound uniform, scoring two points and grabbing four rebounds in 12 minutes of action.  Corsaro, a Roncalli High School graduate, transfered to UIndy at the semester break from Youngstown State and will play both basketball and football for the Hounds ... Russell Allen made his first start of the season ... UIndy is now 15-5 all-time against Missouri-St. Louis.