INDIANAPOLIS – Sophomore Jimmy King led the UIndy men's basketball team with career highs of 22 points and nine assists while adding seven rebounds and two steals, but visiting Wisconsin-Parkside used a late 13-0 run in an otherwise tight contest to create separation and hold off the Greyhounds in a 92-84 win at Nicoson Hall Saturday.
 
The result creates a three-way for fourth in the Great Lakes Valley Conference overall standings. Parkside, UIndy and Truman are all 12-6 in conference play with just one game remaining. The league's top-four seeds will garner an automatic bye to the quarterfinals of the upcoming GLVC Championship Tournament.
 
Playing without the services of leading-scorer Eric Davidson (15.8 ppg), just five Greyhounds got in the scoring column. All five reached double figures, however, with junior Ajay Lawton joining King on the 20-point plateau. A junior out of nearby Westfield, Ind., Lawton racked up 20 points and four steals, good for his second straight 20-point output and third in the last five games.
 
He was followed by sophomore Jesse Kempson with 16 points, Tate Hall with 15 points off the bench, and junior Alex Etherington with 11.
 
A King jumper at the 9:35 mark broke a 60-60 tie – one of 14 ties on the day – but a three-minute dry spell followed for the Hounds, allowing the Rangers (20-6, 12-5) to run off 13 unanswered points and take the game's one and only double-digit lead with just six-and-a-half minutes to go.
 
Back-to-back 3-pointers from Lawton and Etherington and a breakaway slam by Tate would follow to quickly cut it to three, but the Greyhounds would ultimately get no closer.
 
Coming into the weekend as the No. 6 team in the initial NCAA DII Midwest Region rankings, Parkside was led by junior Kendale McCullum, who finished with 20 points, 11 assists, eight boards and four steals. He shot 5 for 8 from the floor and 8 for 8 from the line, part of the Rangers' 22 for 26 team effort at the stripe.
 
The Greyhounds will close the regular season with trip to Rensselaer, Ind., Thursday, Feb. 23 for a date with the Saint Joseph's Pumas. Tip is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. ET.
 
 
Note: Greyhound starters Davidson and Milos Cabarkapa sat out due to injury. The former has missed just two games this season, both against Parkside.